Underdog best ball drafts for the 2026 fantasy football season opened earlier this month, and I already have 24 drafts under my belt. I’ve maxed The Little Board, a 20-max contest with a $3 entry. I’ve also picked four teams in The Big Board, a $10 contest with a max of 150 entries. The following players are on 17% or more of my rosters.
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Most-Rostered Best Ball Players: Feb 2026 (Fantasy Football)
Wide Receivers
Khalil Shakir doesn’t have league-winning upside or anything resembling it. He’s a stacking partner of Josh Allen, though. Shakir has led the Bills in receptions and receiving yards in consecutive seasons.
Shakir was tied for the WR39 in half-PPR points per game (9.6) among wideouts who played more than eight games in 2024 and tied for the WR43 in half-PPR points per game (8.2) among those who played more than eight games in 2025.
Shakir is just the WR52 in ADP, and his low average depth of target (aDOT) resulted in a 76% catch rate in 2024 and a 75.8% catch rate in 2025. Shakir is a nifty glue guy whose greatest contribution to Underdog teams is offsetting the bust weeks of boom-or-bust, volatile wide receivers.
Not much went right for the Commanders in 2025. Terry McLaurin was sharp when he was healthy, though. Among 109 wide receivers with at least 200 routes in the regular season last year, McLaurin ranked:
- Tied for 13th in air yards share (37.2%)
- 27th in target share (20.7%)
- Tied for 23rd in targets per route run (0.24 TPRR)
- 27th in first-read rate (25.8%)
- 24th in receiving yards per game (58.2)
- 13th in yards per route run (2.38 YPRR)
McLaurin is Washington’s No. 1 wide receiver, and picking him is a bet on McLaurin being healthier in 2026 — he didn’t miss any games from 2021-2024 — and Washington’s offense recapturing at least some of its 2024 magic, when it finished 10th in yards per play (5.7) and fifth in scoring offense (28.5 points per game).
Denzel Boston (106.3 ADP) and KC Concepcion (125.7 ADP) are the cheapest of the expected first-round picks at wide receiver, per Grinding the Mocks. They could be best positioned to join quality teams picking at the end of the first round, and their ADPs will likely surge in best ball drafts after the NFL Draft if they’re picked in the first round.
Makai Lemon is the only one of the trio of him, Carnell Tate and Jordyn Tyson among my most-rostered wideouts. Still, I don’t have any strong leanings in his direction relative to the other two wideouts with potential early first-round capital. They’re all reasonably priced, and I’ll likely get more shares of Tate and Tyson in future drafts.
The NFL Mock Draft Database has a helpful consensus big board page, and Zachariah Branch (49th), Chris Bell (51st) and Elijah Sarratt (55th) all have top-60 rankings.
Bell is a unique player. According to PFF, among 94 FBS wideouts with at least 60 targets in 2025 in this year’s draft class, Bell was ninth in their receiving grade (83.3), tied for 12th in yards per route run (2.55) and had an 85.3% wide alignment, meaning he wasn’t getting many easier assignments from the slot.
Unfortunately, Bell suffered a torn ACL on November 22nd and had surgery in December. Bell could have been in the mix for the late first round if not for the injury. The big-bodied incoming rookie shouldn’t be drafted with early-season expectations in mind, but his ADP of 233.9 makes him a viable 20th-round pick with late-season potential.
Parker Washington became Jacksonville’s No. 1 wide receiver last season. His emergence, plus the acquisition of and extension awarded to Jakobi Meyers, has allowed the club to move forward with using Travis Hunter as a starter at cornerback. In 10 games after Jacksonville’s Week 8 bye, Washington rattled off the following stats:
- 75.1% route participation rate
- 31.5% air yards share
- 12.8-yard aDOT
- 22.1% target share
- 0.25 TPRR
- 26.3% first-read rate
- 67 targets (6.7 per game)
- 48 receptions (4.8 per game)
- 747 receiving yards (74.7 per game)
- 2.82 YPRR
- 5 receiving touchdowns
- 6 end-zone targets
- 4 receiving touchdowns on end-zone targets
- 12.8 half-PPR points per game
- 13.5 expected half-PPR points per game
Washington balled out, and his 72.9 ADP (WR36) isn’t reflective of how good he was to close out last season. He was even cheaper when I began drafting earlier this month.
Michael Wilson broke out last season. Even without cherry-picking his data after Kyler Murray was injured and benched, his numbers were rock-solid. Among 109 wide receivers with at least 200 routes in the regular season in 2025, Wilson ranked:
- 29th in air yards share (33%)
- 33rd in target share (19.1%)
- 26th in first-read rate (26.1%)
- Tied for 44th in yards per route run (1.67)
- Tied for 13th in receptions (78)
- 22nd in receiving yards per game (59.2)
- Tied for 11th in receiving touchdowns (seven)
- Tied for 23rd in end-zone targets (nine)
- 40th in first downs per route run (0.085)
I’m buying Wilson’s breakout.
The Raiders need help at wide receiver, and I’m not on an island connecting the dots of Rashid Shaheed potentially joining Klint Kubiak in Las Vegas. Even if Shaheed lands elsewhere, he’s showcased the ability to pile up yardage efficiently and take the top off defenses, albeit with underwhelming receiving contributions for the Seahawks after they traded for him last season.
Don’t let recency bias erase the memory of Shaheed’s 0.19 TPRR and 2.78 YPRR on 175 routes as a rookie in 2022 or his 0.25 TPRR and 2.17 YPRR on 161 routes in six games in 2024.
Jalen Coker is an ascending talent, bypassing 2024 first-round pick Xavier Legette on the depth chart. Coker started last season on injured reserve (IR), and he had fewer than 40 receiving yards in his first four games after being activated from IR. In his final eight games, Coker had the following numbers.
- 80% route participation rate
- 28.9% air yards share
- 10.6-yard aDOT
- 17.3% target share
- 0.19 TPRR
- 24.1% first-read rate
- 43 targets (5.4 per game)
- 35 receptions (4.4 per game)
- 462 receiving yards (57.8 per game)
- 2.03 YPRR
- 4 receiving touchdowns
- 3 end-zone targets
- 2 receiving touchdowns on end-zone targets
- 11.1 half-PPR points per game
- 10.1 expected half-PPR points per game
Coker is an exciting selection at his 117.8 ADP (WR53).
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