Ranking the Top-20 Landing Spots for the 2026 Rookie Class (Episode 979 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
5/6/202652 min
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva analyze the 20 best fantasy football landing spots for the 2026 rookie class, deciphering which rookies could produce immediately, and which ones might struggle to stand out.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:59 - #1 Jordan Tyson
5:02 - #2 Jadarian Price
8:04 - #3 Carnell Tate
11:42 - #4 Jeremiyah Love
14:32 - #5 KC Concepcion
17:15 - #6 Antonio Williams
20:16 - #7 Caleb Douglas/Chris Bell
23:38 - #8 Denzel Boston
24:54 - #9 Fernando Mendoza
29:26 - #10 Kaytron Allen
33:12 - #11 Makai Lemon
36:09 - #12 & #13 Kenyon Sadiq & Omar Cooper Jr.
37:48 - #14 Germie Bernard
40:02 - #15 De’Zhaun Stribling
42:28 - #16 Zachariah Branch
44:58 -#17 Kaelon Black
46:33 - #18 Eli Stowers
48:08 - #19 Jonah Coleman
49:25 - #20 Nick Singleton
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First 90 secondsAdam Levitan· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 979 of the official establishtherun.com podcast. My name is Adam Levitan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, as always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. And now that we've had a couple weeks to digest this rookie class, I think it's a good time to assess some year one outlooks to do that today. Evan Silva, how's it going?
Evan Silva· Guest0:38
It's going great. I'm, uh, o- on a little respite here in, uh, Scottsdale, Arizona. As you can tell, YouTube haters in the back, I did not make my bed. I leave that for housekeeping, okay? Um, but today we're gonna be talking about strictly landing spots. Um, no real in-depth player analysis. We're just gonna be talking about where the guys landed in the draft.
Adam Levitan· Host0:59
Absolutely. Scottsdale, beautiful place. Evan's enjoying his time, as he mentioned. On today's show, we are going to do a simple exercise: rank the 2026 rookies for year one landing spots. This isn't about draft capital or what we think of players, or even who we think will score the most fantasy points, although we'll talk about all that stuff. This is about landing spots. If you want to see our rankings, you can always check those out on the site. This is about the situations that these rookies now find