The Rabbit tournament on FastDraft is in full effect, and there’s money to be won. Like any other tournament, it has its own rules and ADP that change how we view players. Today, I’ll be discussing players who are among my biggest to fade in the best ball tournament.
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Tournament Settings
First things first, you need to understand the tournament. The Rabbit is a cumulative-scoring best-ball tournament in which each week your starting lineup consists of 1 QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 TE, and 2 Flex players. Drafts consist of 10 teams, 15 rounds, and a 20-second pick clock. The tournament has a maximum of 5,720 total entrants, and each person can draft up to 150 teams.
Players to Fade
Bucky Irving – RB14 / 28th Overall
Irving’s Advanced Stats & Metrics
Bucky Irving had a phenomenal rookie season in 2024, making him a highly-valued player going into the 2025 season. While his season started well, he missed eight games in the middle of the Buccaneers’ campaign due to an injury, and finished poorly. In his nine games, Irving averaged a solid 14.4 PPR PPG but finished with 8.3 fantasy points or less in three of his last four games. The fear lies in his smaller stature; he’s not able to handle a three-down workload, and that seemed to be the case in 2025.
Irving is a talented running back, and recent coach speak points to a possible bounce-back year, but I don’t quite see it. The concern that he cannot hold up to a true “workhorse” role over an entire season is justified. Losing goal-line work to Sean Tucker in 2025 is also concerning. Rachaad White looks to be gone, but Tucker is likely to be back, and we can’t rule out the Buccaneers adding another player. I don’t have enough confidence in Irving’s role in 2026 to pay this cost.
Rashee Rice – WR13 / 32nd Overall
Rashee Rice’s Advanced Stats & Metrics
After returning from injury and suspension, Rashee Rice picked up right where he left off before being injured in 2024, leading the Kansas City passing attack before missing the end of the season due to a new injury. In his eight healthy games, Rice averaged 18.8 PPR PPG while earning a 28.7% target share. He was also 14th among wide receivers in First Downs per Route Run, and 15th in Yards per Route Run. Everything seems to be coming up Rice, right?
The problem with the Kansas City wideout is that he can’t get out of his own way off the field. He’s already under probation stemming from his 2025 high-speed multi-car crash, in which he had to serve the aforementioned six-game suspension. Then, in February, he had some serious domestic abuse allegations filed against him. We don’t know what the NFL will do at this point, but being suspended indefinitely isn’t out of the question. The Philadelphia native’s price is too high to take on the risk.
Rome Odunze – WR22 / 50th Overall
Odunze’s Advanced Stats & Metrics
Rome Odunze started hot in 2025, scoring 19.9 PPR PPG over his first four games. But after that, he scored over 18 fantasy points only twice before missing the final five games of the regular season. He still earned a 23.7% target share for the year, but only ranked No. 38 among wide receivers in Yards Per Route Run (YPRR). It doesn’t help that his catchable-target rate was a dreadful 63.3%, ranking 81st among wide receivers.
While Odunze is a talented downfield playmaker, he and Caleb Williams have been on the same page for only small spurts of time. Also, in his absence at the end of the season, Colston Loveland and Luther Burden each thrived. Additionally, while there are rumors that D.J. Moore will be dealt, his contract will be hard to move. Odunze has plenty of competition for targets, and his targets are capricious. His profile certainly fits a best-ball format better, but his cost is still too high for what his projection suggests.
Parker Washington – WR37 / 80th Overall
Parker Washington’s Advanced Stats & Metrics
Who knew that at the end of the season and into the playoffs, Parker Washington would be the guy leading the Jaguars’ passing attack? Washington finished 2025 with 11.5 points per game in point-per-reception (PPR) leagues, but over his last four games, that number was 22.3. Washington was fearless running over the middle of the field, where Trevor Lawrence likes to target, and contributed after the catch. Now he looks to build off that going into the 2026 season.
My trepidation here is that we’re banking too much on a four-game sample size for Parker Washington while Travis Hunter was injured. I still expect Washington to have a role in 2026, but how good will that role be? This is a crowded room. There are rumors that Brian Thomas Jr. is being traded, but no serious reports have surfaced. Jakobi Meyers signed a contract extension after being acquired mid-season. Hunter will play more cornerback than wide receiver in 2026, but he’s going to have packages on offense. Washington is a fade.
Woody Marks – RB35 / 103rd Overall
Marks’ Advanced Stats & Metrics
Woody Marks’ rookie season was… odd. He entered the league as a pass-catching specialist, and the Texans turned him into a two-down grinder. Due to the lack of depth at the position in Houston, Marks’ role was good enough for him to earn a decent amount of opportunities and produce some fantasy points. He ended the year with 9.4 PPR PPG, which is nothing to write home about, but it was a small win given his cost.
Reports this offseason are that the Texans are looking to add to their backfield and add a big name, and those reports were correct. The Texans have traded for David Montgomery, who slots in as the main back for them. Marks is now likely to be relegated to a third-down back role at best in 2026. CJ Stroud isn’t a quarterback who checks down often, so that really doesn’t interest me.
I understand that this is still a reasonaly low price regardless of Marks’ 2026 projection, but this is a “what do you win when you win” situation.
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