FanDuel NFL Snake Draft Rankings: Week 5
Fantasy sports have come a long way since their inception.
Gathering with friends and drafting the perfect team was -- and still is -- a big part of fantasy sports. But FanDuel has done its part in changing how we play and think about a particular slate of sports games.
And guess what? They’re going back to the classics and bringing snake drafts to the forefront of the daily fantasy scene.
Each week, you can hop into a live fantasy football draft and pick your six-player team against the rest of your league. No salary cap involved. Just draft.
You can read more about the strategy behind daily fantasy NFL snake drafts, but here’s a jumpstart for the upcoming slate.
Daily Fantasy Football Snake Draft Rankings
Here’s how numberFire’s projections rank the field in a head-to-head, three-entry, and six-entry draft. (Be sure to check the projections throughout the week for updates.)
These rankings compare each player’s projection to the replacement level of his position. In a head-to-head draft, no more than two quarterbacks can be drafted, so every passer is compared to the QB2 in terms of weekly projections. For running backs, up to six running backs can be drafted in a two-entry draft, so they're all compared to the RB6 in projections to see the biggest gaps in value.
Here's how the Week 5 rankings look across various draft sizes. (Snake draft position rank refers to a player's raw projection rank, so the RB3 is expected for the third-most FanDuel points among running backs.)
Player | Snake Draft Position Rank |
Head-to-Head Rank |
3-Entry Rank |
6-Entry Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ezekiel Elliott | RB1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calvin Ridley | WR/TE1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Tyreek Hill | WR/TE2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
Clyde Edwards-Helaire | RB2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Kareem Hunt | RB3 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
DeAndre Hopkins | WR/TE3 | 6 | 6 | 11 |
Amari Cooper | WR/TE4 | 7 | 7 | 16 |
Travis Kelce | WR/TE5 | 8 | 8 | 18 |
Raheem Mostert | RB4 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
Josh Jacobs | RB5 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Miles Sanders | RB6 | 12 | 11 | 12 |
DJ Moore | WR/TE6 | 12 | 12 | 24 |
Odell Beckham Jr. | WR/TE7 | 15 | 13 | 25 |
Terry McLaurin | WR/TE8 | 16 | 14 | 26 |
Lamar Jackson | QB1 | 11 | 15 | 4 |
Mike Davis | RB7 | 17 | 16 | 13 |
Patrick Mahomes | QB2 | 12 | 17 | 5 |
James Conner | RB8 | 18 | 18 | 14 |
David Johnson | RB9 | 21 | 19 | 15 |
Dak Prescott | QB3 | 19 | 19 | 6 |
George Kittle | WR/TE9 | 20 | 19 | 28 |
Todd Gurley II | RB10 | 22 | 22 | 17 |
James Robinson | RB11 | 23 | 23 | 20 |
Cooper Kupp | WR/TE10 | 24 | 24 | 29 |
Robert Woods | WR/TE11 | 25 | 25 | 30 |
Jonathan Taylor | RB12 | 27 | 26 | 21 |
Robby Anderson | WR/TE12 | 26 | 27 | 31 |
Darren Waller | WR/TE13 | 28 | 28 | 33 |
Mark Andrews | WR/TE14 | 29 | 29 | 35 |
Marquise Brown | WR/TE15 | 30 | 30 | 37 |
Jamison Crowder | WR/TE16 | 31 | 31 | 38 |
Joe Mixon | RB13 | 32 | 32 | 22 |
Diontae Johnson | WR/TE17 | 33 | 33 | 39 |
DJ Chark Jr. | WR/TE18 | 34 | 34 | 40 |
JuJu Smith-Schuster | WR/TE19 | 35 | 35 | 44 |
Will Fuller V | WR/TE20 | 36 | 36 | 46 |
Tyler Boyd | WR/TE21 | 37 | 37 | 47 |
Zach Ertz | WR/TE22 | 38 | 38 | 48 |
Kenyan Drake | RB14 | 40 | 39 | 27 |
Deshaun Watson | QB4 | 39 | 40 | 19 |
Michael Gallup | WR/TE23 | 41 | 41 | 51 |
DeVante Parker | WR/TE24 | 42 | 42 | 52 |
CeeDee Lamb | WR/TE25 | 43 | 43 | 53 |
Darius Slayton | WR/TE26 | 44 | 44 | 54 |
Jarvis Landry | WR/TE27 | 45 | 45 | 55 |
T.Y. Hilton | WR/TE28 | 46 | 46 | 56 |
Antonio Gibson | RB15 | 47 | 47 | 32 |
Mark Ingram II | RB16 | 49 | 48 | 34 |
Golden Tate | WR/TE29 | 48 | 49 | 58 |
Jerick McKinnon | RB17 | 50 | 50 | 36 |
Evan Engram | WR/TE30 | 51 | 51 | 59 |
Curtis Samuel | WR/TE31 | 52 | 52 | 60 |
Myles Gaskin | RB18 | 54 | 53 | 40 |
Sammy Watkins | WR/TE32 | 55 | 54 | 62 |
Kyler Murray | QB5 | 53 | 55 | 23 |
Deebo Samuel | WR/TE33 | 56 | 56 | 64 |
Russell Gage | WR/TE34 | 57 | 57 | 68 |
Hayden Hurst | WR/TE35 | 58 | 58 | 70 |
A.J. Green | WR/TE36 | 59 | 59 | 71 |
Tee Higgins | WR/TE37 | 60 | 60 | 72 |
Austin Hooper | WR/TE38 | 61 | 61 | 73 |
Tyler Higbee | WR/TE39 | 62 | 62 | 74 |
Randall Cobb | WR/TE40 | 63 | 63 | 76 |
Laviska Shenault Jr. | WR/TE41 | 64 | 64 | 77 |
Christian Kirk | WR/TE42 | 65 | 65 | 79 |
Hunter Renfrow | WR/TE43 | 66 | 66 | 80 |
Mike Gesicki | WR/TE44 | 67 | 67 | 81 |
Brandon Aiyuk | WR/TE45 | 68 | 68 | 84 |
Larry Fitzgerald | WR/TE46 | 70 | 69 | 86 |
Brandin Cooks | WR/TE47 | 71 | 70 | 87 |
Gardner Minshew II | QB6 | 69 | 71 | 40 |
Julio Jones | WR/TE48 | 72 | 72 | 88 |
Eric Ebron | WR/TE49 | 74 | 73 | 91 |
Matt Ryan | QB7 | 73 | 74 | 43 |
Zach Pascal | WR/TE50 | 75 | 75 | 92 |
Teddy Bridgewater | QB8 | 76 | 76 | 45 |
Nyheim Hines | RB19 | 77 | 77 | 63 |
Preston Williams | WR/TE51 | 78 | 78 | 94 |
Chris Herndon | WR/TE52 | 79 | 79 | 95 |
Chase Edmonds | RB20 | 82 | 80 | 66 |