Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 9, 2026
Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 9 will guide you to make the correct decisions. We now have enough data points to breakdown every team. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, no matter how much data we gather there are too many moving parts to be as confident in our predictions in football as we are when analyzing other sports.
Week 9 Schedule
Bye Week: PIT, TEN
Jacksonville Jaguars at Baltimore Ravens Thursday, 8:15pm ET
Cincinnati Bengals at Atlanta Falcons Sunday, 9:30am ET
Los Angeles Rams at Washington Commanders 1:00pm ET
Denver Broncos at Carolina Panthers 1:00pm ET
Detroit Lions at Miami Dolphins 1:00pm ET
Cleveland Browns at New Orleans Saints 1:00pm ET
Dallas Cowboys at Indianapolis Colts 1:00pm ET
New York Jets at Kansas City Chiefs 1:00pm ET
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles 1:00pm ET
Houston Texans at Los Angeles Chargers 4:05pm ET
Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks 4:25pm ET
Green Bay Packers at New England Patriots 4:25pm ET
Las Vegas Raiders at San Francisco 49ers 4:25pm ET
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Chicago Bears 8:20pm ET
Buffalo Bills at Minnesota Vikings 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.
Quarterback
Head coach Mike LaFleur said that Carson Beck will serve as the Cardinals' No. 2 quarterback behind starter Gardner Minshew in Sunday's game against the Seahawks, Darren Urban of the team's official site reports. Beck had been a healthy inactive through each of the Cardinals' first eight games of the season as the emergency No. 3 quarterback, but he'll get the chance to dress for the first time in Week 9 after Arizona removed the struggling Jacoby Brissett from the starting role and dropped him down two spots on the depth chart.
Head coach Shane Steichen said that Daniel Jones will remain the Colts' starting quarterback heading into Sunday's game against the Colts, Mike Chappell of Fox 59 News Indianapolis reports. After a 42-7 loss to the Jaguars on Sunday during which Jones was benched in favor of Anthony Richardson in the fourth quarter, Steichen suggested that he would evaluate every position, including quarterback.
Matthew Stafford left the locker room after Sunday's 24-9 win over the Charger with a bag of ice wrapped to his right arm, and Rams coach Sean McVay acknowledged Monday that the quarterback has been dealing with some arm soreness, Adam Grosbard of The Orange County Register reports.
Kyler Murray (hamstring), who is dealing with a sore hamstring, is undergoing a full evaluation to determine the extent of the issue, Alec Lewis of The Athletic reports.
When asked whether or not Murray's hamstring soreness would affect his availability for next Monday night's game against the Bills, coach Kevin O'Connell said "I don't think we're there yet." Added context regarding the QB's Week 9 availability is in line to arrive no later than Thursday's practice report, but if Murray is unable suit up versus Buffalo, Carson Wentz would be next in line for Minnesota's signal-caller reps.
Joe Burrow has 13 passing touchdowns over his last three games. During that stretch, the Bengals have just two rushing touchdowns. And Burrow has one of them.
Bryce Young has scored 31, 24, 22, and 20 standard points in games where he faced a top-20 favorable matchup for quarterbacks. In bottom-12 matchups, he's scored 14, 5, and 10 standard points.
Running Back
Head coach Matt LaFleur said Monday that the Packers are aware of the prior physical abuse allegations involving Josh Jacobs that recently surfaced and "anticipate him being a member" of the team moving forward, Ryan Wood of USA Today reports. Before making his season debut Week 7, Jacobs missed the Packers' first six games after he was placed on the commissioner's exempt list after he was officially charged Aug. 27 with two misdemeanors stemming from his May arrest for a domestic incident. The legal process related to that incident has since played out, but Jacobs' status with the team had been called into question after the NFL announced Saturday that it was reviewing additional allegations of physical and verbal abuse from three different women in incidents dating back to April 2021 that were released following a public records request. Unless the NFL elects to place him back on the exempt list while it reviews the incidents in question, Jacobs looks like he'll be available for Green Bay's next game Sunday at New England. Despite the missed time to begin the season, Jacobs has immediately settled back into a lead role in the backfield and has scored three touchdowns in two games, but he's mustered just 75 yards on 32 carries (2.3 average) to go with 11 receptions for 68 yards on 13 targets.
Panthers head coach Dave Canales said Monday that Jonathon Brooks (abdomen) will "potentially" be designated for return from injured reserve this week, Joe Person of The Athletic reports. Canales noted that Brooks still has some checkpoints he needs to hit in his recovery process before getting the green light to practice, but the running back looks to have at least made progress on some level since landing on IR.
Head coach Kellen Moore said that Travis Etienne (hamstring) will be evaluated Monday before the Saints make a determination whether he practices this week, Ross Jackson of WWL Louisiana reports. Sidelined since he sustained a left hamstring strain in a Sept. 27 loss to the Raiders, Etienne will be eligible to play coming out of the Saints' Week 8 bye now that he's missed the required four games while on injured reserve.
Giants head coach John Harbaugh said that Cam Skattebo (hamstring) is day-to-day and could end up being a game-time decision for Sunday's tilt with the Eagles, Jordan Raanan reports. After tweaking his hamstring late in the Giants' Week 7 overtime win over Houston, Skattebo was seen working off to the side Monday during an unofficial practice coming out of a bye week.
