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Fantasy Football Week 1 Cheat Sheet for Opening Rankings, Waiver and Projections
- Updated: September 6, 2016
You have had a full offseason to get ready for Week 1 of the NFL season. There’s no time for warm-ups at this point.
If you are prepared to have a strong season in your fantasy football league, you have been reading and digesting everything you can get your hands on. You have almost certainly conducted your draft, and the rest of your season is designed for fine tuning your roster.
This is a transition year in fantasy football. While the top one or two players at each position are well known, there are many debates about the rest of the first tier as well as the second tier.
To help you do that, we present our cheat sheet with the top 10 players at each position, top sleepers and sharp waiver-wire pickups.
Here are the projections for all 16 games on the schedule this week.
Skill Position Rankings
Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham Jr. are our top two fantasy players at the start of the season, and an argument can be made for either player being in the No. 1 spot.
However, we will go with Antonio Brown based on his overall consistency and proven ability to string together back-to-back wonderful years. The only variable with Brown is the health of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, and Big Ben goes into the season in relative good health and that’s tremendous news for the Steelers passing game. As added motivation, the Steelers upped Brown’s salary for this year.
Steelers are boosting Antonio Brown’s base salary to $10.25M this year. No new years were added. (via @AdamSchefter) pic.twitter.com/VAtLSBJlh4
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) August 31, 2016
Since Le’Veon Bell won’t be in the lineup at the start of the season, the Steelers will probably run the ball a tad less with DeAngelo Williams, but he is still a competent running back and Mike Tomlin’s offense will have a decent sense of balance.
Beckham has moved all the way up to the No. 2 spot overall and in the WR rankings because the Giants have an all-systems-go mark on their passing game. The Giants committed in that direction last year when they hired Ben McAdoo to be their offensive coordinator. This year, McAdoo is their head coach and Eli Manning should continue to throw the ball all over the lot.
That means ODB and the rest of the Giants receivers will have an opportunity to make as many big plays as any group of receivers in the league—with the possible exception of the Steelers.
Adrian Peterson was the top running back in our rankings a year ago, and he is once again this year. However, there’s a little bit of a difference because he was all by …
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