One of the best ways to get an advantage in fantasy football is to pay attention to the platform you are playing on. Before a draft, you should make sure you know not just the scoring and roster settings of your platform, but also that platform’s specific average draft position (ADP).
Make sure to note both greater positional trends and which individual players have outlier ADPs on a given site. Doing this analysis is an excellent way to find values and avoid paying inflated prices. Today, we will focus on the value side of things, looking for the most underpriced players and position groups in current RT Sports drafts. To find these players, I compare RT Sports ADP data over the last week to the current FantasyPros PPR expert consensus rankings (ECR). Let’s get started.
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Early-Round Receivers
Even just a glance at RT Sports’ ADP compared to ECR reveals that the experts tend to be higher on receivers in the first few rounds of the draft than RT Sports drafters. A slightly more in-depth analysis reveals just how strong this trend is: 14 of the top 15 players in terms of percentage difference between the two ranks are receivers with ECRs in the first three rounds (the only exception is Jaylen Waddle, still a highly ranked wideout at 55 overall).
Out of the top 17 receivers in ECR, the only players who don’t have ADPs at least 38% lower than their consensus ranks are Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas Jr. and Tyreek Hill. And even Nabers and Thomas are both at a 22% discount; Hill is the lone standout with an ADP “just” 12% lower than his ECR.
This trend is so pronounced that taking these values can hurt your team if you aren’t careful. If you enter an RT Sports draft and make selections based solely on consensus ranks, you are essentially guaranteed to end up with three wide receivers with your first three picks.
More importantly, you will end up massively behind the eight ball at running back, as essentially every early and mid-round running back is being drafted well before their ECR. If you want to end up with a more traditionally balanced team on RT Sports, make sure to upgrade running backs at the expense of these receivers in your rankings.
On the other hand, these inflated running back ADPs are perfect for building a Zero RB team. If you’re willing to commit to it, you can build an absurd wide receiver group by taking advantage of these early-round values. The running back thirst is so high that most of the early and mid-round tight ends and quarterbacks are also going off the board as values compared to their consensus ranks, although the difference isn’t quite as pronounced as it is at receiver.
I recommend splitting the difference by taking a Hero RB in round one and then taking the values at other positions until late in the draft, where you stock up on dart throws to hopefully fill your RB2 slot. Compared to ECR, you’ll still have to “overpay” to get that Hero RB, but it’s a lot more justifiable to pay a premium of a few picks for Jahmyr Gibbs or Christian McCaffrey than to find yourself forced to reach multiple rounds on guys like James Cook or Kyren Williams. Once you have your Hero RB locked up, go to town on some of the absurd values available at the wide receiver position.
Jordan Love (QB – GB) | RT ADP: 150/ECR: 106
As mentioned, quite a few of the mid-round quarterbacks find themselves pushed down draft boards as RT Sports drafters apparently can’t bear to click any position other than running back. But Jordan Love stands out as the best value of the bunch, with a massive 46-pick difference between his ECR and his ADP. We can see that Love’s depressed ADP isn’t just a result of positional trends: His ECR is QB15, but he is the 21st quarterback off the board on RT Sports.
This six-slot difference in positional ADP pushes Love from near the top of the QB2 ranks down to the backend QB2s. To be fair to RT Sports drafters, it’s not like Love’s fantasy performance last season was particularly useful. He averaged just 16.3 fantasy points per game, ranking 16th at the position. He only finished as a top-10 weekly fantasy option twice all season, and zero times after Week 6.
Love’s volume was depressed by the Packers’ conservative playcalling, as they ranked third-lowest in the league in terms of pass rate versus expectation. The Packers’ offense also ranked eighth-highest in terms of the share of their touchdowns that were scored on the ground. That number is even worse than it sounds for Love’s fantasy value, as all but one of the teams above the Packers in rushing touchdown rate had dual-threat quarterbacks who accounted for at least four (and often far more) of those rushing TDs — Love scored just one touchdown on the ground.
Love is just one season removed from finishing as the QB5 in points per game, a feat he accomplished in his first season as a starter. While the Packers will likely start 2025 with a similar run-first approach, a lot can change in an NFL season. Defense regression or an injury to Josh Jacobs could easily lead to Love dropping back more often.
The Packers quarterback also has a shiny new toy to help generate explosive plays in first-round rookie receiver Matthew Golden. Even just positive regression in how the Packers score their touchdowns could be enough to push Love back into the QB1 conversation. Grabbing him outside of the top 20 quarterbacks in ADP is a no-brainer.
Dallas Goedert (TE – PHI) | RT ADP: 168/ECR: 121
Like Jordan Love, Dallas Goedert stands out as one of the biggest values at a position already cheap across the board on RT Sports. While the 32% difference between his ECR and RT ADP isn’t the biggest at the position, the massive 47-point raw difference is easily the largest. According to ECR, Goedert should be a 10th-round pick in 12-team drafts and the TE14. On RT Sports, he is the TE21 and a 14th-round option.
While Goedert isn’t the most exciting option, he is easily one of the top 20 fantasy tight ends in the league. He has finished as a top-12 TE in PPR points per game in each of the last six seasons. That includes a TE10 finish last year despite playing only a handful of snaps (either due to injury or the Eagles resting their starters) in two of his 10 games.
With an 18.9% target share across the regular season and Philadelphia’s Super Bowl run (still including those two short appearances), Goedert is undeniably the third option in the passing game for arguably the league’s best offense. At worst, he’s a solid option who will project as a top-15 tight end most weeks.
There are also plenty of scenarios in which he becomes a weekly starter. If the Eagles positively regress from the absurdly low pass rates they posted last season, that 19% target share suddenly looks a lot more valuable. He also has multiple injury outs to weekly TE1 upside, as he averaged a 23% target share and 13.1 PPR points in the five games missed by A.J. Brown and/or DeVonta Smith last season.
Goedert is an obvious choice as the best value TE2 on RT Sports, and I don’t hate waiting to grab him as your TE1 either.
Rico Dowdle (RB – CAR) | RT ADP: 142/ECR: 130
In case I haven’t said it enough already in this article, running back prices are out of control on RT Sports. There are 51 running backs in the top 150 by ECR. Of those 51 backs, only two have RT ADPs below their consensus ranks. The first is Bijan Robinson, who only gets in on a technicality with a 2.08 ADP vs. a second-overall ECR that would probably be below 2.08 if it included decimals.
Then we have Rico Dowdle, who goes just about a round later than his ECR. Normally, that wouldn’t be worth writing about. Compared to the running back marketplace on RT Sports (which might be more accurately called “RB Sports” at this point), it makes Dowdle an obvious value.
Of course, Dowdle isn’t some elite back. He’s best viewed as a handcuff who won’t have fantasy value as long as Chuba Hubbard is healthy. But if you are trying to ride the ADP tsunami at the running back position and going with a Zero RB or Hero RB strategy, late-round handcuffs are exactly the kind of backs you want to be stockpiling. Dowdle sticks out like a sore thumb as the only one of these who you can draft at a discount compared to his consensus rank.
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Ted Chmyz is a fantasy football contributor for FantasyPros.com. Find him on Twitter and Bluesky @Tchmyz for more fantasy content or to ask questions.
