Devy Overall Rankings

For anyone who doesn’t know what Devy is or is new to the Devy space, here is a brief summary. A Devy league, in terms of Dynasty Fantasy Football leagues, is a league that allows managers to draft college players before they officially enter the NFL Draft. This allows managers to scout college football players they believe have NFL talent or are potential superstars, and then draft them before they are on an NFL roster.

So, what’s the benefit of actually adding a Devy component to your Dynasty League? If you are a team that is constantly in contention for a championship each season, you are typically drafting near the end of your rookie draft every year, so all the top-end talent continues to go to the bad teams and managers get rewarded for running a poor operation.

In Devy leagues, you can grab that top-end talent before entering the NFL, meaning you could potentially win your league and end up with players on your roster the next season that are typically going at the 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 spots and so on in most Dynasty Rookie Drafts.

The downside to Devy is that you are taking a chance on your evaluations or others’ suggestions on who will eventually be a high draft pick once they enter the NFL. Drafting college players early is not an exact science. There are tons of variables, and so many different outcomes can occur.

If you jumped on Bijan Robinson’s stock early while he was at Texas, then you hit fantasy gold when he eventually became a first-round pick by the Atlanta Falcons and was the consensus 1.01 pick in rookie drafts in 2023. On the flip side, if you bought into the massive hype surrounding Quinn Ewers, who was one of the most decorated high school quarterbacks ever to come out of Texas, and was the nation’s top recruit in 2022, then you eventually got burned when he never put it all together in college and four years later was eventually a lowly seventh-round pick by the Miami Dolphins. You have to be prepared to take the good with the bad in Devy. Things can change a lot from year to year.

With all that being said, if you want to add a Devy component to your league, there are a couple of ways. Two of my favorite ways are to have a Devy Draft alongside your rookie draft each season. You can determine how many rounds the Devy Draft is each year, but I suggest between three to five rounds to get started. The more Devy rounds your league has each season will affect your rookie draft, because the rookie class will become more depleted over the years. In a 12-team league, you can set up the draft the same way as your rookie draft.

The second way is to combine your Rookie Draft and the Devy Draft into one combined draft where you select the incoming NFL Draft class and college players at the same time. This way, teams who are rebuilding can decide whether they want to add current rookies or play for the future with college players who won’t enter the NFL anywhere from one to five years. Also, those teams that are drafting at the end of rounds can decide whether a current rookie will help their team or if they would rather try to get a talented college player who could have more of a fantasy impact in future seasons. This allows for teams to use different strategies to decide if they like a rookie in the current draft or if they would rather take a chance on a future prospect.

Top 75 2026 Devy Rankings