The 2026 ITFFL draft is complete. One hundred and sixty-eight picks, fourteen rounds, twelve teams, and a fairly remarkable amount of collective panic. Here is every team ranked, who actually drafted well, and who spent an entire night being loudly correct about something and then doing the opposite.
First, the two stampedes
This league has one recurring behaviour and it happened twice.
Through four rounds, exactly one quarterback had been drafted. One. Everybody else sat there looking enormously satisfied with their own restraint. Then somebody blinked and eight quarterbacks went in three rounds. Sixteen went in total.
Then it happened again with kickers. Through eight rounds: zero. ITFFLGOAT finally took Brandon Aubrey in the ninth and got roundly mocked for it. Ten kickers went in total, and six of those came in round fourteen — the very last round, in a single collective flinch. Eleven defenses went too, seven of them inside rounds twelve and thirteen. The pattern is not subtle — this league mocks whoever moves first and then does the identical thing in a panic four rounds later.
The predicted finish, 1 to 12
Projected points from each team's full starting eight, scored under our own settings.
- Any Given Sontag — 1889. Chase, A.J. Brown and Zay Flowers is the best receiving room in the league, and Drake Maye at 337 is the top projected quarterback here.
- aal3 — 1849. Lamar Jackson and Jahmyr Gibbs is the strongest one-two in the draft, and Brock Bowers is a genuine positional edge at tight end.
- ITFFLGOAT — 1813. Six receivers deep, and the Aubrey pick everyone laughed at is worth 169 points. He was early, not stupid.
- Fighting Armadillos — 1799. Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry in the first two rounds, which is either brilliant or a dare.
- Hollywood Home Team — 1772. Six running backs. Six. But the lineup is complete and balanced.
- Football Enthusiasts — 1769. CeeDee Lamb and Justin Jefferson to open, then relentless late-round shopping.
- Howell's Pals — 1744. Bijan Robinson and Trey McBride early, then Travis Kelce in the double-digit rounds as a second tight end.
- DVO92A6 — 1730. Took the first quarterback in the draft and spent the rest of the night watching everyone else panic.
- End Of Story — 1690. Drafted the first defense in the eighth round while owning no quarterback. Somehow this worked out.
- Brancho Country — 1671. Six receivers, and went most of the night without a quarterback.
- purplepigs — 1660. Drafted in tidy positional blocks, then forgot a kicker.
- The Sixth Dimension — 1494. See below. It is not what it looks like.
Two teams finished the draft with empty starting slots
purplepigs used fourteen picks and did not draft a kicker.
The Sixth Dimension used fourteen picks and drafted neither a kicker nor a defense. Fourteen rounds. Two required starting slots. Nothing.
In fairness, this is the natural endpoint of a league that spent eight rounds treating anyone who drafted a kicker as a figure of fun. Two managers took the bit so seriously they simply never took one at all.
And here is the honest part: The Sixth Dimension's last place is mostly an artifact. Their six skill starters — Caleb Williams, Jonathan Taylor, Breece Hall, Drake London, Malik Nabers, Tyler Warren — are a perfectly good core, and they have five running backs and seven receivers stacked up behind it. They are twelfth because two slots are empty, and both are trivially fixable on waivers before Week 1. Treat their ranking as a note about the draft, not a verdict on the roster.
Nobody avoided the stack
Every single one of the twelve rosters contains at least one pair of players from the same NFL team. purplepigs managed two separate three-man stacks — Pickens, Prescott and Jaydon Blue from Dallas, plus Pollard, Wan'Dale Robinson and Tyjae Spears from Tennessee. Fighting Armadillos took three Jaguars, kicker included. Hollywood Home Team has four different pairs. Whether any of this was deliberate is between each manager and their conscience, but when a bye week lands badly in November we will all know precisely who to laugh at.
Value and points are not the same question
Measured against real PPR average draft position, the best shoppers of the night were purplepigs at roughly +240 and End Of Story at +225. They project eleventh and ninth.
The worst was Any Given Sontag at −168, and he projects first.
That is not a contradiction, it is the whole point. Value measures what you paid relative to the market. Points measure what you got. Sontag paid over the odds on essentially every pick and assembled the best roster in the league doing it. purplepigs shopped beautifully and finished with a team that needs a kicker. Both things are true and only one of them scores points in September.
Sontag also has the best bench in the draft by a distance — 784 projected points sitting behind his starters, over a hundred clear of anyone else. He drafted three quarterbacks and two tight ends, which for a man who spent the fourth round furious that quarterbacks and tight ends were disappearing is either thorough or a hostage situation.
What this ranking is not
One projection source. No schedule, no head-to-head simulation, no waivers, trades or injuries. Kickers and defenses are scored from 2025 actual production because nobody publishes a 2026 kicker projection worth the name. Eight of twelve teams make our playoffs, so seeding matters less than the table implies.
This league's own history is fairly clear that in-season roster management moves more value than draft night does. Every team above can still ruin this by Week 4, and several will.
Full mid-draft carnage is in the halfway report, and you can set your own lineup over on the picks page.