Fantasy football best ball summer is white-hot and I’ve drafted many teams at Underdog Fantasy and DraftKings. I have 79 teams under my belt at Underdog and 22 at DraftKings. While my roster rates for players will change with training camp news and preseason action, the following are my most-drafted players. Players had to have a 10% roster rate at either best ball provider or both to make the tables for quarterback and tight end. Meanwhile, running backs and wideouts had to have at least an 18% roster rate to qualify for the tables. Here are my fantasy football best ball draft roster rates along with my top targets.

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Most-Rostered Best Ball Players (July 2024)

Quarterbacks

My quarterback roster rates are relatively flat compared to my roster percentages for running back, wide receiver and tight end. Still, Josh Allen and Geno Smith are the only signal-callers on at least 20% of my Underdog rosters. Jayden Daniels and Justin Fields have my highest rates at DraftKings. Fields' roster rates are markedly different between best ball providers because it's easier to stomach selecting a third quarterback in the 20-round drafts at DraftKings than the 18-round drafts at Underdog. Additionally, I suspect Allen's average draft position (ADP) might climb slightly at both sites as training camp and the preseason provide hints about the pecking order for his pass-catchers, making it clearer who to stack him with and enhancing the appeal of getting exposure to Allen now.

Running Backs

My most-rostered running backs are a young collection of players, with six rookies among the 18 running backs on the table, four second-year pros and four entering their third campaigns. In other words, the age cliff isn't a concern for this group. Derrick Henry, David Montgomery and Aaron Jones are the elder backs I'm regularly drafting. The former two are attached to offenses that project to be among the highest-scoring in the NFL. Jones has the target-earning chops to take a step back as a runner without becoming irrelevant in fantasy football.

Revisiting King Henry, he's much more appealing on Underdog than DraftKings. First, his ADP is lower on Underdog than DraftKings. Second, the latter is a point-per-reception (PPR) platform and the former is a half-PPR site, boosting the value of touchdowns at Underdog. Finally, I anticipate drafting Isiah Pacheco more often in the future and pushing him to a 20% roster rate or higher at both sites.

Wide Receivers

To be transparent, I'm a Bills fan. So, I can understand if readers believe my high roster rates for Allen, James Cook, Ray Davis, Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman and Curtis Samuel are a product of being a homer. My fandom might be slightly impacting my roster rates. However, my primary reason for heavily investing in Buffalo's wideouts now is rolling the dice on pass-catching ambiguity before training camp and preseason hype inflates the ADP for Shakir, Coleman or Samuel. Glowing beat reports from training camp or a handful of targets from Allen to one or two of them in the preseason will stoke the flames.

I recently wrote about Dontayvion Wicks and Demarcus Robinson as sleepers, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Ja'Marr Chase's, A.J. Brown's and Drake London's higher roster rates at DraftKings than Underdog are flukey rather than a platform presence. I've yet to draw the first pick and have held the second and third picks once each in 22 DraftKings drafts.

The roster rate gaps for Javon Baker, Deebo Samuel, Malachi Corley, Rondale Moore and Xavier Worthy were intentional. As I discussed when touting Baker as a late-round dart throw, he was used as a field-stretching weapon in his final college season. He'll be a more appealing boom-or-bust high-average depth of target (aDOT) wideout at Underdog than DraftKings if the Patriots use him in a similar role as a rookie. Nevertheless, Baker is still an appealing pick at DraftKings.

Meanwhile, Corley and Moore are low-aDOT PPR scammers, inflating their value at DraftKings. Earlier this month, I highlighted Corley as a more valuable pick at DraftKings than Underdog. Finally, Samuel (Deebo and Curtis, coincidentally) and Worthy are cheaper picks at DraftKings than at Underdog.

Tight Ends

The sweet spot for picking tight ends is the cluster of Trey McBride, Mark Andrews and Dalton Kincaid. Kincaid has the lowest ADP of the trio, causing him to be often the last one left on the board. I hope to choose a top-shelf option in most of the best ball drafts, such as Sam LaPorta, Travis Kelce, McBride, Andrews or Kincaid. George Kittle is a viable alternative when I bypass one of the studs. The other tight ends on the table are young, and most are athletic. Luke Musgrave, Greg Dulcich and Colby Parkinson are three of my favorite sleepers at tight end. I've also gushed about Noah Fant as a late-round target.

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