Fantasy football best ball drafts on FastDraft are kicking into high gear as their contests are filling up faster and faster the closer we get to Week 1 of the NFL regular season.  Their Origins contests are all full, as is the first $5 Flex-4 contest and the $20 Rabbit. The $10 Rabbit is now 76 percent full and the second Flex-4 is at nearly 60 percent full. That means your time to draft is running short. 

With that, we want to arm you with the best weapons possible as you head into battle. With so many people hopping into drafts every single day, the ADP we are seeing is becoming more mainstream. By that, I mean the values we once had a month ago are now even-money at best. The purpose of this article is to help you identify those ADP Risers and Fallers as well as find new late-round value names to add to your rankings. 

Now, if this is your first time hearing about FastDraft, then do yourself a favor and click here for a quick read. That article lays everything out for you about FastDraft, from the basic contest parameters and draft strategies to a full explanation of all the ins and outs of the app. You can also check out this Friday’s Fantasy Alarm Show on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio as Billy Muzio, one of the creators of FastDraft, joined us to add further insights.

Bottom line is that FastDraft has revolutionized drafting. Short clock, short drafts. You’ve got contests like Origins (rookies only) and Flex-4 (draft six flex players, best-ball starts your best four), where the drafts take no more than five minutes. Even less if you set up your own rankings and load them into their Turbo Mode feature, where you can set up to auto-draft off of them for multiple teams – five, 10, 20, you set the number. 

If those drafts are too abbreviated for you, they also have a contest called The Rabbit, where you’re drafting a true, 15-round best-ball team. It’s the same 20-second clock, which means Rabbit drafts only take about 20 minutes each, and yes, you can also set up Turbo Mode here as well. The experience is spectacular because they make it so easy.

Best of all? They give you the tools to succeed, including a fully comprehensive FastDraft ADP. Not only do they tell you where everyone is going, but they also provide ownership numbers so you can see where the masses are going with their picks. You’ll also see that the ADP is broken up into the individual contests it runs. Drafting players in Origins is obviously different from drafting them in the Rabbit, so why would you want one giant lump of ADP data that doesn’t tell an accurate story? The folks at FastDraft know this and, again, have made it as easy as possible for you to succeed.

With the Rabbit in full swing, we can begin to look at some of the ADP risers and fallers. Last week, we began our look at the FastDraft ADP to find a few notable names to keep tabs on. Today, we continue that journey.   

 

 

 

FastDraft Rabbit ADP Risers

TreVeyon Henderson, RB New England Patriots (ADP: 47.95; +8.91)

With every practice and preseason game that goes by, Henderson continues to pick up steam. Patriots fans have been clamoring for the next James White for years and with everything OC Josh McDaniels has been doing, it looks like they’re finally getting him. Henderson is being lined up all over the field, both in practice and during games. He is lining up as a receiver on the outside, he’s lineup up in the slot and, of course, he’s coming out of the backfield. He’s looking like the PPR-monster we wanted to see and it doesn’t look like that’s slowing down. The upside of potentially taking over the full-time work and pushing Rhamondre Stevenson aside is also still in-play so don’t sleep here. 

Ricky Pearsall, WR San Francisco 49ers (ADP: 74.65; +7.62)

We already know Brandon Aiyuk is going to miss the first five games of the season, but now with Jauan Jennings dealing with a calf injury, Pearsall is shooting up draft boards at an alarming rate. He hasn’t quite passed Jennings on the ADP board here for the $10 Rabbit, but he’s about to. I’m not entirely sure the push past Jennings is really warranted, but Big Fantasy has been pushing Pearsall every day since he returned from his gunshot wounds last season and their agenda is starting to be absorbed by mainstream fantasy players. 

Emeka Egbuka, WR Tampa Bay Buccaneers (ADP: 76.75; +9.45)

Get your mylar balloons ready people because it’s a helium-fest in Tampa Bay right now. Chris Godwin is expected to be out until October and Jalen McMillan’s neck injury has landed him on Injured Reserve with word that he may not be back until Week 9 or 10. As expected, Egbuka is flying up draft boards. Just a few short weeks ag, he was a ninth or 10th-round pick and now he’s going somewhere in the sixth here on FastDraft and even higher on other platforms. The talent is there and it would appear as if the opportunity is as well. The only questions is how high is too high and are we actually killing his fantasy value by taking him this high up? 

 

 

 

FastDraft Rabbit ADP Fallers

Joe Mixon, RB Houston Texans (ADP: 78.71; -8.13)

The reports on Mixon, who is currently recovering from a foot/ankle issue, have not changed over the past few weeks. He is missing the entire preseason with the hope of being ready for Week 1. However, a recent report from Houston beat writer Aaron Wilson states that Mixon is “not a lock to be ready” for the first week of the season. The good thing for us, though, is that we are starting to get some value here. He went from going in the fourth round to the sixth and given the pace at which he is dropping, we could be looking at him as late as the 10th, depending on league size and format. The injury is a bit worrisome, but should he slide down to the 10th, it could prove to be a tremendous value.

Brian Robinson, RB San Francisco 49ers (ADP: 89.27; -5.97)

Funny thing is that Robinson’s value has been dropping ever since it was rumored that he was going to be traded by the Commanders. We even cited Jacory Croskey-Merrit as one of the ADP risers last week. Well, the trade has happened and it’s even worse for Robinson than originally perceived. He was picked up by the 49ers for a sixth-round pick next year and now sits behind Christian McCaffrey while sharing work with Isaac Guerendo and rookie Jordan James. Terrible landing spot unless CMC gets hurt, but hoping for that will just kill your fantasy karma.

Tre Harris, WR Los Angeles Chargers (ADP: 133.03; -8.70)

The Chargers signing Keenan Allen has sent the rookie’s ADP into a tailspin. He was looking good as the team’s new split-end, but considering how much 12-personnel Greg Roman likes to run, wide receiver snaps are not what we had hoped for Harris just a few weeks ago. In two-receiver sets, Ladd McConkey will likely be joined by Allen most of the time. Sure, Harris could be mixed in, but so will Quentin Johnston. And in three-receiver sets, McConkey and Allen are near locks for the snaps while Harris and Johnston rotate in. He’s still a great pick in dynasty, but this is 2025 best ball and now we’re out on him.

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