Updated 2026 Fantasy Football WR Rankings (AJB Traded)

Ladies and gentlemen, AJ Brown is a New England Patriot and this shakes up our wide receiver rankings quite a bit. We've been working through all of our positional rankings as we've started kind of going through every single player for fantasy football this year. And this is where we landed for our first round of 2026 wide receiver rankings.

Let's start up here with the S tier. This should really be no surprise to anybody here. Jamar Chase, Puka, and Jackson Smith in Jigba.

Starting with Chase, uh he was the wide receiver for last year. I drafted him first overall in the flock league. He was okay. He was hit or miss. The main thing from 2024 to 2025 is his touchdowns went from 17 to eight. And when you, you know, eight was technically more towards where he had been for the rest of his career. The 17 was kind of an outlier there. His efficiency dipped a little bit, but you have to uh you have to note that Joe Burrow was out for part of that. And I think most of Jamar Chase and his production on a year-to-year basis is dependent on Joe Burrow. And if Joe Burrow can stay healthy, I think there's nothing that's stopping Jamar Chase from being the wide receiver one in fantasy football pretty much every year.

Now, the guy who was the wide receiver one in fantasy football last year, uh, was Jackson Smith and Jigba. Uh, and and and JSN, I mean, he was incredible last year. He averaged 21 fantasy points per game. Um, had 163 targets and he had 10 touchdowns himself. You know, his efficiency was incredible. He averaged 3.7 yards per route run last year. Um, I think a lot of people look at JSN and think that he is going to be a natural regression candidate um because the efficiency uh was so high last year. And I think that's somewhat fair, but I will have you just note here like Jamar Chase, for example, last year ran 620 routes. JSN last year ran only 482 routes. There's actually room for JSN to get more routes in a new offense. You know, the offense was good for Clint Kubak last year and it was a big part of JSN's success. Um, but a new offense doesn't necessarily mean that JSN is going to take a step back in efficiency. You know, JSN could take a step back in efficiency, but get an overall volume uptick in terms of routes. And so with JSN, I think no matter which way you look at how his efficiency is going to trend this year, you look at what he did last year, and if you watch the games, you know, he's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. We do not expect him to take a step back.

And then Puka Nakua last year, Puka, when he was on the field, of course, was extremely good. He averaged 23 fantasy points per game, 23 and a half fantasy points per game, which is absurd. And last year, I guess I misspoke. Last year, technically, Puka was the wide receiver one in fantasy football last year. Uh, and again, that was in 16 games. He did miss a game in there. uh had 166 targets and had 10 touchdowns last year. Look, as long as Puka can stay out of his own way, >> 23 and a half points per game. It's ridiculous. >> Keep it in your pants, brother. As long as this guy can stay out of his own way, and I think everybody knows what we mean in that regard. He is a top five pick in fantasy football this year. And I know this guy and and I agree with him, will be taking him pretty high in fantasy football drafts because he deserves it. He is again one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. These are the clear top three for wide receiver rankings this year in fantasy.

>> Yeah. Then the next tier um is going to be Aman Ross St. Brown. He's going to be lonely in this tier because I do think there's a significant gap between him and the field. Well, I'll talk about the tier after him as well. But to give Aman's flowers to give him his love, Amanra by far is the most consistent wide receiver in fantasy football, hands down. And and that includes some of the guys in the S tier like Jamar Chase not as consistent. JSN, we don't have a big enough sample size. Puka, you you have some injury concerns and he's got to stay out of his own way. Yep.

>> Almond Ross St. Brown for the last three years has been the wide receiver three and the year before that he was the wide receiver seven and every single year he plays every single game. For the last three years, he has scored 10 touchdowns or more. I think that's been one of the biggest concerns that people have had over the last couple of seasons is can he maintain this big touchdown jump that we saw from year two to year three? And the answer is yes because we've seen it for three straight years now. I think that's again would be the only concern that anyone could ever really have with Almond Raw. You saw the second most amount of receiving yards that he had ever in his career in 2025. I know he had a little bit of a dud um semifinal playoff uh showing in in week 16 last year with only like nine points, but again you're going to see a guy with like a floor of nine or 10 points when he's on the field and he's on the field all the time. So we love Aman Ross St. Brown. is going to be firmly in the late first round conversation for the foreseeable future for us. Um, and then the following tier is going to be Justin Jefferson. We're at least going to start with him. Uh, look, Jefferson can only be punished so much for JJ McCarthy being his quarterback last year. And the reality is when JJ McCarthy was not the quarterback and when Carson Wentz was specifically, literally Jefferson required a Carson Wentz at quarterback to be productive. That's all he needed and all he's going to need this year is Kyler Murray. And I think Kyler Murray with all the questions that we have about him as as as a talent and can he you know get back to his early early days um in Arizona um and and just being a consistently accurate quarterback. Like I I think regardless of what happens there, you're at least going to have the consistent enough volume from Kyler that Jefferson is for sure going to be productive. Maybe he doesn't have the ceiling that the guys above him do, which is why we're going to have him in this B tier, but I do think he's going to be a lot more reliable this season. Um, and even with McCarthy last year, he ended up having like well over a thousand receiving yards, which is super impressive.

Drake London um struggled with injury towards the end of the season last year. He had that uh what was it? A PCL injury. I think he missed three games, came back, had like five and one points in week 16 and 17. He totally screwed you. Um, at the end of the year, though, it wasn't necessarily his fault. again, injuries happen and and the reality is when he was fully healthy and on the field, um he was, you know, as productive as he was the year prior. So, I'm not super duper concerned um about the quarterback situation there because we've seen now for multiple years that London can be very productive regardless of who's at the helm there um at the quarterback position. So whether it's PennX coming off the ACL or Tua, um Penn has supported London in his high levels of of production at wide receiver and Tua has supported multiple wide receiver ones in his offense in years past as well. This is a Stfansky offense, too. I think London's going to be totally fine this season. He's just got to stay healthy. Um and then we're going to have CD Lamb alongside George Pickins in this tier. I think it would be doing George Pickkins a disservice if we didn't have him right there backto-back with Lamb in the same tier here. uh CD Lamb plays the wide receiver one role in that offense from a schematic perspective, but what that does for George Pickkins is it just opens the field for him that in a way that we never saw in Pittsburgh. Um he's able to play really exclusively on the outside. He's got the big play ability. He can score, again, you saw what he did last year. Uh his touchdowns went way up, finishing as a wide receiver, five on the year. I mean, you saw in his first three seasons, four, five, and three touchdowns. You saw that that touchdown rate like more than double. um and and his receiving yards, his efficiency was just all incredible. It was great to see his target volume go up um like 30 plus targets uh compared to what we're used to seeing or had gotten used to seeing in Pittsburgh. Look, we really really like George Pickkins this year. I don't think this is necessarily going to stop for him. And I don't think that I'm going to freak out too much about CD Lamb and a potential like quote unquote cap ceiling for him. Yeah, he finished as a wide receiver 22 last year in total points because he missed some time. But when he was healthy and when he was playing, I mean, you had a run from week seven to 16 where he had 22, 14, 15, 17, 11, 24, 18, 17, 11 points. Like that's Ross ain't Brown. That that's that floor is so so nice. He still is getting a crazy amount of target volume. And you saw without question the least amount of touchdown volume that we've ever seen in CD Lamb's career in Dallas. And a good number of those were like super unlucky. Some of them were like drop passes, a couple of the touchdowns were called back. You throw in a literally just a few touchdowns into this production profile for Lamb in 2025 and you're looking at him on a points per game basis being still like a mid wide receiver one. So I think Lamb is going to be fine. He and Pickins can remain ultra ultra productive in this offense with Dak's volume.

And then Chris Ave. Um, I think we're going to show him some love here in the B tier as well. I think he deserves it. Yes, they drafted Jordan Tyson. the Saints did um this this off seasonason in the NFL draft. I don't think this is a hey, we're going to replace Alav anytime soon. I think this is a hey, we're going to build around Tyler Shuck who showed a lot of really good promise and a lot of good um really upside as well as the as the number one option for the Saints hopefully long term. But, uh, for for Alve and what he was able to do last season when everybody thought that he was, you know, going to retire and maybe not even play all season, he plays the entire year. Um, and is the wide receiver six with 156 targets, nine touchdowns. Again, this is very George Pickinsesque, the type of jump that we saw from him from a production perspective in his fourth year. Um, I I don't expect this to really slow down anytime soon because really the best that we got out of Chris Ave was when Tyler Shuck was on the field. I mean, at the beginning of the year, you saw Chris Olive's floor was really high because he was getting so much volume and not getting touchdowns. And then towards the end of the year, the touchdowns started really coming the second half of the season. And you saw his ceiling really increase there as well. Um, look, this this was one of the most fun breakouts that I think and one of the most surprising breakouts I think for a lot of people um in in the reed draft community last year where they didn't expect him to be super productive in a a subpar situation, but this has turned into a at least average offense um and what we expect to be an air raid pass heavy offense um when when we've historically seen Kell Moore like to operate that way um almost to a fault. So, wheels up for for Chris this year. I think he's going to be able to repeat what he did last season.

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Uh getting down to the next year, this is where we'll find uh the man of the hour, AJ Brown. We'll talk about here in a second. Talking about Nico Collins first. Um, Nico, you know, I think doesn't get a ton of love at times when, in fact, when you look at the last couple years for Nico, he's been a top 10 wide receiver on a points per game standpoint. Uh, from on points per game perspective, each of the last couple years and, you know, two of the last three years, even on a total points, he's been, uh, a wide receiver one. In fact, he was the wide receiver eight last year in 15 games. Okay? And so, Nico has still shown even at 27, just turned 27 years old, that he is in a pretty good spot in his career. And CJ Shroud hasn't necessarily been playing his best football. And I don't think the Texans have been, you know, playing their best offense as well the last couple of years. Uh really since 2023 is when we look at like, oh, that was the year the Texans offense was pretty darn good um before they kind of fell off in 24. Even with that being said, like last year, you know, Nico Collins still was the wide receiver rate in fantasy football. Didn't score as many points as he did that year at 2023 because there were so many injuries. But uh Nico playing 15 games last year was an encouraging sign. Now, Nico, the thing is, you know, drafting him that you're going to have some injury concerns throughout the year. He typically can weather those and get on the field for most games. And again, if he's giving you wide receiver one production, I think it's worth ranking him here. No signs of slowing down yet for Nico Collins. And so I think he's in for another wide receiver one season. Uh assuming everything goes well.

Now, if you are somebody who really likes to take risks in fantasy football, you're going to love Rasheed Rice because if Rasheed Rice isn't on the field catching, you know, 10 passes a game and scoring a touchdown and getting a ton of red zone targets. he's off the field and allegedly hitting somebody with his car or beating somebody up or uh smoking marijuana on probation or he's just in jail, which is where he's at right now as we're making this video. He's just in jail. And so, the obvious downside to drafting Richie Rice is he can't stay out of his own way off the field. The upside is very obvious when you're looking at what he's been able to do the last couple years. Last year, he averaged 19 points a game when he was on the field. That was fifth among all wide receivers. He played eight games. Um, but this guy's never been a wide receiver two or higher in fantasy football in the three years he's been in the NFL. And this is a combination of suspension, injuries, things like that. I mean, he's never he's only had one game, one year where he played more than 10 games. It was his first year and he was the wide receiver 27. He got hurt in 2024, came back in 2025 off of the suspension and then got hurt at the end of the year as well as Patrick Mahomes getting hurt. So, while we look at Rashi Rice and we say when this dude's on the field, he's really good. He just hasn't been on the field a whole lot last couple seasons. We have to rank him here because it's a 26-y old wide receiver and with Patrick Mahomes looking like his recovery is going fairly well. You'd be stupid not to rank somebody who when he's on the field is averaging 19 points per game as a wide receiver one. So we'll put him in this low and wide receiver one tier acknowledging that there's plenty of risk when you're drafting him this year.

AJ Brown goes into this tier. If you saw AJ Brown's reception perception profile is done by Matt Harmon, very concerning. Very concerning. In fact, you know, AJ Brown has been consistently one of the better charted players in Matt Harmon's analysis the last couple of years and his success by route and success against different types of coverage. Massive, massive fall-offs last year in 2025. Now, part of this could be attributed to the situation and some people think, okay, well, AJ Brown was just pissed off at the Eagles, so he wasn't actually going. And some people will say, well, he was injured. And I think the injuries are actually a fair argument to rank him even lower than this because he's had a ton of lower body injuries and he's 29 now and that could really kind of wear on him. But he did just go to the Patriots for a first round pick. He goes to one of the better offenses in the NFL in terms of a fantasy opportunity standpoint with one of the better passers in the NFL right now in Drake May. He's going to get a lot of targets there. And even last year having as many questions as he had and the route running take taking as big as a dip as it did, he still last year on a points per game basis was 11th. The wide receiver 11 and on a total points basis was the wide receiver 11. It was a slow year for him. I think you've got one more wide receiver season in AJ Brown. That's what I think. I think it's if it's not this year, he's probably done. So, you we're going to rank him as like a fringe wide receiver one. I think there's a decent chance he's a wide receiver one. I think there's a decent chance he he continues to kind of decline in his career. He just doesn't seem to be aging very well from a a performance standpoint. But again, the offense last year also, if you watch the Eagles offense, was just so freaking bad and so poor poorly put together. And you maybe could say that's why AJ Brown was as bad as he was last year. But it's worth noting some of the risks behind AJ Brown. Um obviously great situation. He's going to improve situation. he's going to get a lot of target opportunity. There's a lot less competition for him there. I think he's set up to have a really good year this year for fantasy football if he can overcome some of his injuries. And if he can kind of stop uh some of the declines we saw last year in his route running, particularly against zone coverage uh to see if we can continue this career and and continue to score fantasy points at a high level.

D tier is going to start with Garrett Wilson. He's going to be stuck down here in these like middle lane tiers until we can see this situation ever get better. I will say this is kind of a sneaky, underrated, potentially productive um offense from a fantasy perspective this season and could definitely benefit Garrett Wilson. I think we've seen over the last couple of years, Gino Smith with with his passing volume alone can really help elevate some of the uh production of like the best weapons in the respective offenses that he's been in um and contributed to. and Garrett Wilson last year, like as bad as Justin Fields was, this was a take that we had in the early offseason last year was like, hey, Justin Fields actually kind of hyperfocuses on his number one option because that's the only thing that he can do. And that ranged true before Garrett Wilson went down with the injury. Garrett Wilson was an unquestioned top 12 wide receiver and then the injury just derailed the rest of his year and there was no reason for them to bring him back because they weren't in in any sort of relevant playoff picture whatsoever. So, um, with Wilson, I I don't think his target volume is going to go down whatsoever. I'm not worried about Sadik and Omar Cooper eating into his workload. He is going to be the one that caps their ceilings. Um, and the one frustrating thing from last year um to this year that we need to see get better this season, just from an offensive playing call play calling perspective, it was straight up coaching malpractice to see Garrett Wilson get like two or three targets through the first three quarters and then they only target him in the fourth because they just discovered that he existed. It's not like he was just a non-factor for the first three quarters of the game and then they decided to throw it to him. Like this dude was open the entire game and they just didn't target him. So they better do that this year or everybody in that co that whole coaching staff will lose their job in the middle of the season. Um but you you know I I would expect like you've seen for Garrett Wilson's first you know four years of his career. Um around 14ish points per game I think is going to be his probably his floor. you could see upwards of like 16 points per game if he can stay healthy. He has um not missed any time until last year. So hopefully he can uh get back to the 17 games that he was, you know, contributing in in the first three years of his career.

Then we got Lad Manki in this tier as well. This is kind of going to be a shot called for us because admittedly this is pure projection for Lad Mankey. We haven't really seen it all come together for him. even his rookie season, the flashes that he showed were like very much concentrated towards the end of the year and then we expected him to take a step up his the following season. Um, and that didn't happen. Um, that would be attributed to, I think, a lot of things. Uh, the offensive line, they had no offensive line. They they came in on on Monday, uh, midway through the season to, you know, visit with their offensive line and there was no offensive line. >> Um, and that I think ended up hurting Omari and Hampton. You obviously had QJ kind of who ended up being productive there. Keenan Allen who we'll see what ends up happening with him if he comes back or not. But the the reality is Laboken is one of the better route runners in the league. Um and we've seen that for the last two years now. I mean 88th percentile um against man coverage, 89th percentile versus zone 90th against press coverage. Just super consistent high-end route running across the board. Um, and I I don't think this is just a coincidence or by accident that um you you see these route running efficiency metrics and we're just projecting that he's going to be like super duper productive. Like there is there is analytics backed behind this um and and that has to do again mainly by his his his route running success um and just what he offers from a schematic perspective in that offense and a Mike McDaniel offense. Now, um, we actually were not going to be super big fans of Lading into this season if Greg Roman was going to be the offensive coordinator again because we saw for the first two seasons how much that capped his ceiling and just his volume opportunity, how they operate that offense. We've seen Mike McDaniel year over year really want to have um, two focal points when it comes to uh, the receivers and his respective offenses be very productive. a and he'll really hyperfocus in on one guy if there really is only one guy at the wide receiver position and that's pretty much lad this year. Um and he's he's a great target most reliable option for Justin Herbert in that offense um consistently.

So uh T McMillan also going to be in this tier. This is another one where it's like okay we got to see um everything come together for him in his second year. Um don't be super shocked if we don't see like the biggest breakout of all time from T. Maybe it's just kind of a, you know, couple hundred yard jump from what he did last season. But he was a wide receiver, too, um last year. And I that's that's a pretty solid floor. I mean, a high on wide receiver two, finish as a wide receiver 16 in total points, played all 17 games. You just had a really really low floor for T because he's not necessarily a guy who's going to command like consistently eight plus targets every single game. Like he could have some two to five target games and you might just have to live with that. I'm thinking like a like like a young version of Mike Evans is really what you're looking at here. And there's a lot a lot of high upside potential there. Um and I I think in fantasy you got to be looking for shooting your shot every once in a while. And Tech could be one of those guys this year.

Dvonte Adams the best number two option in the NFL. Um not only from a talent perspective, but just a production perspective as well. I I I mean this guy, I guess with the exception of George Pickkins, uh Devonte Adams is the ultimate red zone threat. Devonte Adams had less than a thousand receiving yards last year, but he had 14 touchdowns. And this is something that Devonte Adams has done for well over a decade. Um, Devonte Adams scores 10 plus touchdowns and he does it every single year and it results in him being at the very least a low-end wide receiver one. Cross your fingers, hope that his hammies can hold up because that's the only thing that's going to stop him in in this absolute banger of of an offense this year with Matt Stafford.

T Higgins and Z Flowers are going to round out this year. Uh Flowers is like a lowend wide receiver one to mid wide receiver one upside type of guy in a low passing volume offense with Lamar Jackson, but he's the only guy there, like legitimately he's the only guy there that's going to have relevant production this year. Um and it was really really nice to see everything kind of come together for him last season as well. He made that jump from low and wide receiver two production to wide receiver one production. And a lot of that came from just being able to capitalize more on the volume that he's already getting. It's not like his targets went up like crazy. He still had just under 120 targets, which we saw the year before, but his his efficiency and his ability to haul in more of that target volume was really really good for him. He's a guy that can work the shorts intermediate of the field so well. Um, he's not going to be the biggest red zone threat of all time. um he's not going to be a high touchdown volume guy, but I will say if the touchdown jump ever came for a wide receiver, um like Zay Flowers, I mean, this dude would finish without question as a top six wide receiver.

So, T. Higgins, another great number two option in a really, really high volume offense, high powered offense with Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow's got to stay healthy. Um T. Higgins also has to stay healthy. So, you've got really uh you got health riding on two different guys for Higgins to be consistently reliable this season, but when he's on the field and when he's playing, man, he he's he's just phenomenal. And uh the the touchdown jump that we saw from him last year, I think was a really great indicator of what his ceiling can be um on a per game basis as well. The last two seasons 10 and 11 touchdowns. So, really, really fun uh offense to watch and uh hopefully Higgins can can keep this up for a third straight year with that touchdown volume.

Yeah, the tier below. It's going to start with Devonte Smith. Obviously the number one in his offense, but as you'll see here in a minute, we're a little bit higher on Mai Lemon than most people are going to be. And people will accuse us of being dynasty branded and whatever. But we still think Devonte Smith's going to be good. I just don't think Devonte Smith is going to be this game-breaking like wide receiver one this year. We have him more forecasted in the wide receiver 2 range where he's been for most of his career. The last couple years in a total points perspective, uh he's been wide receiver 20, 27, and 19. Um, I think he could be a little bit higher than that, which is why we have him in the tier of like 18, 19, 20. But, um, at the same time on a points per game, you know, he averaged 11 points per game last year in 17 games. Um, I think even if he did get back up to like 14, 15 points per game, that still puts him as a mid wide receiver, too. And I think Mai Lemon is going to give enough target competition there, uh, to where he's going to matter, as we'll talk about here in a minute. And that's why I have we have Smith ranked where we do. We like him. We're just not going to say, "Oh, he's going to be an automatic wide receiver one this year because AJ Brown is gone."

Memecha Igbuka is primed to take a step forward this year. Um, you know, they drafted Ted Hurst into that offense. And, uh, the word on the street is that Ted Hurst is going to play X. It's going to allow Emecha Igbuka to play more Z wide receiver, which I think he probably performs better as a Z than he does playing getting, you know, snaps at X wide receiver like he did last year when he was lined up outside a lot when Mike Evans was out. Um, this will allow Bua, I think, to, uh, perform to his strengths a little bit more last year. You saw a very encouraging start for Ibuka followed by a very very very uh poor last half of the season where not only did his production go down, but Baker was hurt. I think I Buuka himself was hurt and Ibuka from a route running perspective took a pretty big step back. I mean, you see it in his route running analytics here in his separation analytics. And so with Ibuka, you're just betting that he's going to take a step forward in year two. I think he will. Um I I don't we obviously don't expect him to be um a wide receiver one. Like I think some people are high enough to to say, you know, I'm looking at uh where people have him ranked over on the site and uh you know, we are right in the middle of of where other people have him ranked anywhere from wide receiver 14 to wide receiver 21. We're right at wide receiver 19 for Ibuka. And so um I think this is the most likely outcome for him. I think he is very similar from a production profile perspective to Devonte Smith. We have him been in the same spot uh for a reason.

I'll talk about Malik Neighbors here real quick. Look, I'm just going to be honest with you guys. Um, Neighbors is a guy that if he were healthy would be probably in the A tier, but he's not. He's not, and it's fairly obvious that John Harbaugh has come out and said as much. Um, there's a quote from John Harbaugh where he basically said he was working through it and it wasn't a simple knee injury. Um, and so he's in the slog of it. I mean, we're it's June and so with Neighbors, he also did have cleanup surgery, which some people took as a positive. >> I think generally in fantasy football like our >> you see him running that softball game. >> Oh yeah, I saw it. I saw it. I think generally, and that doesn't change my opinion, but like >> no, >> our strategy is that drafting players that are coming off of an injury >> generally a bad idea in fantasy football. And so we're going to recommend unless you're getting them at a significant discount like where we're ranking them here, we're probably not going to be taking much neighbors this year just because you're already giving putting yourself at a huge disadvantage by drafting a player that is injured like starting the year hobbled. That that is not really a good idea for your risk profile on your fantasy team. We'll rank him here for now. Maybe if the offseason news gets better, we'll move him up. But you got to start somewhere. And again, we largely avoid injured players coming into the fantasy football season. We don't really have enough um you get one shot at this. It's one year. It you you don't have enough uh capital to play with to be drafting a guy like Neighbors early. So, we'll rank them here at like 21.

>> Uh G tier is the biggest year that we have um in this ranking set by far. It's a bunch of guys basically before I run through all these guys very quickly because all of them have a ton of questions. um they all have a ton of high upside opportunity and their floor could be literally like unbelievably low, like borderline irrelevant low. So, looking at Terry at the top of this tier, um Terry's coming off of an injury riddled season alongside Jaden Daniels. You are counting on Terry being as productive as he was in his 2024 season. Um he's not going to be a high target volume guy. He's going to be a big play um guy who lines up on the outside. I don't expect anybody that they drafted this year to take away from Terry. He is the number one guy there.

Carnel Tate um I think is this year's uh probably biggest candidate to be like your your rookie league winner just based on his price. But we're just factoring in the fact that this offense is a big time unknown. We don't know what the development trajectory is going to look like for Tate going from college to his first season in the NFL. It could take some time. It could not. We'll see how Cam Ward looks as well. I think we got a lot riding on on his shoulders as well. Uh, Mike Evans, please for the love, stay healthy because if you stay healthy, you're the guy. I I mean, George KD coming off of an Achilles. CMC is going to do CMC things, but Ricky Pawol is totally unproven. Mike Evans, like, they brought him in and paid him for a reason and outbid Tampa, who did want to bring Mike Evans back. I I mean, the the sky really is the limit, I think, for Mike Evans this year, but there are a significant amount of questions with his health and his consistency and just the natural decline that we've seen for a wide receiver of his age. We got to be realistic there.

Jameson Williams, I rode the Jameson Williams experience last year. Um, and I was on the positive end of that. Zach was on the negative end of that. Um, Jameson Williams will win you as many weeks as he will lose you as many weeks. The question is, do you are are you comfortable having him in your flex spot? Because if he's anything, if he's your wide receiver, too, like you're kind of freaking out every single week. If he's coming um in into your flex range and you're kind of relying on him um in in that area, he he might screw you less than he would be if again he's like your second option.

Luther Burton and Roman Dunes will be back to back here because it could be either one of those guys who ends up being the top option. It could also end up being Coulson Lelin who takes away from both of these guys, which is why we're not going to have Burn and Rome really close together like a tier above this. I I I think the floor for both of these guys is super low, but in a Ben Johnson offense, these one of these guys could end up being like the wide receiver league winner of the year.

Um, Alec Pierce is uh he's he's an interesting case because Michael Pitman just left. I think the way that we saw him utilize in Indy's offense was um very unique last year compared to the years prior which showed I think demonstrated a higher ceiling than we ever thought was possible. He just got the bag uh this offseason as well as kind of like a a wide receiver too um in terms of like market value. So, there's some investment there. There's a lot of vacative volume there, and I think he can actually really contribute and potentially command more target volume. But again, you know what the floor is for Pearson? It's if he doesn't get a big play and a touchdown, you could be seeing like four or five points.

Uh Jaylen Wadd, same sort of thing here. Goes to a really great situation, leaves the Dolphins, goes to Denver. Do you trust Shawn Payeyton? Cuz we don't. We've been burned by Shawn Peyton multiple times the last couple of years. I don't think it's a guarantee that Wadd is just going to get all the targets and be be the guy like he could just be splitting targets across the board with Courtland Sutton.

Wandell Robinson is the number two technically behind behind Golden Tate, Cardinal Tate um in Tennessee's offense, but he is following Brian Dable. Dable love to utilize him and you saw a big efficiency jump for Well last season in the Giants offense after Neighbors went down with that injury. So, I do think there's actually a decent amount of upside um there for Well and I think his floor is a bit underrated as a slot wide receiver.

Jordan Tyson playing alongside Chris Ave for him to develop here, but I do think it's possible in Shocks in a Kevin Kell Moore offense with Tyler Shock and the volume that he offers. I think Tyson could be decently productive. You could see a potential wide receiver two season for him.

Marvin Harrison Jr. uh you're just adding more mouths to feed in this offense and we have no idea what this offense is going to look like under Michael Flor. So, this is this will be interesting to navigate. Marv is not a guy that I think is going to command a ridiculous amount of target volume, but he's kind of Terry in that if he can put it all together, he could end up being a low-end wide receiver one because that big playability is there and we have seen it. He just needs to stop dropping balls and he needs to be a more reliable option I think across the middle of the field as well.

DJ Moore um I think is a lot of hype for the landing spot and a lot of people don't really want to admit just how much he's like declined as an efficient route runner. Um, and I I just don't I don't know what our expectations can be for DJ Moore this year when our expectations have been so high for guys like Shakir and Kon Coleman the last two years after Diggs has left and they're just has ended up being no productive wide receiver there. Like Shakira has been the best and he's been like flexible at best. Um, so I I I don't know like with DJ Moore he could play just just the the the way that he operates in that offense. He could be the guy on the outside that has again that big playability. Maybe he commands a lot of target volume like he did that one year with Justin Fields. I don't think it's a guarantee. I'm worried about it. I think his floor is incredibly low.

>> Last year, Brian Thomas Jr. pretty much ruined your fantasy football team if you drafted him. It was highly unfortunate in his in his rookie year. And I was way in on Brian Thomas. Like, he ruined some of my teams cuz in his rookie year, he averaged 16.7 points per game. That's that's that's 12th among all players. He was the wide receiver four in total points in his rookie year. And what did he follow up with? Uh wide receiver 42 in in total points. Wide receiver 47. Not he went from six pretty much 17 to 9.9 points per game. It was highly unfortunate with BTJ. Um, you know, he had a lot of injuries last year and he said it himself. He says he's feeling much better and he's in a good offense, but so is Parker Washington and so is Travis Hunter and so is Jody Myers. So, that's the big question with BTJ. Um, you know, we have him ranked somewhere between where he finished last year, uh, and where he finished first year. Uh, and that's going to be right at about, you know, the wide receiver 34 range. Um, you know, we're talking wide receiver three. That's probably going to be the most likely scenario for BTJ. acknowledging that he is a very high upside pick in fantasy football.

Now, Mai Lemon, uh we we alluded to this earlier. We have Mai Lemon ranked fairly high here and we have a little Smitty ranked a little bit lower than others. You know, just looking at um you know, we have Mai Lemon, I think we're going to have him ranked a lot higher than most people do. And this is a player take like, you know, again, people will accuse us of being dynasty on this one, and I don't necessarily think that's true. Um, I think we're fairly conservative with a lot of young wide receivers on this list, a lot of rookie wide receivers, even in good situations. And again, we're projecting Mai Lemon to have a low-end wide receiver three, borderline wide receiver four season. The guys in this tier are the last wide receiver threes in the in the first wide receiver fours. And so, like, for context here, when you're looking at Jackson Smith and Jigbo, like he had a fairly disappointing and unproductive rookie year in itself, and he was uh on a total point standpoint, the wide receiver 47. So, that's about the range we're projecting Mai Lemon in at this point as well. And you'll remember JSON was playing with DK and Tyler Lockett his rookie year. Um, this is about where we think this is about where we think Mailman will finish the year. I think Mailman actually has a little bit more of a higher ceiling than this. Like Mai Lemon people are going to overplay the middle of the field and Jaylen Herz can't throw in the middle of the field type deal. And the offense there sucks. No offense. Okay. I also think Mailman is a is a good enough wide receiver and also I think he's versatile enough he doesn't just have to get intermediate middle of the field targets. He can do it all. If you watch this college tape, you know that. And so, uh, we'll be higher on Lemon than I mean, everybody knows Lemon's a my guy. If you watch the Dynasty channel, you know, you know, Nathan's very high on Lemon as well. We're gonna we're gonna be higher on Lemon than a lot of people this year. I think he could be pretty productive in that Eagles offense.

Now, Christian Watson, you know, we're projecting Christian Watson as it currently sits to finish as like the wide receiver 36. That would be a career year for Christian Watson. Okay. So, you know, people are going to say we're low on Christian Watson, but where the way I look at it, I actually think we're we're being pretty aggressive and we're pretty high on Christian Watson. Um because, you know, we're we're projecting him we're projecting him to have a again a career year. Like this dude, when you're looking at what he's done the first couple years of his career, he's played four years. He's never finished higher than the wide receiver 40 in in total points, right? And even on a points per game perspective, never high. He he did technically 19th in points per game last year at 13. And that's why people are drafting you as high as they are. But the points per game only means so much when you've played 14, 9, 15, and 10 games in the first four years of your career. And at some point, availability becomes the thing that matters for a guy like Christian Watson, which is why we'll be conservative where we rank him. But again, if he were to finish with total points, 36 overall, he it'd be his all-time record. And so I think we're pretty high on Christian Watson.

If you ask me, Michael Wilson last year when Marvin Harrison Jr. was on the field, just using our comparison tool here real quick. Uh, Michael Wilson, when when Marv wasn't on the field, uh, was the wide receiver one in fantasy football. Let me say that again. He was the wide receiver one in fantasy football. He averaged 26 PPR points per game. 26. He had 13 and a half targets per game. He had a 32% target share. He had 120 receiving yards a game. That is absurd. That's an absurd stat.

Here's another one. With Marvin Harrison Jr. on the field in 12 games last year, he was the wide receiver 61 and averaged 7.5 points per game. Yeah, I think you have to be fairly conservative with Michael Wilson, acknowledging that the breakout was great and he showcased that he could do a lot on the field and score at a high level from a fantasy perspective, but Marv was not healthy last year. And when Marv was healthy, Michael Wilson was a non-factor for your fantasy football teams. And so you have to keep that in mind. We'll be, you know, this is aggressive, I think, ranking Michael Wilson.

Now, Courtland Sutton, uh, obviously they brought in Jaylen Wadd, right? And so, um, he was somebody last year where you were looking at him and you were like, "Okay, this guy could be, you know, a low-end wide receiver one, high-end wide receiver two," which was true. This year, I don't think anybody's looking at him with the same upside. And by ranking him here in like the wide receiver three, wide receiver four range, um, it just kind of shows that the ceiling's a little bit capped. Wad will probably be the wide receiver one this year. Courtland Sutton's 30, almost 31 years old now. Last year he was the wide receiver 13 in total points, which was great. 22 in points per game. There were lots of injuries last year that kind of bolted him up the total points. And so, um, he, the nice thing about Sutton is he does normally play full seasons and and you get a full season out of him. So he will be flexible. I like him for that reason as a late-round pick in fantasy football this year.

Jordan Addison's kind of the same thing. I think last year we saw Jordan Addison's floor. And you know, like JJ McCarthy, you can't penalize him because JJ, or sorry, like Justin Jefferson, you can't penalize him because JJ McCarthy. Did you see the clip of that the Vikings posted of JJ McCarthy throwing that ball to Jawan Jennings? And he literally threw a hospital ball. And it was no contact, but if they had been able to hit, uh, Jawan Jennings would have had like six broken ribs and a punctured lung. Like he, I mean, I'm telling you, watch the video and you're going to die. It posted it like like a highlight. It was a hospitable, quite literally. And so you can't penalize Addison for last year's situation because he was the wide receiver 25 and 28, uh, on a points per game basis. His first two years, I think we see him get closer to that. Um, but closer to wide receiver three than anything because I think Jawan Jennings does matter. And that's why we give him a little bit, just a little bit of a dip in our rankings this year.

And then we'll put the two Pittsburgh wide receivers back to back here. DK and Michael Pitman. Um, it's disgusting there. Rogers, I don't think Rogers is going to support like super high-end fantasy football wide receivers. Um, but I think Michael Pitman's one of the better picks in fantasy football right now. And I think DK Metaf is just a guy I don't really like as much. Pitman, I think could be a pretty good return on value this year. He played pretty good football the last couple years and was pretty good from a fantasy perspective as well. Um, I think he's a guy that I could see, uh, Aaron Rogers trusting a lot as a veteran and giving him lots of targets, especially in the intermediate game, like like 10 to 15 yards. Uh, whereas DK, you know, wasn't necessarily that type of guy last year. And last year, you saw Aaron throw to his tight ends a crap ton. And you know, he threw his running backs a lot, too. That's a very, and Rogers, a lot of dumps. >> But running backs and and tight ends. I think Pitman is the type of wide receiver that he will throw to, and I think you'll see him get a lot. So, I think Pitman could be one of the better picks in in fantasy football, uh, this year as we get down to our last three tiers here.

>> Yeah, Chris Godwin at the top of this tier. Um, I, they just add more miles to feed, more guys that are kind of factors, kind of not in that offense even after Mike Evans leaves here. Godwin, now more than a year removed from that injury, um, that he had that was really ugly midway through the 2024 season. You're going to see Godwin in 2024 have like the most productive year of his career, um, until he went down with that ankle. Um, and then he just wasn't super consistent or reliable and didn't command a lot of target volume in 2025. So, I, I, I think now that we're further away removed from from that injury, maybe he could come back and kind of be closer to what we saw in like 2023, maybe 2021. I, I, I don't know. I'm trying to be like super optimistic here. Like Chris Godwin is 30 years old at this point and there's a chance he might just be watched. Like that's very possible. But as a talent and the historical upside that we've seen from him, I don't think he's definitely not irrelevant. And he could very well, especially if Ibuka is more disappointing than a lot of people expect this year, Godwin could be the guy that really fills those shoes for like one last year, one that one one last hurrah with with Tampa before he ends up, um, on the out.

KC Conpion will be right after him here. Um, we're expecting Conpion to be the top option here to take over the job. Um, Judy didn't do anything last year to I think maintain that. I think Judy could be like as worse or as bad as the third option there. I think Boston could be potentially the number two. That's definitely in the cards. But Conpion, um, I, I think in in an offensive situation that's very questionable. Uh, Todd Monkin, um, obviously has had play calling experiences with Baltimore. They could end up being run-heavy. That's very possible. I, I don't know what to make of Conpion this year. I think his floor is very, very low. Um, and I, I don't think the ceiling is going to be insanely high because Deshaun Watson is most likely going to be the quarterback there. And I just don't think it's going to be pretty. Um, regardless of who ends up being the starter there, whether it's her him or Sanders or who whoever else is there.

Ricky Piol, um, is actually probably my favorite pick in this tier. And it's not because I think Ricky Piol is actually going to do anything this year, um, or be super consistently productive. It's just like once we get to this range of wide receivers, you basically just want to take your best upside shot. And objectively, the best upside shot is the guy who has a chance of being the number one receiver option, um, in a Kyle Shanahan offense. And Piol has shown in flashes that he can have really, really big, really, really productive games. He just doesn't stay healthy and he's not consistent. And George Kittle is probably going to be back pretty early on at the beginning of the season. And if we've learned anything from a Shanahan offense is that his target volume is very concentrated on like two players at any given point in time. And it's usually CMC and it's usually Kittle. And sometimes it's Jawan Jennings. Jawan Jennings is no longer there. Iayuk is no longer there. There's nobody there outside of Mike Evans. You can tell that we're definitely betting on Mike Evans this year as long as he can stay healthy over a guy like Piol.

QJ. Parker Washington and Jacobe Meyers will close out this tier. QJ playing second fiddle to Lavendon. He's the guy that lines up on the outside. He's going to have a much lower floor. I think he has a lot of touchdown upside, and we saw that demonstrated last season, which is why we saw like a third-year breakout for him. Could we see him break out even more this year and have an even better season? I think it's in the cards now that Mike McDaniel is calling plays there. Um, because you could see an increased amount of target volume. That's very possible. Um, I don't think he's nearly as reliable as a guy like Lad. I think the floor is very low. Parker Washington and Jacobe Myers, you pick which one is going to be the most productive this season because I, I, we can't really figure it out. Jacobe Myers is just consistently relevant all the time. Um, he's like a super great high floor pick every single year regardless of what situation he's in. And Parker Washington just exploded at the end of last season when BTJ forgot how to play football and Hunter was down with the injury. Myers was productive at the same time. So I don't necessarily think these guys are mutually exclusive. They can end up both being productive and that would be at the expense of Hunter and BTJ in this offense. But, um, I think at the end of the day, probably your upside pick is going to be Parker and your floor pick will be Jacobe.

>> Okay, our last two tiers here. Josh Downs with the Colts. Josh Downs could see an uptick in targets this year with no Michael Pitman. I think you'll see more of a Tyler Warren, uh, bump up this year than anything. And with a little bit of Alec Pierce increased targets. And so we have those guys ranked accordingly. Uh, Travis Hunter, we still very much like. We have to rank him lower than Washington and Jacobe Myers because there's a chance he plays defense. And unlike Dynasty, this is a one-year play and we just don't know what it's going to look like this year. Um, I think with Dynasty, he could play wide receiver long term and it may be beyond this year. So it may be worth taking that shot more than it is this year in redraft. We have no idea what he's going to do. We have to be conservative there. Uh, although if he does play wide receiver like 80% or more of the snaps, if that happens, Hunter's going to be much higher than this. I'm just letting you know he's very good.

Uh, Romeo Doubs kind of moves down after the AJ Brown trade. I think people will be pretty conservative with with Romeo Doubs. And Trey Tucker is is a sneaky little upside pick here, um, that I think people kind of tend to forget about. But last year, do keep in mind, he averaged 13 and a half points per game. So it, it's worth noting, uh, that that when he was healthy last year, he was pretty good and he's 25 years old.

And then the Kier Jaden Reed. We're generally not super high on Reed or Golden in that Green Bay Packers offense. We're highest on Watson, um, two three tiers higher here. These guys, I really don't think they're going to do a whole lot this year. I think Jaden Reed could have his moments for sure. I think Reed is better than Golden in my opinion, but I think there are going to be a lot of fantasy football outlets that rank Golden, Reed, and Watson aggressively. And I just think that if history has proven us anything, that there's no chance of that happening in the Green Bay offense. And Tucker Kraft is going to be, in my opinion, the best weapon to own in that offense from a fantasy perspective.

Jaden Higgins, uh, you saw some flashes from him at the beginning of last year. Um, I, if that offense can take a step up as a whole, you could see Jaden Higgins have a little bit of a better year. Uh, last year, of course, he was the wide receiver 61. We have him ranked about, you know, 10, 15 spots higher than that. Um, he did have at the end of the year last year, uh, when you're looking at week eight and on. Before week eight, he had zero double-digit games. After week eight, he had six double-digit games. Okay, so you did see him get better and get more snaps here as the year went on. I think that's encouraging for Jaden Higgins.

Khalil Shakir kind of always a steady 10 points per game when you're talking about him on the field. Um, obviously they brought in DJ Moore. I don't think he's, I don't think it's going to affect Khalil Shakir all that much. Um, he, he's somebody that I think is just going to give you every single time you want to flex him, he's going to either get you 8 to 10 points or he's going to score a big touchdown with Yak and he's going to have 18 to 20 points. That's kind of what Kush is. He's very boomer bust.

Xavier Worthy, uh, we expect Ry Rice to be healthy. And when he is, Xavier Worthy really, I mean, even when she Rice was out last year, Xavier Worthy really did nothing when you're looking at his game log. So we'll be pretty conservative there. And we already touched on Matthew Golden. Again, it's round one, but let us know who you think we're too high on or too low on. We've had a lot of deliberation, a lot of discussion, a lot of thought go into these rankings. But of course, we love to hear from you guys, and we appreciate you watching. Do us a huge favor. Drop a like on the video. Make sure you're subscribed. If you play fantasy football, we're going to have advice for you now when draft season really gets heavy all through the NFL season. And so, this is the place to be. It's your one-stop shop for any fantasy content and advice that you need on a on a weekly basis. Nathan are here if you guys need anything. But, thanks for watching. We'll be back with two more videos next week.