Kendall Valenzuela

The 2026 NFL draft has come and gone. My dynasty rookie ranks are updated, as are my redraft player rankings. So now feels like a good time to update my early offseason edition of Freedman's Favorites. Here are 10 players I want for 2026 fantasy football and expect to target aggressively in fantasy drafts. To see more players I'm high on, check out our fantasy football ranks, accessible with the FantasyLife+ package (20% discount available with the promo code FREEDMAN).

They say actions speak louder than words, which is why we probably shouldn’t trust Philly GM Howie Roseman when he says, “AJ Brown is an Eagle.” I mean, that’s technically true. At this very moment, AJB is a member of the Philadelphia Eagles organization … and yet no one believes that will be true after June 1 (waiting to move him until after this date will create around $7 million in 2026 cap savings).

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