What these three sheets are, and what they are not
Three sheets you can print and take to a draft. The first ranks all 32 teams by how tough their 2026 opponents were in 2025, with each team's bye week and how many of the players in the current draft pool play for them. The second groups that same draft pool by bye week, so you can see which weeks are crowded before you spend a pick on a third player who is off in week 10. The third is the handcuff grid: every club's running back order, first, second and third, as its coaching staff has published it.
All three sheets are built from the feeds the rest of the site runs on, they refresh on their own, and no figure on any sheet is typed in by hand. Each one carries the time its data was published. If a feed is unreachable the sheet says so rather than showing a stale number as though it were current, and the handcuff grid goes further: with no published depth chart to read, it does not draw at all.
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How the schedule figure is worked out
The number in the opponent column is the average 2025 win percentage of the teams a club plays in 2026. A club whose 2026 opponents went .429 in 2025 faces the easiest slate on the board by that measure. The difficulty label is simply which third of the league that club's rank falls into. It is the same figure and the same tiering as the strength of schedule page, computed from the same feed, so the two pages can never disagree.
It is a backward looking proxy, and it is worth saying plainly what it cannot do. Last season's record is not this season's strength. Teams change coaches, lose starters in August, and improve in ways a win percentage cannot see. Use it to break a tie between two players you already rate the same, not to move a player up or down a round.
Why this sheet covers the full season and not weeks 15 to 17
The version of this sheet everyone wants ranks teams by the three fantasy playoff weeks, and by what those three opponents give up to each position. We are not drawing that one, because neither half of it is data we hold.
The schedule feed publishes one row per team: the season figure above, the bye week, and the list of opponents in game order. There is no week number attached to any opponent. A week 16 opponent could be guessed by counting along that list and stepping over the bye, but the guess rests on the order the underlying schedule file happens to arrive in, and a wrong week 16 opponent printed on a sheet is worse than no week 16 column at all. Separately, nothing in our feeds publishes points allowed per position, which is the other half of what the playoff version needs.
Two things would turn this into a real weeks 15 to 17 sheet: a schedule feed that tags every opponent with its week number, and a per position points allowed table for each defence. The page already reads the first of those if it ever appears. Until both exist the sheet says full season, because full season is what it is.
How to use the bye week planner
Each card is one bye week. It shows how many players in the current draft pool are off that week and the best of them by draft position. Add your own picks in the strip at the top and every card counts how many of yours it takes, with the crowded weeks marked.
There is no rule here about how many is too many, and we are not going to invent one. A ten team league with deep benches absorbs four players on one bye far more comfortably than a twelve team league with a short bench does, and a league that lets you stream a quarterback cares less than one that does not. What the planner gives you is the count, in front of you while you are still drafting rather than in week 10 when it is too late to do anything about it.
Players are matched with the same search the rest of the site uses, so a misspelling or a missing full stop still finds the right person. Your picks live in the address bar, which means the link you copy carries them to whoever you send it to, and nothing about your team is stored on our side.
How to read the handcuff grid
A handcuff is the back who inherits the carries when a starter cannot go. The grid pairs them for you: one card per club, the running backs listed first, second and third, with the second name marked as the handcuff for the first. When you have added your own picks above, every starter you hold is marked, the card is outlined, and the line under the grid counts how many of those starters already have their own backup on your roster.
This sheet was missing when the page first shipped, and the reason was written here: a handcuff grid needs a depth chart, and our player feed publishes a player's team, position, number, years of experience, college and roster status, with no depth information at all. Guessing an order from draft position would have produced a grid that looks authoritative and is frequently wrong, which is the worst of the available outcomes. The grid draws now because there is finally something real to draw: a feed of published depth charts, one dated snapshot per club, built from nflverse's open depth chart release and joined to our player directory on the same identifier the rest of the site uses.
Two things about that order are worth being blunt about. The first is that a depth chart is a stated intention, not a snap count. It is what a coaching staff has published about who is ahead of whom; it is not a promise about touches, and a second back who plays on third downs can out-score the man listed above him every week of the season. Read it as the club's own answer to who is next in line, which is exactly the question a handcuff asks, and read a box score for anything else.
The second is that it is dated, not scheduled. The release we read publishes each club's chart with a timestamp rather than a week number, so the sheet prints the date each club last published and nothing else. We do not turn that date into a week, because that would be a guess dressed as a fact, and it is the same guess this page already refuses to make about the schedule. A club that has not published since August shows an August date, in the open, on the card.
A club is on the grid or it is not. Where a name arrives without an identifier we can join, the slot is left out rather than filled by promoting the next back into it, so a card that starts at RB2 means the first row was unusable and says so by its own numbering. If the whole feed is unreachable, or the chart for this season has not been published yet, the sheet is not on the page at all and a line says why.
What else is not on these sheets
No projections, no rankings, and no opinion about who you should draft. The rankings, the printable cheat sheet and the mock draft trainer cover that ground properly. These three sheets exist to answer three narrow questions on paper: whose schedule looks light, which weeks you are going to be short, and who is behind the back you just drafted.
Schedules, depth charts and the player directory all come from nflverse, an open data project that publishes them for reuse. The draft positions come from Fantasy Football Calculator. Neither is a partner and neither has endorsed anything here.