Yahoo Sports brought back College Fantasy Football for 2026 after years away, and the Miami Hurricanes happen to be entering the season with one of the most loaded rosters in the country to build a team around.
Whether you're completely new to the format or you just want to know where Miami's players rank, here's everything worth knowing before your draft.
An introduction to Yahoo's college fantasy format
Yahoo Sports revived College Fantasy Football for 2026 after years away, and it works a lot like the NFL game most fans already know. Leagues draft rosters from a player pool covering all 68 Power Four programs plus Notre Dame, then compete in weekly head-to-head matchups.
A typical starting lineup runs 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 2 FLEX, 1 D/ST and 1 Team Offense, with around 20 total roster spots once you add bench players. The Team Offense slot is the new feature. Instead of drafting a kicker, managers add a full team offense to their roster and score points based on that team's collective output every week. Drafts opened Aug. 3, with scoring set to begin in Week 1.
And remember: All of those settings are customizable, so adjust based on league needs.
How scoring works and why league settings are important
Individual players score points the same general way they do in NFL fantasy, with points for passing, rushing and receiving yards and touchdowns. Yahoo's default individual scoring is half-PPR, meaning half a point for every reception, though leagues can switch to full PPR or turn reception points off entirely.
For example: Malachi Toney's volume of 109 catches is worth roughly 55 points on its own in a half-PPR league and a full 109 points in a full-PPR one. Passing touchdowns are commonly worth 4 points, but plenty of leagues bump that to 6, which is a meaningful swing for a quarterback in Darian Mensah's range. His 34 touchdown passes last season would be worth 136 points at the 4-point setting and 204 at the 6-point setting, a 68-point gap based on one league setting alone.
Yahoo also offers optional bonus scoring for 40-plus-yard touchdowns, which is worth knowing if your league uses it. Vandrevius Jacobs' four touchdowns last season averaged 52 yards each, and Girard Pringle's entire appeal is explosive, long runs, so both become more valuable in a bonus-heavy format.
The Team Offense slot uses its own separate scoring system, and it's worth understanding before you draft one. A team offense earns 3 points for every touchdown, 1.5 points for its first 300 yards of total offense in a game, and 0.25 points for every 50 yards beyond that. It also picks up 1 point for a field goal made and 1 point for a win, while losing 2 points for every turnover and 1 point for a loss. That structure rewards offenses that score often and protect the ball far more than it rewards offenses that rack up empty yardage.
Darian Mensah looks like a value pick at quarterback
Mensah led the Power Four in passing yardage last season at Duke, completing 334 of 500 passes for 3,973 yards, 34 touchdowns and just six interceptions while starting all 14 games. His pairing with Toney should only increase those numbers, yet Yahoo's own top-300 rankings have him going as just the 12th quarterback off the board overall (pick No. 137).
Malachi Toney is a top-two pick and Cooper Barkate isn't far behind
Toney led the entire country with 109 catches as a true freshman, led the ACC with 1,211 receiving yards, and was named the conference's Rookie of the Year. He also picked up carries and even completed a couple of passes out of Miami's wildcat package last season, giving him scoring paths a normal receiver doesn't have.
Yahoo's top-300 rankings have Toney at No. 2 overall, behind only Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith, which makes him a true first-round pick regardless of league size or scoring.
Barkate is Miami's second target, ranked at No. 49 overall and as the 16th receiver off the board on Yahoo's list. He positions more as a value WR2 or a high-end WR3. He followed Mensah from Duke to Miami after catching 72 passes for 1,106 yards and seven touchdowns last season, and that came after an equally productive stint at Harvard before he ever got to Duke. Mensah targeted him in nearly every game a year ago, and that chemistry carries over.
The battle for Miami's 3rd receiver
Behind Toney and Barkate, Miami has an open competition for a third receiver spot that's worth monitoring even if it's too unsettled to draft with confidence right now.
Vandrevius Jacobs arrives from South Carolina after catching 32 passes for 548 yards and four touchdowns last season, and he's built almost entirely around explosive plays, averaging 17.1 yards per catch with touchdowns that covered 52 yards on average.
Cam Vaughn transferred in from West Virginia off a 35-catch, 540-yard, four-touchdown season and has posted over 1,300 combined receiving yards across his last two college stops.
Sophomore Joshua Moore, a 6-foot-4 target who had some moments as a true freshman, is widely considered to have the highest upside of the group if he wins the job outright.
None of these three are draftable with confidence in most leagues until fall camp sorts out who separates from the pack, but whoever wins the job will have Mensah throwing to him.
Mark Fletcher Jr. anchors a deep backfield
Fletcher is the clear lead back after running for 1,192 yards and 12 touchdowns last season, capped by a strong College Football Playoff run that helped carry Miami to the national championship game. Yahoo's rankings put him at No. 22 overall, which works out to the 14th running back off the board, right on the border between a low-end RB1 and a high-end RB2 in most league formats.
Go in with realistic expectations rather than assuming a bell-cow workload. His carries swung from 10 or 12 in some games to 18 or 20 in others last year, and Miami likes to spread touches around its backfield.
CharMar Brown, a former FCS Freshman of the Year at North Dakota State, played a meaningful complementary role behind Fletcher last season. Girard Pringle Jr. might be the most explosive name in the group, averaging 6.0 yards per carry on limited touches, and Miami fought off SEC suitors just to keep him on campus, though Yahoo's board has him as a true deep-league dart throw at No. 268 overall. Jordan Lyle rounds out one of the deepest running back rooms in the country.
None of them are must-draft players on their own, but any of them is worth a late-round flier if you want a handcuff to Fletcher.
Tight End might be a position to avoid
Tight end is the one position where Miami isn't worth much fantasy attention. Elija Lofton holds the starting job, but his production wasn't consistent last season, and a new tight ends coach could shake up the depth chart further. Yahoo's ranking slots him at just No. 219 overall. It's not a position to draft out of Miami's roster unless your league is desperate for touchdown-dependent bench depth.
Where Miami's team offense fits in the new format
If your league uses the Team Offense slot, Miami belongs in the conversation there as well. A team that wins, scores in bunches and protects the football tends to hold up well in this format, and Miami checked every one of those boxes on its way to the national championship game last season.
Yahoo's rankings have Miami's Team Offense at No. 193 overall and Miami's D/ST at No. 182.
A draft strategy for building around Miami
The easiest way to build around Miami is to lock in Toney early as a first-round piece, then treat Mensah as one of the best value picks in the draft. Add Barkate as a solid WR2 or WR3 a few rounds later, and take Fletcher as a low-end RB1 with a clear-eyed view of the timeshare behind him. Round it out with a late-round flier on Pringle if your league rewards upside, and consider Miami's Team Offense as an option.
Miami's fantasy rankings at a glance
- Malachi Toney (WR), No. 2 overall
- Mark Fletcher Jr. (RB), No. 22 overall, RB14
- Cooper Barkate (WR), No. 49 overall, WR16
- Darian Mensah (QB), No. 137 overall, QB12
- Miami D/ST, No. 182 overall
- Miami Team Offense, No. 193 overall
- Elija Lofton (TE), No. 219 overall
- Girard Pringle Jr. (RB), No. 268 overall
Add us as a preferred source on Google