2025-2026 NFL Week 2: Data Summary

Hello everyone!

Week 2 of the 2025-2026 NFL Season is in the books and it continues a wild start to the season! Ja’Marr Chase had a big bounce back game from Week 1 even with Joe Burrow going down on injury. In a surprising stat, Brandon Aubrey was the 3rd most popular overall pick and he delivered with a HUGE game - scoring 22 raw fantasy points + whatever cards folks used to power him up. The most popular SmashCards continue to be the lower priced cards that folks are slotting in with remaining cap budget - but also points to more players playing more cards at a lower price than some of the higher priced cards. Many of the top 10 most popular combos did not pan out - including Josh Allen having 0 rushing or passing TDs this week.

Best play of the week: the #4 most picked tight end was Tucker Kraft and he delivered with 18.4 points. In fact, more of you picked Kraft than Bowers last week - great going!

Worst play of the week: chasing points from the prior week with Derrick Henry. Henry was our #1 overall most popular pick and he disappointed with only 2.3 points.

Here is the Week 2 data including the most picked players by position, the most played cards, and the most popular combos. These are not in terms of points but in terms of popularity of picks. Without further ado, here are the stats for the players by position.

Players by Position

QB	RB	WR	TE	K	DEF
Lamar Jackson	Derrick Henry	Ja’Marr Chase	Trey McBride	Brandon Aubrey	BAL D/ST
Josh Allen	Christian McCaffrey	CeeDee Lamb	Tyler Warren	Cameron Dicker	LAR D/ST
Joe Burrow	Chase Brown	Brian Thomas Jr.	Sam LaPorta	Tyler Loop	DEN D/ST
Justin Herbert	Saquon Barkley	Puka Nacua	Tucker Kraft	Eddy Pineiro	SF D/ST
Justin Fields	Jahmyr Gibbs	Emeka Egbuka	Brock Bowers	Chris Boswell	ARI D/ST

Looking at SmashCards, here are the top 10 played cards last week.

Top 10 SmashCards

SmashCard
A Seabird’s Confidence
12th Man
Golden Arm
Run CMC
Chess Piece
Starting RB
Moneyball Capologist
Extra Credit
Hellacious Halfbacks
Divided Loyalties

Let’s take a look at the top played combos.

Top Played Combos

Player	Card	Points
Christian McCaffrey	Run CMC	0pts
Derrick Henry	A Seabird’s Confidence	3pts
Christian McCaffrey	Chess Piece	12pts
Derrick Henry	Starting RB	1.1pts
Brandon Aubrey	Extra Credit	8pts
Josh Allen	Golden Arm	0pts
Derrick Henry	Unstoppable Freight Train	0pts
Joe Burrow	Golden Arm	4pts
Derrick Henry	Bruising Bellcow	11pts
Josh Allen	Mr. Relevant	0pts

And now, we’re on to Week 3! Set your lineups before games start and good luck!