Fantasy football players trending up in week 3
Twenty players, ranked by what they are scoring per game right now and shown with the matchup ahead. Ten from the top tier, ten from below it, and all twenty are the hot cards in DraftIcon this week.
The players trending up in the Icon tier
Jaxon Smith-NjigbaWR · SEA
34.4form
@ WASa neutral matchup
2
Josh AllenQB · BUF
38.2form
vs LACa strong defence
3
Kenneth WalkerRB · KC
29.0form
@ MIAa neutral matchup
4
Trey McBrideTE · ARI
21.3form
@ SFan easy matchup
5
Amon-Ra St. BrownWR · DET
32.0form
vs NYJa strong defence
6
Jahmyr GibbsRB · DET
28.5form
vs NYJan easy matchup
7
Dalton KincaidTE · BUF
20.3form
vs LACa strong defence
8
Patrick MahomesQB · KC
25.8form
@ MIAan easy matchup
9
Zay FlowersWR · BAL
26.0form
@ DALan easy matchup
10
Jonathan TaylorRB · IND
27.2form
vs HOUa strong defence
Players trending up below the Icon tier
Jalen CokerWR · CAR
24.2form
@ CLEa strong defence
2
Bryce YoungQB · CAR
28.3form
@ CLEa neutral matchup
3
D'Andre SwiftRB · CHI
22.7form
vs PHIan easy matchup
4
Isaiah LikelyTE · NYG
18.1form
vs TENan easy matchup
5
Rashod BatemanWR · BAL
21.8form
@ DALan easy matchup
6
Travis KelceTE · KC
17.6form
@ MIAan easy matchup
7
Tyler ShoughQB · NO
23.8form
vs LVa neutral matchup
8
Chuba HubbardRB · CAR
19.1form
@ CLEan easy matchup
9
Stefon DiggsWR · WAS
18.6form
vs SEAan easy matchup
10
Jared GoffQB · DET
23.1form
vs NYJa neutral matchup
Players who have dropped out of the top ten
Derrick HenryRB · BAL
26.5form
@ DALan easy matchup
2
Christian WatsonWR · GB
23.4form
vs ATLan easy matchup
3
Caleb WilliamsQB · CHI
23.0form
vs PHIa neutral matchup
4
Ashton JeantyRB · LV
21.5form
@ NOa strong defence
5
Jalen HurtsQB · PHI
21.4form
@ CHIan easy matchup
6
Justin JeffersonWR · MIN
19.9form
@ TBa neutral matchup
7
Dallas GoedertTE · PHI
12.5form
@ CHIa neutral matchup
8
DJ MooreWR · BUF
10.5form
vs LACa strong defence
Who are the hottest fantasy football players right now?
The players above, ranked by fantasy points per game in the current season and shown with the matchup ahead. It is a reading of what has actually happened rather than a preseason opinion, which is why the order changes every week.
What the list is not is a full ranking of the league. It is the top of the DraftIcon pool, the two hundred players you can actually be dealt in a draft, split into the top tier and everything below it. A player who is not in the pool will not appear here however well he plays.
Who should I start in week 3?
The two questions that decide most start-sit calls are on every row above. Is he playing at all, and who is he playing against. An injury designation is shown against the name, and the matchup carries the rating the pool assigns it: an easy one, a neutral one, or a defence that has been hard on that position.
Where that rating helps most is the middle of your roster. Your first-round back starts whatever the matchup, and no rating changes that. The call between two similar flex options is where the opponent is worth more than a ranking list, and it is the one place a rating like this earns its keep.
What it cannot do is tell you about a snap count that changed on Wednesday or a coach who has said nothing yet. This page is rebuilt from data, not from beat reporting, so check the team news before kickoff. That is true of every ranking you will read this week, ours included.
Are these week 3 sleepers?
Not in the usual sense, and it is worth being straight about why. The second table holds players outside the Icon tier who score like players inside it. Points per game also flatter quarterbacks in almost every scoring system, so the lower table often reads quarterback-heavy. A name you recognise is not a sleeper, whatever a list calls it.
The genuine cases turn up once the season is running: someone below the top tier who starts scoring like someone inside it, usually because a role changed rather than because he improved. That is the moment a season league fights over a waiver claim. In a weekly draft he is simply a card you are happy to be dealt, and being wrong about him costs you one weekend.
What a hot card is in DraftIcon
These twenty are not only a ranking, they are the hot cards in DraftIcon for week 3. It is a free draft game that lasts a single week: you open packs, draft a roster from the cards you are dealt, and it expires on Monday night. A card in form burns in the pack, and a hot card with a hard matchup costs you one weekend rather than a season.
That is the practical difference to the league you are already in. There is no waiver wire to win, no trade to negotiate and nothing to lose in October, because you draft again next week. Plenty of people run both: the season league with friends, and a weekly redraft alongside it. If your season is already gone, it is the shortest way back into caring.
The pack decides. You decide after that.
Free, in the browser, and the practice draft needs no account.