Everything else on this site is settled. This is not. Keeper lists were due 23 August 2026 and the draft is Saturday 29 August 2026, so parts of this page are deliberately empty and say so. A page that guesses at a state it does not have is worse than one that waits.
Order is the reverse of the 2025 finish. Four of the ten first-round slots have already changed hands.
The top of the board belongs to a franchise that finished sixth. Aaron it Out! finished last and earned 1.01; Pete bought it. Reggie's finished second and had already spent the pick that finish earned them, at the 2025 deadline, on Amon-Ra St. Brown: he started for the Naberhood through week 11 and for Reggie's from week 12, including all three playoff weeks of a run to the final they lost. He is on their keeper list. Four first-round slots have moved, which ties 2015 and 2024 for the most on any board on record, and the draft has not happened yet.
Pete sends the QB2 and his own first-round slot. Burrow was on Pete's KEEP list. Charbonnet was on the Alligators' CUT list.
Pick 1.03 was acquired 37 minutes earlier and passed straight through. A.J. Brown was on Pete's KEEP list; Michael Pittman was on Pete's CUT list.
This is the far side of the 2025 deadline deal, not an August pick swap. St. Brown started for the Naberhood through week 11 and for Reggie's from week 12, including all three of their playoff weeks. Reggie's reached the final and lost it, then kept him. Wayne, 26 Aug 2026.
Read the first two together. At 14:10 Pete gave up Joe Burrow and his own first-round slot and took pick 1.03. At 14:47, thirty-seven minutes later, he sent that same 1.03 straight on, with A.J. Brown and Michael Pittman, and came away with 1.01. The pick was never his to keep; it was the currency.
It is the fourth time the first overall pick has changed hands in nineteen drafts, after 2016, 2018 and 2023, and the second time Pete has bought it: he took Ezekiel Elliott with the 2016 one. The other two both went to IronCity, who won the championship both times.
The keeper lists are in. Ten franchises, ten declarations each, a hundred players held into the twentieth season. Everything in this section is a declaration and none of it is a projection.
100 keepers across 10 rosters: 42 WR, 32 RB, 15 QB, 10 TE, 1 DEF. Forty-two receivers and thirty-two backs against fifteen quarterbacks is the shape of a league that starts three receivers and one passer.
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