I’m back with the biggest fantasy football ADP risers and fallers of the past week. I will not include any players I wrote about in last week’s edition of the article, which you can find here. How many spots a player has moved in the past seven days is written in parentheses next to their name.
Risers
Caleb Douglas, WR, Dolphins (+31)
I wrote more about Douglas in my preseason Week 1 recap. Long story short, Douglas played every snap with the starters, and that tracks with everything we’ve heard out of Dolphins training camp. Douglas wasn’t awfully productive in college, peaking at 830 yards and a 22 dominator. Right now, Douglas is cheap enough in drafts and he looks to be a good bet for routes run. Even if he doesn’t earn targets at a high clip, there should be a reasonable baseline of volume. Based on the preseason snaps, his competition for targets will be Malik Washington, Jalen Reagor, and a bevy of tight ends.
Mike Washington Jr., RB, Raiders (+20)
Washington played as the clear RB2 for the Raiders in the first preseason game and then with the second-team offense in their second preseason contest with starters resting. He has looked electric in both outings.
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He has gains of 33 and 55 yards in his two appearances. Washington not only looks like a great handcuff bet, but he looks like a backup with juice. He should likely go in the same range as Tank Bigsby, who has an ADP of 159.
De’Zhaun Stribling, WR, 49ers (+18)
Stribling shot up boards after Ricky Pearsall was ruled out for the season. He then rode that momentum to another surge after catching seven passes for 63 yards in the first half of his first career preseason game. Stribling was a slam dunk pick a few weeks ago when he was going 30 picks later in drafts. At this price, he might actually have to be good at football. In year five of Stribling’s collegiate career, he failed to lead his team in catches or yards and was not particularly efficient. Even if he is locked into a starting role, that alone isn’t enough to pay off his new ADP, and I’m skeptical he has the talent to be a big hit early in his career.
Cyrus Allen, WR, Chiefs (+17)
Allen has been a standout at Chiefs camp and started with the second-team offense in KC’s preseason opener. Xavier Worthy and Rashee Rice sat. Tyquan Thornton started alongside Allen but has since gone down with a minor injury. All we can say with that information is that Allen is in the running for the No. 3 job, but that’s also a lot more than we could have said a few weeks ago. With Rice incredibly unreliable and Worthy struggling to find his footing in the NFL, this is a team whose Week 1 WR3 could gain loads of value over the regular season.
Dontayvion Wicks, WR, Eagles (+14)
Wicks continues to draw rave reviews in camp, but until recently, the praise has come with the caveat that both DeVonta Smith and Makai Lemon were sidelined. Smith is back and Lemon is practicing in a limited capacity. If both players are good to go for Week 1 — which seems rather likely — Wicks will likely struggle to draw targets. Smith has been targeted on 29 percent of his routes without A.J. Brown on the field over the last three years. Lemon was targeted on 29 percent of his routes in 2025 at USC. I would not be buying Wicks at the new price. His ADP should fall with Lemon and Smith healthy.
Bonus: Jonathon Brooks, RB, Panthers (+8)
Brooks is the third-largest riser based on pick value, not just pick number. The other two are players I have already written about in either this article or the previous iteration. After missing the first two years of his NFL career almost entirely, Brooks was unlikely to ever be a relevant fantasy option heading into the current offseason. That ship has sailed. He reportedly looks great in camp and the team had plans for him to eventually be the lead back. That timeline has now been expedited via a Chuba Hubbard hamstring injury. It’s an almost unprecedented comeback for Brooks, but I buy the hype.
Fallers
Isiah Pacheco, RB, Lions (-19)
Pacheco suffered an MCL sprain in practice and is facing a multi-week recovery. He is expected to be ready for Week 1, though that’s not a guarantee. Pacheco’s ADP always baffled me. He is a former seventh-round pick who looked good early in his career but has been dreadfully inefficient over the past two years. Injuries can take some of the blame for that, but then the question becomes if he will ever look like he did three seasons ago. The NFL at large had no interest in him on the open market. He earned a measly $1.8 million contract in Detroit, which doesn’t even guarantee him the backup job. Given the team’s commitment to Jahmyr Gibbs with a new contract, it’s also safe to assume the “David Montgomery role” will be absorbed in part by Gibbs. The Pacheco bet always had loads of holes. Now an injury-shaped one sits at the center.
Omar Cooper Jr., WR, Jets (-13)
Cooper is falling like a rock after playing deep into the Jets’ first preseason game. He was on the field six drives into the contest. The last first-round rookie to play that late in an exhibition contest was Treylon Burks. This, however, isn’t a death sentence for Cooper Jr. because Isaiah Williams is his competition for the WR3 job in New York. Williams has been in the NFL for two years and has already played for three teams. He played a mix of special teams and offense last year, resulting in just under 200 receiving yards. Williams could play over Cooper Jr. in Week 1, but I don’t buy that a rebuilding team will sit a first-round rookie on the bench for long. Cooper Jr. looks like a screaming buy at this new price.
Isaac TeSlaa, WR, Lions (-11)
The Lions sat their starters in the first week of preseason action, but TeSlaa was not among those on the bench. He played, and dropped a pass that was then intercepted, while anyone with fantasy value got the day off. TeSlaa made some cool catches as a rookie, but his underlying metrics were horrible. He ranked outside the top 80 receivers in yards per route run and targets per route. There simply wasn’t any room in the offense for him to carve out a target-earning role. Now his routes are even questionable. This is a fade until the last round of drafts.
Jordyn Tyson, WR, Saints (-11)
Tyson is expected to miss two months as he continues to deal with hamstring issues. He dealt with multiple hamstring injuries during his 2025 senior season and they lingered throughout the offseason. Now he is going to miss a large chunk of the fantasy football regular season. The Saints have a Week 6 road game against the Giants, then travel to France for an international bout with the Steelers. Then they get their bye week. If I had to guess his return date, it would be following that bye in Week 9. Tyson could still be an interesting bet on late-season production, but he needs to fall much further in drafts to make that a viable bet.
Chuba Hubbard, RB, Panthers (-11)
Hubbard suffered a hamstring injury and his Week 1 status is up in the air. His fall is a reaction to the missed practice time and potential for missed games. But it’s also a response to the ongoing Jonathon Brooks hype. Hubbard is largely a bet on the status quo holding up. As long as someone doesn’t emerge as a better option in the backfield, he should see plenty of touches. His absence in practice gives Brooks a clear path to upend the status quo, and if Hubbard isn’t seeing a lofty workload in Week 1, he doesn’t have much fantasy value.
Bonus: Emeka Egbuka, WR, Bucs (-4)
Egbuka’s four-spot fall doesn’t sound like much, but it’s roughly equivalent to Pacheco’s tumble in terms of pick value. Egbuka is dealing with a toe injury, and his Week 1 status is up in the air. The Bucs already showed a willingness to scale down his role at the end of his rookie season. Once Jalen McMillan returned to the lineup, Egbuka was relegated to a 57 percent route rate. It doesn’t seem like this injury will hold Egbuka out for much, if any, of the regular season. But it could severely hamper his fantasy output even when he is playing.
