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It is hard to overstate exactly the kind of advantage Pukanukua gives you right now. Pukanuku is averaging about 27 points per game so far this season. His wide receiver finish by week is 56515. This is better than Jamar Chase last year. This is on pace to be better than Cooper Cup's best season with Matthew Stafford a few years back. Does this pace keep up? I don't know.
But for the time being, I am putting Bugnikua not only in his own tier, but realistically speaking, there should be another tier between S and A that we can leave empty to really show you exactly the advantage that Puka gives. Like a Monro St. Brown's wide receiver, too, but he's not close to Puka. St. Brown very high floor, honestly. Highest ceiling as well. Didn't score a touchdown this past week, but he had scored six touchdowns in his previous three games. And at the same time, if you're looking at the receiving involvement, at least 70 receiving yards every week over the past four. Very similar to Pukakua that doesn't matter if you're in a PPR, non-PR, happy PR format. He gives you such a high floor weekly and he has great quarterback play that it's hard to go anywhere else.
Like Jackson Smith and Jigba is actually averaging more receiving yards per game. But the issue with JSN is you just simply don't have the same touchdown upside that you're going to get with the Monroe St. Brown because of the offenses that they play in. Like obviously you can say that JSN would have a lot of success in Detroit, but there's going to be way fewer points scored for the Seahawks than there will be for the Lions. Um, JSN actually hasn't had double-digit targets since going back to week two against the Pittsburgh Steelers, which may be something we want to monitor because you did have a considerable amount of passing volume this past week for Darnold. But JSN, he dropped 27 points on my own head, right?
I'm going over and looking at Justin Jefferson. Definitely a lot better over the past two weeks than he was the previous three. Like over the past two weeks, he scored about 41 fantasy points. He's done this with no touchdowns. He's just done this off of volume with 22 targets, which realistically you would say the touchdown should come soon. Jefferson's going to get even better. But the holdup that I have is you have the by-week this week and then afterwards we probably have McCarthy back. And when McCarthy was under center, you had 14, 11, and 12 fantasy points from Jedus.
Going and looking at CD Lamb, obviously CD Lamb for the past three weeks has just risen in our rankings every week that goes by. I think that realistically he has a shot to come back for this Carolina Panthers game. And if that were to happen, CD Lamp may be at the top of a tier for me. Just I want to put a slight injury discount on him at this point, but clearly we don't need to put as large of a discount as we are doing three weeks ago because he is three weeks closer to returning.
Now, going over and looking at Jamar Chase at wide receiver six. I know that all of y'all absolutely clowned, and I mean clowned on us for having Jamar Chase as a top 10 wide receiver after he scored 7.3 points against the Denver Broncos because y'all are fish and y'all overreacted to a prime time game just because you saw it on TV. Now, obviously, half of that's a joke, but regardless with Chase, 100 receiving yards, multiple receiving touch, I get it. Trust me, I understand Jake Browning's horrible, right? But what what are we supposed to do here? Jamar Chase is the best wide receiver in the league. Jamar Chase in a horrible offense in garbage time can get there. He can give you 110 receiving yards and multiple receiving touchdowns. So, you're going to have some garbage games and you're have some other games where Chase goes nuclear. We've seen four games so far with Jake Browning. He's had 36, 9, seven, and 29 fantasy points. So realistically, he's averaging what about 20 points per game with Jake Browning.
Now moving over to Nico Collins. Nico Collins isn't averaging anywhere close to that. Nico's only given you one game so far this season with 20 fantasy points. He's still clearly the alpha wide receiver in Houston. It's just so hard because it feels like every Texans game isn't like a normal football game. Like you've had blowouts back to back weeks here. I'm hoping that Nico Collins can get back to what he was doing just say last year or the year before where he was averaging about eight targets per game while at the same time coming through and giving you over 80 receiving yards per contest as well.
Now looking at Drake London, I actually really like giving London a little bump in these rankings because again he's already gone through his by-week so you're going to get an extra game, right? If you go through, if you trade Garrett Wilson for Drake London or Roman Dunce, they're going to play one more game than the player that hasn't gone through their buy, assuming you don't get an injury. With London, you have the Darnell Mooney injury. So, just realistically, the market share numbers are going to be insane. Last time we saw him against Washington, he had 38% of the Atlanta Falcons targets. Roma Dunce is going to be a very interesting player to monitor in that there's an outside chance that we end up seeing a DJ Moore trade.
Now, I will say the good, the bad with Rome. The bad is this touchdown rate can't keep up. He has scored a total of five touchdowns off of a total of 35 targets. Roman Dun may be a phenomenal real life talent, but he's not going to keep scoring a touchdown every seven targets. So, if we're looking at what we can do with him, I think you still start him every single week and you give him the benefit of the doubt, especially if you were to get that DJ Moore trade and the fact that he's already gone through his buy, but he's seeing way fewer targets than what you have with say like Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson's sitting here averaging almost 10 targets per game. He's giving you an incredibly high floor outside of that one week against Buffalo in week two. I mean, he's actually scored at least 19 fantasy points in every contest. And the market share numbers are incredible. I mean, he's averaging over 35% of the targets for the New York Jets at this point.
Now, Rasheed writes again, "Every week that goes by, he climbs and climbs and climbs and climbs." And I'm recording this super late Sunday night slash early Monday morning. It's embarrassingly late right now. I had to do a bunch of research for this. But regardless, if you are looking at rice, I think it's going to be super important to monitor the Xavier situation. Earlier on Sunday night, we got a report that Xavier Worthy was moved to questionable. It seems like Worthy can't stay healthy. So, Rice may step into a Kansas City Chiefs situation where he sees a similar type target share as Garrett Wilson, but he's playing with Patrick Mahomes instead of Justin Fields.
But, I am really excited to see what the Chiefs do tonight. What I am hoping for is I need Travis Kelce to lay a dud. If I'm going to move to 5-0 for my own fantasy team, I need Travis ETN to outscore Travis Kelce and the Jags kicker. And right now, you actually have Travis Kelce higher lower 43 and a half receiving yards on Underdog Fantasy. So, I'm really hoping we see the lower hit there. And of course, if you wanted to sweat this with me, you can find a link to Underdog Fantasy in the description as well as the comment section. And if you take advantage of the offer on underdog right now with promo code flock, you are going to get $100 added to your account after you play your first five. And on top of that, you'll get a free Trevor Lawrence pick. Higher, lower, half a total yard for tonight's game. Underdog Fantasy has never done a promo half as good as this since I've been working with them over the past five years. Underdog's available in almost every state. And if you use code flock as well, you're going to be getting free questions that you can ask me in the live streams that we're going to be doing every single night until Christmas.
Now, moving over to our next tier, Eggbuka. I mean, we add him as the top 10 wide receiver in our weekly rankings this week, just going, "Oh, no, Mike Evans." Obviously, you just have to jam him in. But realistically speaking, even when Evans comes back and even when you have freaking Chris Godwin at 100%. This dude's balling out off of limited volume. He had seven targets today, 163 receiving yards and the receiving touchdown. So far this season, this man has had 445 receiving yards off of 25 receptions, five touchdowns with that as well. The efficiency is insane. I think that we can safely say even when Evans comes back, even when Godwin's at 100%. Ibuka is the wide receiver one, he looks like rookie season Justin Jefferson.
Now, Tedo McMillan also insane talent. Like, the dude's coming through and he's averaging, I mean, about 25 to 30% of the Carolina Panthers targets every single week as a rookie. The issue with it is they're just low value targets coming from Bryce Young and you needed Bryce Young to be better. Now, Courtland Sutton's actually been much better than Tedoro McMillan so far. Sutton's up averaging 16.1 fantasy points per game. Of course, he drops 18 on my head top this week. Um, the target volume is just fine. You have 10 targets. Obviously, a lot hinges on Bo Nicks, who's been playing better over the past few weeks.
Devonte Adams will be our next name. Dvonte Adams up at about 15 points per game. The target chair is just very concentrated between Puka and Adams. Really, it's just these two wide receivers and Kairen Williams is the only players that touch the ball. And when Matthew Stafford goes out and he has over 300 passing yards and a ton of passing touchdowns, Devonte Adams going to get there. He can eat with Puka. But if you do get some regression from Matthew Stafford, I'm worry that negatively impacts Adams more than it will Puka.
Um, George Piggins obviously lower in our rankings now than he was two weeks ago. The reason we moved him up to like wide receiver 10 two weeks ago was he had no CDL lamp for a good little month and yeah here George Piggins during that time period he had 17.8 33.4 13.7. So George Piggin has been incredible with no CD Lamb. This offense is going to have a ton of passing volume in it as well. So once Lamb comes back I think very similar to Dvonte Adams and Pukanua. You're going to have George Piggin and CD Lamb and you're be able to start Piggin every single week regardless.
Now, somebody else that it looks like you can start every single week regardless, is going to be Debo Samuel. One of my biggest misses this year, not only in videos, but also with me drafting underdog basketball teams, is I thought Debo Samuel was toast. Now, this is going to surprise many of y'all, but I'm an idiot, right? I am not a doctor, so I could I can't spell pneumonia. I didn't realize the extent that pneumonia really may have had on Debo Samuel last year. Maybe that's why he got fat. Maybe that's why he couldn't play football. It seems like he's completely over it because Debo Samuel is a-ok. Okay, at this point he has averaged 17.7 points per game. He's getting 7.6 targets per contest as well. And again, I'm not going to be surprised at all if you see some Debo Samuel rushing touchdowns going into the future. So, I just have to take a massive L on Debo is it looks like this production is going to be consistent. It looks like he's the wide receiver one in Washington with Terry binged up.
Now going over looking at Brian Thomas, very difficult to know what to expect. Looking at his underdog pick him at the moment, they currently have him higher lower 57 and a half receiving yards, higher lower 9.95 fantasy points. He's actually only averaging a total of about nine fantasy points so far this season, but the volume's been incredible. Like he is averaging about eight targets a game.
Now with Marvin Harrison Jr., you actually have like a floor performance here, which is interesting. You get the big play, of course, which is always what you're going to have to be hunting with Marv, but Kyler Marie doesn't look great. This Cardinals team looks like they're sliding, and I still think that Marv's kind of a boom bust option.
Jaylen Wadd, we're going to have to move up dramatically. Um, with Waddle, I was concerned after the Tyreek injury that people were going to overvalue him, not knowing if the target volume was actually going to see a spike because he had not had a game so far this season with six targets. But his first game with no Tyreek, he comes through. He has nine targets. He has six receptions, 110 receiving yards, and the receiving touchdown. And obviously, Waddles a good enough player and a good enough athlete to give you the big touchdowns.
Now, AJ Brown cried just enough, shed enough tears for the Philadelphia Eagles to abandon the run and ultimately lose the game because of it against the Denver Broncos. But it bumped up AJ Brown from only seeing 2.7 points against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to 9.3 points against Denver. I still do think that he is the wide receiver one in Philly. And it looks like they're making conserved effort trying to get AG Brown the ball, but obviously every week that goes by, he is just sliding further and further in our rankings.
Um Quinton Johnston's going to stay about where we had him last week. Um, I know a lot of people were upset that we add him as a low and wide receiver too in the rankings last week, even though again there's not a single person that I spent more money drafting than Quinton Johnston so far this season. So, I really hope he gets back to scoring 20 points per game, but I do think that the fact of the matter is the Los Angeles Chargers, you're going to see random spikes come from each one of these guys.
Now, going down to E tier, I'm going to ruffle some feathers and I'm not even going to intend to. I am very sorry, but wide receivers 23 through 31, they're all about the same. If you want to scream at me over these rankings, you are more than welcome to, and I get things wrong all the time. But if you're going to yell at me that Devont Smith should be at 23 rather than 29, I'm not going to argue with you. You're probably right. Okay? I mean, you technically we have to rank all these guys, but realistically going into the future, I wouldn't be surprised if the points per game gap between them is half a point.
Um, Z Flowers was higher than this in our rankings of course previously, but with the Lamar injury, you just have to nuke everybody in the offense with the offense becoming so much worse.
Going over and looking at DK Metaf. He's coming back to my squad this week and I'd really hope that we get some additional big METAC performances. I think Metaf and Pitman both kind of have the same issue at the moment where both of these guys are riding high on touchdowns and while they're big bodied wide receivers, um while they're built like I am, realistically speaking, I don't know how long this can last. Like so far this season, DK Mechaf has had a total of 22 targets and he's had three touchdowns, right? Going over and looking at Michael Pitman Jr., kind of the same thing playing out. You've had 35 targets and four touchdowns. So, I do think the touchdown rate's going to come back, but they obviously are the wide receiver ones in their respective offenses that are uh performing to the upside.
Now, Xavier Worthy, I just moved down our rankings a bit here based off the report that um he's popping up questionable is getting injured on games in which the team's not even practicing. And this is a concern for a player that weighs like 165 pounds, right? So, I'm not going to come through and say like, "Oh, Xavier, you need to panic sell him right now." But you have Rashid Rice coming back in. You clearly have injury stuff going on with Worthy. So, it does scare me a bit.
Looking at Crystal Lave, you have guaranteed target volume, but I've again, this is the continu. I've never seen anything like this. The dude's at 4.5 yards per target this season. Coming into this game, he has 1.2 yards per route run. That's not getting any better with the 5.4 yards per target that he had this game. like the target volume's there, but it's gotten to the point where I'm willing to say it's not just the quarterback play. Some of this has to fall on Chris Ave for him to be the least efficient wide receiver that I've literally ever seen.
Going over and looking at Mike Evans, typically I would want to say like, "Oh, Evans, he's missed two weeks. He's coming back soon. Let's go ahead. Let's move him up the ranks." But I'm getting scared. Like you have Mike Evans now having to compete with what looks to be rookie season Justin Jefferson and Chris Godwin is back playing a ton as well. So I I'm getting a little bit nervous from Evans. Obviously we haven't moved him down our rankings. I'm just explaining why we haven't moved him up despite him getting closer with the injury.
Devant Smith obviously looks like the wide receiver won in Philly if you're just looking at this oneweek sample. But over the past month like he's come through. He's averaged like seven, eight targets per game as well. Um, realistically speaking, I just think that we've seen a large enough sample where AJ Brown's the wide receiver won in Philly and this is a team that's going to be running the ball over and over again.
Now, Lad McConi had highlight play this week. He scored the touchdown this week. So, I know a lot of people are going to be really excited, but realistically, the dude had seven targets. So, it's not like he's changed his role in this offense.
Jacobe Buyers, I don't know what to do with. Brock Bowers is injured. You would assume like, oh, Jacob's going to crush with no Bowers. But honestly, I think we are gonna have to move Jacobe behind Keenan Allen. There's no way I can justify having Jacobe ahead of Keenan Allen with Keenan Allen sitting here averaging 15 points per game. The target volume with Keenan looks a hell of a lot better than it does with Lad. The issue of course with Keenan Allen is you just don't have the big play upside. But like Keenan Allen at the very minimum is sitting here averaging 8.8 8 targets per contest and this is with a fully healthy lad. This is with a fully healthy Quinton Johnson. So obviously if one of those players were to go down, Keenan skyrockets.
Um Jordan Addison will be our next name. It's very difficult to take much away from Cleveland in terms of usage with Addison because the team disciplined him. He missed the beginning of the game, blah blah blah. But he does come through with the receiving touchdown. If you would have had that receiving touchdown as well in week four, like Jordan Addison would be sitting there averaging like 18 fantasy points per game. But I am worried about this offense. I think it's going to be a low volume passing attack, especially with McCarthy coming back in. And realistically, you have Jefferson being the alpha.
Um Ricky Piol, I don't know if he's I don't know the injury update with Paul. I don't know the injury update that we have with um freaking Jawan Jennings, George KD, Brock Party. I don't know the injury update with any Ner. Like I said this before, but I think the Niners entire entire training staff should be fired.
Now I started Stefon Diggs in the flex spot this week and he is the only reason that I still have a shot to win. Travis ETN, please come through for us. I need to be 5-0. I can't fall to 4 in one. But Stefon Diggs dominates with 12 targets, 10 receptions, 146 receiving yards. I am fingers crossed that I found a new wide receiver one. Fingers crossed that when I record this video next week, I can safely say, "Oh, okay. Stefon Diggs, he just wasn't playing the beginning of the year. He wasn't drawing targets at the beginning of the year because he was coming back from the torn ACL and it was going to take some time." Now, Stefon Diggs is wide receiver 18 in my rest of season rankings. I would love that to be the case. My team needs it so freaking bad. But it is a super small sample. It was a revenge game. He already came out said this game was personal. So there is that outside chance that this is just a small sample thing. And it goes back to being a little bit closer to what we had earlier in week one. But it is funny seeing Stefon Diggs go crazy in the locker room after the game.
Now Chris Godwin taking a step backwards. His first week in here. It gives you 10 targets. The second week you only have four. Now it's identical stat line. three receptions for 26 receiving yards. But this is a game in which Baker goes nuclear and at the same time you had no Mike Evans. So once Evan comes back, unless Godwin can like take that similar step forward to what we have with like Stefon Diggs, he's not startable anytime soon.
Now our next option is going to be Terry McLaren. I I just am so spooked with the Terry injury. We have no information on this. Terry McLaren, his season high so far is 10.4 fantasy points per game. So, I'm really nervous here.
Now, DJ Moore will be our next name. With DJ Moore, the dude has had more than five targets in a single game this season, and that's when he had six. So, I'm not excited about getting DJ Moore in my lineup anytime soon. You'd almost hope that he's traded.
Jameson Williams has scored 10 fantasy points once. He scored more than seven fantasy points a single time this year. And this is with the Lions offense rolling. I'm just going to copy and paste what I've said with Jameson Williams for years. Better real life receiver than fantasy receiver. Stretches the NFL defenses for Montgomery, for Gibbs, for a Monro St. Brown, and for Leaporta underneath.
Now, Tigens, I had in my starting lineup this week, and I've had him in my starting lineup every single week, but I'm actually now going to be benching him in favor of putting in both DK Medaf as well as Stefon Diggs going into the future. Clearly, you want nothing to do with Higgins unless we get a quarterback trade.
Now, going over to our next here, these are the upside shots. Matthew Golden still should be the wide receiver one in Green Bay, but realistically, they spread the ball out to so many different players, it's tough to project that. And you're going to have Jaden Reed coming back sooner.
Travis Hunter as our next name. I mean, he's high or lower 27 and a half receiving yards on underdog. would assume that the number two overall pick in the NFL draft has a ton of upside, but we haven't seen it.
Shakir, I mean, if he scores a touchdown, he'll be decent, but if not, it's just going to be crap. I mean, Shakir is sitting here averaging 11.6 points per game. Jawan Jennings at 9.97. Keon's at 10.72. A Ridley's 8.44. AO Manor's 8.58. Juanell's 11.18. Jerry Judy's 6.94. Jerry Judy freaking I I cannot believe I started you over Tony Pard. It pisses me off to no end.
And then Brandon Iayuk will be making his first appearance on our rest of season rankings. Um obviously we are now a month into the season. So we are a month closer to Brandon Iay returning and we are to the point where Brandon Iayuk is going to move up in these rankings every single week until he returns slowly but surely.
But I think that's all I got for y'all with this video. Again, I want to reiterate, we need a big game from ETN. We need a bad game from Travis Kelce. Right now, Kelsey is high or lower, 43 and a half receiving yards on underdog. Travis ETN is high or lower of 75 a half. I need ETN to blow that out of the water. If you wanted to get some action on the same thing, you can find it on Underdog Fantasy. Again, I've been with them for five years now, and this is the best offer I've ever seen them do, which is after you play your first $5, you're going to get $100 added to your account. Plus, you'll get a free Trevor Lawrence pick for tonight's game, higher, lower, half a total yard. And on top of that, you'll get free questions in the live stream that you can ask me. And I'm going to be live streaming every single night until Christmas. You can find that link in the description in the comment section. But I really appreciate you and I really hope I get to see you out in that live stream later.