Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 2, 2026
Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 2 are likely to look very different between most Fantasy Football sites. Many analysts know not to overreact to what we saw in Week 1, but we definitely need to use some of the information to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, we just don’t have relevant, applicable data to go from yet. We can use stats from last season, but every team has changed since then, some in very significant ways, on both offense and defense.
Justin Jefferson in his rookie season:
Week 1 - 3 targets, 2/26/0 receiving line, 4.6 PPR fantasy points
Week 2 - 3 targets - 3/44/0 - 7.4 pts
Week 3 - 9 targets - 7/145/1 - 27.5 pts
Full season - 125 targets - 88/1,400/7 - WR8
The first couple of weeks we tend to confuse outlier weeks as predictive indicators.
Week 2 Schedule
Detroit Lions at Buffalo Bills Thursday, 8:15 p.m., Prime Video
Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots 1:00pm ET
Carolina Panthers at Atlanta Falcons 1:00pm ET
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears 1:00pm ET
Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans 1:00pm ET
Cleveland Browns at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1:00pm ET
New Orleans Saints at Baltimore Ravens 1:00pm ET
Philadelphia Eagles at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET
Green Bay Packers at New York Jets 1:00pm ET
Jacksonville Jaguars at Denver Broncos 4:05pm ET
Las Vegas Raiders at Los Angeles Chargers 4:05pm ET
Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals 4:25pm ET
Miami Dolphins at San Francisco 49ers 4:25pm ET
Washington Commanders at Dallas Cowboys 4:25pm ET
Indianapolis Colts at Kansas City Chiefs 8:20pm ET
New York Giants at Los Angeles Rams Monday, 8:15pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that I am really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
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