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 2026 slate for each position by how many fantasy points its opponents allowed to that position in 2025, then pulled the notable skill players whose own-position schedule lands in the easiest third.

At the top: Jalen Hurts (PHI, QB), whose schedule ranks 32 of 32 for difficulty at the position, with opponents that allowed 17.3 points per game to QBs last season. Treat this as a nudge, not a mandate: a great player with a hard schedule still beats a mediocre one with an easy path.