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Knute Can Draft Your ESPN Fantasy Football Team: Three Real 2026 Drafts
A founder report on three real ESPN drafts, how Knute turned league-shaped rankings into live picks, and what the finished rosters reveal.
The autonomous GM that makes the winning call.
It sets your lineup, works the wire, and answers to you.
Onboarding.
Download Knute, sign in on ESPN's own page, pick the teams it manages. The password never leaves ESPN.
Get KnuteThe real ESPN sign-in, end to end. The password never leaves ESPN.
Onboarding: transcript
Knute. Connect your league. Sign in on ESPN's own page. Your password never leaves ESPN.
Knute needs your league. Nothing works until your ESPN team is connected: no lineups, no advice, no moves. Connect ESPN, or Not now.
Connect your ESPN account. Knute needs a read of your ESPN leagues to manage them for you. It takes about a minute.
Three steps. Sign in on ESPN: ESPN's own secure sign-in page opens next. Your password goes to ESPN, never to Knute. Knute captures the session only: two ESPN session cookies, encrypted at rest. No password, no card, nothing else. Pick your teams: Knute finds every league on the account and you choose which teams it manages.
What Knute captures. Knute signs you in through ESPN's own login screen. We capture ONLY your ESPN session (a secure access token), NEVER your password. Your session is encrypted at rest. To save you a tap, Knute runs one fixed script on ESPN's page that opens ESPN's own sign-in panel. It never reads or sends your password, your email, or anything else on that page.
I agree - Continue to ESPN sign-in.
ESPN secure sign-in. Sign in on ESPN's secure page - Knute never sees your password. Opening ESPN securely. Taking you to ESPN's sign-in page.
Tap Log In on the ESPN page, then enter your email to sign in with MyDisney.
ESPN's page opens. Log In is tapped. MyDisney asks for an email to continue.
An existing MyDisney email is entered on ESPN's page. Continue.
MyDisney: Good news, you already have a MyDisney account. The password is entered on ESPN's page. Log In.
Check your email inbox. A 6-digit verification code is entered. Continue.
Contacting ESPN. Looking up the fantasy teams on your account.
Choose your teams. Knute manages only the teams you pick. Eight ESPN leagues are selected. Import 8 teams, or Skip for now.
Knute. The autonomous GM for your fantasy team. On the App Store. knute.ai.
Watch it work.
Thirty seconds, alert to executed move.
The full film: transcript
Sunday 12:55 PM. Your receiver was ruled inactive. Knute already made the swap.
Lock screen, Sunday, September 20, 12:55. Notification from Knute: "Play Action: Smith-Njigba out, started Rome Odunze. Executed by your manager - no approval needed."
Earlier in the chat, you asked: "How does Sunday look?" Knute answered: "Robinson and Chase are your anchors. Smith-Njigba is a game-time decision, so I will read the inactives before kickoff."
Knute: "Jaxon Smith-Njigba was ruled inactive at 12:52. Rome Odunze is your best available receiver and Green Bay gives up the most to the slot. I started him and confirmed it in your league."
Result card: LINEUP, EXECUTED. Lineup set, plus 12.4. Started Rome Odunze at WR. Benched Jaxon Smith-Njigba (OUT). Confirmed in your league at 12:55 PM.
The same move, already in your lineup. Play Action, Week 3, projected 115.3 to 127.7. Lineup updated by Knute, plus 12.4 projected.
Sunday 9:14 AM. Ask it anything about your team. It reads the roster, the matchups, the projections. It shows you the reasoning.
You: "Who should I start or sit this week?" Knute reads the roster, checks the matchups, compares projections.
Start and sit, Week 3. START Rome Odunze, WR, CHI at GB, plus 5.6: Green Bay gives up the most receiving yards in the league to the slot, and Odunze runs 71 percent of his routes there. He has played at least 85 percent of the snaps in every game since Week 1.
SIT Jerry Jeudy, WR, CLE vs PIT, minus 3.1: Pittsburgh shadows with its top corner, and Jeudy has drawn him on 40 of 46 routes. He is listed questionable and did not practice Friday.
Net projection plus 5.6. Decline, or Apply.
Start and sit calls. Waivers and FAAB bids. Injury swaps before lock. It explains every move.
Knute. The autonomous GM for your fantasy team.
What it does all day.
It moves before you wake up.
Every morning it reads the injuries and the matchups, then sets the lineup.
It shows its work.
Every call arrives with the reasoning, the data, and the projected gain.
It works the wire overnight.
Bids, claims, and drops, placed before the waiver run closes.
You set the leash.
Pick how much it can do on its own. Change it any time.
- Advisor
- It proposes. You approve.
- Co-pilot
- Routine moves fire. Big calls wait.
- Autopilot
- It runs the team inside your limits.
Every move logged. Off in one tap.
Field Notes / 01
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