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NFL award winners

Mid-2026 NFL season awards:

While the switch to a 17-game season five years ago made things a little more complicated in terms of records and adding that extra opponent for each team, which doesn’t follow the traditional model for figuring out who everyone’s facing, it actually creates a cleaner mid-point of the season after these first nine weeks. So this is the time to look back and hand out hypothetical awards, if we stopped playing games right now.

Of course, it still makes sense to use per-game statistics here, since about half the league has gone through their bye weeks already. In contrast to my full pre-season predictions – which one of them in particular has already gone up in flames – this doesn’t include the element of projection. Instead, I simply listed the top three candidates based on how I’d vote for each of these awards, along with naming first- and second-team All-Pro units.

Let’s get into it!

 

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NFL Trades

Moves I’d like to see ahead of the 2026 NFL trade deadline:

Two weeks away from this year’s trade deadline, I decided to briefly outline six players I’d like to see dealt still – three on offense and defense each. There seem to be as many “sellers” at this point of the season as there have been in some time, and plenty of teams can talk themselves into one more move pushing them over the top, without any juggernauts across the NFL necessarily.

This is what I came up with:

 

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Storylines around the NFL

Ten statistics that have defined the initial third of the 2026 NFL season: 

With the NFL adding an extra game back five years ago, splitting the season into thirds become reasonable, and six weeks in, this marks a good point to draw some conclusions. To do so, I tried to come up with numbers that best summarize what we’ve seen play out. 

Therefore, rather than just throwing out a bunch of hyper-specific statistics, I chose ten that I believe best represent the storylines that have defined the first one-and-a-half months, tried to give context for those, and then added a few more metrics to each paragraph, which back up what the tape shows. 

Let’s get into them: 

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NFL Film Breakdowns

Drake Maye-be back to MVP form

After coming up one vote short of winning the MVP award last season, Drake Maye seemed be continuing the downward trend he showed during the Patriots’ playoff run through the first three weeks of 2026. These last two games, he’s been spectacular, posting +0.52 EPA/play – nearly twice as good as what he did in the ’25 regular season. Let’s break down the early issues and how he’s corrected them!

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NFL Power Rankings

NFL Power Rankings after the first quarter of the 2026 season:

Once we get through the first four weeks of the NFL season, it’s always a good time to reflect on what every team has shown us so far and try to stack them up against each other. We’ve seen plenty of surprises – both in a positive and negative sense. Three undefeated squads remain, while five are still looking for their first victory.

As I always like to remind people – these are power *rankings* rather than standings. So you may find some teams with better records above those with lesser ones, and direct matchups aren’t viewed as the ultimate decisive factor, even if the two sides share the same record. The purpose here is to judge the quality of each team right now, instead of their resume through the first month, in the spirit of how many of the 31 other franchises I’d favor them over.

Let’s go through the list!

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NFL Film Breakdowns

The NFL’s saddest offense two weeks in

Through two weeks of the 2026 season, nothing across the NFL has been harder or sadder to watch than the Steelers offense. In this video, I’ll highlight their uninspiring run game, their elementary West Coast pass concepts, Aaron Rodgers’ lack of willingness to push the ball down the field, and even some of their protection issues.

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NFL Predictions

Bold predictions for the 2026 NFL season:

I already posted my full season predictions, but you have to put yourself out there with some hot takes. So here are five more bold predictions! 🔥

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NFL Predictions

Predicting the entire 2026 NFL season:

We’ve arrived! The 2026 season is right around the corner, as we immediately get the rematch of Super Bowl LX, with the Seahawks trying to repeat as champs and the Patriots hungry to prove they’re a long-term contender themselves. Once again, what I did here was predict all 272 regular season games (an Excel sheet is attached at the bottom), then went through the individual playoff matchups and determined who I had facing off on the game’s biggest stage come next year’s Valentine’s Day.

Along with analysis for the seven playoff teams on either side of the bracket and how I ended up with them, I’ll actually start by outlining my pick and a dark horse name I like for each of the main awards during NFL Honors. Of course, those two things are heavily connected. Before you disregard my analysis on any of these selections based on your own beliefs, please bear in mind that I was ridiculed a year ago when I projected the Bears to be the NFC’s number two seed and the Patriots to win double-digit games, while ending up with the Lions and Commanders narrowly missing out on the postseason.

This is how I believe the upcoming season is going to shake out:

 

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Fantasy Football

Fantasy diamonds for 2026

Fantasy football season is here, and this is my one annual video dedicated to finding great value selections. As always, we’ll run through two quarterbacks and tight-ends, three running backs, wide receivers and defenses, who I believe are underrated based on their current ADPs.

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