Best Guillotine Leagues™ ADP Values: Tee Higgins is Here to Help

In Guillotine Leagues™, your entire season is on the line in Week 1, so it's important to start fast. When looking for the best Guillotine League ADP values, we need to keep the early-season positional rankings in mind and not focus too heavily on things like fantasy playoff schedule, injury history or pure upside.

That doesn't mean we only target veterans or the injury-prone, but these types of players are going to be more helpful in Guillotine Leagues—and they come at a relative discount. Let's take a look at three players who are solid Guillotine League values this year.

Best ADP Values in Guillotine Leagues™ for 2026

Tee Higgins | WR | CIN

Tee Higgins has earned quite a bit of praise over the past few months. Gurus near and far have noted that the Bengals' de facto WR2 has essentially performed as a top-12 WR anytime Joe Burrow is on the field with him. The problem is that both of these high-end fantasy performers have missed their share of time in recent seasons. But all signs point to both of these guys being healthy Week 1 of your 2026 Guillotine League.

Higgins has consistently outperformed his current WR18 Guillotine League price tag on a per-game basis in PPR leagues, and he's a guy with legitimate spike-week potential. Here are his last five fantasy finishes:

2025 PPG: 14.1 (WR16)
2024 PPG: 18.5 (WR6)
2023 PPG: Who cares, no Burrow
2022 PPG: 14.9 (WR16)
2021 PPG: 15.7 (WR14)

Higgins' Guillotine League ADP of 43.3 is right in line with his 42.5 consensus redraft ADP. But he is significantly more valuable in Guillotine Leagues, where replacement WRs will hit the waiver wire every week. Higgins is the perfect "win-now" player, currently sitting at WR11 in Week 1 consensus rankings—ahead of George Pickens, A.J. Brown, Zay Flowers, DeVonta Smith and Garrett Wilson.

Higgins might be the biggest value on the board when it comes to Guillotine League versus redraft value (and I love him in redraft as well). And don't forget about the contingent value should Ja'Marr Chase miss any time. Outside of Higgins' rookie season, he has played six career games without Chase, averaging 18.0 PPR PPG.

Christian Watson | WR | GB

This offseason, I have traded for Christian Watson in one dynasty league, drafted him in another, and engaged with a different manager about trading for him, to which I was told, "You aren't going to want to pay what we think he'll be worth."

My response: "YOU DON'T KNOW ME!"

I'm not the only one willing to push considerable chips onto the table for the Packers' fifth-year WR this season. The runway is clear for Watson to assume a legitimate WR1 role in an ascending offense. And he absolutely looked the part last season.

Watson didn't take the field until Week 8 after rehabbing an ACL tear. And despite the typical ramp-up time for players coming off that injury, the 6-foot-4 former second-round pick managed to finish with 13.2 PPR points per game (WR19) on the season. Watson earned a team-high 22% target share from Week 10 on, and the team lost both Romeo Doubs (20% target share) and Dontayvion Wicks (18%) this offseason.

Watson's 2.50 yards per route run last season ranked sixth at the position among WRs who ran at least 100 routes. And he did this on a ridiculous 17.8 aDOT. The 27-year-old has scored 23 touchdowns in 48 career starts. He is seriously good, and his only competition is: Matthew Golden, who disappointed as a rookie and never showed alpha traits in college; Jayden Reed, who doesn't play in 11 personnel; and Tucker Kraft, a tight end coming off a serious injury.

Watson has a late-sixth-round ADP in Guillotine Leagues but enters Week 1 as the WR17. There might be some injury risk long-term, but this is an alpha-looking dude walking into what looks like an alpha role.

D'Andre Swift | RB | CHI

One time, I tweeted about trading D'Andre Swift back when he played for the Lions—before his dynasty stock tanked for two years—and I was needlessly harassed by a bunch of knee-jerk reactionaries (some of whom later deleted their tweets).

For a player who sparked so much hype (and Twitter rage), Swift never became the fantasy star many expected when the Lions selected him in the early second round in 2020. Still, the 27-year-old maintains the three-down skill set that earned such hype, and golden boy Ben Johnson trusts him with the Bears' RB1 duties. Rookie Kyle Monangai siphoned a significant amount of work last season, but he's not the pass-catcher Swift is and wasn't the preferred short-yardage back despite the fine work between the 20s. Swift's 14.3 PPR points per game were good for RB17, continuing his trend of finishing between RB15 and RB21 in all six of his seasons in the league.

The Bears open the 2026 NFL season on the road at Carolina, where they should have no issue moving the ball and putting up points. Swift is one of the sneakier picks on the board in most leagues, but he's particularly attractive for Guillotine League drafters filling out their RB2 or flex spots after splurging on a QB or TE early.