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09/14/2026

Rice on the Radio Sunday Night Football picks. Week 1 is here boys and girls. LETS GO!

09/09/2026

Opening week is finally here.
After spending most of August talking fantasy football, I wanted to get back to talking about the actual NFL — so I went through the 2026 futures markets and used them to put my preseason football opinions on tape.
This isn’t 35 “locks.”
Some bets I genuinely love. Some are leans. Some are simply numbers where I think the market and I are looking at a team very differently.
On the new episode:
🏈 Denver OVER 9.5 and my case for the Broncos winning the AFC West�🏈 Kansas City UNDER 10.5�🏈 Dallas OVER 9.5�🏈 Washington UNDER 7.5�🏈 Jets OVER 5.5�🏈 Giants OVER 7.5 — but very cautiously�🏈 All 8 division winners�🏈 Passing, receiving, rushing, touchdown and sack props�🏈 Burrow for MVP, Chase for OPOY and Garrett for DPOY�🏈 Rookie award picks�🏈 And my preseason Super Bowl matchup: Denver vs. Green Bay
Some of these are going to age well.
Some are going to look horrific.
That’s the fun of doing it before the season instead of pretending we knew everything afterward.
🎧 2026 NFL Futures: Win Totals, Player Props, Awards & Super Bowl Picks

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09/04/2026

Fantasy Football 202 ends with some receipts. 🧾
We spent the first three parts talking strategy, tiers, ADP and how to actually handle a draft.
Now?
Forget the rankings.
Who do I actually want on my team?
🌱 Flag plants: Waddle, Jeanty, DJ Moore, Caleb Williams
💰 Values: Bo Nix, Tyler Allgeier, Isaiah Likely + more
🚫 Fades: Jayden Daniels, Rashee Rice, Tetairoa McMillan, Jeremiyah Love
🎟️ Late-round lottery tickets you should have sitting in your queue
And then there’s Christian McCaffrey… who I have apparently changed my mind about 700 times this offseason.
Some of these takes are going to look great in December.
Some of them are probably going to make me look like an as***le.
Either way, they’re officially on tape.
🎙️ Episode 83 — Fantasy Football 202, Part 4�2026 Fantasy Football Draft Targets, Values, Fades & Sleepers
Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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08/28/2026

You can mock 50 times, know ADP front to back and have the best spreadsheet in your league.
Then the draft starts and somebody punches your entire plan directly in the mouth.
Episode 82 of Rice on the Radio is Part 3 of Fantasy Football 202, and this one gets into what happens after that.
We’re talking Value Based Drafting, Boomerang RB, keeper strategy and keeper inflation, auction budgets and nominations, Stars-and-Scrubs versus balanced builds, stacking, and one of the biggest advantages you can have in a long-running league: knowing the people you’re drafting against.
The point isn’t to perfectly predict your draft.
It’s to prepare well enough that you can adapt when it stops looking anything like you expected.
Consensus rankings are built for an average draft room.
Your draft room is not average.
Episode 82 — Fantasy Football 2026 Draft Strategy: Keepers, Auction Drafts, Stacking & Value — is out now wherever you listen to podcasts.

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08/26/2026

Episode 81 is live — Fantasy Football 202 continues.
Last episode was about the process behind a fantasy draft.
This time, we’re putting actual players behind it.
I go position by position through my 2026 fantasy football tiers at running back, wide receiver, quarterback and tight end — including where I think the meaningful drop-offs actually happen.
We get into Bijan vs. Gibbs, the CMC risk, Ashton Jeanty, where I need my RB1, Ja’Marr Chase and the elite WR tier, why DJ Moore moved up my board, Drake Maye at QB4, why the reigning NFL MVP is somehow in my Tier 3 fantasy quarterbacks, Bowers vs. McBride, and plenty more.
These aren’t supposed to be your rankings.
They’re mine.
The whole point is understanding why you believe what you believe before you’re on the clock.
🎙️ 2026 Fantasy Football Rankings: RB, WR, QB & TE Tiers | Fantasy Football 202
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08/22/2026

My fantasy draft philosophy is pretty simple:
Build the foundation early. Chase upside later.
I don’t need my second-round pick to require five different things to go right. Give me volume, a clear role and somebody I trust in my lineup.
Once we get deeper?
Now I’m willing to take some swings.
Because a ninth-round miss shouldn’t ruin your season. Missing badly on three of your first four picks absolutely can.
Early rounds: don’t lose your draft. Later rounds: try to win it.
🎙️ Fantasy Football 202 — Episode 80 of Rice on the Radio.

08/21/2026

Don’t panic during runs.
One of the biggest mistakes fantasy managers make on draft day is assuming that a positional run means they have to follow the crowd.
Sometimes you should jump in.�Sometimes you absolutely should not.
The key is knowing your tiers, understanding the drop-off, and recognizing when everybody else panicking is actually creating value for you somewhere else.

08/21/2026

ADP is one of the best tools in fantasy football.
But it’s a guide, not a rule.
If you’ve done the homework, you love the player, and you know he probably isn’t making it back to your next pick… take him.
Nobody in Week 12 cares that FantasyPros said you drafted him 10 picks too early if he’s helping you win.
🎙️ Fantasy Football 202 — Episode 80 of Rice on the Radio.

08/20/2026

You can research a fantasy pick forever. At some point, none of us actually knows exactly what’s going to happen.�Do your homework. Read the room. Build your team.�Then when the clock starts ticking? Make the pick.�🎙️ Episode 80 of Rice on the Radio — Fantasy Football 202 — is out now.

08/20/2026

Episode 80 is live — and we’re officially kicking off the Fantasy Football 202 series.
This isn’t Fantasy Football 101. You know how to draft a team. The question is what you do when the draft stops going according to plan.
In this episode I break my draft philosophy down into three things:
Do your homework. Read the room. Build your team.
We get into mock drafting, ADP, player tiers, positional runs, reading the rosters around you, roster construction, when reaching is actually justified, and why the goal isn’t to build the prettiest team on draft night.
Fantasy football is forecasting. You’re going to get picks wrong.
The goal is to make informed decisions more often than the person sitting across from you.
🎙️ Fantasy Football 202: 2026 Draft Strategy, ADP, Tiers & Mock Drafts
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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