These 2026 Dynasty DL Rankings build off our award-winning projections.

We take a weighted average of each player’s projection for this season plus his past two years of actual production. From there, we generate three-year, five-year, and 10-year projections to help assess each player’s long-term outlook.

Plus, you’ll find two decades of NFL research combined with a series of machine-learning models to deliver aging curves and expected retirement rates specific to varied archetypes of players within the DL group.

The result: The clearest possible picture of a player’s current and long-term value.