Trail Blazers
Depth Chart
The Trail Blazers in the Newsroom
- 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.
- StrategyHow to draft a 16- or 20-team league, where the waiver wire is three points thinnerIn a 20-team league the best free agent projects for 19.5 fantasy points a game under ESPN's scoring against 25.9 in a 12-team league, which lifts durable rotation players like Mikal Bridges and costs long absences like Jimmy Butler's.
- Injuries · ProWhere to draft Jayson Tatum, Kyrie Irving and the stars back from long injuriesJayson Tatum, Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard, Fred VanVleet and Walker Kessler all lost most or all of 2025-26 to injury, all five played this preseason, and our projections price each return differently.
- Strategy · ProDeni Avdija is a points-league pick and a categories trap, and the gap is turnoversDeni Avdija is 36th on the analysts' points consensus and 62nd in 9-cat, and our projections, which see Damian Lillard and Ja Morant taking the ball, put him 42nd on Yahoo points, 54th on ESPN points and 87th in 9-cat.
About the Trail Blazers depth chart
Portland Trail Blazers depth chart for 2026-27 fantasy basketball
This is the Portland Trail Blazers (POR, the Blazers) depth chart for the 26-27 NBA season, position by position: who starts, who backs up, who is out and each player’s fantasy rank, read from Sleeper’s chart every night.
The Trail Blazers’ first choices are Damian Lillard at point guard, Sidy Cissoko at shooting guard, Deni Avdija at small forward, Toumani Camara at power forward and Donovan Clingan at center.
Their best fantasy asset on our points projections is Deni Avdija, ranked 29th.
Ja Morant and Shaedon Sharpe are listed as unable to play.
To use this chart in a fantasy league, the NBA fantasy schedule counts how many games the Trail Blazers play each week, the NBA fantasy trade analyzer prices a deal for any of them, and the fantasy basketball rankings set them against every other player in the league.
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