Darius Acuff Jr. has the most points by a rookie through 11 games since Michael Jordan, and our board and the analysts still disagree about him by 93 places

Our points board under ESPN's standard scoring ranks Darius Acuff Jr. 30th in the league, and the analysts' consensus ranks him 123rd. Those two numbers cannot both be right for long, and eleven games into his career his production sits much closer to ours. After 29 points in Tuesday's 107-100 home loss to Orlando, the 19-year-old has 288 points, which the Associated Press noted is the most by any rookie through the first 11 games of a season since Michael Jordan scored 289 for the Chicago Bulls in 1984.

The case against him has never been the points. It is that he takes a great many shots to score them on a team that has won once, and that a line built on volume can shrink the moment a coach or a front office decides it should. This story looks at what his line is worth in each format, which is where the disagreement really lives, because the answer for a points league and the answer for a 9-cat league are not the same.

Every player in this story is on the fantasy basketball rankings and the 2026-27 projections, and the NBA depth charts show where each one stands in his team’s rotation tonight.