2026 Ravens fantasy preview: Biggest bargain, bust, and wild card

If the season started today, one Ravens player would be their biggest fantasy bargain, another a likely bust, and a third a likely wild card.

To anticipate the highest-probability bargain, we first need to assess Baltimore’s biggest potential bust.

On the one hand, betting against Derrick Henry seems foolish.

He’s an all-time great who proved last year that he’s still in prime form.

1,595 rushing yards on 5.2 yards per carry is no joke.

It’s quite possible that no 3 NFL RB has been more efficient after reaching age 30.

I’ve publicly bet against Henry only once in fantasy; that was in 2021, when his massive 2020 workload suggested he was a major injury and/or regression risk.

Those red sirens are once again blaring, though for different reasons.

He’ll turn 33 years old before the end of this coming season, and he’s coming off a year when he had a career-worst broken-tackle rate (one per 23.6 carries, versus a career one-per-10.8 carries).

He also had his fewest targets per game since 2018.

Henry is past the point of surprising fantasy managers.

Yet his strong 2025 numbers suggest bullishness entering 2026.

His downside far exceeds his upside.

He is a likely bust.

That means his handcuff is shaping up to be the biggest bargain.

Justice Hill has been biding his time for nearly seven years.

If it’s not him, then presumably Baltimore will snag Henry’s heir-apparent -- or at least a short-term “fix” -- in the draft.

Either way, this backup will be undervalued.

Lamar Jackson is the clear-cut wild card.

The market will expect a bounce-back season because his ceiling is too high to ignore.

But he’ll turn 30 before Week 18 and is running out of prime years.

Is last year’s massive per-game rushing dip a sign of things to come?

Jackson could be this year’s QB1 as easily as he could finish outside the top 10.