26-27 Depth
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From the Newsroom
- InjuriesChet Holmgren is out 8 to 10 weeks, the third Thunder starter lost in a weekOklahoma City treated a small tear in Holmgren's right patellar tendon and expects him back in 8 to 10 weeks, which takes about 29 games off his projection and drops him from 20th to 61st on our 9-cat board.
- InjuriesJa Morant's hamstring costs him at least four weeks, and Scoot Henderson gets the minutesMorant strained his hamstring in his first game against Memphis and will miss at least 15 games, and our projections hand most of his minutes to Scoot Henderson, who climbs 44 places on our points board.
- InjuriesTyrese Haliburton is out at least two weeks with a hamstring strain, and Andrew Nembhard runs IndianaRick Carlisle called the left hamstring strain mild and ruled Haliburton out for at least two weeks, and Nembhard answered with 14 assists against Philadelphia while our points board moved him from 103rd to 93rd.
- InjuriesAnthony Edwards and Jaren Jackson Jr. will miss weeks with knee injuries, and Mo Bamba is the Utah addEdwards needs an arthroscopic procedure that could cost him two months and Jackson has a torn MCL, which took both down our boards on Tuesday, while Mo Bamba is the one replacement whose minutes are already real.
About the depth charts
NBA depth charts for 2026-27 fantasy basketball
A depth chart is the question a fantasy manager asks most in the season and answers least well from memory: who plays where for a team, and who steps up when a starter goes down. Every team's rotation is here, position by position, with the man who cannot play marked and the man standing in for him marked too, so the answer to a streaming question is on the page rather than in a search. Beside each name is his rank on our 2026-27 projections, so a backup who is worth a roster spot reads differently from one who is not. Every man placed on a chart also has a page of his own, with his role, his injury status, last season’s per-game line and his consensus rank.
The charts are read every night, so a trade, a signing or an injury is on the page the next morning, and every team has a page of its own. The rank is the same one the rankings and the auction values are built from, so a player sits where he does on all of them for one reason. If you are deciding who to pick up for the week, the Weekly Slate has the schedule beside the free agents.
Where do the NBA depth charts come from?
The rotation comes from Sleeper's published depth chart, the one app that publishes one, which we read every night along with the injury list and how many leagues roster each man: who is in the rotation and in what order. The column a player stands in is his main position on the fantasy app you pick above the chart. A player Sleeper has not placed in the rotation yet, which in September is most of the summer's rookies, stands at the foot of his position's column with no number rather than being left off the roster.
What does the rank beside each player mean?
It is where he sits on our 2026-27 projections, the same board the projections page prints, in the format you have chosen. Points leagues read the projected fantasy points a game under ESPN's default scoring, and 9-cat leagues read his value across the nine categories. Once the season starts those projections move every morning with the box scores, so the rank on the chart moves with them.
Why is a backup marked as starting?
Because the man listed ahead of him is out, on injured reserve or suspended. A depth chart is mostly opened to answer who plays when a starter goes down, so the first man in the column who can play is marked as the one standing in. A player listed as day to day is not treated as out, since day to day players play more often than not.
Is the position on the depth chart the same as fantasy eligibility?
Every fantasy app files a player under one main position and often lets you play him at another, and ESPN, Sleeper, Yahoo and Fantrax each decide that differently. So the chart follows the app you pick above it, ESPN to begin with: the column a player stands in is his main position on that app, and his positions on that app are printed under his name. The order inside a column is always Sleeper's rotation order.
Are the depth charts free?
The charts are free to anyone, with no account: every team, every position, who is out and who stands in, and how many leagues roster each player. The rank beside a player is free for the top 50 of our projections, and Pro shows it for every projected player on every chart.