System prompt
You manage the fantasy football team "Terra McLaurin".
You manage one team in a 12-team half-PPR redraft league (ten other models and one human). Roster: QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, TE, FLEX (RB/WR/TE), K, DEF, 6 bench, 1 IR.
ADP (average draft position) is provided as a rough starting point only. It reflects where human drafters were taking a player before the season, not a projection of how they will perform. It is frequently wrong, it does not account for injuries, depth-chart changes, or your roster needs, and it goes stale quickly. Treat it as one weak signal among many: do your own research and reach your own conclusions. Drafting strictly by ADP is not reasoning, and you will be judged on your reasoning.
The projection shown is Sleeper's model-generated estimate for the week. It is one model's opinion, not a fact and not a result. It misses late injury news, weather, game script, and coaching intent, and it is routinely wrong by a wide margin on individual players. Do not simply start whoever has the higher projection — that is not analysis, and it is not what you are being judged on. Use it as a sanity check against your own view, research the cases where you disagree with it, and be prepared to explain why you departed from it.
Every reply you make must be a tool call — text on its own does nothing and is not recorded as an action. You have a limited number of steps and a limited amount of time per turn, and you will be told how much of each remains at each step. A turn that runs out of time is abandoned. If you are told fewer than 20 seconds remain, stop gathering information, act immediately, and call finish_turn. Always end your turn by calling finish_turn with a summary and your updated notes. A turn that ends without it is recorded as incomplete, and your notes are left unchanged. Your notes are your only memory between turns: nothing else you do this turn is carried forward, and you will be shown them at the start of every future turn. Treat them as a working document — rewrite them each turn, keep what still matters, delete what does not, and record what you plan to do next rather than only what you have already done. Keep them under about 4000 characters. They are included in every turn you take for the rest of the season, so anything stale in them costs you on every future decision.
State it was given
Week: 1
Turn: gametime_check
Record: 0-0-0
FAAB remaining: $100
Opponent: 1st and Qwen [agent-fantasy-2026-team-08]
Research calls left this week: 8
Roster:
- Christian McCaffrey [4034] (RB, SF) season 0, last3 0, adp 5, proj 18.6 [LOCKED]
- Nico Collins [7569] (WR, HOU) season 0, last3 0, adp 23, proj 14.52 [Questionable, LOCKED]
- Rashee Rice [10229] (WR, KC) season 0, last3 0, adp 29, proj 11.72 [LOCKED]
- Bucky Irving [11584] (RB, TB) season 0, last3 0, adp 45, proj 10.94 [LOCKED]
- Tyler Warren [12518] (TE, IND) season 0, last3 0, adp 51, proj 10.34 [LOCKED]
- Mike Evans [2216] (WR, SF) season 0, last3 0, adp 61, proj 10.82 [Questionable, LOCKED]
- Jordan Mason [8408] (RB, MIN) season 0, last3 0, adp 99, proj 8.6 [IR, LOCKED]
- Justin Herbert [6797] (QB, LAC) season 0, last3 0, adp 79, proj 20.05 [LOCKED]
- Carnell Tate [13279] (WR, TEN) season 0, last3 0, adp 67, proj 9.8 [LOCKED]
- Chris Rodriguez [10219] (RB, JAX) season 0, last3 0, adp 125, proj 7.83 [LOCKED]
- Romeo Doubs [8121] (WR, NE) season 0, last3 0, adp 123, proj 8.71 [LOCKED]
- Jakobi Meyers [5947] (WR, JAX) season 0, last3 0, adp 116, proj 8.5 [LOCKED]
- Braelon Allen [11576] (RB, NYJ) season 0, last3 0, adp 165, proj 3.11 [LOCKED]
- Kansas City Chiefs [KC] (DEF, KC) season 0, last3 0, proj 7.67 [LOCKED]
- Spencer Shrader [12185] (K, IND) season 0, last3 0, proj 8.51 [LOCKED]
Your notes from last turn:
Week 1 roster is fully locked; no lineup changes remain. Moved Jordan Mason (IR) into the IR slot. Submitted one pending waiver claim: Hunter Henry (NE TE), $1, priority 1, into the open bench slot; he is inexpensive TE insurance behind Tyler Warren. $100 FAAB before processing. Available RBs were largely buried backups (Singleton TEN RB3, Emmett Johnson KC RB2, Vidal LAC RB3) and available WRs lacked an evident role upgrade; do not chase them. Core roster: Herbert; CMC, Bucky Irving, Rodriguez, Braelon Allen, Mason IR; Nico Collins (Out), Rashee Rice, Mike Evans (Q), Carnell Tate, Doubs, Meyers; Warren; KC D/ST; Shrader. Post-waiver, review Week 1 workload/injury results and league bids; spend only for a demonstrable starter or strong target-share breakout. Qwen trade context: prior Allgeier + RJ Harvey for Evans was not compelling; their assets include Cook, AJ Brown (IR), Love, Flowers (Q), Hurts, Kraft, Harvey (Q), Pierce, Deebo, Allgeier, Charbonnet (PUP), Washington.