🍀St. Bradley’s 2026 Lucky Best Ball Values 🍀

by Bradley Stalder · Featured
Lucky Best Ball Values St. Patrick's Day

Over 1,500 years ago, St. Patrick famously drove the snakes out of Ireland. Fast forward to 2026, and millions celebrate his legacy the only way modern civilization knows: by polishing off pitchers of green beer.  But St. Paddy’s Day isn’t just about beer. It’s also about luck! Cue the four-leaf clover, a rare anomaly in the wild, the find that promises good fortune if you’re lucky enough to spot one. And in the world of early Pre-NFL Draft Best Ball drafts, those lucky finds exist, too.  Every spring, a handful of players are mispriced; rare values hiding in plain sight.

Spot them early, draft them often, and you might walk away with your own fantasy football pot of gold. 🍀

2026 Lucky Best Ball Values

Jeremiyah Love | Running Back, Rookie | ADP 16.3

As the clear RB1 in the 2026 rookie class, Jeremiyah Love is currently less expensive in early Best Ball drafts than Ashton Jeanty was at this time last season. That discount is hard to justify. Yes, Jeanty did disappoint from a fantasy output perspective in 2025, but context matters. Playing for the Las Vegas Raiders, Jeanty still posted the No. 1 opportunity share among NFL running backs. The workload was elite, but the offense was not.

That’s unlikely to repeat with Love. Any franchise selecting him in the top 10 of the 2026 NFL Draft is almost certainly in a better offensive environment than the Raiders had last season. Love’s profile is strong enough that the landing spot risk is already baked in.

In 2025, for the Fighting Irish, Love delivered:

  • 18 touchdowns
  • Nearly 1,400 rushing yards
  • A second-straight season with a 92.8+ PFF rushing grade
  • 24-plus receptions for the second consecutive year

Even more impressive: he produced those numbers while sharing touches with another pick in this year’s NFL Draft, Jadarian Price, who played well enough that head coach Marcus Freeman kept him involved. Love dominated despite real competition, and not because of a monopoly on the backfield. Once he gets his NFL landing spot, his price is almost guaranteed to rise. Consequently, if he’s sitting there in mid-Round 2, consider yourself lucky🍀and draft accordingly.

Kyren Williams | Running Back, LA Rams | ADP 35.1

Must be the “Luck of the Fighting Irish,” as back-to-back Notre Dame alums make the list!

Among players who logged at least four games in 2025, Kyren Williams finished as the No. 17 overall Best Ball Value Rated (BBVR) player. Yet in early 2026 drafts, he’s slipping into the borderline fourth round territory—a price that doesn’t match the production.

Blake Corum saw increased involvement late in the season for the Los Angeles Rams. But Corum has had multiple opportunities over the past two years to overtake Williams and hasn’t come close. The coaching staff continues to trust Williams when it matters.

The production backs that up. In 2025, Williams posted eight games with 16+ half-PPR points, caught a career-high 36 passes, and scored 12+ total touchdowns for the third straight season, and the efficiency never dipped:

  • No. 8 in True Yards per Carry
  • No. 11 in Yards per Touch
  • No. 9 in Breakaway Runs
  • No. 1 in Expected Points Added

In other words, Williams didn’t lose a step. The Rams are essentially running it back with Matthew Stafford, Puka Nacua, and Williams driving the offense. Even trade chatter involving A.J. Brown and Davante Adams could quietly benefit Williams—potentially creating more goal-line opportunities if the offense leans slightly more run-heavy near the stripe.

Fantasy managers often try to be a year early instead of a year late on running backs. With Williams, that instinct might lead drafters to fade him. That would be a mistake.

Rashee Rice | Wide Receiver, Kansas City Chiefs | ADP 34.6

So much has been made of Rashee Rice‘s offseason issues. This article is not about that. Because when Rice has actually been on the field, he’s been dominant. Over the past two seasons, only five wide receivers have posted a BBVR of at least 9.40 in both years:

Rice belongs in that group, yet he’s being drafted 16 picks after London, the last of the five.

The disconnect is even sharper when you look at 2025. Rice finished WR5 overall in BBVR, but his current price sits around the Round 3–4 turn. And the situation in Kansas City still works in his favor. Tight end Travis Kelce returns for 2026, but that didn’t slow Rice down last season. If anything, quarterback Patrick Mahomes may lean on him even more. With Mahomes expected to operate from the pocket more during his ACL recovery, quick reads and trusted targets become even more valuable. To that end, Rice already commands elite usage:

  • No. 1 in designed target share
  • No. 4 in fantasy points per route run (FP/RR)
  • No. 5 in Dominator Rating
  • No. 4 overall in target rate

That target rate tells the story: Mahomes is always looking for Rice. Right now, the market is pricing him based on the possibility of NFL discipline for off-field issues. That “hedge” creates opportunity. If Rice receives little or no suspension, this ADP becomes a major misprice. The closer we get to August, the more fantasy managers who drafted Rice at the 3–4 turn will feel like they found the Blarney Stone and gave it a smooch. 🍀

Rome Odunze | Wide Receiver, Chicago Bears | ADP 52.8

The breakout was already happening for Rome Odunze in 2025. The rainbow was leading fantasy managers straight to the pot of gold at the end. Then the stress fracture hit, and the market forgot what had happened prior.

In six of his first nine games, Odunze finished as a Top-20 fantasy wideout, including three top-eight performances. That’s not a flash. It’s a breakout in progress.

Instead, the conversation shifted to the hype around Luther Burden III, pushing Odunze down to a fifth-round price in early 2026 drafts. Meanwhile, the market has barely reacted to the DJ Moore trade to the Bills, which clears even more opportunity in the offense. Even with the missed time, Odunze’s underlying metrics were elite:

  • No. 8 in deep targets
  • No. 18 in target share
  • No. 13 in red-zone target share
  • No. 17 in first-read target share
  • No. 6 in unrealized air yards
  • No. 13 in expected fantasy points per game

The opportunity was already there, and now it may be even bigger. Yet Odunze is currently being drafted as WR27. That price is almost as outrageous as me trying to learn Irish dancing.

Trust me—I haven’t. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🍀

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