The drafts worth loving, the ones worth reporting to the league office, and a public reckoning for the commissioner's quarterback room — backed by the numbers.
There is a moment at every Bad Hombres draft — every year, without fail — where a grown man who spent three weeks preparing does something so self-defeating that the night briefly stops being fantasy football and becomes a character study.
This year that moment arrived early, and it belonged to the man in charge.
Commissioner Jason Schmitt sat down on August 26th with a plan, a cheat sheet, and a beer, and came away with Jahmyr Gibbs, A.J. Brown, and Marvin Harrison Jr. — a genuinely elite core of skill players — and a quarterback depth chart of Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough. The man runs the league. He helped write the bylaws. And he forgot to draft a quarterback anyone would start in a real game. His team is named Pull-Out Game Weak. I could not have written it better myself, and believe me, I tried.
That's draft night in this league: everyone walks in convinced they've cracked it, and everyone walks out having done at least one thing they'll spend four months explaining. My job is to sort them. So here is the Love/Hate on the 2026 Bad Hombres draft — the rosters worth loving, the ones worth reporting to the league office, and the numbers to back all of it up.
Let's get to it.
The weekly recap runs in this space every Tuesday once games start. The trade deadline is November 22. Waivers process Tuesday. And per a standing request from the league office: Wes Jones still owes his 2025 last-place punishment — the 9/9/9 Challenge — a debt now old enough to enroll in preschool. I don't make the rules. I just keep the receipts.
Drew Rose — I Stand with Jordon. Nobody covering this league has ever known where Drew is on a given Sunday — a college game in a state he doesn't live in, an F1 paddock, someone else's wedding — and he still walked out with the most complete roster in the field. Puka Nacua and Ashton Jeanty are a top-shelf 1-2 punch, and Trey McBride is, by consensus, the best tight end in football not named Bowers. The one real swing is Bucky Irving in the fifth: by ADP he's barely a top-24 back this year after an injury-wrecked, efficiency-collapsed 2025 (RB35, 108.5 points), so that's a bet on the bounce-back, not the steal the group chat is calling it. Bet or not, this is the roster to beat.
Wes Jones — MikeLee4 Prez. Sit down for this one. The man who finished dead last in 2025 drew the 1-2 turn and opened Justin Jefferson, then Saquon Barkley — a top-three player at each position, back to back — before stacking Tetairoa McMillan and Mike Evans on top. The one soft spot is under center, where Dak Prescott and Brock Purdy are fine rather than fearsome, but you win a lot of weeks when the skill talent is this loud. Pastor Wes prayed for a sign; the draft board answered on the wheel. He still owes the 9/9/9.
Erick DeLeon — King in the North. A former champ who spent 2025 living on the injury report drafted like a man with a grudge — and, more to the point, drafted value. CeeDee Lamb anchors the receivers, and the backfield runs three deep (Omarion Hampton, Josh Jacobs, David Montgomery) precisely so it can survive his annual date with the trainer's table. The pick of the night, though, is Jalen Hurts in the sixth. Hurts threw 25 touchdowns against six interceptions and ran in eight more scores in 2025; landing that in the sixth round of a one-quarterback league is the kind of value that quietly wins seasons.
Tola Odedere — Alien Awareness. The man whose brand is "makes questionable picks, finishes sixth anyway" went out and drafted, of all things, well. Christian McCaffrey, Drake London, and George Kittle form an elite spine, and then Lamar Jackson — a legitimate threat to finish as the overall QB1 — fell to him in the fifth, pushed down only by the injury that held him to 13 games last year. It is a genuinely great roster. The catch, as always with Tola, is that it lives and dies with a 29-year-old McCaffrey's soft tissue.
David Hurst — Drain the Swamp. The back-to-back champ is chasing a three-peat while openly campaigning to have the commissioner removed, which I'd call treason if it weren't so well-organized. He took De'Von Achane at the turn, added James Cook and Rashee Rice, and stashed Patrick Mahomes in the twelfth round behind Bo Nix. That Mahomes was even there in the twelfth tells you everything about the 2026 quarterback landscape — Josh Allen sits in a class by himself and the middle has gotten deep — but drafting a future Hall of Famer to ride your bench is the move of a man who has won before and intends to again.
Hoa Tran — Critical Chase Theory. Hoa spent his first three picks proving he understands wide receiver — Ja'Marr Chase, Nico Collins, and Malik Nabers is, on paper, the best receiving corps in the league — and then asked D'Andre Swift to be his RB1. Swift is a perfectly stable RB2 (consensus RB22, high floor, low ceiling), which is a strange player to lean on as your lead back after spending premium capital everywhere else. Behind him it thins out fast. He'll win shootouts by forty and lose grind-it-out weeks by two, and every two-point loss will trace back to a backfield with no juice.
Chris Dambro — Judge Jeudy. Dambro — the bird's-nest haircut, co-author of the anti-commissioner literature — landed Brock Bowers and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, two genuine studs, and then assembled the most confusing backfield I have ever charted: Tony Pollard, Chuba Hubbard, RJ Harvey, Rachaad White, Woody Marks, and Alvin Kamara. Six running backs, each of whom splits a backfield with someone else. That is not a stable of backs. It is a witness list. Fittingly, it's a roster as organized as his hair: technically present, structurally baffling.
Adam Schmitt — Suck My Diggs. The commissioner's brother owns one of the great streaks in league history — near the bottom in points almost every year, yet forever dodging actual last place. On paper this roster has no business being bad: Amon-Ra St. Brown, Kyren Williams, Breece Hall. But he drafted two quarterbacks in Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford, which all but guarantees he starts the wrong one weekly, and — credit where it's due — his Kyle Pitts pick in the seventh is actually defensible now, with Pitts coming off a TE2 season and ranked around TE7 for 2026. When Adam's most sensible move is the one the league has mocked him for annually, you start to worry the universe is out of balance.
Jason Schmitt — Pull-Out Game Weak. Which brings us back to the commissioner. The skill core is elite — Gibbs, A.J. Brown, and Marvin Harrison Jr. is a top-three nucleus. And then, at the one position every roster must fill, he has Jaxson Dart and Tyler Shough. In a league where startable options sit on the waiver wire, a man built an otherwise title-worthy roster and forgot the quarterback. He has until Week 1 and the whole wire to fix it. He has also, personally and gift-wrapped, handed the coup its martyr.
Dylan Greene (Carlie’s Headset) quietly built the most balanced team nobody will mention, and the engine is Jayden Daniels — a quarterback with the rushing upside to outscore Josh Allen who, per ADP, went more than three rounds later. Travis Kelce falling to him late is gravy… Matt Aday (San Diego Chillin’), the 2023 champ, anchored a stubborn, effective build around Josh Allen — the one quarterback the entire industry agrees is in a class of his own — plus Jonathan Taylor and a still-upright Derrick Henry… Zack "SEWP" Moore (Sewer Pigeons) landed Bijan Robinson at 1.2 and then built a quarterback room of Caleb Williams and Sam Darnold, a weekly coin flip between the Pro Bowl and a turnover on downs in his own end zone. Bijan will carry that team the way Bijan carries the Falcons: heroically, and probably to 8-9.
Every year I plant a flag on the team I trust more than the room does, and this year it isn't the flashiest roster — it's the one built to survive a season. Give me Erick's King in the North. The league will spend August talking about Drew's names and Wes's turn; meanwhile Erick has a top-five quarterback he stole in the sixth, a backfield three deep, and the quiet fury of a man whose last season ended on a stretcher. Depth is what's still standing in Week 15 when everyone else's roster is held together with waiver tape. Write it down.
Rankings are guesses. The season is the truth. In two weeks we find out how much of this draft-night certainty survives contact with reality. History says: not much.
The power rankings are live on the homepage. And one last time, on behalf of a league that never forgets: Wes still owes his punishment. The roster is gorgeous, Pastor. The debt is still due.
Rankings, tiers and ADP via FantasyPros consensus, NBC Sports, FanDuel, and Yahoo Sports, as of late August 2026.
— From the Booth
