Draft season is officially in full swing and – as draft boards settle into place – fantasy managers are staring down some of the toughest decisions we’ve seen in years.
Every season brings a fresh set of quandaries, but 2026 feels particularly chaotic. Between high-profile offseason acquisitions, breakout performances in 2025, and ever-evolving offensive philosophies, standard drafting strategy is being tested at every turn.
To help you draft with confidence, here are the five biggest questions facing fantasy football managers this season – and how you should navigate them on draft day.
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The Biggest Questions Facing Fantasy Football Managers
5) How Much Will Blake Corum Play In Los Angeles This Year?
The hype for Blake Corum has been persistent each offseason over the past two years. The amount of people that are intent on seeing Kyren Williams’ role reduced in this offense – despite him being a rock-solid RB1 – is truly shocking.
However, last season we did see a shift in the offensive philosophy for Sean McVay and Corum saw his workload increase.
After seeing just 58 carries in his rookie season in 2024, Corum’s volume ticked up to 145 rush attempts last year – where he averaged a whopping 5.1 Yards Per Attempt and scored six touchdowns on the ground.
He and Williams formed a solid backfield duo, but this offseason the noise for Corum has gotten even louder, to the point where fantasy managers are a bit more hesitant to hit the draft button on Williams in the earlier rounds.
Essentially, the question is being asked, “Is Corum just one of the best handcuff RBs out there, or is he possibly a threat to take over this backfield?”
My stance is that Williams is too reliable as a pass-catcher and pass-protector to be overthrown for the true RB1 role in this dynamic offense. He’s also a smart and savvy runner in the tight areas of the field that understands how to create leverage to punch the ball into the end zone.
And yet, it would not be shocking at all to see Williams’ workload on the ground continue to tick down. In 2024, he carried the ball a shocking 316 times in 16 games. Last season was a steep drop off to 259 in 17 games.
Williams should remain the favorite for the passing down role, but don’t be surprised if this ends up being more of a 50/50 split in terms of carries. Corum’s a value at his ADP right now, while Williams may be a tad bit overpriced.
And if anything were to happen to Williams, Corum would quite possibly be ranked as a top-10 option every single week. Target him wherever you can.
4) Who Will Be The Chicago Bears’ WR1?
Editor’s Note: Luther Burden is now expected to miss a month leading up to the season with a groin injury. However, expectations are that he’ll be ready to play Week 1.
The amount of podcast air time that has been spent answering this question over the past few months is absurd.
However, it’s a significant question to ask due to the payoff that happens if you get it right in your drafts. A potential Top-10 wideout could be yours in the middle rounds and that’s worth debating extensively.
Going into 2025, Rome Odunze’s stock was rising. He’s a former top-10 NFL Draft pick with incredible hands, body control, and the size required to play on the line of scrimmage against the league’s toughest boundary corners.
However, things didn’t exactly go the way that fantasy managers would have hoped – for various reasons – and now the door is wide open for second-year WR Luther Burden to swoop in and take every target he can possibly handle in one of the league’s better offenses.
All the training camp reports – and Ben Johnson’s praise – are hyping up Burden going into year two. We could see a truly meteoric leap from the talented wideout as he steps into an incredibly favorable role in this offense.
Odunze will presumably work the intermediate-to-deep levels of the field, while Colston Loveland and Burden work underneath. This works out favorably for someone with Burden’s skillset in utilizing his yards after the catch ability, which could lead to the second-year wideout having more yards at the end of the year when it’s all said and done.
However, Burden’s not a true threat in the red zone (at least right now) and that’s where Loveland and Odunze could feast in 2026.
I expect this split to look like Burden leading in targets, receptions, yards, and fantasy points at the end of the season…but Odunze with more touchdowns.
Both are certainly fine bets at their current ADPs.
3) Will Chris Rodriguez Hinder Bhayshul Tuten’s Upside?
One of the more shocking signings of free agency this offseason was the Jacksonville Jaguars handing out a two-year, $10,000,000 deal to Chris Rodriguez Jr.
Rodriguez Jr. got more opportunity last season in Washington – and performed well in his role – but he didn’t figure to be compensated this well in free agency due to his limited skillset.
However, Liam Coen’s familiarity with Rodriguez back to their time at Kentucky was a key factor in bringing Rodriguez into town as he’s intimately familiar with what he can do well…which was needed in this backfield.
Tuten’s an explosive RB that can rip off big gains, but he’s also a volatile runner in between the tackles that could easily rack up negative runs on consecutive plays with his lack of advanced vision and uncertainty of what he’s seeing.
This offense – which will be one of the best in the league – simply needs consistency at the RB position. A player that can get what’s asked of them and maybe one to two yards more. This is where Rodriguez comes into play and how he could wind up putting a damper on the hype for Tuten this season in Jacksonville.
It would not shock me at all to see Rodriguez – once he’s fully healthy – to handle the majority of the work on 1st and 2nd down, while LeQuint Allen Jr. handles the clear passing down work.
This leaves Tuten in a volatile change-of-pace role that could wind up being a player that has the talent to win you your week, but also could put up a 8-20-0 stat line.
This is someone I’m more comfortable with in my Flex spot, not as a RB2 on my roster. Where he’s going currently in ADP, unless we see tremendous growth from him this year, could be one of the bigger regrets for fantasy managers when it’s all said and done.
2) Who Will Be The WR To Roster In Jacksonville?
Speaking of Jacksonville, one of the biggest questions that I’m sure everyone would love the answer to is, “who’s going to lead this crowded WR room in production?”
Brian Thomas Jr. is an incredible talent, but he came crashing back down to earth in a massive way in 2025 after a dominant rookie campaign. Can he be trusted to bounce back?
Meanwhile, Parker Washington ended the year on a tear last season and proved that he has incredible chemistry with Trevor Lawrence.
Through the fantasy playoffs last year, Weeks 15-17, Washington was the WR6 in Half PPR scoring formats. That doesn’t just happen or you don’t just luck into that…Washington’s a legitimate WR in this league.
Jakobi Meyers will also be on the field a ton and will limit the ceiling for how many targets either of the two aforementioned players could receive.
On top of all of that, Travis Hunter was drafted with a premium selection last offseason and he could easily wind up playing a hefty amount of snaps at WR this year, along with seeing plenty of work at defensive back.
In my opinion, Washington is the WR to roster here in Jacksonville. He’s proven to have the best connection with the Jaguars’ starting QB and he’s been drawing rave reviews from everyone around Jacksonville’s training camp this summer.
BTJ’s a fine bet to take as a low-end WR3/Flex option, but Washington could very easily lead this team in most receiving metrics when we look back at the end of the year.
1) Is Michael Wilson The WR To Roster In Arizona?
Michael Wilson’s had his fans since entering the NFL out of Stanford – myself being one of them – but not many expected him to have as productive of a year as he did in 2025.
Despite not finishing a single game through the first five weeks of the season with more than 16 receiving yards, Wilson ended the year with just over 1,000 receiving yards, 78 receptions, and seven touchdowns.
He was incredibly productive when Marvin Harrison Jr. was sidelined by injuries with Jacoby Brissett airing the ball out all over the field and he now has generated significant buzz in training camp as a possibility to be the WR1 for this Arizona franchise.
This situation matters for fantasy football. With where Harrison Jr. and Wilson are both going in ADP, if one of them emerge as the true WR1, that’s a massive advantage in your fantasy football lineup if you choose correctly.
Harrison Jr. has shown flashes of his top-tier potential up to this point in the NFL. He was one of the most highly-touted prospects coming into the league – for good reason – and he has the raw traits to be drafted as a top-five WR for fantasy purposes.
Unfortunately, the mental aspect of the game has seemed to plague him and there were some inexplainable drops on tape last season. Ones that no NFL wideout should ever be experiencing.
Can that change in 2026 and Harrison Jr. be the one that gets force fed the ball in this offense? Absolutely. The Cardinals are going to do absolutely everything they can to make that happen with their investment in him.
But fantasy managers don’t have to worry about those mental mistakes with Wilson. When he gets the volume, he produces.
Time will tell to determine who can be the true lead option here, but my bet – for the time being – is on Wilson. He’s the player I’m targeting in that range of ADP.
