By Adam
Christian McCaffrey scored 416.6 PPR points last season and averaged 24.5 a game, both more than anybody else inside the top 30 of this site's ADP. He had 12 weeks of 20 or better and exactly one game all year under 10.
The consensus has him 10th.
That's worth checking before you spend a first-round pick. The order below is the consensus top ten from FantasyPros' public PPR cheat sheet, read on 24 August, and I left it alone. Every number underneath it is ours, from our player pages and ADP feed, full PPR, 12 teams.
1. Jahmyr Gibbs, RB, Lions
He scored 366.9 points with 18 touchdowns, 13 on the ground and five through the air. The consensus is buying the ceiling, and it's real: 55.4 in week 12, 38.2 in week 10, 37 in week 14. The bill arrives in the other weeks. 5.8, 6.4, 7.5 and 9.8, four games under 10 in a season where Bijan Robinson had three. First is defensible. Just know you're buying the swings.
2. Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Bengals
The riskiest slot on the list. He led the entire top 30 in targets with 185 and turned them into 1,412 yards and eight scores, so the job isn't in question. The weeks are the problem: 4.6, 8.9, 7.3 and 6.0, plus two he missed. His 19.6 a game is third among the five receivers here, behind two men ranked below him.
3. Bijan Robinson, RB, Falcons
He outscored the player ranked first. 370.8 to Gibbs' 366.9, on 1,478 rushing yards and 820 receiving, with nine weeks of 20 or better against Gibbs' seven and three single-digit games against Gibbs' four. The gap between first and third is four points and a touchdown count. Take whichever the room leaves you.
4. Puka Nacua, WR, Rams
The best per-game receiver in this ten, ranked fourth. His 375 points in 16 games works out to 23.4 a week, and he cleared 20 in 10 of them with one single-digit day, on 129 catches from 166 targets for 1,715 yards. One note about the price rather than the player: his 3.1 comes from just 282 of the 7,658 drafts behind our ADP. Thin.
5. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR, Seahawks
No argument. He put up 359.9 points on 1,793 receiving yards, most in the top 30, with 10 weeks of 20 or better and one under 10.
6. Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR, Lions
His 324 points read like a top-five season until you go week by week. A zero in week 13, 6.2 in week 11, 8.5 in the opener, 9.4 in week 16. Four games at or under 10 across 17. The total leans hard on 39.2 and 41.4, two afternoons where he was the best player in fantasy. Sixth is a fair price for that shape. Fourth would not have been.
7. Jonathan Taylor, RB, Colts
Seventh looks low for 362.3 points and 20 touchdowns until you split the season. He had 216.6 through week 8, then 145.7 across his final nine games, and 49.6 of that came in one afternoon in week 10. Take that week out and the last eight were worth 12 apiece. He caught 46 passes on 55 targets all year, so when the running cools there's nothing underneath. The consensus is pricing that, and it should.
8. James Cook, RB, Bills
He ran for 1,621 yards on 309 carries, scored 12 times on the ground, and handed you nine weeks of 20 or better. In PPR, look at the targets: 40, the fewest of anyone on this list, for 33 catches and 291 yards. The rushing carries all of it. Note the finish, 8.7 in week 17 and 1.5 in week 18. On the days he doesn't score there's no receiving floor to catch him.
9. CeeDee Lamb, WR, Cowboys
The one I'd swing on. He played 13 games for 200.9 points, 15.5 a week and the lowest per-game figure here. Look at how he got there: 75 catches on 117 targets for 1,077 yards, and three touchdowns. Three, on 117 targets, from a receiver whose role nobody disputes. Ninth is the price of a season where the scoring didn't show up, usually the cheapest thing to buy.
10. Christian McCaffrey, RB, 49ers
The value of the first round, and it isn't close. His 416.6 points and 24.5 a game were both the best of anyone in the top 30 by ADP, on 102 catches from 129 targets, 1,202 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns, with a worst week of 9.8. The consensus discount is his birthday: born June 1996, nine years of this workload behind him. That's a fair thing to price. It also means at the back of the first you're getting last season's highest scorer and its steadiest one, and the case against him hasn't happened yet.
The two our numbers want higher
De'Von Achane and Trey McBride miss the ten and I'd have found room. Achane scored 322.8 in 16 games with a worst week of 12.8, no single-digit games and nothing under 12, a better floor than anyone ranked above him. McBride scored 315.9 from tight end, more than Ja'Marr Chase managed at second overall, and the next-best tight end by 2025 points was Kyle Pitts at 210.8. That 105-point positional edge is going in the third round.
Where you pick decides how much any of this matters. From 1 to 5 consensus and our numbers barely disagree, so take the name in front of you. From 6 to 10 it's worth knowing the ranges in our ADP: Chase has gone as early as first and as late as eighth, so don't plan on him falling, and McCaffrey's range runs 2 to 12, so the value at 10 may not reach 10.
Two things to follow before kickoff. Whether McCaffrey keeps drawing targets at 30, because 129 of them is the whole bet. And whether James Cook's 40 targets move, because in PPR that number is the difference between eighth overall and a round later.
Every stat was read on 24 August 2026 from this site's player pages and ADP feed, which update most nights, so expect drift by draft day. The ranking order is FantasyPros' consensus. Run your league's scoring through the rankings board before trusting any list, this one included.