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Since I made some trades for wide receivers, I don't hate myself when I make this video. Now, starting off with the S tier options. They're really only going to be three names. You can rank them in whatever order that you want. It's going to be Puka Nua, Jackson Smith and Jigba, and Garrett Wilson.
With Puka, there's a chance he's actually good to go starting in week nine. And he's already gone through his by-week, which means you're going to get him for just as many games, if not more games in comparison to what you're going to have with Jamar Chase rest of season, where Chase is yet to go through his buy. But again, you also do have Jackson Smith and Jigba already through his buy as well.
If we look at Pukanua while he was healthy, you're actually looking at a wide receiver that scored 23, 27, 22, 36, and 24 and a half points. Absolutely incredible. And obviously, we can throw out the game against the Baltimore Ravens in which he got injured.
Then looking at JSN, JSN is averaging 117 receiving yards per game. Y'all know JSN was my favorite round three wide receiver in underdog drafts, which is aging like fine wine. Love my underdog portfolio right now and that's because he scored 27 points for three games straight. It does look like Sam Darnold is a viable quarterback.
And then lastly with Jamar Chase, he's actually number one in the NFL right now in targets per game with 12.4. And a big reason for this is we have seen Joe Flaco come in and say, you know what, the only thing that I'm going to do is throw the ball to Jamar no matter what. Over the past three weeks, Jamar Chase has had 10 receptions in every single game. Over the past two weeks, he's had 42 targets.
So, yeah, you can rank these wide receivers whatever order you want. Our next name is going to be CD Lamb. Um, if you wanted to put Lamb behind a Monroe St. Brown, you do you. That's why we make these rankings as tier list. Um, I understand that the Dallas Cowboys offense was very much disappointing this past week, but I am expecting a bounce back from Dallas going into the future.
Then looking at Aman Rosra St. Brown goes through the by-week. So, you're going to have him every single game going into the future. And if we look at St. Brown so far this season, he's currently averaging 21 points per game, which is pretty much identical to what you have with Jamar Chase. Difference is is St. rounds doing a lot of this with touchdowns where you actually have seven touchdowns off of only 61 targets. So, you would assume that maybe this touchdown rate is a little bit unsustainable. But, I want to remind you that the Detroit Lions will be scoring touchdowns at a much higher clip than what you have with some of the other wide receivers in the NFL.
Now, going over and looking at B tier, we are going to have Justin Jefferson who's currently averaging 15 and a half points per contest. I mean, ultimately, this is a wide receiver that has had four straight games with 10 or more targets. But I want to point out those games were with Carson Wentz. Now that we're going to get JJ McCarthy back into this offense, the concern is Justin Jefferson scales back and goes a little bit closer to what you had in weeks one, two, and three where he was averaging about 12, 13 points per contest.
Then Rasheed Rice will be our wide receiver seven. Um, I'm going to be live streaming after the Chiefs game tonight and I'll be showing you the updated rankings. So, just make sure you are subscribed. I'm making this video before that Chiefs game gets kicked off.
Jamar Chase's expectations for tonight. Underdog Fantasy currently has some higher lower 67 and a half receiving yards and higher lower 13.25 fantasy points. Now, of course, if you wanted to go through, if you wanted to check out any of those projections, go high or lower, I'll leave the link to underdog fantasy in the description as well as the comment section. If you're not already on Underdog, code flock will get you $100 added to your account after you play your first five. Plus, you get a free Patrick Mahomes pick, higher, lower, half a total yard for that Monday night game. And you'll get free questions for the live streams. And I'm live streaming answering your questions every single day until Christmas. You can find that link in the description and comment section.
Now, Ibuka will be our next option. Igbuka's played three straight games with fewer than 10 fantasy points scored. So, I completely understand if you are frustrated, but I want to remind you, Ibuka got injured against the NerS in week six. Then he played that week seven game when he really shouldn't have. He still had 12 targets. And then in week eight, keep in mind, I still thought he was going to be out that game after the week six injury. I mean, it was a game in which the New Orleans Saints just weren't able to put points up on the board against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So, Baker Mayfield didn't really have to drop back to pass very often, and there just wasn't a lot of passing volume in general. So, I still have full faith in Ibuka. I do want to point out though that you should have Chris Godwin on the return at some point after the by-week.
Now, moving over to our C tier. This is where things get a little bit bigger. And I may be very biased because I just traded for Roma Dunce. I'm sure if you watch the Flock League, you already know I traded Cam Scataboo for Judkins. Then I immediately flipped Judkins for Rome. Feeling pretty good about it after we just had Roma Dunce with 10 targets, seven receptions, 114 receiving yards. Going right back to where he was before the by-week, showing that that twoe sample against Washington, New Orleans does look like a little bit of an outlier. The reason I felt comfortable trading for Rome is this is an alpha wide receiver that was a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. He showed us the breakout at the beginning of the season and that's something that you want to buy into and I am doing so myself this next week against the Cincinnati Bengals. He will be incredibly high in our rankings based off of the Jets were able to do against this defense.
Um Drake London is currently averaging about 16 points per game. Now, the issue that I'm going to have when ranking London is I have no idea the health of Michael Penn and I have no idea the health of Drake London himself. There's not a guarantee that Drake London's playing this next game and there's not a guarantee that Michael Penn is. To be honest with you, these rankings are kind of based on the idea that they'll probably both be playing this next week, but we just don't know yet. This will be something that we have to continue to update throughout the week and you could see London fall all the way down to Dtier dependent on the injury updates that we get.
Now again, I could be very biased here. I just traded for Nico Collins. I traded Tiggins and Stefon Diggs to get Nico Collins on my fantasy team. So now, at least in my opinion, I have two wide receiver ones rest of season. Feel very excited about it. Um, obviously Nico misses this past week against the NerS with the concussion. going to be a little bit of a tougher matchup in week nine against the Denver Broncos, but he's already through his by-week. And if we look at the games in which Nico Collins played fully healthy in, it was five of them where he had 5.5, 14.2, 22.4, about 12, and then 16 fantasy points. So, if you just use the player comparison tool on flockfantasy.com, and this is completely free. You can do this whenever. Maybe it's a little bit deceiving when you throw Nico Collins in there initially and you see that he's only averaging 12.8 points per game. But if you just focus in on those first five weeks when he was healthy and not playing injured, that does go up to about 13 and a half points per game with a 27 1.5% team target share.
Now, moving over to the next name we are going to have, it will be George Pickkins. Um, the Dallas Cowboys struggled this past week, but George Pickins still gets there and he's actually had, I mean, decent volume even with CD Lamb back in this offense over the past two weeks where he's had a total of 150 receiving yards. The reason I'm going to give the wide receivers in this tier a slight nod over Pickins is he has yet to go through his by-week, which is going to be in week 10. So you have them in one game fewer than what you're going to get with Nico, London, and Rome.
Now, Devonte Adams will be our next name. Devonte Adams very easily could move up these rankings in a dramatic way if you have no Puka Nikua. But my expectations right now will be that Puka is back in week nine. If that isn't the case, then obviously Puka will slide down, Adams will slide up these ranks.
Um, Garrett Wilson, I can't say for sure, but he gets injured in week six and they do not put him on the IR. He's missed week seven and eight. He had the week nine buy anyway. So, there's a very real possibility that Garrett Wilson is back in either week 10 or week 11. I will say though that that's not a guarantee. So, if you are currently sitting here at two and six and you get the opportunity to potentially go out there and sell Garrett Wilson for another wide receiver in this tier when you need wins right now, I probably would do it. Like I would sell him for Lad Mcconkey. Lad Mananki has put together an incredible month of games where over the past month he is averaging 10 points per game where over the past month he is averaging about 10 targets per game and he's averaging about 20 fantasy points per game. Now, sadly, he is taking this away from our king, the big Q, who I hope can get back on track soon. But in reality, I will say there's a lot of competition for Lad Mani for targets where you have Gadson, Keenan, and Quinton Johnston. And then if Amari Hampton comes back in later, maybe this is a team that goes back to trying to run the ball.
And then our last wide receiver in this year is going to be Chris Ave. you may have the transition over to Tyler Shuck, but ultimately a lav so far this season has had 83 targets in eight games played. So he's averaging over 10 targets a game, 10.4 to be exact, and averaging more points per game than Lad Mani, than Nico Collins. And arguably, you could move him up higher in this tier given the floor that he gives you.
Now, moving down to our next tier, we are going to have Z Flowers leading us off. Um, I thought that we were going to get Lamar Jackson back in week eight. Very clearly, we were wrong, but the hope now is that you get Lamar Jackson back in week nine. I believe they're going to be playing on the short week on Thursday, which is going to be a little bit of a concern for that. But the initial reports that we got on Sunday are looking positive for his availability.
Now, moving over to Devont Smith. We are very much going to have to monitor the AG Brown hamstring injury and if this is actually an injury. I don't know if this was a um troll that I saw on Twitter, but I did see somebody post on Twitter that you actually have AG Brown listing his house for sale on Zillow. And as a Zillow expert, that's where I spend my free time. Um I can say it looked legit. It did not look photoshopped. So, um, if AJ Brown's on the way out, you could see Devont Smith move all the way up to being a Btier wide receiver for us in these ranks.
Um, Courtland Sutton with the disappointing game against the Dallas Cowboys with only 10 and a half fantasy points. Um, it does fall down to actually only averaging 13.8 points per game, but Bo Nicks has been playing incredibly well, and I still do believe that Courtland Sutton is going to be the wide receiver one here over Troy Franklin rest of season.
Michael Pitman Jr. has been playing incredibly well. Actually helped us hit on an underdog pickum this past week and crushing for our underdog basketball teams. Y'all know we drafted a ton of Pitman, which I feel great about. Um I still think that it's a little bit unsustainable like six touchdowns with 56 targets. Um but maybe we just have to re-evaluate this Indianapolis Colts offense and go, well, if we're going to say that a Monro St. Brown can continue to outproduce touchdowns compared to I mean what we had historically expect. Maybe we should say the same exact thing with Michael Pitman. If we want to believe that the Indianapolis Colts offense is an elite option going into the future, which seems like that is the case.
Then AJ Brown will be our last wide receiver in this tier. I have no idea what's going on right now. He's averaging 12 and a half fantasy points per game, which is actually lower than any wide receiver that we've talked about so far in this video. And at the same time with AJ Brown, you can actually say that um you have him injured and you have a potential trade. So, there's just so much uncertainty, but I do really like the upside that you have. So, it's going to be hard for me to move down to E tier.
Now, Tedaro McMillan will be our next option. Um you actually have him with a careerhigh seven receptions in this game. gives you about 17 fantasy points. Base expectation for me always is going to be that rookie wide receivers continue to get better as time goes on. So, he's already proven that he's an extremely talented option. The big issue that you have, of course, is just going to be can you actually get in I mean, decent quarterback play from this team from Bryce Young, which probably isn't going to happen.
Now, DK Mechaf is the wide receiver three on my fantasy team and very similar to Michael Pitman Jr., the touchdowns do not look sustainable. He's had 43 targets this season with five receiving touchdowns. Now, somebody who is starting him every single week, I'm not going to complain, but the reason that we have to have him below Michael Pitman Jr. in these tiers is just I don't think we can project out the Pittsburgh Steelers offense to be anything close to the Indianapolis Colts offense at this point.
Um, Debo Samuel does take a hit in our rest of season rankings for a multitude of reasons. One, he's dealing with the heel injury. Two, Terry McLaren's um, back in. And three, at the same time, you do have the Jaden Daniels injury. Obviously, Debo had been incredible so far this season. If you're looking at expectations for tonight's game on underdog fantasy is currently high or lower, nine and a half fantasy points.
Now, Jaylen Waddle, you could honestly talk me into having him ahead of Debo Samuel. You add the Miami Dolphins looking incredible in the dome in Atlanta this past week. Now, a concern that I'm going to have will be is this just a flash in the pan and do we get Miami back down to where they've historically been? I think the expectations is hell this is probably just a one week good performance for Miami and they're probably coming back down to earth.
Now, Brian Thomas, I don't know the health. I mean, he got injured before the by-week in London. Obviously, we're not getting too many injury updates through the by-week. So, it will be very important to monitor what we have with the practice reports for Brian Thomas, and I'll be letting you know those every single day in the live stream as we get those updates. But, if we are trying to project him out going into the future, it's not a good offense. He's averaged 11 fantasy points per game, which is lower than any wide receiver that we've talked about so far in this video. While at the same time, we can say that it looks like Travis Hunter is breaking out. And you have trade rumors circling around him in Jacksonville.
Now, Jordan Addison averaging about 16 points per game is just either giving you a big play or giving you a touchdown every single week. It will be very interesting to see what we end up getting with J.J. McCarthy under center. I know we keep on saying this, but u maybe we just need to move Jordan Addison up to Dtier, move him up to Ctier because I mean he is outscoring Jefferson. If I want to sit here and go like, I don't know if we can be excited about Addison if Jefferson's not that exciting with this kind of quarterback play. Maybe Addison's just very similar to Jefferson at this point in fantasy, which I'm going to have a hard time projecting that. So, we're going to have Addison much lower in these rankings, but that's the way things are currently trending.
And then Keenan Allen averaging 15 fantasy points per game. Keenan Allen has been incredible. The issue now in my mind is you have Lad Mani dominating the targets over the past month. You have Gatsson now coming on as a viable tight end that will take targets. So just it's a very crowded wide receiver room in Los Angeles.
Now moving over to F tier, we are going to have Travis Hunter. Travis Hunter gives you the blow up against the Rams. It was in garbage time. And at the same time, you can say, well, um, yeah, had Brian Thomas injured, but Brian Thomas may get traded. Brian Thomas, we don't know if he's fully healthy right now. And Travis Hunter is now playing more offensive snaps than we've ever seen before. He has a careerhigh in fantasy points, a careerhigh in targets, a careerhigh in receptions, a careerhigh in receiving yards, his first receiving touchdown, a 29.8% team target share this past week. And we're going to expect rookie wide receivers to get better as time goes on.
Marvin Harrison, it's just tough to be excited about him, right? Like Marvin Harrison this year is 24 receptions through seven games played. He's averaging three and a half receptions a game. This is almost identical to what we had in 2024 when he was at 3.6 receptions per game. If anything, it's going in the wrong direction. He went from 6.8 targets game as a rookie down to 5.7 this season. Now, I think he can get better. So, we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and we'll rank him higher than his 10.8 fantasy points per game should indicate.
Um, Tiggins, Stefon Diggs, these are the two guys I traded for. Nico Collins, looking at what they did this past week, I mean, Tiggins comes in, he has two targets in comparison to Jamar Chase with like 20. Now, he has the receiving touchdown, so he gives you a fine fantasy day, but I don't know how many games we can expect the Bengals to put that many points on the board. And then Stefon Diggs comes through and he has a receiving touchdown as well, but he has three receptions for 14 receiving yards. So, not super excited about either of these players.
Uh, Terry McLaren's been horrible all season. Terry McLaren's doing his best impersonation of Brandon from last year where you do you have the massive hold out, then you do nothing at the beginning of the season because you weren't prepared with camp and then you followed up with getting injured because you weren't in shape because you weren't in camp due to the hold out. Like, his season high in fantasy points is like 10 and a half points. So, I I think it's hard to be excited about Terry. If I'm looking at his projections on Underdog Fantasy for tonight's game, they currently have him sitting at higher lower 44 and half receiving yards, which is almost the same exact mark that you have with Debo Samuel, but I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to Debo because we've seen the production this year.
Um, Xavier Worthy will be our next name. Xavier Worthy has gotten worse every single game this season from 17.1 points against the Ravens to 11.1 against Jacksonville to 10.6 against Detroit to 7.8 against the Raiders. Now you have Rasheed Rice coming through and Rasheed Rice taking considerable volume. So I it's hard for me to get behind Xavier Worthy here. Even though I really hope he gets there for underdog basketball teams, it looks like it's not happening.
And you know, there's no player I'm rooting on more than Quinton Johnston. And I want to be on the record, ladies and gentlemen. Us making him our most drafted wide receiver in underdog basketball drafts at wide receiver 79, it's already a profitable pick with him going through and him averaging 20 points per game in the first month of the season. It was already perfect. Now, if he gives us anything else from this point, I'll be a happy camper. But it does look like Gatsson's coming in and Gatsson is just taking his role which is very sad for yours truly.
Um, Khil Shakir I understand gives you the big blow up this past week and maybe you want to go through and maybe you want to move Shakir higher than this. But the concern that I'm going to have with it is you have so many rumors just every single day circling this Buffalo team with the possibility that we are going to end up seeing them go out there and trade for an additional wide receiver. And Sha is only averaging 12.2 points per game. So, it's not like he's in a great spot.
Now, our next name is going to be Chris Godwin. I I maybe I'm just making this ranking out of respect because the few games that we've seen Godwin actually play this year, obviously, he hasn't really done anything. And if we are going to look at what we have with the injury updates, zilch, nada, we've had nothing. He's missed the past three weeks. He has the bye-week this week, so we're not going to hear anything until week 10.
Um, Ricky Beers has missed the past month. They decided not to put him on the IR. So you'd assume that Piol is back at any point now, but we're going to assume Jennings is healthier every week that goes by. And now you have George KD back in producing.
Um Jell Robinson very clearly the wide receiver won for Jackson Dart and the Giants averaging 7.1 targets per game. But the issue that you're going to have is I just don't think it's a great offense.
Matthew Golden. Realistically, we need to move down these rankings just because how the hell could we have him over somebody like Romeo Dobs when he's averaging 3.7 targets per contest.
Um DJ Moore, we have here for I I don't even think we can make an argument for DJ Moore here either. I guess outside of Luther Burden with a concussion, maybe this is what propels DJ Moore forward. And I will say as well, if you are looking at DJ Moore, um you do have him at least um seeing a season high when it comes to his targets in this offense this past week.
And taking a look at what we have with Jacobe Meyers, uh Meyers averaging about 10 points per game so far this season. But coming out of the by-week, the expectations are probably going to be that you actually do have Brock Bowers both good to go and a potential Jacobe Myers trade, but maybe a Meers trade at this point would be great. I mean, hell, go out there and send him to New England, have them reunited, and honestly, I think Meyers could ball if you had Drake May at quarterback.
Then our next two wide receivers will be Romeo Dobs, Matthew Golden. If we are looking at Doss, he's averaging six targets per game in comparison to Matthew Golden at 3.7.
Um, Christian Watson is actually coming through and gets four targets his first week in here. So, does look like it's going to eat into these Packers wide receivers and despite Jordan Love performing incredibly well. Looks like most targets are going to get funneled through Tucker Craft and you're just going to have so many wide receivers spreading this ball out and we'll probably get Jaden Reed back later as well.
Now, Kahan Booty is averaging 12 points per game. This is more than Golden. This is more than Myers. This is more than Moore. This is more than Godwin. This is more than Higgins. This is more than Diggs, Terry Worthy, Marvin Harrison, Travis Hunter, um Brian Thomas. Like, obviously, if you were just taking previous fantasy points scored and ranking those players based off that singular stat, then Kahan Booty would be significantly higher than where we have him now. My thing is he's averaging 4.3 targets per game and 3.3 receptions per game. He's had 23 receptions and five touchdowns. There's no way this type of efficiency keeps up.
Um Troy Franklin trending in the right direction. There's a real shot that Franklin with one more solid performance jumps up into F tier with how Bo Knicks has been producing.
Um Brandon Day sounds like he could be coming back off the IR very soon. He's probably going to slowly but surely begin to creep up these rankings.
Shahed, you can start him if you're desperate. JMO, you can start him if you're desperate. Hope for a spike. You can say the same thing with Jennings, Keon Coleman, Josh DS, Trey Tucker. All these are just desperation starts that have incredibly low floors, but you do get high ceilings.
But I think that's all I got for you. I really appreciate you and really hope that I was able to help you out in some way with this. And of course, if you wanted to go through and check out any of those projections on Underdog Fantasy, you can find that link in the description. You can find it in the comment section. Code Flock will get you $100 added to your account after you play your first five. And on top of that, you'll get a free Patrick Mahomes pick. Higher, lower, half a total yard for tonight's game. And you'll get free questions that you can ask me in the live streams. And I'm live streaming every single day until Christmas answering your fantasy questions. But I think that's all I got for you. I really appreciate you and really hope I get to see you out in the live stream later.