Best Stacks for 2026 Fantasy Football

Stacking in fantasy football refers to the practice of drafting multiple players from the same NFL team to maximize the potential upside of your fantasy squad when players link up for a big play. When you incorporate stacks, you reduce the number of different outcomes that must occur for your players to accumulate fantasy points. A wide receiver who catches a 25-yard touchdown pass gets you nine fantasy points in Half-PPR leagues. But if you also have the quarterback who threw that pass, you get five points from the quarterback as well. In this case, that one play would be worth 14 points to your fantasy lineup.

This is the advantage that stacking can help provide. You can stack any quarterback with one or two of their best pass-catching options. But I am limiting this list to the following criteria:

Quarterbacks who I have projected for at least 250 total fantasy points (23 total QBs)
Wide receivers and tight ends who I have projected for at least 125 total fantasy points (Half-PPR scoring; 50 WR and 14 TE)

Many of the players in the above groups are disqualified from the stacking conversation due to subpar expectations of their quarterbacks. Drake London, Garrett Wilson, and Tetairoa McMillan are wideouts whose quarterbacks I am projecting to score fewer than 250 fantasy points over the course of the season. Four of my top 10 tight ends also fail to make the cut. Stacking a tandem like Kirk Cousins and Brock Bowers is a viable option in Salary Cap leagues and DFS. But I cannot imagine Cousins cracking the starting lineups of many teams in 10- and 12-team standard weekly formats. And yes, you can stack a quarterback and a running back. But since very few running backs (if any) are likely to score 100 or more fantasy points based solely on their receiving numbers, I will mention them anecdotally. Forgive me, Kenneth Gainwell truthers.

Here are some of my favorite season-long stacks for the 2026 fantasy football season. I grouped them into four-player, three-player, and two-player stacks. This does not mean you have to draft all players listed from a particular NFL team. It simply means that team has three or four players who I have projected to reach the benchmarks outlined above. For example, I consider New England to have a three-player stack because I rank Romeo Doubs as a top-50 wide receiver. Hunter Henry (my TE16) almost caused me to list the Patriots as a four-player stack. Having said that, Drake Maye (my QB5) and A.J. Brown (my WR8) figure to make an elite two-player stack. I am including my personal rankings for each player in the stacks below.

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Best Four-Player Stacks

Dallas Cowboys: Dak Prescott (QB7), CeeDee Lamb (WR6), George Pickens (WR12), Jake Ferguson (TE13)

Dak Prescott leads a potent Dallas Cowboys offense that produced top-12 fantasy options at all four offensive skill positions last season. That does not even include CeeDee Lamb, who finished as the overall WR20 despite missing three games and being a non-factor in two others. While Javonte Williams holds down the fort on the ground, Lamb, George Pickens, and Jake Ferguson are among the most heavily targeted players at their respective positions. I have Ferguson just outside my top 12, but he is a solid weekly option, especially in PPR leagues. The Cowboys are expected to be a bit better on defense than in recent years. Still, I believe this is an offense for fantasy football managers to target in 2026.

Chicago Bears: Caleb Williams (QB8), Luther Burden III (WR25), Rome Odunze (WR28), Colston Loveland (TE3)

The Chicago Bears are the only NFL team that I have projected to have a season-long fantasy starter at quarterback in addition to three different pass catchers at their respective positions. This does not even factor in D’Andre Swift, who is my RB21. Caleb Williams is a weekly starter with a massive ceiling. Luther Burden III and Rome Odunze are among my top-30 fantasy wide receivers. Colston Loveland is the highest tight end in any of my preferred stacking options, as neither Las Vegas nor Arizona has a quarterback who I project as a top-25 fantasy signal-caller. Chicago’s offense has massive potential in Year 2 under Ben Johnson. Their subpar defense should require them to air it out quite a bit, thus raising their offensive ceiling.

Detroit Lions: Jared Goff (QB16), Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR4), Jameson Williams (WR26), Sam LaPorta (TE6)

Jared Goff is my QB16 but makes for an ideal streaming candidate for fantasy football managers who choose to go that route. Since 2024, Goff has thrown for over 4,700 yards and 39 touchdowns in 17 home games. For reference, Dak Prescott threw for 4,552 yards with 30 touchdown passes last season and was the overall QB5. Even with consensus overall top-pick Jahmyr Gibbs in Detroit’s backfield, they have no shortage of pass-catching options elsewhere. Amon-Ra St. Brown is a top-five fantasy wide receiver, while Jameson Williams offers week-winning upside as a borderline WR2 in 12-team leagues. Sam LaPorta is a top-10 tight end and should bounce back in 2026 given a clean bill of health.

Other Four-Player Stacks

There are only six other NFL teams with four players who meet my thresholds above. Some of these teams can be tough to stack because we want pass catchers who are going to accumulate as many targets as possible. Most teams with three pass catchers who are worthy of starting consideration do not have a prototypical number-one option at a particular position. For example, I currently have three Jacksonville Jaguars wideouts inside my top-50, but none in my top-24. If you have a strong preference towards one of Jacksonville’s wide receivers over the others, stacking that player with Trevor Lawrence makes a lot of sense. However, I would prefer to limit my exposure to Jaguars stacks to Best Ball formats rather than weekly Redraft leagues.

The Green Bay Packers are the team closest to having four pass catchers hit the thresholds I mentioned earlier. I am currently projecting Matthew Golden to score 124 fantasy points, which puts him as my WR52. You can certainly argue that he belongs inside the top-50. I already have Christian Watson and Jayden Reed well within that range. Tucker Kraft is a top-10 option at the tight end position. Jordan Love is my QB18, but quarterbacks are so tightly grouped that it’s not wild to consider Love a fantasy starter. That is even more likely to be the case with Green Bay potentially leaning more on the passing game due to the absences of Josh Jacobs and Micah Parsons.

San Francisco has a four-player stack which does not even include Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey scored over 10 fantasy points per game on just receiving numbers alone last season. If he is healthy, he remains an elite fantasy running back. Brock Purdy is a borderline QB1 in most formats as the leader of an efficient 49ers offense. George Kittle could suit up for Week 1 and is an excellent fantasy tight end whenever he is on the field. If Mike Evans and Deebo Samuel can remain healthy, both offer fantasy managers great touchdown upside. And in the event one or both wide receivers are forced to miss time, do not sleep on De’Zhaun Stribling. The second-round rookie caught 11 of 13 targets in two preseason games and makes for an interesting PPR flier in the middle rounds of drafts.

Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Indianapolis round out the four-player stacking options. You can easily concentrate the Eagles and Chiefs into three-player stacks. I have Jalen Hurts as my overall QB3, DeVonta Smith as my WR14, and Dallas Goedert as a borderline TE1. Makai Lemon is a WR4 for me in 12-team leagues. I rank Patrick Mahomes, Rashee Rice, and Travis Kelce all inside the top 12 at their respective positions. Xavier Worthy is a boom-or-bust WR4. Indianapolis can be an interesting stack depending on how you choose to approach the quarterback position. Daniel Jones is my QB21, but he was the overall QB7 through Week 13 last year. Tyler Warren is an elite fantasy tight end, while Alec Pierce and Josh Downs are weekly Flex options with the potential for greater returns if Keenan Allen misses time due to suspension.

Best Three-Player Stacks for 2026 Fantasy Football

Cincinnati Bengals: Joe Burrow (QB6), Ja’Marr Chase (WR2), Tee Higgins (WR17)

Cincinnati is the only NFL team with a three-player stack where all three players are consensus weekly starters. Running back Chase Brown would essentially become the fourth player for stacking purposes if you wanted to go that route. He finished third behind Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins in all receiving categories for the Bengals last season. I project Chase, Higgins, and Brown to score almost exactly 700 combined fantasy points based on Half-PPR scoring. I don’t project any other Bengal to reach the century mark. Joe Burrow was the overall QB3 in 2024 before missing nearly half of the 2025 campaign due to injury. Burrow is sure to be among the league leaders in passing yards and touchdowns given a full season.

Los Angeles Rams: Matthew Stafford (QB14), Puka Nacua (WR1), Davante Adams (WR20)

Last season, Matthew Stafford was the overall QB3 in fantasy on his way to winning the NFL MVP Award. Puka Nacua paced his position in fantasy points, while Davante Adams finished seventh. Even with Los Angeles having two solid running backs, this is a high-end trio when it comes to stacking. Nacua and Adams combined for over 2,600 yards of total offense and scored 25 touchdowns last year. Some regression is expected given that the Rams have added two all-world players on defense and may not need to rely on the passing game as much as they did a season ago. Still, Stafford is a viable QB1 consideration, and Nacua and Adams are every-week starters.

Baltimore Ravens: Lamar Jackson (QB4), Zay Flowers (WR13), Mark Andrews (TE11)

This Baltimore Ravens stack is very similar to Philadelphia’s. The primary difference is that I expect Makai Lemon to have a larger impact as a rookie wide receiver with the Eagles than I do Ja’Kobi Lane with the Ravens. Saquon Barkley is also much more adept as a receiver out of the backfield than Derrick Henry is. Because of these factors, I believe Baltimore’s target tree will be more concentrated towards wide receiver Zay Flowers and tight end Mark Andrews. Flowers’s overall WR8 finish last year was boosted by his 27.8-point outburst in Week 18. Still, he offers a very solid weekly floor, especially in PPR formats. Andrews could bounce back to prior levels with Isaiah Likely now out of the picture.

Other Three-Player Stacks

Most of the other NFL teams that have three-player stacks based on my criteria resemble the Patriots, Rams, and Ravens in that they have multiple players projected to be every-week starters, while the third player is more of a borderline starter or Flex possibility. Josh Allen is the consensus overall QB1, and DJ Moore is a high-end WR3 who has finished as a top-20 fantasy wideout in two of the last three seasons. Tight end Dalton Kincaid is the wild card in Buffalo. I rank him as my TE14, but his efficiency metrics provide massive potential if Buffalo decides to let Allen air it out more than usual. If Washington had not reached an agreement with Stefon Diggs, Jayden Daniels and Terry McLaurin would make an ideal two-player stack. I am starting Diggs (my overall WR37) more often than not, especially in PPR formats.

The Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos have quarterbacks who I project to be low-end starters in 12-team fantasy leagues. Each team has a wide receiver I project in the 20-30 range and another in the 30-40 range. If I am stacking Justin Herbert and Bo Nix with receivers in most formats, I am doing so with Ladd McConkey and Jaylen Waddle, respectively. Quentin Johnston and Courtland Sutton are solid options in Best Ball formats based on their touchdown upside. Baker Mayfield is my QB19 but is only about 25 projected points behind my QB8, Caleb Williams. Emeka Egbuka is a WR2, while Chris Godwin is a Flex consideration who gets a boost in PPR formats.

Top Two-Player Stacks

As I outlined earlier, you can use a myriad of permutations of the stacks in the groups above to create two-player stacks. Some prime examples are Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb, Drake Maye and A.J. Brown, and Caleb Williams and Colston Loveland. All of the two-player stacks below feature a quarterback who I consider to be a fantasy QB2 in 12-team formats. Each quarterback is tied to a wide receiver I have ranked inside my top-20 at the position.

Minnesota Vikings: Kyler Murray (QB17), Justin Jefferson (WR5)

Through his first five NFL seasons, Justin Jefferson averaged just under 100 receiving yards per game and just over 10 yards per target. He finished as a top-six fantasy wideout in four of those five years, only missing that mark in 2023 when he only played 10 games. Then in 2025, J.J. McCarthy happened. Jefferson scored twice in 17 games last year on his way to finishing as a fantasy WR3 in 10- and 12-team leagues. Minnesota brought in Kyler Murray to stabilize the quarterback position. Murray is not without his warts, but he should be a sizable upgrade over McCarthy. Jordan Addison could easily give the Vikings a three-player stack if Murray can show any semblance of passing efficiency. Addison was a borderline WR2 in his first two NFL seasons before getting buried due to McCarthy’s limitations last year.

New York Giants: Jaxson Dart (QB14), Malik Nabers (WR15)

Jaxson Dart is among the most polarizing quarterbacks in fantasy football. He finished as last year’s QB14 despite essentially playing just 12 games. Dart finished as a weekly top-10 fantasy quarterback in seven of those 12 outings. However, he was evaluated for a concussion on five different occasions last year and already once again this preseason. Dart is the ultimate boom-or-bust fantasy quarterback. Wideout Malik Nabers offers similar weekly upside. He has four career top-three fantasy weeks in just 19 career NFL games. But last year’s torn ACL means that Nabers is still working his way back into shape. Questions surround his Week 1 status, and the Giants may opt to ramp up his workload slowly. If both players can remain healthy and Dart can improve as a passer, this duo can be one of the best stacks in fantasy this year.

New Orleans Saints: Tyler Shough (QB20), Chris Olave (WR10)

Tyler Shough became the starting quarterback midway through his rookie season in 2025 and showed flashes of fantasy upside. He showed clear chemistry with top wide receiver Chris Olave, and the pair should pick up in 2026 where they left off. In eight starts with Shough under center, Olave posted six top-20 fantasy weeks, including three straight top-10 efforts to finish the year. With Jordan Tyson not expected back for several weeks, Olave should remain Shough’s go-to target. Shough only accounted for 13 touchdowns in nine starts, so he will have to improve upon that number for fantasy managers to consider him as a potential starter. Tight end Juwan Johnson (my TE17) could be a solid streaming option, especially early in the season as Jordan Tyson will be sidelined for several weeks.

Other Two-Player Stacks

The Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks will rely heavily on Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the passing game once again. Last year’s overall WR1 is a top-five fantasy wide receiver on every board imaginable. I rank him as my WR3 but would not bet against him repeating last year’s output. The question mark in this equation is quarterback Sam Darnold. He finished as the overall QB13 last year, but his playing in all 17 games heavily influenced that ranking. Darnold finished outside the top-20 fantasy quarterbacks in nine of 17 starts. Nico Collins has been a top-10 fantasy wideout in two of three years in Houston. But quarterback C.J. Stroud has regressed somewhat. Both Seattle and Houston rely on their defenses to win games, making both of these two-player stacks more matchup-dependent than some of the stacks ahead of them.