The NFL’s vacation period is almost over. The first couple of weeks of July are the final weeks for NFL teams, players, coaches, and reporters to take some time before the season gets going hot and heavy. Tomorrow, the first rookies will start reporting to Training Camp, and the NFL will be going hot and heavy all the way until February. Last year’s Super Bowl Champions, the Seattle Seahawks, are the first team to have rookies report, with more coming over the weekend and into next week. Jadarian Price is the main attraction in Seattle’s rookie class, as he was the 32nd overall pick in this Spring’s NFL Draft. Price’s usage will be a fascinating storyline to follow over the next month or so. Zach Charbonnet will be sidelined for Training Camp, leaving Price to split backfield touches with George Holani and Emanuel Wilson. Price is the dynasty running back to have, but I’m worried we’re expecting too much from him in his rookie season while Charbonnet is hurt. Price played behind Jeremiyah Love for his entire college career. Is the first backfield he leads going to be in his first professional season? Price has a bright future, and could be the bellcow back in 2027 and beyond, but expectations should be in check this season. He’s the RB36 in DLF ADP, going off the board at 124 overall. 

With teams reporting to camp, there are several big-name dynasty assets that still are not signed for the 2026 season. Stefon Diggs headlines the group, coming off a season where he was a top 24 fantasy wide receiver! Tyreek Hill, Joe Mixon, Deebo Samuel, and Nick Chubb all also remain unsigned. As camp ramps up, teams start to notice the holes in their roster, or players they were counting on start to get hurt. Diggs is certainly someone I fully expect to be on a roster and playing week one of the season. The rest of this list I’m more skeptical of. Hill and Mixon both have serious injuries, and Samuel and Chubb both saw their production fall off a cliff last season. If you’re still stashing these players, hope that they find their team early on in camp, or it’ll be tougher and tougher to hold onto them. Brandon Aiyuk is, of course, another wide receiver who has to be stashed, but maybe not for much longer. 

Off the field, Geno Smith’s domestic situation appears to be closed. The Davie (FL) Police Department has reportedly declared the investigation inactive with no charges to be brought. Smith has been given a chance to revive his career in New York, after a failed season in Las Vegas. The offense is finally built to succeed, with plenty of weapons and a solid offensive line. The last piece is the quarterback position, but Geno Smith likely is not the answer. He’s a fine player to have in superflex leagues on win-now teams, but only as a QB3 option and bye-week filler. 

News will start to pick up for real around the league once players start returning to camp, and Dynasty League Football is the best place for dynasty-specific analysis on all of the latest news and headlines in the fantasy football world. It’s redraft season, and that’s the focus of most fantasy sites, but DLF remains wholly focused on helping you win your dynasty fantasy football leagues. Follow along with our latest articles every day and check out the DLF Expert Rankings, constantly updated with the latest news and information. Whether you’re in it to win a title this year, or building a dynasty to last for years to come, DLF is the best tool you have at your disposal to help you win!

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One of the biggest dynasty fantasy football surprises of the 2025 NFL season was the success that Tyler Shough had in New Orleans. An older and unheralded prospect out of Louisville, Shough struggled to earn the starting job away from Spencer Rattler, and started the season as the backup. Once he took the job midway through the year, he didn’t look back, winning five of the team’s final eight games and nearly earning a playoff spot. This season, he’s become one of the more popular QB sleeper picks in redraft drafts, but what does that mean for his dynasty fantasy football managers? Let’s dive into his ADP and figure out Shough’s value in 2026 and beyond. 

As of June of 2026, Shough’s value in superflex leagues has never been higher. He’s the QB20 right now, going off the board at 60th overall, right at the end of the fifth round. He was down as low as 236th in November of last season, so he’s already paying major dividends to the managers who stuck with him through the Rattler weeks. The DLF Superflex Rankings are quite a bit lower on Shough, where he’s slotted in as the QB24 at 108th overall. 

The Saints offense has made some exciting improvements this off-season. They drafted Jordyn Tyson in the first round of the NFL Draft, a separation wizard who could open up things down the field for Chris Olave. They also signed Travis Etienne to lead this backfield, a major upgrade over the aging Alvin Kamara, the oft-injured Kendre Miller, and last year’s late-round surprise Devin Neal. Off-season hype is a great way to cash in on dynasty fantasy football assets. The ADP for Shough is much higher than the rankings indicate his value should be, indicating a sell high opportunity for Shough.

We continue our 2026 “Perfect Draft” strategy series, focusing on how to win your startup dynasty drafts. Anyone who has followed us for any length of time knows you can’t enter a draft without a strategy, but which strategy you choose will directly affect who you want to target. With that in mind, these are the strategies we’re going to cover:

In this article, we’ll focus on the “value” approach in superflex dynasty formats, constructing three sample rosters from various draft positions to show how this strategy plays out in practice.

What is a “value” strategy?

A value strategy takes a simple approach – take the best player every single time. Ignore positions and building a lineup and simply get as much value as you can by adding the best players to your team. This takes the approach that you will trade any position surplus after the draft but that your strategy will simply be to gain as much value as possible in the draft.

So, by using DLF’s June 2026 Superflex Dynasty ADP let’s have the perfect dynasty draft implementing the value strategy:

The easiest pick in the game. Allen is the QB1 and will be the QB1 until something drastic happens. Do you need me to tell you why?

If I’m truly drafting for value, I’m willing to overlook QB here, even though normally in Superflex, that’s my favored strategy. But to get a game-changing running back in the middle of the first round makes sense to me as a way to just get the best possible player.

I love the value of Burrow here. I’d be willing to look at him as high as the 1.05, so getting him where his ADP goes at the back of the first round feels very nice to me.

As does pairing him with Justin Herbert, my QB6. Herbert might not be breaking fantasy like it felt like he would after his rookie season, but he’s still a set-and-forget starter and a very nice asset to take in the second round.

This would have felt impossible last season, but taking advantage of a slide in Bowers’ ranking due to his injury woes last year allows us to take him in the middle of the second round. Bowers is still a huge positional advantage and only 23 years old going into year three.