Underdog Best Ball Draft Strategy: Jordyn Tyson and More Rookie ADPs To Draft or Fade
Joe Metz highlights a pair of rookie ADPs he is targeting in early Best Ball drafts on Underdog, and a pair of rookie ADPs that he is avoiding.
Best Ball season is officially upon us for 2026, with Best Ball Mania kicking off this past Monday and drafts happening left, right and center.
If we’ve learned anything over the last few years as it pertains to best ball strategy, rookies tend to get steamed once landing spots are locked in after the draft.
With the draft in our rearview mirror and the flagship contests underway, let’s evaluate some of the 2026 rookie class, their fantasy football ADP and whether they’re worth targeting or fading in early Best Ball Mania drafts on Underdog.
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Underdog Best Ball Strategy For The 2026 Rookie ADPs
Rookie ADPs To Target On Underdog
Jordyn Tyson | WR | NO (ADP: 70.6)
When Dwain McFarland tells you to smash the draft button on an ADP, you do it. On a recent episode of The Fantasy Life Show, Dwain talked about how he expects Tyson to steam up the draft board throughout the summer, noting that if there’s a time to buy, it’s now.
He profiles as a high-upside wideout after showcasing himself as an electric player in college, and enters a Saints offense that should flow almost exclusively through two players, Tyson and Chris Olave. With ample target volume up for grabs in New Orleans and a potentially ascending QB in Tyler Shough, Tyson projects for 11.1 half-PPR points per game on 7.9 targets per game, ranking as the WR25 in our half-PPR projections. That’s a 10-spot delta relative to his ADP (WR35). As Dwain said, the time to buy is now.
Chris Bell | WR | MIA (ADP: 228.5)
Speaking of ample target volume, it’s easy to see a scenario where Chris Bell runs away with this wide receiver room in Miami. Even coming off a torn ACL, which caused him to fall in the draft, Bell projects to lead the Dolphins wideouts in targets (91), receiving yards (709) and receiving TDs (3.7). He’s also the only wide receiver in Miami to project for over 100 half-PPR points on the season (121.6). His per-game projection (7.6 half-PPR points per game) ranks as the No. 101 overall player in our projections, yet he’s going after the top 228 picks on Underdog.
This is an ADP that I fully expect to steam, potentially dramatically depending on how offseason news shakes out, and he’s essentially free on Underdog. There’s nothing but upside in clicking his name in as many drafts as you can at this price.
Rookie ADPs To Fade On Underdog
NOTE: As Ian Hartitz says, “don’t hate the player, hate the ADP”. Any player is draftable at the right price. While I am not OUT on the following players for the 2026 season, I need their prices to drop before I am comfortable clicking them with any sort of volume in best ball drafts.
Jeremiyah Love | RB | ARI (ADP: 17.1)
The Cardinals are far from an ideal landing spot for Love, considering he joins a crowded group of RBs consisting of Tyler Allgeier, Trey Benson and James Conner. That said, it’s fully expected that Love commands the lion’s share of the usage out of the gate, with the potential to expand his bell-cow role as the season progresses.
He checks in as the RB11 off the board on Underdog, but only the RB15 in terms of fantasy football projections (14.1 half-PPR points per game), so I’ve found myself passing on Love more often than clicking his name. Until he slides a bit further around the Round 2-3 turn, I’ll take stabs at other running backs in his range, like Kenneth Walker and Chase Brown, with far less backfield competition in much better offensive environments.
Carnell Tate | WR | TEN (ADP: 59.4)
Carnell Tate’s ADP is one of my least favorite of the rookie class. His draft capital has catapulted his Rookie Super Model Score to a 96, the third-highest all-time, but his QB situation is murky, our analysts are more bearish than bullish on Tate (who wasn’t even the WR1 on his own team!) and there are other options in his range with a much higher floor/ceiling combination worth targeting—Cam Skattebo, D’Andre Swift, Makai Lemon, to name a few.
He also finds himself in the middle of the draft range where the elite QB1s are going off the board. If you want to anchor your roster around a bona fide QB1, passing on Tate is an easy way to do so. I’d prefer to target Tate with an ADP closer to the Round 6-7 turn than where he is now.
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