3 Fantasy Football Risers & Fallers (2026)

As the end of July approaches and training camp nears, so too does the preseason, and before you know it, the start of the 2026-27 NFL season. With that, we’ve seen players rise and fall in fantasy football average draft position (ADP) over the last few months.

I expect that to take another turn during the events leading up to the start of the season, whether that’s due to injuries or position battles. Here are three fantasy football risers and fallers.

Fantasy Football Risers & Fallers

Fantasy Football Risers

Javonte Williams (RB – DAL)

In Javonte Williams’ first season with the Dallas Cowboys, he ran 252 times for 1,201 yards and 11 touchdowns, and caught 35 passes on 51 targets for 137 yards and two touchdowns.

Heading into this season, my biggest concern for Williams was the Cowboys adding another running back, but ultimately, they didn’t. The running back depth chart includes Williams, Malik Davis, Jaydon Blue and Phil Mafah. These are all the same faces they had last season, which led to Williams getting 65.8% of the running back carries and an 8.4% target share.

Of Williams’ 252 carries, 10.3% went for 10+ yards and 37.7% went for five yards or more. He averaged 4.8 yards per carry. This is his backfield, and he’s not going anywhere. I’d consider him a fringe RB1.

Rashee Rice (WR – KC)

While a possible suspension for violating his probation looms and could come down, I’ll take a risk here and assume it doesn’t. If there’s no suspension, there’s no way Rashee Rice isn’t a fantasy WR1, and a top-10 one at that.

Over the course of the games he played in last season, which included Weeks 7-9 and Weeks 11-15, Rice saw a 28.7% target share, catching 53 passes on 78 targets for 571 yards and five touchdowns. On third downs, he had a 25.8% target share, which also led the team.

The Chiefs did add Kenneth Walker III, so I certainly expect more touches out of the backfield, but receiver-wise, it’s still the same band, including Travis Kelce, who’s closer to 40 than 35.

Rice will be targeted so much in this offense. From Weeks 7 to 15, during which the Chiefs had a Week 10 bye, Rice was the WR2 in fantasy football, averaging 18.8 points per game in PPR leagues.

I know the legal stuff and possible suspension could be aggravating for best ball, but if he’s out there all 17 games, he’ll finish inside the top 10 of fantasy receivers.

Fantasy Football Fallers

RJ Harvey (RB – DEN)

Sticking with the running back position, I’m just not sure RJ Harvey is a back I’d be willing to trust. Last season, Harvey played 17 games and ran 146 times for 540 yards (3.7 yards per carry) and seven touchdowns. He also caught 47 passes for 356 yards and five touchdowns on 58 targets.

Harvey’s 12 touchdowns were excellent, and the 47 catches are nice to boot. Something to consider, though, is that J.K. Dobbins was injured for a good chunk of the season, and the Broncos drafted Jonah Coleman.

Last season, Dobbins led the way in percentage of running back carries at 43.2%, despite playing seven fewer games than Harvey. Looking at the games Dobbins played, he dominated the percentage of carries at 72.9%.

From Week 11 on, Harvey handled 66.9% of the carries, but he averaged fewer than four yards per carry, and 17.3% of his runs went for zero or negative yardage.

Between Dobbins being healthy and Coleman, a big, bruising, goal-line/red-zone back, Harvey’s value isn’t going to be much more than his PPR upside with catching the ball.