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If I was going to be honest with you with these rankings, I would probably put Puka by himself in his own tier and then put an empty tier below him because nobody comes close to Pukanaku at this point. Through the first three weeks, the man had not had a receiving touchdown yet. He had still been averaging about 25 points per game. We finally get the receiving touchdown this past week and he has 36. Pukanakua so far is pacing to be better than what Jamar Chase was last year. It is incredible. There are no signs that this is slowing down anytime soon. This is a wide receiver stepping into his prime that's had historic levels of efficiency. And this may just be the guy that you need if you're going to win fantasy football this year.
Now, let's move down a couple tiers and let's go over to our wide receiver 2 and look at A. St. Brown. Um, with St. Brown, you have six total touchdowns over the past three weeks. Over the past three weeks, he's averaging almost 30 points a game. Unbelievable. And now going into the future, you actually have some really good matchups like this next week against Cincinnati. Would it be surprising if A. St. Brown dropped 40?
Um, Jamar Chase will be our next guy. Um, two weeks back in the game in which Burrow goes down at the very beginning, you have Browning play for a lot of it and Jamar still dropped 36 fantasy points. Then obviously this past week, Jamar Chase does absolutely nothing. I don't know what's going to happen in the game tonight. His projection on Underdog Fantasy at the moment's higher, lower 12.65 fantasy points. I still want to stand by Chase and still say, you know what, he's probably pretty damn good player.
Um, Justin Jefferson and JSN are kind of in the exact same boat, right? Where Jefferson also has garbage quarterback play at the moment. Um, but Jefferson looked great this past week in the Europe game with 11 targets and 10 receptions for over 100 receiving yards. Jackson Smith and Jigba looked like he was going to completely face plant on Thursday night. Rose from the ashes in the fourth quarter to actually do something for you. They had double digit fantasy points every single week and the target volume has been incredible. But outside of A. Brown, every wide receiver in that tier has garbage quarterback play.
Now, C. Lamb was lower than this in our rankings last week. But obviously, every week that goes by where C. Lamb comes closer to returning, he will move up our fantasy football rankings. So, probably next week in our rankings, he's going to be a tier A player. And then the week after, he'll probably be about wide receiver three, only really in contention with A. St. Brown there.
Um, Nico Collins will be our next name. With Nico, I was going up against him in the Flock League this week. Um, I'm sure you already heard, but we won. We're now 4-0. I love life at the moment, but regardless, um, I was really worried that we are going to get a 40-point bomb dropped against us with Nico. I mean, he has the target volume, but ultimately the Texans don't have to throw the ball. They just beat down the Tennessee Titans, but good thing for Nico Collins drafters. The Texans aren't probably going to be winning many games like that going into the future. So, the market share numbers still look good for Nico Collins. Still an elite level wide receiver. Don't stress anything about this past week.
Um, Drake London, the market share numbers still look great. I mean, obviously comes through and he finally gives you the big week in week four with 25 fantasy points, but I mean it was right there all in line. He's been averaging 8-9 targets a game. And going into the future, it's really just going to hinge on Michael Penn and the efficiency of this offense. And then obviously D. Mooney gets banged up. And then R. Dunay is the riser of all risers. If Rome continues to produce the way that he is, there is a very real possibility that he is a tier A wide receiver just a couple weeks from now. Now, we're not going to get to see him in week five. He'll play in week six at Washington, but if R. Dunun against the Commanders goes out there and gives you another 20-plus point performance, there's a good shot that he's right there alongside Jackson Smith and Jigba with our rankings.
Now going over to tier C, we had moved G. Pickens up to wide receiver 12 in our rest of season rankings um right as soon as you had the C. Lamb injury was very obvious with no C. Lamb. George Pickins was just going to be an absolute smash and the expectation was going to be like, okay, we're going to move him to wide receiver 12. Then every week that goes by, I'll move him down a little bit in the ranks because C. Lamb's going to be closer to returning. How the hell could I move him down when he drops 33 points? Yeah, it was an overtime game. Yeah, he scored two touch. He scored 33 points in a tough matchup against the Green Bay Packers. Like next few weeks at the Jets, at Carolina, like realistically George Pickins may be a top five wide receiver in my rankings this next week. I may be ranking George Pickins ahead of Chase, ahead of Jefferson, ahead of JSN until C. Lamb comes back.
Now, T. McMillan will be our next option. Great talent, great market share numbers, garbage offense, like just one of these phenomenal players that will be held back by the quarterback that he plays with. D. Adams, not held back at all with his quarterback. If anything, prompted up by Matthew Stafford where Stafford continues the ball. I mean, he's scoring touchdowns. So the fantasy points look great for Adams, but all the volume is going over to Puka Nikua. Um, but I mean with how many yards and touchdowns Matthew Stafford's projected out for the rest of the year, still should be completely fine spot with Adams.
R. Rice will be our next name. Of course, every single week that goes by, like clockwork, we are going to move this guy higher and higher in our rankings. And it only looks more exciting after you actually have Patrick Mahomes putting up a real strong performance against the Baltimore Ravens this past week. I'll probably say after week five, like when we're doing our week six rest of season rankings, Rashi Rice is probably going to be at the top of this tier and then week seven when he's fully back, he'll probably be in B tier or honestly maybe A. We'll see.
Um, but A. Brown is our next guy. I tweeted this out, but it is great. If you drafted A. Brown, I understand maybe you're disappointed where you've seen 1.8 points, 7.7, then 22, then 2.7. I I get it, right? But the fact that A. Brown has the mentality that he cares more about the fantasy football points that he scores rather than the success of the Philadelphia Eagles or he is throwing a fit, the fact that he is not getting involved more than this. That's the type of mentality that I want from all my players. Please, T. Higgins, D. Metcalf, my wide receivers on my team. Take that same mindset. Okay? I don't care if the Steelers win. I don't care if the Bengals win. If you don't get the ball, if you don't score me fantasy points, I need you to be a problem in that locker room. And because A. Brown's a problem in that locker room right now, realistically, they'll probably get him the ball a little bit more than they have been.
Going over and looking at G. Wilson. Um, really bad offense, but honestly really good wide receiver. Very similar to the setup that you have with like T. McMillan, which is why we're going to have them in the same tier. Um, there's a very real shot that G. Wilson, if he drops another 20 points in the game tonight, he can move to the very top of these rankings. Obviously, I'll be live streaming after the game tonight showing you all the updated ranks. I mean, as of right now, his projection on Underdog Fantasy is higher, lower, 11.05 fantasy points for the game tonight. But of course, if you wanted to check out any of those picks over there on Underdog Fantasy, I'm going to leave the link in the description and comment section. Code Flock will get you the best promo that I've ever seen on Underdog Fantasy where after you play your first five, you are going to get $100 added to your account. And on top of that, you'll get a free Bo Nix pick more than less than half a total yard for the game on Monday nights. And if you use code Flocker, you can get free questions that you can ask me in the live streams. And we're going to be streaming every single night until Christmas.
Now, let's move over to Igbuka. Um, Igbuka was my favorite underdog pickum this past week at higher than 57 and a half receiving yards. He comes through. He absolutely crushes. And it's really simple. When you have no Mike Evans, when Godwin's not 100%, Igbuka is going to be an absolute crusher. I'm gonna still have him lower in our rest of season rankings than where I'll have them in our weekly rankings. For the reason being is I do think eventually there's a shot we get Chris Godwin, Mike Evans both fully healthy at the same time in this offense. And when that happens, I think the Bucs are going to go from a team that is lacking wide receiver depth to having one of the best wide receiver rooms in the league. So, Igbuka like is one of the very rare rookies that we rank higher in our weekly rankings than our rest of season ones.
Um, going over and looking at C. Sutton, I think is going to blow up against the Bengals tonight. Um, his projection on Underdog at the moment is currently 12.45 fantasy points. So, he's actually supposed to outscore G. Wilson by a decent margin tonight. And I believe he's actually maybe supposed to outscore Jamar Chase. Um, absolute mustard guy. The reason we do this as tier lists, right, is all these players are very similar. If you wanted to rank G. Pickens at wide receiver 17 and C. Sutton at wide receiver 10, I wouldn't fault you at all for it.
Now, moving over to our next tier, we are now B. Thomas. Brian Thomas did just enough for me to not nuke him in our rankings. Like, I wanted to, but he comes through, he leads this team in receiving. They do what they can to just try to force the ball his way. Like they even are going out there and giving him some jet sweeps. Like he hasn't been great. Season high 10 and a half fantasy points. But and maybe we need to move him behind Tyreek Hill. You know what? We will move him behind Tyreek. Realistically, if we're looking at Tyreek Hill, we don't know what's going to happen tonight, but the ceiling is just so much better.
Um, I. Flowers, this ranking is going to be very dependent on what we have with the Lamar Jackson hamstring. It seems like Lamar is going to be fine, at least from what I'm reading right now, but we're definitely going to have to keep monitoring that. And I will say obviously if the Baltimore Ravens defense continues to be garbage, pretty good for Z. Flowers because they're going to have to throw the ball.
Now, D. Samuel could be much much higher in our weekly rankings this next week. The reason being is there's an outside chance that you have J. Daniels playing and you have no T. McLaren. And if that does happen, then D. Samuel, you could definitely move at least to the very top of this tier, but potentially to tier C.
Going over to M. Harrison. Great second half on Thursday night. Horrendous first half. Um, still an incredibly young player, just turned 23. You want to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's going to continue to improve, but it's super shaky, super up and down. Like you could include him into your E.
So, here's the thing I'm going to be honest with you about, and we talked about this in our trade strategy video, just in case you hadn't seen that, but the points per game drop off that you're going to have with these wide receivers in like the wide receiver 20 to the wide receiver 30 range. Last year, the points per game difference between these guys was like one point. It is very much a matchup to matchup thing with the weekly rankings. You're going to have one of these guys emerge over the next half of the season that we can't really expect right now and you're just doing your best shot at trying to figure out who it's going to be.
Um, J. Meyers, I ranked way too high this past week. I thought we were going to have way more passing volume from G. Smith and then all of a sudden A. Genty just took over everything in the offense. But the market share numbers still look good with Meyers. I have D. Metcalf as the wide receiver one on my fantasy football team, which is very embarrassing to admit, but at least he keeps scoring touchdowns. Yes, he may only be averaging like five and a half targets a game, but keep scoring TDs, DK. I really appreciate it.
R. Pierol will be our next name with Sticky. Ricky, you're hoping that he was going to crush with B. Purdy, but he gets injured. Jennings is banged up. Nobody is healthy in San Francisco. Nobody. So, this knee injury with R. Pierce. Obviously, it's going to be something that we have to continue to monitor. But if he is going to miss time, he can get nuked in these ranks.
Um, T. Higgins, we'll see what he does in the game tonight. I've already locked up my win. So, Higgins, honestly, buddy, just ride the pine and get ready for next week against Detroit.
Um, Mike Evans will be our next play with Mike Evans. He was lower in our rankings last week, but of course every week that goes by, he's going to move up and up and up until he returns. And we have no idea when that's going to be, but it could be as early as week five. We have no idea. I was very hesitant with Chris Godwin coming back in. Obviously, we knew not to start him, but um he was actually very involved. He had 10 targets and he played just as much as I he was out there running just as many routes, just as many snaps. So Godwin was a must-bench player for us this past week, but he actually looks like somebody that you could strongly consider at this point.
Um, D. Smith boom bust option hinges on the passing volume in one of the lowest passing volume attacks in the league. Realistically, C. Ave when we resubmit these rankings, which will continuously update, I'm probably going to need to move A. Ave over Smith. I'm going to need to move Worthy over Smith. I'm going to move A. Ave and Worthy over both Godwin and Smith and probably Mike Evans. Realistically, again, all the wide receivers in this tier are interchangeable. Like, it seems crazy to have Q. Johnston down at wide receiver 32. And again, I'll reiterate, nobody spent more money drafting Quinton Johnson this year than I have. Like, the dude's top 10 wide receiver so far this season. Borderline top five wide receiver in points. You absolutely love to see it. He's dominating the targets. He's dominating the offices, the targets, the yards, the receptions, everything in Los Angeles is his.
L. Man, I'm sorry, but you're no longer the wide receiver one in Los Angeles. After yet another disappointing game, three straight games with fewer than 10 fantasy points for L. Man. I think it's just time to nuke him in these rankings.
And then going over and looking at our next tier, these plays are like all shaky starts where everybody in E tier, I'm like, "Okay, yeah, you can start them and you can be confident with them in your flex bot." F tier, um, like these guys are definitely going to be useful for by-weeks. They're definitely going to be useful for injury fill-ins, but if I had to go put J. Williams into my lineup, I wouldn't be I wouldn't sleep well at night. He's had zero games with 20 fantasy points this year, and he's had three games with fewer than seven. Good offense, great player, but what we've said through his entire NFL career is he stretches NFL defenses, create space underneath for the running backs, create space underneath for A. Ross St. Brown.
Now, K. Allen will be our next option. Um, with Keenan, 33-year-old player, as long as you just turned 33 either, I'm actually going to assume that you probably have him sliding back and L. Man taking more as time goes on. You don't have the same big play potential that you do with Q. Johnston either.
Now, M. Pitman will be our next name. When we're looking at Pitman, he cemented himself as the wide receiver one in Indianapolis, but this is very much spread out attack and you do have a lot getting funneled through the tight ends. And I do think that J. Downs eventually going to be something here. Now, I have a ridiculous amount of Michael Pitman Jr. in basketball. So, I hope he continues to crush, but it's a rush first offense spread attack. Um, and I am somewhat concerned that Daniel Jones eventually turns back into a pumpkin. Obviously, Daniel Jones has looked great so far this season, though.
Um, T. McLaren, a lot of question marks surrounding this injury. So, I'm just going to be putting a discount on him in these rankings. Like again, going and seeing specialists, we're telling he's not going to get replaced on the injured reserve, which is great. I'm J. Wadd. We'll see what he does tonight. The volume hasn't been there, but the efficiency has. J. Addison had the big time play his first weekend, but he only had four receptions. This offense looks to be one of the worst offenses in the league. I'm assuming we have Carson Wentz again against the Cleveland Browns this next week and then they have a bye-week in week six and then starting in week seven we should have McCarthy back.
Now going over to G tier, I I want nothing to do with these guys in my starting lineup. We're going to have D. Moore R. O's clear alpha. L. Burden's going to get better as time goes on and maybe L. Lovlin comes back healthy after the bye and Titans start drawing targets. Um, D. Moore has not seen more than six targets in a game so far this year. U. M. Golden, the hope was he was going to come through and he was going to do something with um the overtime game against Dallas in a great matchup. Everything just got funneled through when we had Dobs.
T. Hunter will be our next name with Hunter. Uh he only played on the offensive side of the ball in the second half against Jacksonville. Set a career high with 42 receiving yards, but he still has yet to crack 10 fantasy points this season. It's not like he's playing that many more snaps either. S. Diggs actually is playing significantly more snaps. He was out there for almost every Drake May drop back, which was great to see cuz I'm really going to have to start considering playing Stefon Diggs myself during some of these by-weeks. So, I love the fact that he goes out and sees 100 receiving yards, but probably don't want to play him until he has another performance like this.
K. Shakir comes through with the receiving touchdown. If you started him, it's great. But it's not like you can say like, "Oh, Shakir back-to-back games with touchdowns." We know he's an autolock. I mean, over the past three weeks, he's had 11 targets.
Um, J. Jennings. Again, it's so difficult to rank any of the Ners just because we frankly have no idea what it's going to be when it comes to the target volume in this offense because one guy's in, one guy's out, the other guy's in, the other guy's out. We don't know who's healthy.
Now, J. Robinson going to be playing a lot. You have no Malik Nabers, but to be honest with you, do I have any faith in him? No, I do not.
Um, J. Judy will be our next play. Jerry Judy is a receiver that I may need for the by-weeks. He's had a considerable amount of volume. Like, so far this season, he's given you 30 targets through four games, but the efficiency is just some of the worst marks that we see of any wide receiver in the NFL.
K. Coleman, it is nice seeing J. Palmer play less, but Keon Coleman still has had a total of 11 targets in the past three weeks. E. Manor cements himself as the wide receiver one, but it's in the worst offense in the NFL. My friend, you should have got drafted somewhere else.
And then D. Mooney gets banged up, so he's going to get dropped. And R. Dobs with a 30-point performance, making it where we have to include him in these ranks. I will say I don't necessarily know if we're all of a sudden having Romeo Dobs turn into an every-week player, somebody you can jam in no matter what. This is the fourth year of his NFL career. We've seen that he is a great red zone weapon for Jordan Love, but he doesn't have the upside to turn into an every-week starter. I think more so you're just hoping that you get the touchdown. And obviously in basketball leagues, he's in a good spot. But I really appreciate you. I really hope I was able to help you out with this. And of course, if you wanted to check out any of those picks over on Underdog Fantasy, I'll leave the link in the description as well as the comment section. Code Flock will get you $100 added to your Underdog account after you play your first five and you'll get a free Bo Nix pick more than less than half total yard for the game tonight. And on top of that, you'll get free questions that you can ask me in the live streams. Underdog is available in almost every single state. You can find the link in the description comment section. I really appreciate you and really hope I get to see you out in the live stream later.