Silva Top-150 Fantasy Football Rankings Release Show: His Hottest Takes For 2026 (Episode 984)
5/28/202647 min
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva discuss Evan's first release of the 2026 Top-150 Fantasy Football Rankings, assessing where Evan deviates from ETR the most and explaining his reasons for doing so.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:14 - De'Von Achane
6:01 - Ladd McConkey
8:53 - Omarion Hampton
12:19 - Chris Olave
14:15 - Colston Loveland
17:22 - Breece Hall
20:14 - Terry McLaurin
22:49 - AJ Brown
25:19 - Kyren Williams
27:47 - Cam Skattebo
30:05 - Kyle Pitts
32:46 - Josh Downs
34:35 - Bucky Irving
36:17 - Matthew Golden
39:42 - Rico Dowdle
41:50 - Ryan Flournoy
43:52 - Jacory Croskey-Merritt
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First 90 secondsAdam Levitan· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hellooo, and welcome to episode 984 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 it is time for one of the highlights of the off-season, Silva Top 150 Rankings release show. Evan, a glorious day indeed. How's it going?
Evan Silva· Guest0:39
It's going great. I'm excited. I'm excited to, to debate these, these rankings that I can... I, I wanna be clear, this is a rough draft, and things will move all over the place as we move forward through the off-season. Things will be a little bit stagnant for a while. I mean, obviously we're, uh, monitoring this Josh Jacobs situation. Um, but once we get into, you know, early training camp, players will show up with injuries that weren't unknown. You know, we, we will- coaches will talk, players will start practicing. A lot of things will change in July and August, but, but things will be a little bit stagnant here for the next month and a half or so.
Adam Levitan· Host1:18
Indeed. On today's show, we are going to discuss 17 of Evan's hottest takes from his first top 150 rankings of the 2026 fantasy football