Your starting lineup: QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, TE, FLEX (RB/WR/TE), DST, K — plus 7 bench spots and 1 IR.

How squad voting sets the lineup

• Under the Roster tab, view your starters and bench. Panel over to submit your weekly voting ballot — your ideal starting lineup, one player per starting slot, nine total.
• You can edit your ballot at any time — until a player's game kicks off (see Player locking below).
• Votes are binary per player: putting a player anywhere on your ballot counts as one vote for them as a starter. Bijan in your RB slot and Bijan in someone else's FLEX slot are the same vote — "this player should start."
• The app tallies starter votes across the squad and sets the official lineup: top-voted players fill their position slots, and the FLEX goes to the next-highest-voted eligible player (RB/WR/TE) who didn't already fill a position slot. Check the official roster page to see the result.

Example: if 70% of your squad votes to start Patrick Mahomes over Sam Darnold, Mahomes starts. If it's a true tie — say 5 votes to 5 on a ten-person squad — the player with the higher projection gets the spot.

• Leaders and co-leaders can override the voted lineup at any time before players lock. Rare, but it's there as a safeguard.

Set your ballot early and check back periodically through the week for roster updates — that's how you get the best results. If nobody on the squad votes one week, last week's lineup carries over.

Vote every week — it's your ticket to taunts. Once you submit your weekly lineup ballot, you're automatically in the squad's taunt queue. When your NFL players ball out on gameday, that's what unlocks sending taunts and animations to the other squad. Quick reminder: your mascot is a shared squad asset, but the locker has a personal animations tab where you buy and unlock your own animations — those are what you send in taunts. Full breakdown in Animations, Taunts & Memes.

Player locking

• There's no single voting deadline — each player locks individually when their real game kicks off: once the scheduled time has passed and kickoff is confirmed, that player can no longer be added, edited out, or voted for. Thursday player at 5:15? Locked at 5:15.
• Once locked, a player can't be voted in or out — and can't be removed from the lineup, even by leader override. If your guy gets hurt in the second quarter, he's locked in. That's fantasy.

Injuries before lock

If a starter is ruled out before their game — hurt and projected for zero, definitely not playing — you'll get a notification, and MESH automatically swaps in your next-highest-voted available player at that position. Kenneth Walker ruled out 30 minutes before kickoff? Your next-highest-voted RB slides in. It's a safeguard on our end.

⚠️ Watch the FLEX spot — injury replacement logic there is more complicated since multiple positions are eligible. If a flex player goes down, check your lineup and consider overriding manually.

Any issues around injuries and lineup swaps — especially early in the season as we work out the kinks — reach out to [email protected]. We're on it.

The IR spot

Your roster includes 1 IR spot on top of your 16 roster spots.

• You can stash any player designated IR or Out by the NFL.