2026 Vacated (Available) Targets & The Snap Newsletter Launch

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Happy draft week everybody! TLDR: Vacated (Available) Targets analysis below Launching a free fantasy newsletter called The Snap - subscribe here The Snap - Newsletter Launch In honor of one of the most exciting weeks of the year, I am launching a newsletter that I've been working on this off season called The Snap which will deliver a condensed, high-signal snapshot (heh) of the fantasy football world a few times a week! The original motivation was that between Twitter, news, reddit threads, podcasts, and all the other mountains of content that enters the fantasy football universe every day, I wanted a way to summarize and organize it all and have it delivered to my inbox every morning. You can think of it as an organized news feed + Table of Contents for the fantasy football universe: AI driven news summarization, player sentiment analysis, Reddit thread recap, Podcast drops, discussions and metas, etc. I'll also be adding editor style content from time to time like the analysis below. A free and convenient way to stay caught up with everything (you can unsubscribe anytime) There's a couple samples of recent articles in the archive at the link above. I hope its useful to everyone, and if you have ideas, feedback, or content you'd like to see - please let me know! Especially if you yourself are a content creator and would like your work integrated. 2026 Vacated (Available) Targets Alright now probably the real reason you are here... Every off-season you'll see a Vacated Targets (aka Available Targets) analysis. I couldn't find one for this upcoming 2026 season and so I whipped one up below. If you haven't heard of it, it's very simple simple: how many targets are up for grabs (due to free agent departures, trades, retirement, etc.) for each team heading into the next year. It looks something like this: Team Total Vacated Targets Due to WR Due to TE Due to RB SF 170 158 0 12 Which is calculated for example from Jauan Jennings -> 90 (currently still a FA) Kendrick Bourne-> 53 (now on Arizona) Brian Robinson -> 12 (now on Atlanta) Marquez Valdes-Scantling -> 8 (played 5 games with SF to start the year) Skyy Moore -> 7 (now on Green Bay) You can then use this information to deduce/quantify how much opportunity exists in the receiving department of a team heading into the next fantasy season. So for the SF example above you might say this bodes very well for Mike Evans or Pearsall (if he can stay on the field 😭), etc. Couple details: Any player whose still currently a FA (eg. Jauan Jennings) is considered as not returning to their former team It looks at the season in aggregate, so even if a player was traded or signed midway through last season, their targets count for the previous team. Perfect example is Jakobi Meyers still contributes 49 vacated targets to Las Vegas because he was traded mid season 2026 Vacated (Available) Targets by Team: Team Total WR TE RB MIA 234 165 69 0 PIT 233 90 58 85 WAS 226 143 72 11 NYG 177 151 26 0 KC 174 119 1 54 SF 170 158 0 12 GB 170 138 15 17 TB 164 119 0 45 TEN 164 85 79 0 CHI 161 155 6 0 LAC 160 122 30 8 ATL 148 132 0 16 IND 147 127 0 20 NO 139 102 37 0 JAX 132 61 19 52 NE 131 102 26 3 ARI 124 52 7 65 NYJ 114 101 9 4 BAL 112 47 53 12 LV 104 86 0 18 HOU 102 60 8 34 CLE 88 0 48 40 MIN 82 71 6 5 DET 80 30 21 29 CAR 76 26 0 50 BUF 55 55 0 0 PHI 54 42 9 3 DAL 42 34 0 8 CIN 41 0 41 0 SEA 39 3 0 36 LA 15 15 0 0 DEN 4 4 0 0 This analysis becomes even more powerful when you couple it with yards-per-route-run…