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These rankings are for the Best Ball fantasy football format available on Underdog Fantasy and DraftKings.

Best Ball is a wildly popular form of fantasy football that requires no roster management. Simply join one of the available tournaments on DraftKings or Underdog Fantasy, and draft your favorite 18 to 20 players from the available options. Each week the software will automatically construct your best possible lineup each on your behalf with no additional action required. The regular season champions of each 12 player league will advance in the tournament to compete for huge cash prizes in the final rounds.

We use our decades of combined fantasy football and data science experience to create a statistical fantasy football model for projecting future performance.

We accomplish this by using millions of data points that include but are not limited to:

  • Historical player usage: targets, touches, and opportunity
  • Play calling tendency including situational run vs. pass ratios
  • Route participation
  • Pass rate over expectation data
  • Coaching changes and tendency
  • Offensive line performance metrics
  • Defensive line performance metrics
  • Turnover and penalty data
  • Pace and play volume data
  • Scoring and drive efficiency data
  • Passing depth and efficiency
  • Receiving depth and efficiency
  • QB designed vs. scrambling yards
  • Age and Injury history
  • Positional rushing, target, and touchdown distributions
  • Alignment and personnel usage data
  • Opponent schedule and strength of competition

This information is the backbone of our projections, but because of the speculative nature associated with the National Football League each season, we must apply our own expertise in finalizing the inputs that formulate the rankings. We have a team of data science and fantasy football experts that consider all factors when ranking players. Player projections are the spine of the rankings, but important elements like upside potential and position scarcity are also included in the analysis. We test our rankings to ensure the results match the intentions.

You can click here to find our favorite picks from the NFL Best Ball Rankings for fantasy football 2024 , which is available here. Expect this data to be updated daily as new information is ingested throughout the offseason.

PLAYER TEAM POS UD RANK UD ADP POSRANK UNDERDOG DK RANK DK ADP DRAFTKINGS
Christian McCaffrey SFO RB 1 1 RB1 328.75 1 1 387.92
CeeDee Lamb DAL WR 2 2 WR1 297.59 2 2 385.95
Tyreek Hill MIA WR 3 3 WR2 262.72 3 3 340.06
Ja'Marr Chase CIN WR 4 4 WR3 264.24 4 7 348.78
Bijan Robinson ATL RB 5 8 RB2 282.85 5 6 337.53
Amon-Ra St. Brown DET WR 6 5 WR4 257.69 6 4 340.08
Justin Jefferson MIN WR 7 7 WR5 215.1 7 8 283.72
Breece Hall NYJ RB 8 6 RB3 290.61 8 5 343.58
Garrett Wilson NYJ WR 9 10 WR6 226.73 9 10 297.8
A.J. Brown PHI WR 10 9 WR7 207.03 10 9 271.21
Puka Nacua LAR WR 11 11 WR8 192.58 13 11 257.47
Jonathan Taylor IND RB 12 14 RB4 246.95 11 14 283.94
Marvin Harrison ARI WR 13 12 WR9 198.39 12 12 259.8
Jahmyr Gibbs DET RB 14 13 RB5 234.91 16 15 276.84
Cooper Kupp LAR WR 15 21 WR10 193.07 18 16 253.79
Deebo Samuel SFO WR 16 16 WR11 186.52 19 20 231.24
Devon Achane MIA RB 17 20 RB6 214.74 15 18 252.28
Drake London ATL WR 18 15 WR12 219.2 17 17 289.09
Jaylen Waddle MIA WR 19 19 WR13 198.73 21 26 258.84
Chris Olave NOS WR 20 22 WR14 196.37 23 23 259.84
Davante Adams LVR WR 21 23 WR15 181.05 20 25 238.99
Saquon Barkley PHI RB 22 18 RB7 235.27 14 13 275.25
Brandon Aiyuk SFO WR 23 26 WR16 193.17 24 34 254.93
DeVonta Smith PHI WR 24 28 WR17 185.2 26 30 242.02
D.J. Moore CHI WR 25 31 WR18 181.01 28 32 234.67
Mike Evans TBB WR 26 27 WR19 178.53 25 27 231.65
Malik Nabers NYG WR 27 24 WR20 177.11 30 28 234.34
Nico Collins HOU WR 28 17 WR21 170.55 22 21 221.4
D.K. Metcalf SEA WR 29 29 WR22 173.51 27 33 226.51
Josh Allen BUF QB 30 35 QB1 359.87 37 36 378.64
Derrick Henry BAL RB 31 30 RB8 205.59 29 22 231.33
Kyren Williams LAR RB 32 25 RB9 208.77 35 19 246.2
Isiah Pacheco KCC RB 33 32 RB10 204.98 33 24 236.25
Sam LaPorta DET TE 34 37 TE1 184.31 32 40 244.22
Stefon Diggs HOU WR 35 33 WR23 172.95 34 42 226.81
Patrick Mahomes KCC QB 36 44 QB2 347.39 38 38 369.28
Tee Higgins CIN WR 37 43 WR24 184.87 41 49 244.46
Amari Cooper CLE WR 38 45 WR25 180.03 45 51 237.32
Travis Kelce KCC TE 39 39 TE2 177.94 36 31 234.81
Michael Pittman IND WR 40 36 WR26 177.7 31 39 237.8
Zay Flowers BAL WR 41 41 WR27 169.06 39 45 224.02
Jalen Hurts PHI QB 42 42 QB3 348.7 40 41 365.27
Rashee Rice KCC WR 43 40 WR28 169.39 42 35 225.78
Josh Jacobs GBP RB 44 47 RB11 195.56 43 37 226.22
Tank Dell HOU WR 45 34 WR29 180.62 44 43 235.22
Lamar Jackson BAL QB 46 48 QB4 325.97 46 46 340.54
Trey McBride ARI TE 47 46 TE3 158.58 47 47 214.76
Mark Andrews BAL TE 48 51 TE4 153.57 50 58 198.14
George Pickens PIT WR 49 49 WR30 169.54 53 56 219.86
Travis Etienne JAC RB 50 38 RB12 200.55 52 29 234.45
Terry McLaurin WAS WR 51 50 WR31 142.46 49 48 185.31
Dalton Kincaid BUF TE 52 52 TE5 162.42 48 52 214.2
James Cook BUF RB 53 53 RB13 199.24 54 44 229.96
Christian Kirk JAC WR 54 53 WR32 162.59 58 61 214.12
Anthony Richardson IND QB 55 58 QB5 326.29 56 65 339.01
Kyle Pitts ATL TE 56 62 TE6 166.82 60 63 224.08
Chris Godwin TBB WR 57 64 WR33 169.07 55 67 225.11
Jayden Reed GBP WR 58 61 WR34 160.75 62 70 206.65
Keenan Allen CHI WR 59 60 WR35 147.79 57 66 197.26
Rachaad White TBB RB 60 57 RB14 210.93 51 50 252.09
Diontae Johnson CAR WR 61 67 WR36 162.71 75 74 212.85
Calvin Ridley TEN WR 62 56 WR37 139.85 64 60 184.37
Evan Engram JAC TE 63 76 TE7 134.27 69 71 186.19
Xavier Worthy KCC WR 64 55 WR38 140.42 65 54 174.53
George Kittle SFO TE 65 66 TE8 149.05 72 68 192.67
Christian Watson GBP WR 66 72 WR39 141.4 67 80 179.35
Alvin Kamara NOS RB 67 71 RB15 184.29 63 57 219.81
Jaxon Smith-Njigba SEA WR 68 74 WR40 133.68 73 82 173.92
Rome Odunze CHI WR 69 65 WR41 133.97 76 72 175.5
C.J. Stroud HOU QB 70 70 QB6 317.54 59 59 337.63
David Montgomery DET RB 71 68 RB16 196.1 68 62 223.37
Kenneth Walker III SEA RB 72 58 RB17 180.78 66 55 211.1
Joe Mixon HOU RB 73 63 RB18 167.2 61 53 192.13
Marquise Brown KCC WR 74 77 WR42 131.24 70 77 168.99
Aaron Jones MIN RB 75 82 RB19 191.15 71 73 225.56
Brian Thomas JAC WR 76 69 WR43 130.9 82 77 169
Jameson Williams DET WR 77 81 WR44 136.5 85 84 175.85
Jake Ferguson DAL TE 78 83 TE9 147.35 77 79 193.33
Joe Burrow CIN QB 79 89 QB7 311.86 80 83 333.69
Ladd McConkey LAC WR 80 79 WR45 134.13 84 92 173.6
Dak Prescott DAL QB 81 98 QB8 305.55 83 88 327.08
Kyler Murray ARI QB 82 72 QB9 294.71 81 69 308.35
Rhamondre Stevenson NEP RB 83 84 RB20 187.87 79 85 223.42
Courtland Sutton DEN WR 84 90 WR46 126 90 95 165.76
Jayden Daniels WAS QB 85 95 QB10 281.67 89 91 291.02
Jordan Love GBP QB 86 93 QB11 291.08 86 87 308.05
Brock Bowers LVR TE 87 94 TE10 105.6 98 103 138.59
James Conner ARI RB 88 75 RB21 168.42 78 64 197.44
Keon Coleman BUF WR 89 78 WR47 117.64 74 76 148.42
Najee Harris PIT RB 90 80 RB22 156.21 93 86 177.45
Curtis Samuel BUF WR 91 96 WR48 132.52 91 113 169.23
Jaylen Warren PIT RB 92 91 RB23 149.51 87 102 171.37
Zamir White LVR RB 93 92 RB24 182.43 88 81 211.82
Jordan Addison MIN WR 94 86 WR49 124.26 109 110 160.16
Chase Brown CIN RB 95 102 RB25 178.3 96 100 203.78
David Njoku CLE TE 96 101 TE11 141.86 95 96 189.1
Tyjae Spears TEN RB 97 110 RB26 178.81 92 112 210.59
Tony Pollard TEN RB 98 97 RB27 157.03 94 89 180.7
DeAndre Hopkins TEN WR 99 88 WR50 106.56 97 98 137.87
Jonathon Brooks CAR RB 100 99 RB28 136.85 104 115 153.52
Khalil Shakir BUF WR 101 105 WR51 145.18 102 99 190.58
Devin Singletary NYG RB 102 109 RB29 156.76 113 107 183.17
Brian Robinson WAS RB 103 106 RB30 135.64 114 101 153.61
Zack Moss CIN RB 104 108 RB31 133.76 103 104 149.83
Josh Palmer LAC WR 105 104 WR52 122.93 116 106 162.53
Caleb Williams CHI QB 106 107 QB12 283.3 100 94 298.71
Raheem Mostert MIA RB 107 85 RB32 121.36 115 78 134.27
D'Andre Swift CHI RB 108 87 RB33 129.28 101 75 146.22
Javonte Williams DEN RB 109 103 RB34 135.13 99 90 157.48
Trevor Lawrence JAC QB 110 118 QB13 288.9 105 116 305.09
Brock Purdy SFO QB 111 112 QB14 287.18 106 105 304.82
Rashid Shaheed NOS WR 112 113 WR53 115.91 121 126 150.45
Dallas Goedert PHI TE 113 116 TE12 118.26 108 119 158.6
Romeo Doubs GBP WR 114 100 WR54 107.35 118 97 134.53
Blake Corum LAR RB 115 120 RB35 118.15 112 122 132.12
Tyler Lockett SEA WR 116 116 WR55 107.84 119 132 141.07
Jerry Jeudy CLE WR 117 125 WR56 121.12 117 133 160.99
Brandin Cooks DAL WR 118 124 WR57 110.47 122 127 141.89
Dontayvion Wicks GBP WR 119 111 WR58 104.83 120 121 132.81
Tua Tagovailoa MIA QB 120 122 QB15 285.98 110 111 306.39
Jared Goff DET QB 121 126 QB16 280.83 107 108 301.55
Pat Freiermuth PIT TE 122 132 TE13 97.34 131 137 130.26
Austin Ekeler WAS RB 123 130 RB36 129.83 111 114 154.62
Gus Edwards LAC RB 124 120 RB37 131.9 127 124 145.71
Ja'Lynn Polk NEP WR 125 128 WR59 104.38 138 144 132.81
Rico Dowdle DAL RB 126 114 RB38 130.19 124 117 149.48
Jakobi Meyers LVR WR 127 119 WR60 99.25 126 118 130.06
Gabriel Davis JAC WR 128 127 WR61 102.4 130 129 126.11
Jerome Ford CLE RB 129 115 RB39 108.31 125 109 121.19
Trey Benson ARI RB 130 131 RB40 78.37 128 130 85.34
Darnell Mooney ATL WR 131 136 WR62 110.85 140 149 142.31
Dalton Schultz HOU TE 132 134 TE14 93.5 132 120 118.7
Nick Chubb CLE RB 133 129 RB41 93.86 143 123 102.06
Mike Williams NYJ WR 134 133 WR63 101.67 137 135 134.31
Zach Charbonnet SEA RB 135 137 RB42 114.04 139 150 133.26
Kirk Cousins ATL QB 136 143 QB17 245.62 135 128 263.25
Ty Chandler MIN RB 137 138 RB43 119.4 133 143 133.42
Matthew Stafford LAR QB 138 148 QB18 235.9 134 134 253.89
Justin Herbert LAC QB 139 139 QB19 232.53 129 139 245.68
Tyler Allgeier ATL RB 140 141 RB44 113.3 148 148 123.69
Jaleel McLaughlin DEN RB 141 149 RB45 97.09 144 153 119.24
Chuba Hubbard CAR RB 142 146 RB46 122.57 142 140 140.32
Michael Wilson ARI WR 143 145 WR64 95.74 160 152 122.55
J.K. Dobbins LAC RB 144 142 RB47 127.76 146 138 143.82
Aaron Rodgers NYJ QB 145 156 QB20 237.62 136 146 254.99
Adonai Mitchell IND WR 146 123 WR65 85.02 145 136 105.88
Josh Downs IND WR 147 147 WR66 88.4 151 158 116.78
Braelon Allen NYJ RB 148 159 RB48 116.45 154 166 129.75
Ezekiel Elliott DAL RB 149 134 RB49 116.56 123 131 128.94
Deshaun Watson CLE QB 150 158 QB21 237.11 150 154 250.73
Demario Douglas NEP WR 151 156 WR67 98.85 165 174 125.65
Antonio Gibson NEP RB 152 169 RB50 106.93 157 170 125.87
Khalil Herbert CHI RB 153 164 RB51 81.43 163 168 89.05
Jordan Mason SFO RB 154 177 RB52 86.07 172 178 94.06
Ray Davis BUF RB 155 153 RB53 66.81 161 161 72.6
MarShawn Lloyd GBP RB 156 176 RB54 98.6 153 181 113.41
Bucky Irving TBB RB 157 160 RB55 69.96 159 160 78.62
Rashod Bateman BAL WR 158 166 WR68 94.97 166 171 121.91
Adam Thielen CAR WR 159 154 WR69 85.6 147 142 111.53
Wan'Dale Robinson NYG WR 160 173 WR70 86.76 162 173 110.74
Jalen Tolbert DAL WR 161 161 WR71 93.94 164 163 116.29
Geno Smith SEA QB 162 170 QB22 247.81 155 157 264.53
Baker Mayfield TBB QB 163 165 QB23 252.34 141 145 267.95
Will Levis TEN QB 164 174 QB24 222.42 152 164 233.94
Andrei Iosivas CIN WR 165 187 WR72 80.88 185 204 103.72
Jalen McMillan TBB WR 166 167 WR73 64.34 181 188 79.61
Kimani Vidal LAC RB 167 181 RB56 57.38 176 177 64.87
Jaylen Wright MIA RB 168 144 RB57 53.73 179 151 58.16
Hunter Henry NEP TE 169 162 TE15 77.5 173 182 99.72
Cole Kmet CHI TE 170 151 TE16 81.01 167 141 102.54
Cade Otton TBB TE 171 178 TE17 80.93 156 156 103.88
Tyler Conklin NYJ TE 172 171 TE18 81.41 158 169 105.4
Daniel Jones NYG QB 173 201 QB25 240.15 182 194 249.93
T.J. Hockenson MIN TE 174 140 TE19 49.8 174 147 63.64
Bo Nix DEN QB 175 185 QB26 188.47 168 167 190.93
Sam Darnold MIN QB 176 184 QB27 220.84 178 172 231.91
Isaiah Likely BAL TE 177 172 TE20 65.09 169 165 79.83
Jonnu Smith MIA TE 178 188 TE21 48.31 177 184 61.68
Greg Dortch ARI WR 179 175 WR74 63.11 183 179 81.32
Tyrone Tracy NYG RB 180 186 RB58 53.1 186 191 63.04
Xavier Legette CAR WR 181 150 WR75 75.92 171 162 94.45
Noah Fant SEA TE 182 168 TE22 76.36 187 189 97.27
Luke Musgrave GBP TE 183 152 TE23 73.21 170 155 93.33
Demarcus Robinson LAR WR 184 179 WR76 68.2 175 176 81.43
Justice Hill BAL RB 185 194 RB59 93.85 189 198 105.54
Drake Maye NEP QB 186 192 QB28 122.69 192 197 123.42
Dyami Brown WAS WR 187 200 WR77 49.46 197 205 60.42
Justin Fields PIT QB 188 198 QB29 34.02 194 190 34.35
Derek Carr NOS QB 189 205 QB30 209.59 180 180 221.69
Luke McCaffrey WAS WR 190 191 WR78 57.4 184 186 72.16
Theo Johnson NYG TE 191 206 TE24 61.37 206 241 78.75
Juwan Johnson NOS TE 192 193 TE25 78.74 196 199 96.85
Tyler Boyd TEN WR 193 202 WR79 70.95 190 193 91.39
Jahan Dotson WAS WR 194 155 WR80 68.31 188 159 84.72
Bryce Young CAR QB 195 196 QB31 227.92 193 185 240.09
Marvin Mims DEN WR 196 190 WR81 58.22 195 195 74.78
Colby Parkinson LAR TE 197 197 TE26 63.44 199 207 81.12
Darius Slayton NYG WR 198 218 WR82 55.69 201 201 69.95
Tank Bigsby JAC RB 199 189 RB60 57.42 230 196 63.06
Jalen Nailor MIN WR 200 210 WR83 39.96 200 227 49.1
Jermaine Burton CIN WR 201 182 WR84 56.62 191 187 69.78
Gardner Minshew LVR QB 202 222 QB32 200.22 256 203 209.86
Audric Estime DEN RB 203 203 RB61 58.44 216 218 64.02
Jordan Whittington LAR WR 204 199 WR85 54.2 213 219 66.95
Greg Dulcich DEN TE 205 214 TE27 52.87 204 213 68.63
Dameon Pierce HOU RB 206 204 RB62 56.08 203 208 59.56
Ja'Tavion Sanders CAR TE 207 239 TE28 68.51 215 291 87.39
Malik Washington MIA WR 208 217 WR86 37.39 209 237 45.75
Mike Gesicki CIN TE 209 215 TE29 61.29 198 202 78.96
Zach Ertz WAS TE 210 224 TE30 44.16 238 215 58.54
Jonathan Mingo CAR WR 211 270 WR87 69.14 214 337 86.02
Roschon Johnson CHI RB 212 219 RB63 79.4 205 209 88.07
Ricky Pearsall SFO WR 213 163 WR88 28.39 210 192 35.58
Quentin Johnston LAC WR 214 183 WR89 56.24 207 183 70.66
Alexander Mattison LVR RB 215 220 RB64 68.15 212 214 77.39
Chigoziem Okonkwo TEN TE 216 211 TE31 56.69 211 200 71.41
Jalin Hyatt NYG WR 217 224 WR90 41.85 218 234 51.48
Russell Wilson PIT QB 218 232 QB33 188.23 208 212 195.2
Dawson Knox BUF TE 219 230 TE32 48.2 223 230 59.72
Kendrick Bourne NEP WR 220 243 WR91 43.94 234 376 55.18
Olamide Zaccheaus WAS WR 221 246 WR92 37.29 217 342 46.57
Tre Tucker LVR WR 222 233 WR93 57.3 236 269 67.2
Malachi Corley NYJ WR 223 194 WR94 61.69 221 216 77.28
Roman Wilson PIT WR 224 207 WR95 60.7 224 244 74.97
Jauan Jennings SFO WR 225 253 WR96 62.22 220 243 78.18
Tucker Kraft GBP TE 226 220 TE33 39.06 304 268 49.48
Treylon Burks TEN WR 227 243 WR97 56.87 237 397 69.51
Josh Reynolds DEN WR 228 234 WR98 49.07 228 232 62.98
Kenneth Gainwell PHI RB 229 261 RB65 60.68 239 283 69.19
Will Shipley PHI RB 230 209 RB66 34.4 235 217 37.42
Clyde Edwards-Helaire KCC RB 231 239 RB67 50.4 225 259 56.91
Johnny Wilson PHI WR 232 280 WR99 20.01 280 323 24.68
Cedric Tillman CLE WR 233 270 WR100 39.59 226 380 50.28
Ray-Ray McCloud ATL WR 234 300 WR101 59.75 231 0 74.11
Kalif Raymond DET WR 235 227 WR102 56.58 232 312 70.1
Ben Sinnott WAS TE 236 180 TE34 35.07 219 175 45.87
Gerald Everett CHI TE 237 246 TE35 40.67 229 370 51.73
Alec Pierce IND WR 238 243 WR103 56.08 233 310 69.12
Hayden Hurst LAC TE 239 246 TE36 56.55 241 360 72.44
Jamaal Williams NOS RB 240 229 RB68 32.79 227 222 36.17
Nelson Agholor BAL WR 241 280 WR104 42.49 246 280 53.56
Kylen Granson IND TE 242 253 TE37 46.93 243 384 58.87
Brevin Jordan HOU TE 243 301 TE38 33.41 244 385 41.54
Xavier Gipson NYJ WR 244 280 WR105 27.29 288 321 34.77
Deuce Vaughn DAL RB 245 280 RB69 43.2 251 308 51.07
Miles Sanders CAR RB 246 270 RB70 42.83 247 318 49.38
Keaton Mitchell BAL RB 247 237 RB71 20.96 242 316 24.7
Javon Baker NEP WR 248 227 WR106 38.37 248 250 48.17
Dylan Laube LVR RB 249 253 RB72 23.09 240 319 25.17
Jeremy Ruckert NYJ TE 250 301 TE39 46.92 252 400 60.3

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