If you want to win your fantasy championships, you have to draft the right players. Along with selecting great players, you also have to avoid the right players as well. A bad bust can sink your whole lineup, especially if they come with a lofty draft price. These are five of the biggest busts for the 2026 fantasy football season.
QB Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers
Every season, fantasy owners overvalue Herbert, and he ends up disappointing them. If you fall for it again this year, it's on you. Sure, he looks like he should be a great fantasy option. He's a big, strong-armed quarterback who looks like a prototype made in a lab. The issue is he's just not that good a quarterback.
He has a million-dollar body and a 10-cent brain, and has dating back to his days at Oregon. Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh is also clearly trying to build a big, physical, run-heavy ground attack.
Herbert hasn't thrown for 4,000 yards since 2022 and threw 26 touchdowns last year, which was his highest since 2021, which also came with his most interceptions since 2021 as well. At some point, we have to accept that he is who he is. Don't draft him anywhere close to his current price as the QB6.
