If you have a fantasy football draft coming up on RT Sports and are looking to find values in the platform’s average draft position (ADP), you’re in the right place. If you haven’t already, I recommend you check out my article on RT Sports values from last month, which breaks down not just individual player values but some very powerful position-based trends.
While the individual ADPs may have shifted since then, the larger trends are still very much in play. With that in mind, let’s hop into the best values in up-to-date RT Sports ADP, comparing as always to FantasyPros’ expert consensus rankings (ECR).
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Best Fantasy Football Draft Values: RT Sports Leagues
Jaylen Waddle (WR – MIA) | ADP: 83/ECR: 54
For those of you who didn’t read last month’s article, here’s the short version: RT drafters love early running backs, and wide receivers are pushed way down as a result. As a result, the massive 42.5% gap between Jaylen Waddle’s RT Sports ADP and his expert ranking somehow ranks just 10th among top-200 players. All nine players ahead of him are receivers with expert rankings inside the top two rounds.
However, where Waddle stands out is in the gap in his positional rankings. Wide receivers are being drafted lower across the board, so those early-round wideouts are still being selected in more or less the same order, even if their overall ADPs are much lower. Waddle, on the other hand, is a clear outlier in both positional and overall ADP. He is ranked as the 27th-best receiver in the league, a high-end WR3. But on RT Sports, he is the WR36, nine slots lower and the very final WR3 selected.
Especially with the recent news of Jonnu Smith being traded to Pittsburgh, Waddle is a no-brainer pick at that WR36 ADP. Yes, his 2024 season was terrible; he averaged fewer than 10 PPR points per game, ranking outside the top 50 receivers. But Miami’s offense as a whole was dysfunctional last season, thanks to offensive line woes and Tua Tagovailoa‘s concussions. By the end of the year, their passing offense was comprised almost entirely of dump-offs and designed yards after the catch (YAC) opportunities for the aforementioned Smith and De’Von Achane.
If we look back at Waddle’s overall profile, it’s clear we are looking at a talented young receiver. He was selected with the sixth-overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft and immediately racked up over 1,000 yards as a rookie. He then proceeded to get even better, posting yards per route run marks of 2.59 in 2022 and 2.63 in 2023. Those marks ranked third and sixth in the entire NFL in their respective years.
Smith’s departure indicates Mike McDaniel and co. plan to return to the more aggressive, hyper-concentrated style of offense that allowed Waddle to thrive in the past. Waddle is still just 26 years old and has outperformed even his more aggressive ECR positional ranking in three of the four years of his career. Even among a cornucopia of wide receiver values available on RT Sports, Waddle’s rank stands out as a smash buying opportunity.
Roschon Johnson (RB – CHI) | ADP: 177/ECR: 166
This late in the draft, an 11-pick gap in ADP doesn’t mean much. However, and I am becoming a broken record here, this gap gets much more enticing once we consider the overall running back market on RT Sports. A whopping 79 running backs are selected in the top 200 picks of RT Sports drafts, from Bijan Robinson down to Antonio Gibson.
Of those 79 backs, 74 are being selected before their ECR. All but nine are being drafted at least 5% higher, and over 80% of them are at least 10% “overvalued.” The average difference between a running back’s RT Sports ADP and their ECR is an absurd +26%. That was a lot of numbers, but the important takeaway is this: Running backs are flying off the board, so Roschon Johnson falling slightly is a massive value.
Once again, this also shows up in positional rankings. Roschon’s ECR is RB54; his RT Sports ADP is RB64. Of course, running backs (or any players) being drafted this late aren’t hugely valuable. But the running back environment on RT Sports makes Johnson’s particular archetype particularly appealing. With how expensive early running backs are, RT Sports ADP is absolutely screaming out for a savvy manager to implement a Zero RB or (my preference) Hero RB strategy. And Johnson is the exact kind of back you want to target in that strategy.
Roschon checks almost every box in what we want to target in late-round running backs. He’s relatively young, at just 24 years old. He’s in a potentially elite offense with Ben Johnson at the helm. He has a decent reputation as a pass-blocker (just don’t look at last year’s Pro Football Focus grades) and solid size, so he could consolidate high-value work in the right situation. And he’s behind an uninspiring veteran back in D’Andre Swift, who has already lost one job under Ben Johnson’s direction in his career.
Of course, uninspiring is also an appropriate word to describe Johnson’s NFL career so far. In the most likely outcome, he’s a glorified handcuff with little standalone value. But, compared to the prices of other running backs on RT Sports, grabbing a clear-cut handcuff in Round 15 is an absolute dream.
David Njoku (TE – CLE) | ADP: 116/ECR: 86
Forget the positional trends and larger site narratives, David Njoku is just a straight-up value on RT Sports. He is being selected 30 spots later than his ECR. Consensus rankings have him as the TE8, while you should be able to snag him as the TE12 in your RT Sports draft. The players who jump over him in RT Sports ADP are Mark Andrews, Jonnu Smith and a pair of rookies in Tyler Warren and Colston Loveland.
Starting at the top, Andrews being drafted before Njoku is totally reasonable. They are essentially valued the same at 88 and 86 in ECR. But what’s less reasonable is that Andrews is being selected over a full round before Njoku, with an ADP of 102. Smith is a special case, as ECR can react quicker to his new circumstances than RT Sports’ ADP. He has fallen 13 spots over the last week, and I expect him to keep falling, eventually settling below Njoku. If you’re drafting soon, you might get lucky with an inattentive leaguemate trusting ADP and reaching for Smith, but that won’t last forever.
The real issue with Njoku’s positional ADP is that he is going behind Warren and Loveland, who have consensus rankings of TE14 and TE17, respectively. Drafting rookies is the best way to add upside to your team, especially those with first-round draft capital, which both of these players have. But we also have to consider team situations here.
Loveland is in arguably the most crowded offense in the league. Even if he can see the field over Cole Kmet (no sure thing with how notoriously difficult it is for rookie tight ends to adapt to the NFL), he will be competing for targets with an established NFL No. 1 WR in DJ Moore and two other highly drafted prospects in Rome Odunze and Luther Burden III.
Warren’s situation isn’t quite as crowded, but he still has to compete with two excellent target-earners in Michael Pittman Jr. and Josh Downs, not to mention Alec Pierce and Adonai Mitchell. And Daniel Jones being the Colts’ starting quarterback for 17 games is the best possible outcome for Warren’s fantasy value, which isn’t exactly a great sign.
Of course, Njoku’s quarterback situation is somehow even worse. But we’ve seen him rack up targets and fantasy points with subpar quarterback play before. Just last year, he finished as the TE4 in PPR points per game while catching passes from Jameis Winston, Deshaun Watson, Dorian Thompson-Robinson and Bailey Zappe. Joe Flacco is back in Cleveland’s quarterback room, and he would be an upgrade over all four of those names, even at 40 years old.
Meanwhile, Njoku’s only guaranteed target competition is Jerry Jeudy. I like Cedric Tillman and am stupid stubborn enough to hold out hope for Diontae Johnson, but reasonable projections should have the veteran tight end ranking second (at worst) on this team in targets. Especially in full PPR, targets are king, and Njoku has a realistic path to the volume needed to put up another borderline-elite season. If you don’t happen to select an elite tight end at the start of your RT Sports draft, waiting to grab Njoku in the 10th round is a great way to stay ahead of your competition.
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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.
