If these 10 players turn in strong 2026 campaigns, it could take their team from one fighting for a playoff spot to a Super Bowl contender. On the other hand, an underwhelming season could legitimately derail contending hopes altogether.

Dalton Wasserman and Max Chadwick break down the NFL's 32 best tight ends going into 2026, headlined by the 49ers' George Kittle.

Bradley Locker breaks down five unheralded additions during the 2026 NFL offseason, including the 49ers trading for Dl Osa Odighizuwa.

Penalty patterns can change every season, or even weekly, but a broad stroke is useful in understanding which franchises have been the best and worst at avoiding yellow markers. Over the last five years, PFF charting offers a thoroughly insightful look into the most- and least-penalized teams in the NFL, including on what side of the ball and for what call.

It can be easy to want to forget especially difficult seasons, but some are particularly ignominious. Differentiating between bad years is an innately tough task, but PFF’s more holistic grades and advanced data can help.

Although an NFL game's first play from scrimmage is one of countless in a matchup, it can reveal a lot. Daire Carragher breaks down the recent trends behind the start of every contest.

The best fantasy football quarterbacks to avoid in 2026 are not necessarily poor players. They are expensive options whose risks outweigh the potential advantage over quarterbacks available several rounds later.

Puka Nacua headlines this fantasy football draft strategy for 10-team PPR leagues, giving managers drafting between Picks 4 and 7 a clear first-round target based on elite production. From there, the strategy emphasizes locking in premium running backs such as Chase Brown and Kyren Williams before pivoting to value at quarterback and tight end.

The NFL's best receivers possess multiple feathers in their cap, including often owning certain regions of the field. These are the league's highest-graded wideouts in the short, intermediate and deep depths over the past five seasons.

Every passing offense depends on the relationship between its quarterback and receivers, but traditional statistics only tell part of the story. This data-driven look at NFL quarterback-receiver partnerships analyzes every quarterback-target connection from 2006 through 2025 using expected points added (EPA) per play alongside PFF's proprietary grading data.

Dalton Wasserman and Max Chadwick rank all 32 NFL teams' starting running backs ahead of the 2026 season.

NFL quarterbacks are taking longer than ever to get rid of the football, and PFF's exclusive time-to-throw data illustrates how dramatically the position continues to evolve. Leaguewide average time to throw has climbed every season since 2020, reaching 2.86 seconds in 2025, but individual quarterback trends tell an even more compelling story.

Every NFL player hopes to turn heads in their second seasons, but these 10 names will be watched even more closely.

Yards per route run remains one of PFF's most predictive receiving metrics, measuring how efficiently a wide receiver produces every time they run a route rather than simply rewarding volume. The 2025 NFL season was led by Puka Nacua, who paced all qualifying receivers with 3.57 yards per route run while also leading the league in receiving grade, targets and receiving yards.