LEAGUE OFFICES — Topher McBoyle, SSPN's Senior Dynasty Correspondent and, per the network's internal tracker, the most prolific byline of the 2026 offseason, has spent the better part of three weeks cross-referencing the league's traded-pick ledger against the national consensus superflex board. The result: a full presumptive mock of the first round of the Nevin Place Memorial League's rookie draft, three rounds, third-round reversal in effect, order not yet finalized by the league office. Treat every slot below as projection, not decree. The commissioner's staff has not released a final order, and McBoyle, who has covered every rookie class this league has ever held, is not in the business of guessing what Chris Boyle hasn't confirmed.
Here is a breakdown, presumptive order first, built off the reverse of the 2025 final standings and adjusted for every traded pick the league office has on file.
1.01 — Brian Jones (ShitCo Summer, own pick). Jones finished 3-11 last fall with the league's worst all-play mark, a 55-127 disaster that somehow still left him sitting on three first-round selections here in 2026. Jeremiyah Love goes first on the board and first in most rooms in America right now, and there's no version of this exercise where Jones passes. The bigger story is that this is only the first of three cracks he gets.
1.02 — Brian Jones (via Hunter Koepsell). With Love off the board, Jones circles back and takes Fernando Mendoza anyway, despite a QB room that already features Cam Ward and C.J. Stroud. Three young quarterbacks is either a superflex fortress or a hoarding problem, and with Jones it is never clear which until year three.
1.03 — Chris Boyle (The Epitome of Brutality, own pick). Carnell Tate slides to three, and for a roster that finished 4-10 a year ago, adding a true alpha receiver behind Drake London is the kind of value pick that quietly repairs a season nobody wants to talk about.
1.04 — Kevin Jones (Bannermen, own pick). Jordyn Tyson gives a WR room that runs Rashee Rice and Zay Flowers another blue-chip arrow. Jones still has a second first-rounder to spend before this round is even over.
1.05 — Charlie Koepsell (Long Hair Dont Care, own pick). A roster built on Travis Kelce, Derrick Henry and Jonathan Taylor needs young legs more than it needs another veteran, and Makai Lemon is the cleanest fit on the board. Koepsell finished 7-7 a year ago on the strength of names everyone in this league has been reading about since before Sleeper existed.
1.06 — Jamie Sinn (own pick). Jadarian Price lands with a WR-heavy roster that already runs Ja'Marr Chase and Xavier Worthy but has been thin at running back beyond Aaron Jones and Travis Etienne. Sinn finished 7-7 last year and this is the low-variance pick of the round.
1.07 — Tareq Hafza (Shadynasty, own pick). Hafza's roster is arguably the deepest in the league already — Puka Nacua, Cooper Kupp, Bijan Robinson, Saquon Barkley — so adding KC Concepcion at seven is closer to a dynasty flex than a need pick. Some rosters just get to do that.
1.08 — Kevin Jones (second selection, via Elliott Simmonds). Elliott Simmonds's DELAWARE CHICKEN FARMER'S posted a 131-51 all-play record last season, the best in the entire league, per the Sleeper archive, and finished 7-7 anyway on a minus-0.22 luck differential that ought to be studied by the league's record keepers. That misfortune is apparently why Simmonds shipped his 2026 first to Kevin Jones, who takes Ty Simpson here. Another arm on an already crowded QB room that runs Josh Allen, Jaxson Dart, Dillon Gabriel and Daniel Jones — one first-rounder earned by finishing eleventh, one imported off Simmonds's ledger, and now a fifth quarterback on the roster.
1.09 — Chris Boyle (second selection, via Joe Hamm). Boyle circles back and grabs Kenyon Sadiq, addressing the one real hole on the roster — the tight end room behind AJ Barner and Isaiah Likely has needed exactly this kind of swing for a full calendar year. Two picks, two real needs addressed. Quietly the best round of anyone's first-round work.
1.10 — Ben Cunnion (own pick). Eli Stowers gives a Patrick Mahomes-led roster another developmental tight end behind Kyle Pitts and Tyler Higbee. Cunnion finished 8-6 last year and this is a depth pick more than a splash, which tracks for a team that's never needed to blow anything up.
1.11 — Evan Sinn (own pick). Omar Cooper Jr. joins a receiver room already running CeeDee Lamb, Jaylen Waddle and Deebo Samuel, which is either an embarrassment of riches or proof that even a backfield running David Montgomery, Kaleb Johnson, Dylan Sampson and Audric Estime behind De'Von Achane still wasn't enough to pull this pick off the receiver board.
1.12 — Ryan Weaver (Bock Bock Bitch, own pick). Weaver posted a 95-86 all-play mark and a 9-5 record last season, one of the healthier finishes in the league, and lands Denzel Boston as WR depth behind Justin Jefferson and Garrett Wilson.
1.13 — Ryan Weaver (second selection, via Sean Gibbins). Sean Gibbins finished 10-4 and second in the league a year ago, then dealt this pick away anyway. Weaver uses it on Nicholas Singleton, giving a backfield that already runs Cam Skattebo a rare luxury: a lottery ticket behind a guy who's already the point.
1.14 — Brian Jones (third selection, via Justin Waitt). Justin Waitt finished first in the regular season at 10-4 last year and still parted with this pick, and it lands, fittingly, back with the manager who opened the round twice already. Jonah Coleman is the best name still on the board, evidence of just how deep this class runs at the top, and Jones takes him on a roster that, by the third pick of this exercise, has stopped needing anything at all.
Three picks for Brian Jones. Two apiece for Kevin Jones, Chris Boyle and Ryan Weaver. Zero for Hunter Koepsell, Joe Hamm, Elliott Simmonds, Sean Gibbins and Justin Waitt, five teams that traded their way out of the round entirely, including the two best regular-season finishers of 2025. That is either the most disciplined asset management this league has ever produced or a lot of quiet future-punting, and McBoyle, who has covered three of these rookie classes now and intends to cover a fourth from a bigger desk eventually, is not ready to say which.
Asked for comment, Commissioner Chris Boyle offered the following in an exclusive one-on-one sit-down with SSPN conducted, as always, entirely in person: "I think what you're seeing here is a league that has genuinely figured out how to build. Whether it's the two Joneses stockpiling picks or a team like Elliott's that just ran into some bad puck luck, this is a competitive, well-run operation, and I couldn't be prouder of how our managers approach the draft process." The league office declined to comment further, but seemed pleased.
Rounds two and three, third-round reversal in effect, to follow in a separate SSPN exclusive. Bigger outlets are circling on this one. That's all McBoyle can say at this time.