Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Dave Richard's 2026 All-Bust Team! 8 Fantasy Football Players to AVOID! (08/26 Fantasy Football Advice)

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

Dave Richard reveals his All-Bust Team for 2026 Fantasy Football, highlighting the players he believes are being drafted too high and could disappoint this season. Dave breaks down Jaxson Dart, Christian McCaffrey, Breece Hall, Cam Skattebo, Carnell Tate, DK Metcalf, Kyle Pitts and TreVeyon Henderson and explains why he’s avoiding them at their current draft prices.

And we've got Dave's all bus team right now on FFT Express. Welcome everybody to the show. Just a real quick news item here. The Packers, is their GM Brian Guttenkirce, right? Gutenkust, right? Yeah, he was talking about, he was asked about the Josh Jacobs situation. And he said, they have prepared. They've been preparing in case, in case he's suspended.

For the possibility of him being suspended. it really wasn't anything too earth-shattering. But I guess it does mean that they do think there is a possibility of him getting suspended. Anyway, let's get to Dave's all-bust team. Who's the quarterback? The quarterback is Jackson Dart. I disagree with him being a top 100 pick. I think we can do better at the quarterback spot than the second-year man who scored nine touchdowns on the ground.

I don't think he does that if he plays the full season. This is a Giants team that certainly looks like they want to run the ball a lot. And that's even with Malik neighbors coming back, even with the addition of Isaiah likely, just every indication. Look at that running back depth chart. Look at the moves they made in the draft on the offensive line. They want to be able to be physical up front. It's just something that John Harbaugh has long been about.

Greg Roman will certainly co-sign on that as their run game coordinator. And they have really been trying to teach Jackson Dart not to run. They don't want them to run anymore. So I get nervous about banking on him, hitting his upside, if he's not going to run. If he's not going to score a bunch of rushing touchdowns, he's going to need to have an outstanding year throwing the football. His ADP is five picks with 400th overall. I look at him, honestly at him, as like a round 11 pick. I'm not excited about Dart. Yeah, I think a lot of people share that sentiment. Looking at NFC average job position over the last five days is going

129th overall. So how about a running back, or two running backs? You're starting running backs here. Well, let's give an honorable mention to Christian McCaffrey, who coming off a 450 touch season, season age 30, missed a bunch of camp already with undisclosed tightness. I'm nervous about taking him at his ADP, which is top six overall. But Brees Hall, I'm equally nervous about, and he's going a full round ahead of where I would take him. I look at him as a round four and honestly more of a late round four pick. I know there's all this talk about him being the belcow, but he was the bell cow last year, 17.4 touches per game, 13 PPR points.

And that was with Braylon Allen missing most of the year. Now Braylon Allen is healthy. Isaiah Davis is working his way back. I think Davis will work on most of the passing downs. Hall taking the majority of the rushing downs, but Allen could swipe a few of those high leverage touches near the goal line. That would make me nervous. I'm just nervous overall about the Jets,

who, by the way, have been bottom five and points scored six of the last seven seasons. Frank Reich is a nice guy, but I don't think he's the one that can turn that around. I'm letting other people take Breeze Hall. And going back to the Giants, I'm going to let other people take Camp Scatibu as well, his ADP is top 40. I just watched a practice where he was splitting first team reps with Tyrone Tracy and Devon Singletary. And now here comes Najee Harris,

who actually look pretty good in limited second team reps. This is against the Dolphins. They were down in Miami for a joint practice. And now Najee is starting to work his way into the first team offense. And I wonder if we're going to see a world where Skataboo and Najee are splitting rushing down's work. And I don't know if that guarantees that Scataboo is going to come anywhere close to where he was last year.

Let's not forget about him coming back from an injury. I don't know if he's quite as explosive as he was. In fact, John Harbaugh said that he's working his way back there. It is too rich for my blood to take him as a top 40 pick. I would take him in late round five. And I can no longer subscribe to the idea of, oh, yeah, you'll feel safe if you take Scadaboo and then Tyrone Tracy. I don't know if Tracy is that running back anymore.

No. I took him 52nd overall in our 14-team podcast league draft. Yeah. I'll give you the guys that went after him. Would you take Tutin, Montgomery, a price ahead of Scataboo? Let me double check my rankings. I had my wide receivers pulled up.

I'm going right to it now. I have got Scatabu ahead of Montgomery, ahead of Tutin, and just ahead of price. So he is right there. In fact, my rankings, as of right now, Scadabu Price, Montgomery, Tutin.

Okay. Running backs 22 through 25. Yeah. It was my least favorite pick for what it's worth. We'll take a break and get Dave's wide receiver. tight end and flex after this. I'm going to talk to you right now about Omaha Steaks, and this is a perfect time for me to do it

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oh, yeah, stay away from him. not even some guys that I had earlier in the offseason like Zay Flowers, Jameson Williams, Devante Adams was on my bus list once upon a time. I don't have those guys on my bus list anymore. I like their ADPs. I like where they're going in drafts. And so I'm okay with it. But I am not okay with Carnell Tate going in the beginning of round seven.

And that's a fall because he was going in round six. It doesn't have much to do with Tate. It has everything to do with what we've seen, both in preseason games and in joint practices for the Titans. I am nervous about how this team is going to operate. Cam Ward doesn't look like he's taking that step forward. Maybe in time he does, but it's not just Ward. It's also the offensive line.

I've got questions about the run game. I don't know if I feel really good about anybody in the Tennessee offense. I think I'm okay with Wondale Robinson in full PPR because that's a role that I think he's just got locked down. He knows it well. It's in the dable offense. Should be north of seven targets per game. Just won't do a ton on those targets.

And I think Tate could just really struggle this year. I've got him closer to round nine than I do round seven. D.K. Mekoff is the other wide receiver. I think the Steelers, rather, added a bunch of good options for a reason. Michael Pittman, Jeremy Bernard in the draft, and now Roman Wilson has stepped up in training camp. These are all guys that I think are going to make those short, easy throws for Aaron Rogers

more manageable rather than checking down to the running back like he did last year. And I think it's just going to continue to put a lid on D.K. Metcalf's volume and upside. he's being drafted right now in round seven. He's in that round eight, late round eight, frankly, for me too, at wide receiver. Not big names, but two guys that I'm avoiding from that wide receiver blob when you get to round six plus. Yeah, again, if you ever see D.K. Metcalfe on one of my fantasy teams, please send help.

Somebody else made that pick. I bet you would take him if he was at 100th overall. Yeah, I would. That's good value. That's why I'd take them. Although, let's say, who went like 100th overall? That would be Dejohn Stripling, 97, Stefan Diggs, 95. I take him over Dibo Samuel.

I would take him over Dibbo. In my rankings, he's really close to a lot of those guys, but I think I'm going to move him down even more because I like the upside of, I don't know if I love the upside of Diggs, but certainly Concepcion, Matthew Golden, those guys should be ahead of MECA for me. I'm going to make that change. Okay, let's get your tight end here on the All-Bust team.

It's Kyle Pitts, and it's really not that far off of ADP. I just disagree with him being tight end seven. He's my tight end nine. If Tua was going to be the quarterback for a good chunk of the year, I'd feel a lot better about Kyle Pitts, but it's going to be Pennix. I think Pennix is more of a downfield thrower, not a checkdown guy, not somebody who's going to look for short targets,

and it makes me a little more nervous about Kyle Pitts, returning value. Let me remind everybody, there was a five-game stretch last year where Kyle Pitts was awesome. It was like 20 PPR points per game. If you want the actual number, I'll bring it up and tell you. But he was getting huge target volume because Drake London wasn't there. And that's what carried his overall 2025 PPR point per game average north of 12.

Yeah, it was 19 PPR points per game in five games without Drake London. In 12 games with Drake London, most of them with Michael Pennix, a quarterback. He averaged 9.6 pPR points, 5.2, non-PPR points, 6.2 targets per game. I get it. It's a different offense. And Sofansky's there. And Saffansky's utilized the tight-out. and all that, that's great.

Maybe he can be a little bit better than 9.6 p.m. Points per game, frankly, he should be if I'm taking him as my tight end nine. But I hate the idea of reaching for pits and expecting this huge year for him. Not somebody that I'm trying to get on my fantasy team. Isaiah likely I'd rather have. Okay. So far we have, you really don't like the Giants. Jackson, Darden, Cam Scataboo.

I like likely. That's right. You do like likely. But you have Dart and Scataboo on the bus team. you, Brees Hall, Carnell Tate, D.K. Metcalf, and Kyle Pitts, we need our flex. Adam, is Trevianne Henderson still the most mispriced player in fantasy at 59th in ADP?

That's, yeah, I still think that's too early. I do too. But now with the injury, like, I wonder. Okay. If he goes 69th, is he mispriced? Yeah, yes. I mean, getting close, but yeah, I mean, let's see. If he goes 79th is he fifth priced.

No, I think that's. okay. I'm with you. I think once he gets the 79th, I think that's okay. But that's round seven, and he's going in round five, and everybody's doing it based on second year running back, Patriots offense should be better. Remodre Stevenson has had all the headlines, all the

good vibes coming out of Foxborough this summer, and it makes me really nervous about the pathway for Trayvon Henderson to be impactful for Fantasy Theater. I think he needs to have Remodre and Miss games. And if that happens, then Trayvion's going to get a chance, but otherwise,

I don't know. I think we could see Remandre Stevenson actually be better than he was last year, save for those last three games of 2025 when he was a monster. Because before those games, he really wasn't that awesome for fantasy. Now I think he will be. And I think he's going to get used more as a Redsone weapon in the passing game. So Remandre Stevenson,

ahead of Trevant Henderson, two years ago, if you had told me that I'd have Remandre over Trevion in my rankings, I would have told you that you went to some weird alternate universe and there was like a skinny version of me that was eating salad, every day going, yeah, sure, but no, I have to believe it now based on what we're seeing and hearing out of New England. I really needed some salad, man.

I had some yesterday. I needed some in the worst way. I was on the road for like five straight days and three of those days were in Las Vegas. Yeah. Things just went south for me. That's what happens when I go to Florida, you know, with my, I'm with my family, we got to dinner. I see my friends.

I need a salad in the worst way. Yeah. And then you make all these terrible decisions at the dinner table and then you make a bad decision on draft day and you take traviant henderson in round five and brees hall in round three and kyle pits in round six and yep so it's just total catastrophe so stay on your diet and stay smart on draft day yeah we tied it all together thanks for watching and listening everybody we'll talk to you later on fantasy football today xx on podcasts