Ranking The Top 24 Overall Players for Fantasy Football (Updated)

If you play fantasy football, you're in the right spot because today we are ranking the top 24 overall players for fantasy football this year. And this video is so important because you cannot mess up those first two rounds or so of your draft. You have to nail your picks in round one or round two. Otherwise, you don't stand a chance at all.

Now, we're going to start with my S tier. We have four players in this. Jamir Gibbs, Bejian Robinson, Puka Nua, and Jamar Chase in that order. Now, the reason why these rankings are broken down by tiers is basically everybody in that group is a similar value. Now, I rank them specifically in this order right here. Gibbs first, Beison, Puka, and then Jamar Chase. But if you wanted to tell me that you thought Jamar Chase was a number one overall player, I wouldn't agree with you based on my rankings, but I wouldn't say you're crazy. I would say they're in the same tier. I get it. They have similar upside and similar floors.

Now, as for Jamir Gibbs, my number one overall player, we don't have to talk about a lot here. I mean, he had 1,800 total yards last year, second straight season with 18 touchdowns. He's been a top three fantasy back in back-to-back seasons. And oh, yeah, now David Montgomery is no longer there. And there has been five such games where David Montgomery over the last two years has not played and Jamir Gibbs has. And in those games, he's averaging 28.3 fantasy points per game and has topped 23 points in every single contest. So David Montgomery is gone. He's been replaced with Isaiah Pacheo who in my opinion overall is a a a less versatile, not as good overall running back from a footwork standpoint. Um, especially what we've seen the last couple years in terms of Dave Montgomery versus Isaiah Pacheco. So Jir Gibbs, it seems like he's going to be the workhorse. We actually just recently got a quote a couple of days ago in OTAAS and in mini camp that Jir Gibbs is going to be the workhorse from Dan Camp. So that's my number one overall player.

Now we'll go to number two right here. Mr. Bejian Robinson out of Texas himself. Bejian Robinson is also somebody who had an unreal workload last year. 79% of the snaps top 10 in the NFL. A top 10 opportunity share. But when you really look at it, weighted opportunities, this is a stat according to player profiler. Weighted opportunities mean it weights it in terms of very important fantasy football touches. So weighted opportunities, your catches, your targets, your goal line and red zone carries, those are going to matter more than just like a carry on third down and two at the 50 yard line. So Bejian Robinson's role, his weighted opportunities was number two in the NFL. And towards the end of the season, it only got better. As you can see right here on Ro of Viz, it kind of blurred out a little bit, but over his final seven games, 26.8 fantasy points per game, over a 100 rushing yards per game, and 49 receiving yards per game. This guy was putting up like 160 plus total yards per game. the final seven games of the season. Even during that time, we were seeing Tyler Algier still score touchdowns, still get red zone touches. It didn't matter. Bejon was still going out there and putting up nearly 27 fantasy points per game. His new backfield competition goes from Tyler Agir to Brian Robinson. So, like a similar talent of running back, if I had to pick one player, I would choose Tyler Aier over Brian Robinson. But at this point, we know Bejian Robinson is going to be a workhorse. The only possible concern is that he's going to have his third offensive coordinator in three years. But it didn't matter with the other two offensive coordinators. He got his. He's going to do it yet again.

And number three in tier one for me is Puka Nua over Jamar Chase. Now these are two guys who are once again very similar. Like if you really wanted to go Jamar Chase over Puka Nua, I wouldn't argue with you. As of right now, I do prefer Puka Nua. And uh, I mean, we do we really have to break this down all that much. Led the NFL last year was almost a triple crown. Once again, 129 catches, over 1,700 receiving yards. Led the NFL in yards after the catch. In terms of like efficiency metrics, he's up there top three and everything from like yards per route run. Led the NFL in target rate, 36.6% 6% of his routes he was targeted on, which is insane because it's not like he was playing with slouches in that passing attack. He was literally playing with Devonte Adams. Was it prime 26, 27y old Devonte Adams? No. But it was still Dvonte Adams that was one of the best receivers in the league once again last year. So Puka dominated last year was the number one wide receiver in fantasy points per game. And now his target competition is the exact same. Look at this depth chart. It's Puka Nua, Devonte Adams, and as of right now, Jordan Wittington because 22 Atwell left, 22 Outwa left, and he went over um to the Miami Dolphins. There's nobody here. They really didn't draft any wide receivers of note. They didn't sign any wide receivers in free agency. Like the backups are Kee Munfield, CJ Daniels, Xavier Smith. The tight ends are the exact same in Kobe Parkinson and Tyler Higgby. They drafted a tight end in round two, but we'll see if that actually matters all that much. It's the same team. They're running it back. They just improved their defense. Obviously getting Miles Garrett. They're making a push there to try and go to the Super Bowl, which they were so close. Final four NFC Championship last year. The only concern would be is like if Matt Stafford falls off the cliff, but he's coming off of an MVP year. Are we really going to predict that he's falling off the cliff? He ended up getting a one-year deal for 55 million. So, it's still Matt Stafford, it's still Shawn McVey, it's still Pukun with the exact same target competition. I don't know why we're going to be all that concerned for Puka Nua. I'm not.

Number four in tier one for me, and this ends my tier one, is going to be Jamar Chase. It's hard not to like Jamar Chase. In a down year last year, and it was a down year, right? People are saying, "Oh my god, he's a bust." After the first month of the season, he still led the NFL in targets. He was third in target share. Oh, it was a down year for Jamar Chase. He still put up 1400 yards, 125 catches. Obviously, this was a guy who struggled the first couple of weeks of the season, especially when Joe Burrow was out and the team did not yet trade for Joe Flack. But to close the year out, those final 12 games, I don't know why Rotoves keeps blurring out. I guess it's timing out. But anyways, you can see right here, those final 12 games, 21.3 fantasy points per game, 12 and a half targets per game, and 95 receiving yards per game. These are in games once Joe Flacco took over and then Joe Barl came back down the stretch. If you're going to get a healthy Joe Burrow or just serviceable quarterback play like Joe Flackle gave them last year, Jamar Chase is going to be a top five player uh week in and week out in rankings. And it's also worth mentioning that kind of similar to the Rams, the Bengals didn't really do anything on offense. I mean, what are we looking at here? These are their team changes in the team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint. Check it out at jointhebooppprint.com before the price goes up yet again. You can see right here like they added only a quarterback, a backup quarterback. There's no more Noah Font on the Cincinnati Bengals. Like there's nothing. They added a fourth round wide receiver and Colobby Young. Okay, for the most part, it's going to be the exact same target competition of Mike Gaseki, of T. Higgins, of not that much competition for Jamar Chase.

All right, now let's start my tier two off, and it's going to be with a wide receiver in Jackson Smith and Jigba, followed by my number six overall player, Christian McCaffrey, and then number seven, Aman Ros St. Brown. Let's start with JSN. It's hard not to like JSN after what he did last year, finally breaking out as the offensive player of the year. He led the NFL in receiving yards. He led the NFL with a 36% target share, targeted on almost 34% of his routes last year, was just absolutely dominant. No matter what you look at, the efficiency metrics, despite seeing a larger workload and role in this offense, were fantastic. He ranked second in yards per route run and first in yards per team pass attempt. Not to mention, he was second in explosive play rating. And now, if you look at this offense, this was a top five rush offense last year in terms of rush attempts, in terms of rushing efficiency. In my opinion, that's going down. They lost their offensive coordinator, Clint Kubak. They lost their main running back, Kenneth Walker, and Zack Charbanet is dealing with a torn ACL. Now, they did draft a first round running back, maybe a little bit of a reach in an overdraft under Darien Price. But if you're telling me, and based on OTAA reports right now, George Helani looks like the starting running back. If you're telling me that the Seattle Seahawks week one starters without Clint Kubak as the offensive coordinator at running back are going to be George Helani and maybe a rookie Jadarian Price, who never got a workhorse workload in college at Notre Dame because of Jeremiah Love. Well, I'm going to tell you that's probably not going to be as efficient of an offense as you had in the year prior with Zack Sharet, Kenneth Walker, and a different coach, Clint Kubak. So yeah, I think this offense just naturally is going to pass more, especially when you factor in that context around the run game, which means even if JSN doesn't have 1,700 yards, his targets are probably going up. It gives him a better floor.

Next up, we have Christian McCaffrey in tier 2, my number six overall player. Like, do I really have to say all that much about Christian McAffrey here? Yes. When Christian, it's pretty simple. If he's healthy, he's going to dominate for you like he did last year with,200 rushing yards, 924 receiving yards. So, oh yeah, another 2100 yard season, 102 catches, 17 touchdowns. Right now, there's the 17 touchdowns. Now obviously part of this is Brandon Iay did not suit up for the team. Uh George KD tears his Achilles, deals with all other injuries, right? You have Joan Jennings dealing with injuries that time. You have Ricky Pierall as always as it seems dealing with injuries. So Christian McCaffrey was the only healthy guy on this entire offense it seemed like. So yeah, he was able to pile on 102 catches, get leaned on for 924 receiving yards. But look, at the end of the day, it comes down to the age for Christian McAffrey because the backfield competition, it's still not going to be all that much. It's Jordan James yet again. It's another middle round rookie inh Kalon Black. So, I would just say that if you're in the top 10 and Christian McCaffrey is sitting you for you there at at pick six or seven, just like he was last year for a lot of people, just take him. He was fully healthy last year. I get it. You might be concerned about the injuries. If you just want to avoid him because of that, fine. But you might miss out on another 2,000 yard season.

And then at number seven for me is Aman Ross. Brown. Look, like this is just Mr. Consistent, Mr. Reliable. Oh, what did you get last year? 1400 yards, 117 catches. JSN is breaking up. Hugan is having the year of all years it seems like. like, oh, we all forget about Aman Ross St. Brown because he doesn't have Ben Johnson. What does he do? For the third straight year, he finishes as the number four player in fantasy points per game at the wide receiver position. He gets another 10 plus touchdowns for you. What does he do? Oh, he gets 1,400 receiving yards after having 1500 and,200 years before that, 172 targets as a careerhigh. And oh yeah, when Dan Campbell took over the play calling down the stretch over the final nine games, he averaged 17.6 fantasy points per game. And his targets went from nine targets per game to 11 targets per game. Now, I know Dan Campbell is not the play caller to start this year. They hired a new offensive coordinator who's going to call plays. But at least we know that if that offensive coordinator doesn't pan out and Dan Campbell has to take over again, he's going to be targeting Aman Ross St. Brown as he should. I also do want to point out real quick that Jarro Goff is just a volume monster. Like despite the different offensive coordinators the last couple years, what does this guy do? He throws 600 five times, 539, 578. So even though we know like the Lions have been an efficient run game, especially under Ben Johnson, they always do run the ball. Part of that is a banged up or bad defense depending on the year. Part of that is like the conference and the division that they actually play in. It's going to force a lot of shootouts when you're facing now Caleb Williams and you're facing in the past Kirk Cousins on the Vikings and obviously with the Packers have and Jordan Love. But in general, we know that the Lions are going to throw. You get a safe floor from Alman St. Brown.

All right, we will close out my tier two now with Jonathan Taylor, my number eight overall player and Justin Jefferson, my number nine overall player. Let's start with Mr. Jonathan Taylor. What's not to like about Jonathan Taylor? everything like it hit the pinnacle for Jonathan Taylor last year and we saw him for the first 13 weeks of the year be the number one player in fantasy the number one snap share amongst running backs the number two opportunity share 84% of his backfield opportunities this is very important because check this out he saw the best usage in the passing game of his entire career he ran 428 routes 25 per game top three he's up there with the Christian McAffries the prime Alvin Camaras of the world Jir Gibbs in terms of how many routes he's running 74% of the time he was running a route when his quarterback dropped back to pass third most in the NFL. In previous seasons, Jonathan Taylor was coming off of the field in the two-minute offense, the four-minute offense, third downs and longs, third down in general, if it was like a third or five intermediate. Last year, not at all. Under Shane Stikin with Daniel Jones at quarterback, he was staying on the field. And that led to him basically going out there and dominating. He was number two in expected fantasy points per game. He was number four in points per game. When Daniel Jones was actually healthy those first 13 games of the year, as you can see right here, I don't know why this is grayed out. Once again, I apologize. those first 13 games, even though I pay for this service, first 13 games of the year, 23.9 fantasy points per game. Obviously, the last month without Daniel Jones, the offense falls apart. They don't make the playoffs, just 13 points per game. But Daniel Jones is going to be healthy or at least healthy enough week one. And if the Achilles is a problem, maybe he checks it down even more to his tight end and Tyler Warren and his running back in Jonathan Taylor. And just like a lot of these other stud running backs, like the backfield competition doesn't even matter, but Jonathan Taylor's is the exact same. Nobody was brought in. It's DJ Giddens once again. It was DJ Giddens last year when Jonathan Taylor just went out there and dominated all three downs.

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Now, at number nine to close out my tier 2 is Mr. Justin Jefferson, who's coming off of easily the worst year of his career for fantasy football. Wide receiver, 29 in points per game, only two touchdowns. Absolutely atrocious. We know just naturally that number is coming up. Not only because his quarterback situation improved with one Kyler Murray, but because just naturally Justin Jefferson is so talented enough, even if he had a bad quarterback situation, he's probably scoring more than two touchdowns. And now there's a chance that he has the biggest gap out of any player in all of fantasy football, especially at the receiving positions in his touchdowns. He can go from his two from last year. Are you shocked if Justin Jefferson has 10, 12, 13 touchdowns this year? No, you're not shocked at all. And there's a good chance that happens now that he actually has a good quarterback in Kyler Murray who provided Trey McBride with breakout years of 1100 yards who provided DeAndre Hopkins just a couple of years ago of a of a top eight overall finish in 2021. It might have been 2020 with the Arizona Cardinals. So Kyler Murray, you might not like the guy. He's better than JJ McCarthy and Max Brosman. And for what it's worth, the dep chart for Justin Jefferson basically remains the exact same. You still have Jordan Addison. You replace uh Jaylen Naylor who goes to the Raiders and you sign Jawan Jennings. I think Jawan Jennings is better fit for this offense, especially the run game, but in terms of target competition, still TJ Hawinson, an older player there, right? Still Aaron Jones, he was resigned in the backfield. So, like, it's just a quarterback upgrade and you're swapping Jaylen Naylor for Joan Jennings, Justin Jefferson. So, once again, just see a close to probably 30% target share in this Vikings offense. He's usually a top five player in fantasy drafts. Now, you get him at number nine overall. That's a steal.

Now, we are kicking off tier three with my number 11 overall player, CD Lamb. I'm a number 12 overall player, Saquon Barkley. Let's start with CD Lamb. City Lamb last year is coming off of a down season, but like he rolled his ankle to start the year. He plays in 14 games. He misses three games due to the ankle injury. The by-week helped him get back and not miss an additional game. 75 catches over 1,000 yards overall in fantasy points per game. Was still the wide receiver 11 just three touchdowns because he missed those games. But this was a guy that was dealing with a high ankle sprain. Like sure, he only missed three games, but high ankle sprains as a wide receiver as explosive as CD Lamb, that's going to affect you for at least four to six weeks, maybe six to eight weeks. So like there's a reason why you saw some of the efficiency drop off. And the other reason would also be because he was competing with George Pickins who was in just a breakout season, a contract year. He absolutely breaks out last year, has a massive year. And it's a little bit easier to not have to pepper CD Lamb with 15 targets like the year prior. So CD Lamb, somebody who's going to be healthy to start the season. I'm not concerned with him at all. I still think he's worthy of a first round pick, especially if you can get him at the end of the first round. Like we're currently in a situation where you might be able to start your drafts with Justin Jefferson and CD Lamb who are coming off of down years last year for their own reasons, either injury or bad quarterback play. Both of them are ready to bounce back and you can get both of them. They're first round worthy picks. Both on your team.

All right, next up. I think I messed up the order here. CD Lamb was number 10. Number 11 is actually James Cook. Number 12 is Saquon Barkley in my tier three. So, we went to CD Lamb at 10. Now, let's go to James Cook at number 11. Sometimes things can be simple. Like last year, James Cook played in an offense that ranked number one in team rushing plays per game. He had the third most carries in the NFL. He didn't get a lot of targets. That's the downside when you have a mobile quarterback and other pass catcher running backs in your backfield who specialized. But he had the eighth most red zone targets in the league. He led the NFL with over 1,600 rushing yards, was top five in rushing touchdowns. So like this is a running back who is extremely explosive, who was finally trusted in the red zone, top 10 red zone touches last year, and he paid off, right? He's in an offense where there's going to be deception because Josh Allen, is he holding the ball on some of these like quarterback design runs or not? Right? The option, what is it going to look like? James Cook takes advantage. He has explosive plays. As you can see right here from Stardom Cinema Fantasy, I like this tweet. He says that James Cook is the safest pick you can make at the 110 in your fantasy football drafts. In the last two seasons, he ranks third in rushing touchdowns, second in total yards, and sixth in rushing yards. And that's all with having a mobile quarterback, Josh Allen, leading the league in rushing touchdowns during that time. Now, I don't know if I agree with him being the safest pick that you could make towards the end of that first round, beginning of the second. There's a chance that it could be a Justin Jefferson, even though that sounds crazy based on what just happened last year. But James Cook is definitely in the running for that. Especially when you consider that James Cook has the exact same backfield competition as he had last year. And Ty Johnson and Ray Davis, the Bills didn't add anybody this off seasonason. They're going to be a ground and pound team once again. You could run it back with James Cook.

Now we get to my number 12 overall player there. He finally is in Mr. Saquon Barkley. Now let's talk about Saquon Barkley. Saquon Barkley who is easily coming off of a down season, right? Uh only 1100 rushing yards, 4.1 yards per carry. Uh still has the 30 plus catches, but everything falls off a cliff. Now, a lot of this falling off the cliff had to do with Kevin Patulo, the offensive coordinator, offensive line injuries. I don't think Saquin just all of a sudden became bad. I think a lot of it was those explosive plays went away because of the play caller and the offensive line being hurt. But you still saw an elite workload. It's not like Saquon was splitting any touches. They paid him a lot of money to be the workhorse. 80% of the snaps, top three in the NFL, 80% opportunity share, top five in the NFL. We're going to get this same exact thing this year. And now you're getting Saquon Barkley with a new offensive coordinator that so far he seems to be saying good things about. Now, I hate these Twitter pages like ML football. But this is a quote that I did want to pull. ML Football happened to tweet it. You should mute all these accounts. They're just rage baiting you. But anyways, you can see right here, he says, "Eagles running back." Like, he says, "Fascinating." Like, it's that fascinating. Eagles running back Saquon Barkley said that he has been talking to legendary Rams running back Todd Gurley for advice on what it would be like to play in a Shawn McVey system. So, as you can see right here, um, you're going to get Shawn Manian now taking over. Sha Manian did spend time with the Rams, Shawn McVey, all that type of stuff here. So, outside zone scheme is where Saquon Barkley could thrive. Saquon Barkley has power. He has speed. This is a guy that should probably thrive in an outside zone run scheme, getting to the edge, breaking tackles. That's what we saw a decent amount of the time, or at least for some snaps, not all the snaps early on in his career. So, Saquon Barkley, new offensive coordinator. It's a big mystery with Shawn Manion, but if it does hit, it's going to hit big.

Now, we're going to finish out tier three with my number 13 overall player, Drake London from the Atlanta Falcons. And before we do so, maybe you noticed I changed my shirt. I was losing my voice, so I had to take the day off and now I'm recording the next day the rest of this video. So, there you go. The power of editing. Now, as for Drake London, maybe like one of the quietest alpha wide receivers in the league. Like a lot of people don't really think of Drake London in that CD Lamb. Obviously, not Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Aman Ross St. Brown, but not even that like CD Lamb. Even George Pickkins last year with a breakout season, AJ Brown, nobody really thinks of him in that tier. But despite having multiple different offensive coordinators, multiple different quarterbacks over the past two seasons, he's still been a stud. Last year was only one of five wide receivers to see a 30 plus% target share. saw 37% red zone target share, top five in the NFL. And all this guy was was a cheat code last year. He was on the field top 10 most snaps in the NFL for wide receivers, 13th in red zone targets despite missing some time as well. And when you actually look at the games last year when Michael Penn was healthy and starting to play well, so you're looking like weeks 6 through 11, Drake London was like the best wide receiver in fantasy, believe it or not, for that third of the season. In those five games or so, as you can see right here, Drake London averaged 24.4 fantasy points per game, over 100 yards per game, 11.2 2 targets per game. He was fantastic. He had 100 plus receiving yards in all of these contests as well. He was just an alpha. But not only that, he's always been an alpha in the red zone. It makes sense when you're 6'3, 6'4, depending on the measurements that you look at, and everybody else on your team is nowhere near that in past years. Like Darnell Mooney target competition in past years. Raymond Mloud, those guys aren't going to battle with you in the red zone. In 2024, he led the NFL in red zone target share. And in 2025, he ranked third in the NFL in red zone target share. And when we try and see where any new competition will come from this year, it's kind of hard to see that. Like Omad Zakius they get from the Bears, not concerned about that. Probably going to be a slot wide receiver. Jan Datson as of right now is the wide receiver too on the outside. Your only target competition is going to be Kyle Pittz who started to break out last year and Be Robinson out of the backfield. Basically the same target competition as last year. Now maybe the Falcons end up adding somebody late in the process like a Stefon Diggs, like a Keenan Allen. Who knows at this point? But if it's a Keenan Allen, I'm not concerned about 33-year-old Keenan Allen. Stefon digs maybe a little bit, but I'm not really sure this is the fit or the team fit for him. It looks like once again it's just going to be B or Drake London with a 30% target share. Bejian Robinson catching 70 plus balls out of the backfield and we'll see if Kyle Pittz can take another step forward. So same target competition for a guy who just saw a 30% target share with this target competition last year. I think your only concern is probably going to be you have two attack of Biola and you have Michael Penn as your quarterbacks. Like that hasn't held back in previous years bad quarterback play Drake London. But is this quarterback play potentially bad enough on the downside, like the floor of it if it falls out to ruin Drake London? Probably. So, Drake London will finish up my tier three.

Now, we go to tier four. It's going to start with my number 14 overall player, Chase Brown. I am higher than the market on him. A lot of people have him around that 20th to 22nd overall range. He's my 14th overall player because I mean, the guy just produces. Last year, he was a top 10 RB in fantasy points per game. Over the last year and a half, since the midway point of 2024, he's been a borderline top five running back in points per game, believe it or not. last season. Once again, he was one of the most dominant running backs from a snap share, opportunity share perspective. Top 10 and snap share amongst running backs. Had the sixth best opportunity share in the entire NFL. And those weighted opportunities, we talked about them earlier with Bejian Robinson. We're talking about like your targets, your catches, your red zone, your goal line carries, the stuff that really matters for fantasy scoring. Top five in that category. Similar, he was also top five at the end of the 2024 season. I mean, this guy's just an absolute monster. uh when you look at it, especially down the stretch last year when he got back when he got Joe Flacco, then he gets Joe Barrow back. So from week six on, he averaged 17.3 fantasy points per game. He averaged over five yards per touch and was a top six running back in fantasy. And now you look at it and everything's going to be the same. The same quarterback situation with Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco just in case Burl missed more time. The same running back competition. You're talking about Samaji Perine, who didn't matter last year. Taj Brooks, who hasn't done anything since coming to the NFL. Um, what else? The same exact wide receivers, the same tight end. like this offense for the Bengals is just rinse and repeat and there's a chance that the Bengals defense is not as good, right? You don't have Trey Hendrickson, your top pass rusher anymore. He's gone. So, what does that look like? Maybe it means that they're trailing more often in games or once again they're going to be in shootout situations and it's going to be another spot where you're getting four, five, six targets a game for Chase Brown. Really, the only concern comes down to as it always is for this Bengals offense is what is Joe Burrow's health like? For some reason, he gets freak injuries here and there and they're all just not really related. They're all separate, but for some reason, he just can't stay healthy. But when he's out there, this Bengals offense is loaded. Uh in 2024, they were six in points per game, first in passing yards per game with a healthy Joe Burrow. I think that you're looking at a situation where Chase Brown um is not like one of these uh dead zone running backs, like an aging running back who doesn't have upside. I think he's in the prime of his career with no competition in a good offense, and he's proven it back-to-back years.

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Now that number 15 player in tier four for me who I said is a little bit hot and cold is Devon Achan. I would say that I'm relatively neutral, maybe lean a little bit cold on him this year. Now, look, we know that Deont Chan is one of the most explosive, if not the most explosive player in all of fantasy football. Not many players can do what he did last year, ranking top five in rushing yards, top four in receiving yards, putting up 1,800 yard season, right? Going out there having 12 touchdowns despite being an undersized back, taking on a red zone, three down role in a Miami Dolphins offense. Um, and everything was fantastic for Divine Hen. You can look at the efficiency. Despite seeing a larger workload and having a lot of touches, he was still averaging six yards per touch, number two in the NFL, over five yards per carry, top five in the NFL. Everything checks out for him. He was number one in explosive plays, number one in breakaway runs. He was just absolutely dominant. But the offseason, in my opinion, is slightly a concern for Devon. If we pull up his team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint, you can see right here, the Dolphins did a lot on offense. Total rebuild for them. The biggest thing that they did was add quarterback Malik Willis on a two-year deal. will probably be the starter for at least this year. Probably even next year depending on what their quarterback situation looks like coming out of next year's NFL draft. But Malik Willis, like we can't lie about this. He is an extremely mobile quarterback. He was never throwing even 30 times a game in his spot starts with the Green Bay Packers. Heck, he wasn't even throwing 25 times per game. This is going to be an offense that's probably throwing 20, 25, 27 at best times per game. And when Malik Willis is your quarterback not throwing a lot, that means less targets and checkdowns for Han because you're just not throwing as much and you have a mobile quarterback who will take off. And in the red zone, potentially less work for Devon Han and that's a problem because what has Devon Chan done the last couple of seasons? All he's done is catch passes and score touchdowns. A dozen touchdowns each of the last two seasons, 67 catches last year, 78 catches the year before that. Now you're getting a mobile quarterback. I guarantee you he's not hitting these 78 or 70 reception seasons. And there's also a chance that his touchdowns go down. Now, the obvious upside for Devon Hen is the fact that he's like his entire offense. Like look at the rest of the guys here. The best wide receiver on this team right now, at least according to OTAAS, is Malik Washington, right? That's pretty pathetic as it stands. Your your starting tight end is Greg Dolich, 22 Atwell, and Jaylen Tolbert who were like wide receiver fours for most teams when they were on the Cowboys and the Rams. They're now your starting wide receivers as it stands today, depending on what happens with the rookies, Caleb Douglas and Chris Bell dealing with injuries and just rookies in OTAA seeing how they start their season off. So obviously Devon Han should be loaded up with like 16 to 20 plus touches per game. He's efficient enough to get there on that. But I'm pretty concerned about the overall offense, about the overall situation compared to some other guys like a Chase Brown around him in drafts.

All right, now let's close out tier number four with my number 16 overall player. It's going to be Kenneth Walker who is now on the Kansas City Chiefs with virtually no backfield competition. Let's get into it. Starting with the fact that I mean if we look at it right now, Kenneth Walker last year not the greatest regular season. Obviously, we know what happened in the playoffs. Super Bowl MVP dominates, especially when Zack Sharbon goes down. But in the regular season, he took him in the fourth round, fifth round last year. RB28, just five total touchdowns. The reason why Clint Kubak came in as a Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator and split the backfield. Zack Sharpet actually became a 50-50 back because Kenneth Walker was playing less than 50% of the snaps, only saw 51% of the opportunities, lost receiving game work, lost all the goal line and red zone work, was even famously in a prime time game on his own birthday subbed out at the goal line so Zach Char can come in and vulture a touchdown from him. I mean, it was brutal. But now that situation should be completely different because now we're looking at a Kenneth Walker that lands on the Kansas City Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes who's expected to be ready for week one. He's already taking part in OTAAS in mini camp and you can see the backfield competition a fifth round rookie in EMTT Johnson and according to OTAAS right now Amari D Marcato who's been on the Arizona Cardinals a nice pass catching back usually been a relatively efficient back in his limited sample in the NFL he looks like he's going to be the RB2 on this team right now there's no more Isaiah Pacheco he's on the lines there's no more as of right now Kareem Hunt is a free agent so it just stands like it's going to be Kenneth Walker the guy that they gave so much millions like almost $30 million guaranteed or whatever it was Kenneth Walker to me looks like somebody that instantly is probably going to come onto the scene and start seeing 16 to 18 carries a game. And then it just comes down to how do they view him as a receiver. There's early reports saying that they want to use him in like a Christian McCaffrey type role. He's not Christian McCaffrey. As a runner, a pure runner, sure, as a pass catcher, we'll see if he can start getting three to four targets per game. That's where he gets that Jonathan Taylor bump up from last year when Taylor started to get more involved as a pass catcher in his offense.

All right, now we're starting off tier five with my number 17, 18, and 19 players. They're all running back, so I want to put them all together here in this order. Amarian Hampton, Derk Henry, and Ashton Genty. Let's start with Amarian Hampton, who uh look, he just landed Mike McDaniel as an offensive coordinator, which in some ways like automatically puts him in the RB1 conversation when you pair Mike McDaniel, who's had four top five running backs in the last three years alone with the Dolphins. Pair that with Amaran Hampton's first round talent skill set. Now, his rookie season for Amarian Hampton, who many people had to take in the second or maybe third round of your fantasy drafts, it wasn't great. Like 13.8 uh carries per game, 3.9 targets per game. All in all, like over 17 opportunities per game as your second, third round pick in fantasy, a first round running back talent out of the draft. Like that's pretty good. Over 17 opportunities per game. The problem was early on in the season, he's competing with Naji Harris. Then Naji Harris goes down with injury and for like a three-game sample, we see Amarian Hampton take off as like a breakout player that you hoped he would be. During that stretch, as you can see on Roto, I apologize once again for the blurred out. I got this sorted for the next video for sure. I'm not really sure. Maybe this is an error on their end. You can see in that three-game stretch, 21.8 fantasy points per game. uh in between his receiving yards of 40, rushing yards of 80, over 120 total yards per game. The problem after that was he suffers an injury. At first it's like maybe he'll only miss two weeks and then it's like oh no he's going to go on short-term IR and then it's like oh he's going to miss eight plus weeks and be affected for basically his entire rookie season at least fantasy regular season wise. But the good news is now he's healthy heading into year two and like I said Mike McDaniels there going to call probably an efficient rung game offense. We saw that during his time with the 49ers and definitely the last three or so years with the Miami Dolphins. They bring in a new center, Tyler Bedz, a run blocking tight end, and Charlie Kohler from the Ravens. Alec Engold comes over from Miami, a fullback who's going to help in the run game. Cole Strange, a big guard, right? Katon Mitchell is like the Devon Aan speedy guy for Mike McDaniel. Um, he's like the combination or or the style of the Devon Achan type player from that regard. So, I think you're going to get a run first offense here, a run first offense out of Mario Hampton is the clear RB1 in. And Katon Mitchell probably takes over as a nice change of pace. Maybe he's getting six to eight touches per game, at least on paper right now. So Hampton to me looks like a guy who always profiled out based on being a mega producer. His final year at UNCC, goes for over 2,000 total yards. Always profiled out as a three down back who can handle 20 carries a game. I think we might finally get to see that this year assuming he is healthy or stays healthy.

Now at number 18 was Derrick Henry in my tier five. And look, Derrick Henry, I mean, what's not to like? Every single year, he just continues to break any type of like regression or like running back norms. He's an outlier of all outliers. another 300 carry season last year, 65 more red zone touches despite a Ravens offense that struggled and they didn't have a healthy Lamar Jackson for stretches. Number three in red zone touches. Derrick Henry just continues to go out there and do Derrick Henry things. Last year, despite at times it looking like he was an absolute bust. He still gets 16 touchdowns. He still ranks top 10 in fantasy points per game as a second round pick, getting you 16.4 fantasy points per game last year. You'll take that all day long. And then, oh yeah, if you had him in your fantasy championship, if you either bought low on him or you held it out for Derrick Henry in that crazy game against the Packers, 36 carries, 216 yards. So despite having 36 carries, usually like your efficiency will drop, you get tired as the game goes on. Not Derrick Henry. He's an alien. He still averaged six yards per carry, had four touchdowns in this game. And basically, if you had him on your fantasy team that week, you automatically won your fantasy league. Now, the crazy thing about Derrick Henry, it doesn't matter that he's getting older and now he's 30 years old because he's been a top 10 running back in all three seasons after turning 30 years old. And the Ravens have ranked top three in rushing offense for three straight seasons, including last year where they averaged 156 yards per game, second most in the NFL on the ground despite not having a fully healthy Lamar Jackson. Now, the only concern for Derrick Henry, as it has always really been for Derrick Henry the last what, four years or so, is the age. He's 32 and a half years old. He will be turning 33 towards the end of this season heading into like or the postseason. So, are we concerned about the age for Derrick Henry? You could have said that the last four years and been wrong. You could say it again this year. Maybe you're finally right. Who knows? But

At this point, nothing from last year. The offense that he's still in now, the competition, the way that they want to run the ball. None of that's really changing. You could say that Jon Harbaugh's gone now. So maybe he's they're not going to run as much with Jon Harbaugh not there as the head coach. Not sure if I really buy that. Not sure how much of a pulse John Harbaugh had on the offense specifically. Sure. I mean, he was obviously talking to the offensive coordinator and play callers, and he leaned like a defensively minded run game head coach as a special teams coordinator. But I would say that overall, Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson on your offense. Any play caller is going to lean to run the ball.

All right, now we get to my number 19 player overall. It's Ashton Genty, a second-year player here, similar to Amarian Hampton. And Ashen Genty is somebody that, um, I really like. He was originally like a top 15 pick for me, but I've had to bump him a little bit down because I just like other players more. Uh, like a Drake London, like a Chase Brown, like we've already talked about. But Ashen Jenty could be rising in the process. Like he had a down rookie season, but like despite that, he still had almost 1,400 total yards, 10 touchdowns, 78% snap share, top five, number one ranked opportunity share in the entire NFL. He saw 84% of his backfield opportunities. What did that lead to? It led to Aston Genty having 14 or 15.7 carries per game, 4.3 targets per game. He was averaging 20 opportunities per game as a rookie. That's everything that you wanted. The problem was Colton Miller gets hurt along the offensive line and the offensive line collapse. The coaching absolutely stunk. That's why they're not there anymore. And the offense in general played extremely slow-paced. They didn't run a lot of plays and overall was not good. But Genty himself was still being relatively efficient, like top five in juke rate, broken tackle rate, fourth most evated tackles. When you get a lot of carries, that's obviously going to happen. But he did as much as he possibly could in a historically bad Raiders offense where he ranked number one in stuff rate because the offensive line couldn't do anything for him.

However, now everything starts to change. You get Clint Kubak who won the Super Bowl as the offensive coordinator with the Seahawks last year. Had a top five graded rush offense depending on which stat you look at if it's EPA, if it's PFF grades, right? Overall was efficient on offense. And now you look at the team changes page and everything starts to line up for Ashen Genty. Not only do you get Colton Miller back on your offensive line from injury, they go out and they pay Tyler Linderbomb a bag to be a center, one of the best run-blocking centers in the NFL. They also bring in Fernando Mendoza and Kirk Cousins, hoping that that can actually help this offense a little bit more from a passing game perspective compared to what they had in Gino last year. But I would just say that the offensive line alone with Colton Miller and Tyler Linder and also bringing in, um, Clint Kubak, not even factoring in a potential quarterback upgrade, that's enough for Ashen Genty to actually be like a second-round worthy pick. I mean, the guy had 10 touchdowns and 1400 yards last year. And we're already getting quotes out of OTAs that are positive, which is usually what happens in OTAs. But if you're curious, Raiders new head coach, Clint Kubak says he wants to get Ashen Genty on the field as much as he can. I mean, he already was last year, top five in snap share, but okay, let's keep it there for sure. We want to put a lot of pressure on Ashen. It's important to have a quality second back, but the best player has to get, uh, has to get the plays. Those great backs, they don't want to come off the field. Okay, that's awesome. Like the only thing that I could say different about Ashton Genty besides the offense around him getting better for more efficiency would be maybe we get a couple more targets, couple more passing downs out of him. And if the offense just runs more plays in general, there's a real chance for a 1,600 total yard season from Genty. His current backfield competition, like Mike Washington Jr., a, a, a day three running back from the NFL draft, I believe, like that's the only guy that's going to be be here. Dylan Lob, that's pretty much it. So, I'm not concerned about any competition. Washington Jr. might have been a third-round pick. I can't either third or fourth at this point. Um, but yeah, I would say there's not really any concerns. Uh, for a target competition or like a, a backfield competition for Ashen Genty, it's pretty obvious that he's going to be the lead back.

All right. Now, we stay in my tier five with my number 21 and 22 players. They're pass catchers or my number 20 and 21 players. George Pickkins with the Cowboys and number 21 Brock Bowers. We could start with George Pickkins who had the best finishers of of his career in fantasy last year. Number six wide receiver or number six wide receiver in points per game. The guy absolutely broke out. 93 catches over, 400 yards. Despite competing with CD Lamb for 14 of those games, even though Lamb might have been hurt for nearly half of the games he was actually active for, he still went out there and baldled out. And in those games where he got to be a legit number one alpha receiver with CD Lamb dealing with the ankle injury and not playing in those four games averaged 24.2 fantasy points per game, number one in the NFL and 107 receiving yards per game. Also number one, he was an absolute monster. And like even though CD Lamb is going to come back and be healthy to start this season, like all Dak Prescott does is just throw a ton of passes. Like you remember back in 2024, 579 pass attempts led the NFL. Oh, or 2023. Oh, last year when he's healthy, he actually goes even more than that with 600 pass attempts. Now, the thing that could change here is Dallas might actually have a solid defense, right? We've seen Dallas making a lot of moves this offseason, whether it be trades, whether it be via the draft. So, if their defense does improve this offseason, which it seems like just naturally it has to. Well, then that's when you're maybe going to be getting Dak Prescott not throwing 600 times per game. But basically, every single year of this guy's career, all he does is throw the ball. But even if it like obviously these years where it's a little bit less is because he only played eight games, a little bit less, he only played 12 games. But you're getting when he's healthy 600, 590, 596, 596, 526, right? Like he's probably going to throw the ball 500 to 600 times. Even if the defense is a little bit better, that's just how this offense runs. So I mean, you don't have like the most dynamic running back in the backfield to handle 20 to 20, 18 to 20 carries a game and Javonte Williams. You have George Pickkins, CD Lamb, you're going to be throwing the ball. Now, the problem is George Pickins was a fifth-round pick last year. Now he goes in round two, so he's almost being drafted at his ceiling. You could argue that he was producing like a first-round caliber player the second half of the season last year really from when CD Lamb got hurt in like week four or five on. But it is a little bit sketchy with a healthy CD Lamb to be taking Pickins in round two in my opinion.

Now my number 21 overall player is Brock Bowers. I mean in my opinion he's my tight end one in fantasy this year ahead of Trey McBride. I get how good Trey McBride was last year. He won me two separate fantasy leagues or was helping me do that. But it's hard not to like Brock Bowers. Like sure last year Brock Bowers is not as good as his rookie year because of injuries. He only played 12 games. Even in those 12 games that he played, I would say at least two, maybe upwards of four or five of those, he was also playing with the knee injury. So, he was really only healthy for like four or five games. Um, previous year healthy all the games, 153 targets, setting records for a rookie tight end, 112 catches, 1100 receiving yards. Like Bowers last year was clearly not healthy. And despite that, he's going out there in some of those weeks, and let's just show you some of this upside that he had. He's going out there in some of those weeks and dropping oh, 43 points, right? Insane dealing with injuries. 22 points to tight end, one on both of those weeks. So, like obviously we know the upside of Brock Bowers. This was with bad quarterback play, bad coaching, a slow pace offense, and a brutal knee injury, a bone bruise last year. All those things are now different. And the craziest thing is somehow the Raiders did not address their wide receiver position in the entire NFL draft. Like all they did was add Malik Benson in like the sixth round. Their current competition for Brock Bowers, it's Jack Bess, second-year player, did nothing as a rookie. It's Trey Tucker. Had like a game or two nicely with Gino last year, but mostly just a downfield burner. And then Jaylen Naylor looks like their number one receiver right now who was at best the third maybe fourth passing game option on the Vikings last year. The backups Derek Derek Young, Malik Benson, Dante Thoren Jr. who's also just a field stretcher. So yeah, we're looking at Brock Bowers just dominating this offense for probably another 150 targets. And if that's the case, it's hard not to take Brock Bowers in the second round. If he very similar situation as Trey McBride last year going around that pick 20 to 24 range, if Bowers ever falls into round three, uh, you have to just snag.

We keep it going here with my 22nd and 23rd overall players, both wide receivers. AJ Brown, my number 22 overall player, and Nico Collins, my number 23 overall player. AJ Brown gets traded to the P, uh, the Patriots. He gets Drake May, probably, in my opinion, the best quarterback of his career, especially with Drake May being one vote away from a co-MVP with Josh Allen last year. Jaylen Hurts has never been that high level in like MVP voting, but you're getting Mr. Consistency in AJ Brown. Even in a down year where everybody hated him last year, he was still top 10 in fantasy points per game. Now, I, I know if you had him in your fantasy league, this was obviously very boom bust. He would go two to three weeks doing nothing and then have a 20-plus point breakout, right? But AJ Brown, like despite it being terrible and people saying it was awful last year for him. I mean, I get it. There was some rough stretches. Still ranked number nine with a 29% target share. All this guy does, especially vintage AJ Brown, is put up like 1400 yard seasons. And I think we might be getting back to that 1400 yard season now because if you look at it over his past four years, uh, three of which he's been on the Phil, or all of those of which he's been on the Philadelphia Eagles. He's averaging a top 12 wide receiver one finish in fantasy, over, 200 receiving yards and 131 targets. And now his quarterback is Drake May who's a big-armed passer. Like AJ Brown was breaking out left and right in 2023 when Jaylen Hurts was throwing downfield. What did Drake May do last year despite not having a lot of downfield weapons? Oh, he threw downfield. Fourth most deep attempts per game. Oh, his air yards were top five in the NFL. His passing yards were number four. His money throws were number three. Like, this guy is a stud who already broke out last year. It's only going to get better. And now he has a legit alpha wide receiver in AJ Brown. And oh yeah, AJ Brown goes from competing with Devonte Smith, arguably the best number two receiver right there with George Pickins, T. Higgins in the entire NFL. He's going from competing with that to now his number two receiver is Romeo Dobs. Look, I like Romeo Dobs. He's a solid wide receiver, three for most teams. He's a nice possession receiver, rotational guy. He's not Devonte Smith. So AJ Brown is set up in my opinion for another vintage 1400 yard season. I get it, he's 29 years old, but I still think he has juice left.

Now my number 23 overall player is going to be Nico Collins. And Nico Collins is, I mean, it's some, in some regards similar to the AJ Brown talk of like last year. Some people thought it was a bad season. Still a top 10 finish in fantasy points per game. Still 15 fantasy points per game. I get it. If you took him in round one, that was a reach on your end. But like if you took him in round two, still was fairly decent considering he only had 120 targets, missed a couple games with injuries, still had 1100 receiving yards, 71 catches despite his quarterback and CJ Stroud easily having the worst season of his career. CJ Stroud last year completing 64% of his passes. That's a little bit skewed. There's a lot of checkdowns in there. He only had 3,000 passing yards. His efficiency was absolutely horrendous, especially as the season went on. You look at it right here. Uh, true passer rating, 27th in the NFL. Start of the season, CJ Stroud was solid. Injuries to the offensive line, injuries to some playmakers, including Nico Collins. CJ Stroud falls off a cliff all the way into the playoffs where we see him throw like four first-half interceptions. Obviously terrible. But through all of that, Nico Collins continued to produce. And as you can see from Hayden Wing's tweet right here, Nico Collins being the wide receiver three in yards per target over a three-year sample based on his level of volume is crazy. So, he's top three in yards per target the last three years. Let's keep going because it gets even better. You can see that he got a little bit more money this offseason. 17 million, 9 million or 9 million this year, 8 million next year. So 17 million added to his contract. They know he's a wide receiver one. They want to keep him absolutely happy. Not only that though, but like not only does he rank, you saw Hayden Winks tweet top three in yards per target. Notes here. I have also over the last three years, second in yards per route run. The best efficiency metric we had for a wide receiver. So over the last three years, Nico Collins is the second most efficient wide receiver in the NFL and sixth in first downs per route run. He's also up there in first three target share. He's an absolute alpha and Nico Collins once again is going to have no target competition. Tank Dell who hasn't played football in a year and a half. Um, and then some second-year wide receivers. Like not much here for Nico Collins to have to deal.

Now we get to my number 24 player to finish out these rankings. He's all the way down here. Rashi Rice of the Kansas City Chiefs. Look, I get it. The guy's a knucklehead as of right now. All of his off-field issues. Even though he's spending 30 days in jail, he's going to be playing week one and ready for training camp. And last year in eight games when he was active, number one in red zone target share, number one in designed target share. The guy's just been an absolute monster. As of right now, Patrick Mahomes is expected to be ready for week one. And if that's the case, even if Mahomes is like a little bit limited and he has to check it down more and he's not as mobile, that should just help Rashi Rice in the short passing game because where's the target competition coming from? The Chiefs didn't address the position. They only added a fifth-round rookie in Cyrus Allen. Other than that, it's Xavier Worthy yet again. They resigned Kadarius Toney yet again. Um, Jaylen Royals who did nothing last year as a rookie. Nico Remi, or I'm sorry, I can't pronounce the last name right now. I've been talking for almost an hour. He's done nothing in this offense. Travis Kelce resigns a deal. Maybe this is his last year. Finally, he's another year older. So, it's really in the passing attack like Rashi Rice and that's pretty much it in terms of possession receiver, first downs, uh, red zones, all this designed plays. It's Rashi Rice. So, yeah, I, I can't guarantee that he's not going to do something stupid and be suspended another four to six plus games. I can't guarantee that. But, as of right now, he's going to be ready for week one. To me, that means he should be a second-round pick. So, there you go. My top 24 overall players updated as of right now. We'll do another update later on in the summer. I appreciate you all tuning in. Now, if you want to see the seven players that I would bet my life on in fantasy football this year, you can check out this video right here. These are the guys that you need to get at least one, hopefully multiple of them on your teams this summer.