Easiest Strength of Schedule: Players Set Up for a Smooth 2026

Schedule is a real, if secondary, tiebreaker on draft day. A player who faces a run of generous defenses has more paths to a ceiling week, and matchups matter most at the margins: for your flex, your streamers, and the late-round picks you are deciding between. Schedule strength is position-specific, so we rated every team's 2025 slate for each position by how many fantasy points its opponents allowed to that position in 2024, then pulled the notable skill players whose own-position schedule lands in the easiest third.