2026 BOBCATS4EVER DRAFT
The 2026 Bobcats4Ever Fantasy Football League Draft will be held Monday, Aug. 24, at 8:30 p.m. EDT.
Click here for the 2025 draft results and click here for the 2026 draft order.
KEEPERS
Each team shall be allowed to keep a maximum of three players from the previous season’s roster through protected draft choices, using the following rules.
Paragraph A: Keeper Designation. Owners must designate keeper players approximately one week prior to the draft. After this deadline, the list of keepers shall be released to the league.
Paragraph B: First-Time Keepers and Basement. Keepers returning to a team for the first consecutive time shall be assigned the same draft value he held in the previous season — no matter previous keeper status of that player — unless the player was taken after the seventh round or was undrafted, in which case he will be assigned seventh-round value.
Paragraph C: Multiple-Time Keepers and Escalation. Keepers returning to the same team beyond the first consecutive time shall be assigned draft value one round higher than the player held in the previous season, unless the player held first-round value the previous season, in which case that player will maintain first-round value. A team may only keep a player at first-round value for one year after he has reached maximum value (whether he was originally drafted in the first round or escalated to first-round value) with that team. After the player has used his maximum first-round-value eligibility with that team, he shall be released into the following season’s draft if he remains under that team’s control (starting in 2027, a team cannot trade the keeper rights to an expired keeper in the pre-keeper deadline trade window).
Paragraph D: Injured Reserve Escalation. Any player who spends more than 50 percent of his team’s competitive season — only the regular season for a non-playoff team; the regular season plus any playoff run for others — in his team’s injured reserve position shall not be subject to the escalation rule set forth in Paragraph C.
Paragraph E: Keeper Draft Value. A keeper may be slotted in a draft round equal to or greater than his value. If a team chooses to keep a player who holds value equal to a round in which the owner does not have a pick — or, if the team chooses to keep two players who hold the same value — the team may use a higher draft pick to keep the player. The player’s value shall remain true and shall not experience an additional increase due to use of a pick higher than his value. If a team chooses a player as a keeper but the team does not have the necessary draft pick to select him by draft time, the player shall be released to the pool of available players in the draft.
Paragraph F: Keeping Injured Players. If a player is expected to miss the entire season before keepers are selected, an owner shall have the option to keep him as an additional fourth keeper, but the player must remain on IR all season. If the player returns before the end of the fantasy season, the owner must drop one of his four keepers, and Paragraph D shall apply. If, after the keeper deadline but prior to the draft, a keeper suffers an expected season-ending injury, the owner shall have the option to drop or replace that keeper prior to the draft, or select a fourth keeper.
Paragraph G: Keeping Non-Rostered Players. An exception to Section 2 allows a team to select a keeper(s) from another team’s roster from the previous season provided a trade is successfully executed under the guidelines of Section 5, Paragraph C. The Commissioner shall manually facilitate this trade upon approval of keepers in the Yahoo system.
The following players from 2026 rosters (keepers or first-round picks) will have the following values if they are kept again by the same teams for the 2027 Draft:
Bold Cold Brew Crew
Christian McCaffrey (RB, San Francisco): first-round value (final year of eligibility)
Bo Nix (QB, Denver): fifth-round value
Jaxon Smith-Njigba (WR, Seattle): third-round value
Brian’s Bold Team
Trey McBride (TE, Arizona): first-round value (first year of eligibility)
Bijan Robinson (RB, Atlanta): cannot be kept
Tyler Warren (TE, Indianapolis): sixth-round value
Deacon Blues
Travis Etienne Jr. (RB, New Orleans): sixth-round value
George Pickens (WR, Dallas): third-round value
Jonathan Taylor (RB, Indianapolis): cannot be kept
Ed Zajac
Justin Jefferson (WR, Minnesota): first-round value (first year of eligibility)
Colston Loveland (TE, Chicago): sixth-round value
Malik Nabers (WR, New York Giants): second-round value
Eisenbrowns
Chase Brown (RB, Cincinnati): fifth-round value
CeeDee Lamb (WR, Dallas): cannot be kept
Ladd McConkey (WR, Los Angeles Chargers): fifth-round value
HUGE CANS
Brock Bowers (TE, Las Vegas): fifth-round value
James Cook III (RB, Buffalo): first-round value (first year of eligibility)
Kyren Williams (RB, Los Angeles Rams): fourth-round value
Small-Town Americans
Joe Burrow (QB, Cincinnati): sixth-round value
Kenneth Walker III (RB, Kansas City): second-round value
The Love Bus
Quinshon Judkins (RB, Cleveland): sixth-round value
Drake Maye (QB, New England): sixth-round value
Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR, Detroit): first-round value (final year of eligibility)
Team Rebuild
Jared Goff (QB, Detroit): sixth-round value
Team Spillz
Ja’Marr Chase (WR, Cincinnati): second-round value
Jahmyr Gibbs (RB, Detroit): cannot be kept
Javonte Williams (RB, Dallas): sixth-round value
Trader Jame
Emeka Egbuka (WR, Tampa Bay): fourth-round value
You’ve Been Chopped
Puka Nacua (WR, Los Angeles Rams): fourth-round value