Updated Rookie Rankings - Fantasy Football Drafts

Welcome back RotoBallers! Below you will find our staff's updated fantasy football rookie rankings for the 2021 NFL season. These rankings are a great resource for you to use in your fantasy football drafts, whether it's a redraft league or a dynasty league. Having a rookie draft, or just looking for the highest-upside rookie to target in drafts? Just reference the list below.

These fantasy football rookie rankings will continue to be updated until Week 1, so be sure check back regularly for updates. You can also see our ongoing rankings analysis articles discussing players to target and avoid in your fantasy football drafts. Be sure to also check out our entire 2021 fantasy football rankings dashboard. It's loaded up with our rankings for all other league formats and scoring settings including:

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Three of our lead fantasy football analysts - Pierre Camus, Brandon Murchison and Phil Clark - have analyzed the NFL offseason moves, recent injuries, and preseason action. Below you will find their consensus fantasy football Half-PPR rankings for 2021 fantasy football drafts. Feel free to click those links and give these fine gentlemen a follow, and let them know how much you love or hate their rankings.

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Updated Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings

Rankings table below last updated on September 5th, 2021

Tier	Rank	Player Name	Pos
1	1	Najee Harris	RB
1	2	Kyle Pitts	TE
1	3	Ja'Marr Chase	WR
1	4	Javonte Williams	RB
1	5	DeVonta Smith	WR
1	6	Trevor Lawrence	QB
2	7	Jaylen Waddle	WR
2	8	Elijah Moore	WR
2	9	Justin Fields	QB
2	10	Trey Sermon	RB
2	11	Trey Lance	QB
2	12	Michael Carter	RB
2	13	Kenneth Gainwell	RB
3	14	Terrace Marshall Jr.	WR
3	15	Rashod Bateman	WR
3	16	Amon-Ra St. Brown	WR
3	17	Mac Jones	QB
3	18	Zach Wilson	QB
3	19	Rhamondre Stevenson	RB
3	20	Rondale Moore	WR
3	21	Chuba Hubbard	RB
3	22	Dyami Brown	WR
3	23	Nico Collins	WR
4	24	Josh Palmer	WR
4	25	Amari Rodgers	WR
4	26	Kadarius Toney	WR
4	27	Pat Freiermuth	TE
4	28	D'Wayne Eskridge	WR
4	29	Elijah Mitchell	RB
4	30	Tutu Atwell	WR
4	31	Kylin Hill	RB
4	32	Tylan Wallace	WR
4	33	Jacob Harris	TE
4	34	Seth Williams	WR
4	35	Brevin Jordan	TE
4	36	Demetric Felton	WR
5	37	Larry Rountree III	RB
5	38	Chris Evans	RB
5	39	Jermar Jefferson	RB
5	40	Ihmir Smith-Marsette	WR
5	41	Hunter Long	TE
5	42	Jaret Patterson	RB
5	43	Khalil Herbert	RB
5	44	Dazz Newsome	WR
5	45	Dez Fitzpatrick	WR
6	46	Jaelon Darden	WR
6	47	Kyle Trask	QB
6	48	Kene Nwangwu	RB
6	49	Kellen Mond	QB
6	50	Noah Gray	TE
6	51	Anthony Schwartz	WR
6	52	Marquez Stevenson	WR
6	53	Josh Imatorbhebhe	WR
6	54	Davis Mills	QB
6	55	Jake Funk	RB
6	56	Frank Darby	WR
7	57	Sage Surratt	WR
7	58	Pooka Williams Jr.	RB
7	59	Tommy Tremble	TE
7	60	Shi Smith	WR
7	61	Cornell Powell	WR
7	62	Kenny Yeboah	TE
7	63	Javian Hawkins	RB
7	64	Tamorrion Terry	WR
8	65	Tre' McKitty	TE
8	66	Mekhi Sargent	RB
8	67	Cade Johnson	WR
8	68	Sam Ehlinger	QB
8	69	Austin Watkins	WR
8	70	Shane Buechele	QB
8	71	T.J. Vasher	WR
8	72	Ian Book	QB
9	73	Simi Fehoko	WR
9	74	Stevie Scott III	RB
9	75	Deon Jackson	RB
9	76	Marlon Williams	WR
9	77	Trey Ragas	RB
9	78	Feleipe Franks	QB
9	79	Whop Philyor	WR
9	80	Dax Milne	WR
9	81	Rakeem Boyd	RB
9	82	Trevon Grimes	WR
9	83	Jamie Newman	QB
9	84	Brennan Eagles	WR
9	85	Reggie Roberson Jr.	WR
9	86	K.D. Nixon	WR
9	87	Raheem Blackshear	RB
9	88	Johnathan Lovett	RB
9	89	JD Spielman	WR
9	90	JaTarvious Whitlow	RB
9	91	Eli Stove	WR
9	92	Brady White	QB
9	93	Shakif Seymour	RB
9	94	K.J. Costello	QB
9	95	Damonte Coxie	WR
9	96	Vavae Malepeai	RB
9	97	Zach Smith	QB
9	98	Zac Thomas	QB

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