This is the final round of ADP risers and fallers from the last week of fantasy drafts. I’ve excluded players previously mentioned in this article series to avoid double and triple-counting camp hype.
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Risers
Kayshon Boutte, WR, Texans (+37)
Boutte was always one of the most obvious trade candidates during training camp after the Patriots signed Romeo Doubs to a massive contract and acquired A.J. Brown. As a fellow outside receiver with almost no special teams experience, he was set to be a healthy scratch to start the year. The Patriots wound up getting safety Jaylen Reed—primarily a special teams player—and a 2028 seventh-round draft pick for Boutte.
Boutte had the second-highest aDOT in the NFL last year at 17.1. Drake Maye was fourth in the league in accurate throw rate on deep balls and he completed the second-most deep shots in total. C.J. Stroud ranked 20th in accurate throw rate and 23rd in deep completions. Boutte is locked in for more routes as a Texan, but this is otherwise a massive situational downgrade. With his price skyrocketing, I won’t end up with much Boutte this year.
Chris Bell, WR, Dolphins (+26)
Bell suffered a torn ACL in late November of his senior season at Louisville, making it hard for him to be ready by Week 1 of his rookie season. Hard, but not impossible. Not only is Bell ready for Week 1. He was available and looked good in Miami’s preseason finale.
Welcome to the league Chris Bell pic.twitter.com/RKrGKkMFhO
— Billy M (@BillyM_91) August 28, 2026
Bell had a solid junior season but truly broke out in 2025 with a 72-917-6 receiving line. He averaged 2.6 yards per route run and 2.5 yards per team pass attempt. It was a strong finish, and a much better season than anything fellow Dolphins rookie Caleb Douglas put on the field. If Bell is healthy and the only edge Douglas has over him is training camp reps, Bell should simply go ahead of Douglas based on their college profiles.
Kaleb Johnson, RB, Packers (+21)
The Packers scooped up Johnson on roster cutdown weekend for a 2028 sixth-round pick. Johnson was an impressive prospect coming out of Iowa. He made an impact as a true freshman and was the best runner in the BIG 10 by his junior season, when he ran for over 1,500 yards and 21 touchdowns. At 6’1/224, he looks like a workhorse running back. With all that being said, flaming out on your first team in one year and an extra offseason is a resounding indictment of a player. The Steelers believed right away that he was not an NFL-caliber back. Now he has to prove that he is, earn the RB2 role, force a committee or have MarShawn Lloyd get hurt, and have those things happen while Josh Jacobs is on the Exempt List or suspended. It’s a parlay with too long of odds for me to make in redraft leagues, but I’ll still hold onto Johnson in dynasty.
Malik Davis, RB, Cowboys (+12)
The Cowboys had three backup running back options heading into the weekend. Now they have one. Davis wasn’t a particularly interesting college prospect and he went undrafted in 2021. But he has hung around the Cowboys organization for five seasons and even looked spry in 2025, averaging 3.3 yards after contact and 4.8 yards per carry on his 52 attempts. This is a shockingly similar runout to Rico Dowdle’s early career. At worst, Davis is purely a cheap handcuff bet. At best, he mixes in a little bit to relieve Javonte Williams and has some standalone value without an injury.
Najee Harris, RB, Giants (+11)
After a nightmare preseason from Tyrone Tracy that culminated in him getting banged up in the team’s final game, Harris might be the favorite for RB2 duties in New York. Harris has ties to the Giants’ staff via Greg Roman, who coached him in LA last year. In Harris’s second game with the Chargers, he held Omarion Hampton to an 8-8 carries standstill. Harris went down after his sixth carry in the following game. Hampton had five carries at that time. Despite fantasy managers’ shrieks of agony, Harris earns the trust of his coaches, and they return the favor with more carries than we want to see. As a late addition to the Giants, that might not happen right away in New York, but Harris should be viewed as the season-long backup for this team.
Bonus: Jadarian Price, RB, Seahawks (+5)
Like every week, the riser and faller bonuses are the players whose value changed the most, accounting for higher picks being worth more. A five-spot move for Price in the middle rounds is almost as significant as Kayshon Boutte’s 37-pick climb at the end of drafts. The Seahawks have talked highly of Price while beat reporters can’t stop reminding us about TreVeyon Henderson’s poor reps in pass pro, causing their ADPs to flip. We’re also getting mixed messages about Bhayshul Tuten’s role, but the slappies aren’t read all that. Price’s ADP might come down in the following days with back-to-back reports about George Holani stealing high-value touches from him early in the year.
This section of drafts is where we’re getting young running back upside at the cost of truly low floors. I’m always willing to bet on upside, but my preference is to do so at a lower price, making Henderson my favorite pick of this group until Price flips him again, or Tuten falls, or even Bucky Irving moves down.
Fallers
Tank Dell, WR, Texans (-18)
Dell was placed on injured reserve to start the year, meaning he will miss at least the first four games of the season. He seemed to be ramping up in camp, even participating in team drills at one point, but eventually the team pulled him off the practice field entirely. It looks like Dell suffered a setback, though the team has already said he is closer to returning than he was in camp. Still, this is a bet fantasy managers can save for the waiver wire when Dell is activated from injured reserve later in the season.
Josh Jacobs, RB, Packers (-17)
The Jacobs situation reached a critical mass over the weekend when the league placed him on the Commissioner’s Exempt List. The list functions as an indefinite suspension while the league gathers more info on Jacobs’ misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property. Roger Goodell has sole discretion over who goes on the Exempt List and for how long they stay on it. Given that this is also a thorny PR situation for the league, there’s no guarantee Jacobs comes off it this year. The standard suspension for domestic abuse under the CBA is six games, and aggravating circumstances can increase the length of the suspension. At this point, an eight-game absence would be a welcome outcome for Jacobs and the Packers.
Keaton Mitchell, RB, Chargers (-12)
Mitchell has been dealing with a mysterious injury since the team’s final preseason contest and has not practiced since. Mike McDaniel called it a setback and there hasn’t been much of an update otherwise. Mitchell didn’t land on injured reserve, meaning the team doesn’t expect him to miss four games, but that’s the only piece of concrete information we have. Fantasy managers should not be counting on him for points in Week 1. Omarion Hampton, on the other hand, may get off to a hot start with games versus the Cardinals and Raiders to open the year.
Jalen Nailor, WR, Raiders (-10)
Nailor was treated like a backup early in the preseason but eventually ran (and sat) with the starting offense. This fall is likely related to the early preseason concerns, but Nailor is back to being a full-time wind-sprinter for Kirk Cousins. That’s still not all that valuable, but you can resume drafting him if you were before the preseason.
Jaydon Blue, RB, Eagles? (-10)
As previously mentioned, Blue was released by the Cowboys when they cut down to their 53-man roster this weekend. The team didn’t even bring him back on their practice squad, instead opting to sign Chiefs castoff Emari Demercado. Blue eventually signed with the Eagles’ practice squad. Philly used Kenneth Gainwell as a passing-downs complement to Saquon Barkley a few years ago, but that’s really a discussion for dynasty leagues. In redraft, you can’t roster someone who the NFL itself isn’t rostering.
Bonus: Josh Downs, WR, Colts (-9)
Coming off the heels of the Keenan Allen signing, Downs is the biggest value loser this week who I haven’t already mentioned. Allen torpedoed Ladd McConkey’s fantasy stock last year, but he didn’t do it by taking McConkey off the field. Ladd’s route rate marginally increased to 90 percent. His aDOT barely moved either, meaning he was on the field more, earning similar types of targets. McConkey simply earned those targets at a lower per-route rate and was much less efficient. Allen certainly played some role in those changes, but the Chargers’ season-long spiral on offense was likely the larger culprit.
Long story short, I’m coping. I don’t buy that Allen is a huge impediment to the Downs breakout case. I’ll be buying at a reduced price.
