Here are the top defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues – July edition!

These are late this month as I have been hard at work on the Fantasy Prospects Report. The FPR is the 15th edition. For 15 years we have been pumping out fantasy gold on over 500 prospects. At this point, we know what you want to see – out (afternoon) Saturday, July 10. Pre-order here. Or buy it as a package and save ten bucks via the Keeper League Fantasy Pack here!

This month not a lot has changed. Due to work on the Prospects Report I have put a bunch of new prospects into this template so you’ll see a few crop up. I also change the UFA status of all players who hit the market.

Players ranked within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of personal preference/team needs. Click any player name to be taken to his player profile.

Def. Rk	Player	Team	Rating	July	June	Change
1	Cale Makar	COL	114.1	34	35	-1
2	John Carlson	WAS	112.9	37	38	-1
3	Adam Fox	NYR	110.1	41	41	0
4	Victor Hedman	TBL	108.1	43	43	0
5	Quinn Hughes	VAN	96.8	59	59	0
6	Roman Josi	NSH	95.2	62	62	0
7	Shea Theodore	VGK	95.2	63	63	0
8	Morgan Rielly	TOR	94.1	65	65	0
9	Dougie Hamilton	UFA	90.9	70	66	4
10	Tyson Barrie	UFA	86.5	79	73	6
11	Thomas Chabot	OTT	78.3	92	92	0
12	Rasmus Dahlin	BUF	73.8	101	101	0
13	Kris Letang	PIT	71.4	107	107	0
14	Torey Krug	STL	68.5	114	114	0
15	John Klingberg	DAL	67.4	117	117	0
16	Miro Heiskanen	DAL	62.4	125	125	0
17	Seth Jones	CBJ	59.2	130	130	0
18	Samuel Girard	COL	58.7	134	134	0
19	Zach Werenski	CBJ	58.6	135	135	0
20	Alex Pietrangelo	VGK	57.4	141	141	0
21	Charlie McAvoy	BOS	54.2	150	150	0
22	Darnell Nurse	EDM	53.7	153	153	0
23	Drew Doughty	LAK	49.2	168	169	-1
24	Ivan Provorov	PHI	48.7	170	172	-2
25	Mikhail Sergachev	TBL	45.9	177	180	-3
26	Jakob Chychrun	ARI	45.4	182	185	-3
27	Filip Hronek	DET	42.6	188	191	-3
28	Neal Pionk	WPG	40.3	195	196	-1
29	Brent Burns	SJS	40.2	196	197	-1
30	Aaron Ekblad	FLA	40.2	197	198	-1
31	Ty Smith	NJD	40.0	199	200	-1
32	Erik Karlsson	SJS	38.3	204	206	-2
33	Jeff Petry	MON	34.4	218	220	-2
34	Josh Morrissey	WPG	34.3	220	222	-2
35	Ryan Ellis	NSH	33.2	228	229	-1
36	Adam Boqvist	CHI	33.0	229	230	-1
37	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	ARI	32.9	230	231	-1
38	Devon Toews	COL	31.7	235	235	0
39	Matt Dumba	MIN	27.2	256	255	1
40	Jamie Drysdale	ANA	26.3	262	374	-112
41	Jaccob Slavin	CAR	26.1	264	263	1
42	Mackenzie Weegar	FLA	25.2	272	271	1
43	Mattias Ekholm	NSH	24.8	276	275	1
44	Ryan Pulock	NYI	23.5	285	283	2
45	Jacob Trouba	NYR	23.0	290	289	1
46	Keith Yandle	FLA	22.8	291	290	1
47	Gustav Forsling	FLA	22.6	293	292	1
48	Evan Bouchard	EDM	22.4	295	281	14
49	Damon Severson	NJD	20.9	305	303	2
50	Rasmus Ristolainen	BUF	20.5	309	306	3
51	Oscar Klefbom	EDM	20.4	310	307	3
52	Matt Grzelcyk	BOS	20.0	313	310	3
53	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI	19.9	314	311	3
54	Rasmus Andersson	CGY	17.6	343	340	3
55	Travis Sanheim	PHI	16.6	356	353	3
56	Bowen Byram	COL	16.6	357	367	-10
57	Ryan Merkley	SJS	16.4	361	490	-129
58	Nick Leddy	NYI	15.8	372	366	6
59	Alec Martinez	UFA	15.7	375	321	54
60	Vince Dunn	STL	15.4	382	375	7
61	Justin Schultz	WAS	15.2	387	379	8
62	Jared Spurgeon	MIN	15.1	390	382	8
63	Jake Bean	CAR	14.9	396	388	8
64	Will Butcher	NJD	14.9	397	390	7
65	Noah Dobson	NYI	14.7	398	391	7

The Next Group (gap between 66 and 90 is same as gap between 17 and 20 – i.e. they are pretty equal)

Ethan Bear	EDM	Noah Hanifin	CGY
Jonas Brodin	MIN	Cam Fowler	ANA
Shea Weber	MON	Brett Pesce	CAR
Alexander Romanov	MON	Juuso Valimaki	CGY
P.K. Subban	NJD	Mark Giordano	CGY
Dante Fabbro	NSH	Wyatt Kalynuk	CHI
Nils Lundkvist	NYR	Esa Lindell	DAL
Erik Brannstrom	OTT	Tony DeAngelo	NYR
Mike Matheson	PIT	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	PIT
Colton Parayko	STL	Scott Perunovich	STL
Jake Muzzin	TOR	Travis Dermott	TOR
Brandon Montour	UFA	Nicolas Hague	VGK
Erik Gustafsson	UFA

Vets who can chip in, injury risks, prospects with varying degrees of upside and wait time, other defensemen with lower upside and expectations but can chip in at times

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Josh Mahura	ANA	Mike Reilly	UFA
Hampus Lindholm	ANA	Jake Gardiner	CAR
Victor Soderstrom	ARI	Dennis Cholowski	DET
Henri Jokiharju	BUF	Sean Walker	LAK
Ryan Graves	COL	Matt Roy	LAK
Conor Timmins	COL	Brennan Menell	MIN
Max Gildon	FLA	Ryan Suter	MIN
Kale Clague	LAK	Robin Salo	NYI
David Farrance	NSH	K’Andre Miller	NYR
Marcus Pettersson	PIT	Philippe Myers	PHI
Ryan McDonagh	TBL	Cameron York	PHI
Rasmus Sandin	TOR	John Marino	PIT
TJ Brodie	TOR	Justin Faulk	STL
Nate Schmidt	VAN	Tyler Myers	VAN
Sami Niku	WPG	Alexander Alexeyev	WAS

UPCOMING GAMES

Nov 05 - 19:11	CAR	vs	PHI
Nov 05 - 19:11	MTL	vs	CGY
Nov 05 - 19:11	BUF	vs	OTT
Nov 05 - 19:11	TOR	vs	BOS
Nov 05 - 19:11	NYI	vs	PIT
Nov 05 - 20:11	MIN	vs	L.A
Nov 05 - 20:11	STL	vs	T.B
Nov 05 - 20:11	WPG	vs	UTA
Nov 05 - 21:11	COL	vs	SEA
Nov 05 - 22:11	ANA	vs	VAN
Nov 05 - 22:11	S.J	vs	CBJ