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Good morning, friends and enemies. It is a big day because we are doing our top 30 wide receiver rankings for 2026 fantasy football. Continuing into the ranking week. We did running backs in our last video. So, if you missed that, go check it out either before or after. I don't care. Just make it happen. Wide receivers, we are ranking them, we are tiering them, and we are talking about them. So, if you enjoy the video, make sure you hit the button that looks like this. Subscribe to the channel cuz we will be doing quarterbacks and tight ends shortly after this one. And let's jump in.
Tier number one, we have the elite wide receiver ones worthy of being top five fantasy picks. Puka Nua, Jamar Chase, Jackson Smith in Jigba. Puka is my wide receiver one though hard to decipher between the three of them. For Puka, I mean just like how many years do we need to see McVey produce elite fantasy production? Stafford produce elite fantasy production. Plus, we just saw it from Puka. So, I'm not going to overthink this one. He is running the 2021 Cooper Cup routes. He did it last year. He will likely do it again this year. So, Puka is my one. Jamar Chase is my two. Not much downside. Uh I would say the only way that we could see like a badish year from Jamar Chase, and by bad, I mean like you draft him as wide receiver 2 and he ends up as wide receiver seven or eight. Is is is it randomly a year where T. Higgins has 15 touchdowns? andor does the defense finally take a huge step up to the points where Joe Burrow does not need to score 28 points a game in order to compete. Very unlikely for that to happen this year though. It is a improved defense and T. Higgins has looked as good as he has in his career in the last two years in terms of touchdown scoring as well. But Jamar Chase very high volume just explosive every time he gets the ball in his hands. And we remember just two years ago 2024 when Jamar Chase was one of the best fantasy wide receivers of all time. Joe Burrow should be continuing to compete for an MVP award this season. The Bengals look locked in this offseason. So, Jamar Chase is my two and JSN is my three despite being unbelievable last year. I would say the biggest hesitation I have overall is just the loss of Clint Kubak as their offensive coordinator going over to Las Vegas. So, you got to pick and choose some like nitpicky things between these guys up here. JSN, he's my three, but like would be happy to have him as my wide receiver. one. Losing Clint Kubak though, who I think is a a very very very strong offensive mind makes me a little squeamish there.
Next year up, we've got these strong wide receiver ones, which is just Aman Ra and CD Lamb. If either of them finished as the number one fantasy wide receiver, wouldn't overly surprise anyone here. Aman RA has basically been a top three fantasy wide receiver for about four straight seasons. He's as high of a floor guy as you're going to find probably outside of like Jamar Chase right now. good offense attached to Jared who obviously loves him has just done it for many many years in a row. They have a great schedule. They play in a dome so the environment should always kind of be in his favor. Nothing not to love about Aman Rah. CD Lamb he's a little bit of a trickier one. I will say just being attached to Dak in this Dallas offense though has to give you a lot of confidence. You would be lying to yourself though if you were just going to say oh CD Lamb is way better than George Pickins. That's fine. But you do have to acknowledge that you have a young explosive superstar that went for 1400 yards on the other side of the ball. It's going to eat into targets, going to eat into games and there will be games that are just the George Pickins games and there's going to be a lot of shots downfield that do not go to Lamb and they go to George Pickkins. Overall though, love the environment, love the quarterback, love the situation. You know, Pickins being on the outside now allows Lamb to not see a ton of coverage. I think he dealt with a lot of injuries last year that ended up being the reason why he had a down year obviously. So, I still love CD Lamb. would take him over George Pickkins for sure in a one for one, but he's my wide receiver five right now.
Next up, tier number three, borderline wide receiver one, two, Justin Jefferson, Drake London, AJ Brown, Rashi Rice, Nico Collins, George Pickkins, and Devont Smith. They're all likely wide receiver ones, but you'd feel a lot more comfortable if you got them after you went running back heavy or if you got them as a wide receiver, too. Obviously, you are ecstatic about it. Justin Jefferson story of his, you know, last 12 months is JJ McCarthy being the quarterback and him having just an abysmal abysmal run out. Has a really nice schedule this year. They obviously bring in Kyler Murray. So, trying to look at it objectively. You still have Kevin Oonnell as the offensive coordinator. There's still an offense that should move the ball if Kyler can be even like relatively close to what he was when he came in the league. That is a little bit of a concern though. There is definitely still risk involving Justin Jefferson. like there's no risk in terms of him falling off as a player, but Kyler Murray's a risk. Like I don't think he's a very good NFL quarterback. He's a great playmaker and he's an incredible athlete. A lot of times these types of players get figured out by the NFL and he has trouble seeing over his linemen. I think that is a very legit thing with how small he is. So I think he'll be much better than JJ McCarthy. You know, that offense was basically unusable. Jefferson still squeaked out like a decent amount of yardage and production last year. kind of became unusable in fantasy, but looking back just in terms of what he was dealing with at the QB position, it was so ugly. And you know, you have to think Justin Jefferson is just too talented of a player not to have a major bounceback here. So, I'd be lying if I said I felt the way I did about Justin Jefferson like two years ago where he's an unfazed quarterback proof wide receiver at this point because I don't believe in Kyler Murray's arm the same way that I did a few years ago. Still has a very strong Vegas prop. 1150 right there. You can see he's matched with Drake London. He's above AJ Brown. He's above these other guys.
Drake London is the next high in my rankings at wide receiver 7. Really like Drake London. I also feel better about him now that Tua is likely to be the quarterback in Atlanta. We have legit no second option at receiver. Darnell Mooney is no longer there. So it is Drake London. It is Bejon and it is Kyle Pittz. Tua has done a good job in his career feeding his wide receiver once. It's it's been Tyreek Hill or it was Jaylen Wadd first, then it became Tyreek Hill. So whoever the is the one for Tua ends up seeing an insanely insanely high target share and he's accurate enough to like deliver those passes. So I like Drake London. I will say the one thing that makes me a little bit nervous again we we you kind of got to like pick apart little tiny negative things when you're talking about top 10 guys is Zack Robinson our offensive coordinator is gone now. He's in Tampa Bay. We bring in Kevin Stfansky from Cleveland. He brings over his offensive coordinator Tommy Reese. I don't know much about Tommy Reese in terms of an offensive coordinator. Uh, Zack Robinson I thought did a really good job of moving Drake London around a lot and using him in the slot a lot. Like early on in his career, we knew London was talented, but Arthur Smith never moved him around, never really got him in motion, never let him take snaps from the slot, and it led to very, very subpar, very disappointing statistical seasons. Soon as Zach Robinson came in there and allowed Drake London to move around, he was catching 100 passes a season. And that's kind of been his, you know, his his rate over a seasonl long time span for the last couple of years. So, I hope they keep using him the same way. They're going to have to because they got nobody else on the exterior. But big fan of of Drake London. You know, you play in the NFC South, so you got a good schedule. Environment is going to be good. You get good weather. It's all it's all there for Drake London to have a monster year.
Where it gets a little more spicy is AJ Brown. I got him at wide receiver 8. ADPM is wide receiver 9 right now. He gets traded to the Patriots. And I just think this is what we've wanted for so long, right? We've had AJ Brown in Tennessee. We've had AJ Brown in Philadelphia. This dude is always consistently one of the best receivers on a route basis, right? He's always up there top three statistically and whatever per route basis you want to look at. Don't need to tell you the numbers in order to, you know, get that going. So, we're all kind of yearning for AJ Brown to be in this high volume passing offense or at least like a pass first offense. And it's easy to get excited about Drake May, right? Coming off a massive second year runner up and MVP, goes to the Super Bowl. And then I had like a a little bit of a concern. I'm like, wait, are the Patriots really a pass first offense? like they should be when you have a quarterback like Drake May. But I went to look back at the offenses that AJ Brown has been in and these are numbers in terms of pass rate over expectation. So like what a neutral team would do in each passing position. So everything is kind of like neutral here. Tennessee these are staggeringly low - 6% - 9 12 - 8% pass rate under expectation here throughout his time in Tennessee. The same thing in Philadelphia. You have a negative passing rate over expectation for all seven years of his career so far. When we look at New England last year, they're green across the board. They have a pass rate over expectation in the positives in nearly every aspect of the field. And I think you pair AJ Brown with Drake May's style of throwing. And if you look at his just advanced accuracy numbers, true completion percentage number one, pressured completion percentage number one, clean pocket completion percentage number one, blitz completion percentage number two, red zone number five, deep ball catchable target rate number seven, overall catchable f. Like, he was so [ __ ] good last year. And I'm willing to wipe away a lot of what happened with AJ Brown last year and blame Kevin Patulo, their OC, and just the kind of like toxic locker room that he may have partly created over there, but he's in a new environment. All right, so I think it's going to be a fresh slate, and this is what we've been waiting for for AJ Brown. So, I'm I'm buying him. I'm buying him.
After AJB, we've got Rashi Rice. Now, there's been a lot of, you know, chatter this offseason about everything that's going on with Rashi Rice. He's got a cleanup in his knee, a little bit of like a knee scope thing. he goes to jail for 30 days. And I think as long as he doesn't get suspended for violating his parole, which I don't think I've heard anything about that being the most likely case here, I'm going to expect Rashi Rice to be healthy going into the season. I'm not concerned about his knee injury. He's been the number one target for Patrick Mahomes every time he's been on the field. His target per run rate is insane. And yes, he's not an alpha. He's not like AJ Brown. He's not like Justin Jefferson. He's not that guy. He won't ever be that guy. But you also don't have to be when you are in an Andy Reid offense. That's the luxury of playing in an offense like Shawn McVey where you have Cooper Cup who puts up the single best wide receiver season basically of all time. But if you had to rank the best 25 wide receivers in the history of the NFL, he wouldn't sniff that list. Like you have these brilliant coaches who put you in position to succeed. They get your strengths and then they allow you to do those strengths in the offense. And that's exactly what Rashi Rice is. So Rice is my nine.
Nico is my 10. I'll say Nico's another one where like put him in a in a neutral situation with everybody else. He's up there with with any receiver you can name in the NFL. I am just very worried about this offense. I just like don't imagine them being pass heavy. I think Jaylen Noel is good. I think Jaden Higgins is good. They're not going to like really, you know, take food off of Nico Collins's play, per se, but I don't know. I just I just look at this Houston team and I think it's a team that's going to score like 18 to 20 points per game. Their defense is going to win a lot of games. They won't have to attempt a ton of passes, especially not ones downfield. So, you know, I'm not going to be upset that I get a dude with Nico Collins's talent level on my team, but I think the Houston offense is going to be a brutal watch again in in 2026. So, Nico's there just cuz the talent of him as a player is incredible. Same thing with George Pickkins. I've got him as my wide receiver 11. He's wide receiver 10 in ADP. Nothing I can really tell you that you don't already know about Mr. Picklestein's in Dallas. He will play aside CD Lamb. I think if CD Lamb is healthy for an entire season, you'll obviously see a little bit of regression in those numbers. But I also think there's a world where now he's got a full year with Dak Prescott and the chemistry and the offensive scheme. And I also think they did not want to use him moving around the formation, putting him in the slot and just creatively getting him involved early on in the year until they actually saw him take over games and were like, "Oh, we can use this guy this way." And then they allowed him to play that way throughout the rest of the season. So, I think there's give and take with George Pickkins. I just think at the end of the day, he's like a very, very strong receiver to have in fantasy. Last year may have been the year to buy him. You know, you got him at fifth round, sixth round, whatever, and then you got the first round talent and production out of him. This year, you are now paying for it at the 2, threeish turn. But I still think he's a very, very high ceiling weekly play that I'm not going to shy away from drafting.
Same thing with Dvonte Smith, who will round out my top 12 wide receivers. Dvonte finally moves into the alpha role there in Philadelphia with AJ Brown gone. We've seen the splits with Dvonte Smith when AJ Brown is not on the field. I just don't see a world where even with Mai Lemon being added in, who I think is going to be like slowly ramped up throughout the season as a as a real playmaker here. I'd imagine Devonte Smith, his target share is going to be at a floor of 25% on a weekly basis. And sure, Jaylen Hirs probably won't throw the ball 35 times a game, but I still think, you know, if he's throwing the ball 28 times a game, Smitty's talented enough to to eat with eight to 10 targets a game. And um I'm excited to see him finally get into that alpha role.
Moving on to the next tier, we've got the wide receiver twos tier. It's made up of 10 players. T Higgins, Chris Alave, Dvonte Adams, Z Flowers, Lad Mcconi, Garrett Wilson, Teroa McMillan, Amecha Ibuka, Terry McLaren, and Michael Evans. We got some unks in here. We got Dvonte. We got Terry. We got Mike Evans. Got some young ballers. Got some dudes who are dudes. It's a good list. It's a good list of players who have for the most part proven themselves in the NFL. We haven't really seen the ceiling for a lot of them, at least not at this point in their career. But I I just think at the end of the day, you got these guys as your wide receiver twos on your team. You're feeling good. If you go into the year with them as your wide receiver ones, I think you're going to have trouble throughout the year.
T. Higgins attached to Joe Burrow who again can can pop off for 5,000 yards, 40 touchdowns any given season. He's been a great touchdown scorer. So, attach me to that arm. Attach me to this offense. I feel good about it. A great position to capitalize on the big target share last year. They do bring in Jordan Tyson for a little bit of target competition, but is the one there. You have Kell Moore who runs an extremely high paced, fast-paced, lots of plays type of offense. Tyler Shuck was good in his rookie season. You expect him to kind of keep progressing as a QB. You have strength of schedule that's near elite for wide receivers. Here you can see number one overall in the entire season. Number two in terms of fantasy playoffs here. Alive is tied with the highest Vegas line in this tier with 1,000 receiving yards, five and a half touchdowns here. Great environment in the dome. No real weather concerns. You get to play the NFC South six times. So, good pick here. High-end wide receiver too.
Then I've got Devonte Adams at wide receiver 15 who I am significantly higher on than ADP. He's going as a wide receiver 23. This is one where I look at the Rams and I go back to Stafford and I go back to McVey and I go back to the fact that is just Puka and Dvonte Adams. Sure, they're going to sprinkle in tight end targets there. Sure, they're sprinkling running back targets there. Had they used the 13th overall pick on a Mai Lemon or something like that, I would be pulling back on Dvonte Adams a little bit, but his target per run rate last year 29%. The only players that had a higher target per run rate, meaning was targeted at this rate when he was on the field running routes, was Puka, Aman Ra, JSN, Rashi Rice, Drake London, Jamar Chase. Next player was Devonte Adams. So, you get a guy who's going to get a 27% target share from Matt Stafford in a Shawn McVey offense that going to see 20 plus red zone targets. Vegas has him as a 9 and a half touchdown total guy. tweaked the hamstring last year, which kind of derailed a lot of the statistics, but in the one game without Puka, he scored three touchdowns. Like, I get it. He's old and he's not, you know, 2020 Damonte Adams. He's not 2017 Devonte Adams. Like, it's not his prime anymore. He's getting older, but I am certainly not ready to say he's fell off a cliff here. So, the surrounding environment is just just way too juicy for me. The only world where, and I talked about this a little bit yesterday in the or whenever I put it out, the running back video is like could see the defense being so good that they end up running the ball so much on offense that it does eat a little bit at like a Devonte Puka. Even in the two and three tight end sets though for LA, a lot of the times Dvonte was the dude who was the wide receiver outside. And a lot of times when you start to take wide receivers off the field, the other wide receivers that are left end up seeing a very significantly increased target share. So I'm still good on Dvonte Adams.
I'm good on Zay Flowers as well. He's my wide receiver 16. Loved what I saw out of him last year. We're obviously still kind of like searching for the ceiling here. Can he be a 1400 1500 yard receiver? Remains to be seen. And they do have a new, you know, system here. They do have a new coaching staff here. So, there's a little bit of systemic risk. But Lamar Jackson, I think as long as he's healthy, which I'm not banking on him, you know, being hurt going into the season, feel good about Lamar bounce back. There's a lot of people that really like Z Flowers. And every year it's the same conversation of like, oh, you can't really like predict touchdowns and what if this is the big touchdown year. I get it. But having like regression and positive regression and those kind of conversations without like just using your brain a little bit kind of pisses me off. Like there's a reason Z Flowers does not score a lot of touchdowns because when they get inside the 10 and the 5 yardd line, they just hand it to Derrick Henry or throw it to their tight ends on basically every single play and they have Lamar Jackson as a threat down there. So like Z Flowers is their fourth option. If that fourth option inside the 5 10 yard line, that's why he doesn't score a lot of touchdowns. So that conversation kind of pisses me off. But can he score can he walk away with eight touchdowns and 90 catches and 1400 yards and and that end up being a top five fantasy wide receiver finish? Yeah, I think so. We just need Lamar Jackson to attempt a few more passes.
We got Lad Mankey who I think is going to go into the year as the wide receiver one for the Chargers. You have Mike McDaniel coming over as the OC who has produced huge numbers for wide receivers in his offense as well. You know, again, Jaylen Wadd, Ty Kill, we did the song and dance earlier in the video there. Lakmani, huge rookie year, disappointing last year, but a lot of that I think you can chalk up to. Poor offensive scheme for passing. Justin Herbert should see a ton more volume with Mike McDaniel. They've got the healthy offensive line as well, so he can let plays develop. And Lad Man's a great route runner, so I'd imagine that's going to happen. You also have the most targeted player on their team, Keenan Allen, no longer there. So, very much in on Lad Mani.
Gary Wilson. I'm going to be honest, looking at this ranking right now, I am going to move him down probably around here. So, we'll get to him in a second. I'll I'll tell you through my thoughts there.
Tedo McMillan, love him. Alpha real goat. Bryce Young's a guy threw for 200 passing yards four times last year. That's an issue. So, I have a tough time making a ceiling case for Ted Roy McMillan. You get him down here at wide receiver 18 though, I feel relatively good about it. But, I'm just overall concerned about the passing volume there. They just gave Jaylen Coker a nice little extension. I think he'll be healthy and pretty big part of this passing offense. But clearly don't want to give the reigns to Bryce Young and try to win games through his arm, which I think in turn is obviously going to affect your number one wide receiver.
Speaking of number one wide receivers, Mike Evans is gone. Meaning Achabuka should be stepping up coming off of, you know, tail of two seasons, but phenomenal rookie year for all intents and purposes. Pulled the hamstring after week five and that kind of like cratered his season. You have Baker Mayfield. He was dealing with the AC sprain in his shoulder. So, there was a lot working against them, but I saw enough from Ibuka that I'm like, this is the trajectory of where a superstar happens, right? He's the guy who took over as the top target earner. He's the dude that was drafted first overall. You have a quarterback that's not afraid to take chances down the field to you. This feels like the clean cut and simple trajectory of like, okay, we saw a really good rookie year from Amecha Ibuka. This is like superstardom is probably the next jump here. And I mentioned Zack Robinson no longer being in Atlanta. It's cuz he's in Tampa Bay and he's been coming out and, you know, kind of just glazing Ibuka's just ability and and intellect and says he reminds him a lot of Cooper Cup and Zack Robinson was a coach for Cooper Cup during his big year. So could see him using him similarly in the offense, moving him all over the place. Like Chris Godwin probably primary slot guy, but I could see a Mechabuka kind of moving all over the formation, getting open all over the place. So I I think if you don't like Iuka this year, you're probably overthinking fantasy football a little bit. I think he's probably reasonably priced for a guy who's most likely going to break out around wide receiver 20.
The other guys around wide receiver 20, we've got Terry McLaren who, you know, if Jaden Daniels is is back and healthy to go, there's no reason Terry McLaren can't be a nice wide receiver 23. We saw what they did during his rookie year in 2024. Thank god you got no more Cliff Kingsbury there because we have David Blau. Do we know anything about David Blau? Not really. But we do know Jaden Daniels is good and we do know that Terry McLaren has so little target competition. We'll see if Washington brings in Diggs or a Keenan or an Aayuka or whatever. Then it's a different story to tell. But for right now, there's no reason Terry shouldn't get 25 to 30% of the targets like an alpha here. I would say the biggest risk is like, you know, he's just getting older and maybe he has lost a step and maybe it's going to be a little bit tougher for him to produce downfield. And I did show y'all a glimpse of like the tiebreaker information that we have for each player. So, we have their Vegas props. We will have season outlooks for every player by the time the draft guide goes live. We've got anybody injury ratings and writeups if they are going into the year with an injury, but we've got team data as well, their Vegas total, offensive line ranks. You can look at any players schedule for the season as well as their fantasy playoff schedule. All this is available in our fantasy membership on the site, bdgeg.co. Our draft guide will be a part of that as well. And the great news, the great great great news for you great people is we have a wonderful deal going on with BetMGM right now that if you are a new user and you deposit and play any slip of $10 when signing up with code BDGE, you're going to get a promo code to get access to our membership, our entire website actually for 3 months. So that will take you through draft guide season that'll take you into September. So you'll be able to use all of this information and the sitar tools that we are building out right now in the actual season. So head over to MGM, either the app or the website. If you're a new user, use code BDGE when you sign up. You must be a new user in order to take advantage of this $10 deposit. Play any slip. Soon as you play it, you'll get an inapp message with a promo code to use on our site bdge.co.
Going back to Gary Wilson, wide receiver 21. I moved him down just cuz like I kind of like Bree Hall a little bit in New York and I don't love Gary Wilson. He should have a high target share with Gino Smith coming in. But I do think he's been such a low yards per target guy. He doesn't make a ton of plays downfield. Adidine Mitchell, I I think became a nice playmaker downfield. And then they added two pass catching weapons in the draft this year in the first round. And Omar Cooper and Kenyan Sadique. I think it'll be Garrett Wilson and Adonai Mitchell as the two wide receivers on the outside. And when they go to three wide receiver sets, Omar Cooper will come onto the field for that. But I don't love having a passing offense that I'm not confident in now having too many mouths to feed. And that makes me step back from Garrett Wilson. I think he's a fine play in PPR. Like if you do get them at this price, I have him at wide receiver 21, which is four spots lower than ADP at wide receiver 17. Probably not going to have them on many of my teams this year. I just worry about it being a low powered offense that's slow, doesn't run a lot of plays, and there are a decent amount of like good targets to go around for Gino.
And then we wrap up this tier with Mr. Michael Evans. Makes his move over to San Francisco, where I think they were really dying for a legit wide receiver uh one over there. And maybe it's Mike Evans. He's he's getting older. obviously dealing with hamstring strains it feels like almost annually now, but I still think Mike Evans can get open. I still think he's a good player. This is also an offense where they're so creative with how they get players the ball into their hands. You have George Hill coming back from the Achilles tear. You have Jawan Jennings who is in Minnesota now. And those are two of their biggest touchdown scorers on this offense. So, I'm going to imagine a lot of the red zone, a lot of the 10 10 yard line in is going to go to Mike Evans. And Brock Perie throws a ton of touchdowns. his like touchdown rate, even if he's not a super high volume passer. This offense moves with ease with Kyle Shanahan at the helm, they're going to score a ton of points this year. And I think Mike Evans has a real chance to honestly lead the league in touchdowns, but probably score, you know, 8 10 if not 12. Like, can he be the Devonte Adams of this year? I don't see that as a crazy reach. So, that'll wrap up the wide receiver 2 tier.
We'll move on to the final tier here, which is the borderline wide receiver 2 three made up of seven gracious players. We have Luther Burton at wide receiver 23. Malik Neighbors 24. Jaylen Wadd 25. Marvin Harrison Jr. 26. Jameson Williams wide receiver 27. Rome 28. Christian Watson 29.
Uh Luther Burden 23. I think I've kind of just like listened to so much Luther Burden propaganda that it's just making me pull him up the rankings. I don't really know what else to do. What I will say is uh yeah like DJ Moore is gone. Ola Zakius is gone, which is crazy to say, but he was playing a lot. And then once Luther Burden got on the field, he was electric. Ben Johnson handpicked him. Top 40 pick. Ben Johnson's run some crazy offenses with guys like Luther Burden. I'm on Ross Brown type numbers. Burton so explosive with the ball in his hand. So like I don't want to overthink Ben Johnson handpicking this guy. And a fade on him feels a little bit egregious. So we're going to leave Luther Burden there. And I think his upside is very very high. He could end up being the wide receiver one over Roma Duna here which I have them ranked accordingly.
Malik Neighbors is next. I mean the knee stuff has just been out of control. So terrified that he starts on the pup. more terrified based on the setbacks that he's had with the knee, the extra procedures he's had, that he won't really be uh himself until the very end of 26, if not into 2027. I interviewed Dr. Jesse Morris on the channel about a week ago, and we talked pretty in-depth about Malik Neighbors, and he is completely off. He is terrified about the injuries and the setbacks and the procedures that he's had to have. So, Malik Neighbors likely off our draft board here. We have him at wide receiver 24, his ADP is wide receiver 14. that obviously hasn't really like caught up with people who aren't [ __ ] brain dead. By the time you're drafting, Malik's going to be like a fourth fifth round pick. I think a little more tolerable, but probably not going to end up on my teams and therefore I should probably move him down a little bit, but whatever. Wide receiver 24.
Next up, we got Jaylen Wadd, wide receiver 25. I think this is the right spot for him. There's a lot of people that like really really like Jaylen Wadd. I don't know. He's not he's not an alpha to me. And I think Courtland Sutton is a really good player and I don't know that I'm like super high on Bo Nicks throwing for 4,500 yards kind of thing. So, while I think he's going to be a great addition to the Denver offense and I'd be fine with him as my wide receiver three, but I think people ranking him inside the top 20 wide receivers, top 18 wide receivers, a little bit off the rockers. I will say Troy Franklin has been a high volume guy. Not like a great fantasy asset, but Troy Franklin can be usable. You know, Jaylen Wild could probably have a big year. They they did invest a decent amount of capital into the trade that brought him over. And for the most part, I trust Shawn Peyton when it comes to producing high-powered offenses. Jub Brees is obviously a monster and he does a lot of targets to the running backs. So, we'll see. But Wadd I'm not super sold on.
Hard to be sold on Marvin Harrison Jr. too. I'm just happy we have Drew Petting out of there. We get a fresh fresh new start with Mike Laflur and yes, Nathaniel Hackett is there, but this is going to be Laflur's offense. So, I'm not really worried about his grubby fingers being on top of it. This is a tough situation for the Cardinals offense overall. Like, we don't know who the quarterback is. It's likely going to be Jacobe Brassette, even though he was like kind of holding out a little bit. Will it be him for the entire season? Unlikely. Carson Beck probably gets some starts and then it's, you know, a mess. They have Jeremiah Love coming in. They have Trey McBride. They have Michael Wilson. So, I think in an ideal world, they want Marvin Harrison Jr. to be 140 target guy. And I'd love to see that come to fruition. And I will be taking some MHA this year. uh looking for a little bit of a a breakout. I have them wide receiver 26 ADPs at wide receiver 17, which that's that's crazy to me. But again, I think some of these are a little bit like these ADPs are an average of all of the sites across the interwebs here. Let me uh see what we got. Yeah, I mean it's FFPC, Sleeper, Drafters, NFC, Fan Tracks, ESPN. They're kind of all over the place, which I think makes sense. I think his range of outcomes is is pretty wide.
Next up, we got Jameson Williams at wide receiver 27. I think he's just appropriately priced here. It was really bad early on in the year. Had some really good games down the stretch. Some of them came with Aman Ross sidelined. I think the majority of the good games came with Sam Laaporta sidelined, which is more of a concern to me. I do think when Leaporta's on the field, Jameson Williams drops back to being the number three target, if not number four behind Jir Gibbs and I'm on RA obviously as well. So J's not necessarily the guy I really target. He's a guy that's like, "Okay, if he falls to me in the draft a little bit lower than his ADP, happy to take him cuz he'll be my wide receiver three or flex and you know, you take the big games with the big games and the and the bad games with the bad games and and kind of just clean your hands of it and keep moving forward. But I I do get concerned with the Sam Leaporta versus Jameson Williams splits that we saw last year.
Final two players here, we got Roma Dunes and Christian Watt Stain. Roma Dunes has been disappointing obviously through the first two years. So, we've got the weird like foot reports of his stress fracture in his foot from last year kind of seeping over into this summer and it's not necessarily like a pain thing, but he's got to like reinvent the way that he runs and stuff. I don't know, just kind of weird. I will say like Ben Johnson went out again, handpicked Burden, handpicked Coulson Loveland. I do like that. I think Caleb and Roman Dunes have a relatively good chemistry there. And I think Rome's like a very he he can be the the prototypical alpha wide receiver if he ends up like hitting his ceiling, but I'm getting less and less confident that that's going to happen as the summer is progressing. So, I have him at 28. ADP is 28. The first four or five weeks of last season were incredible. Actually, very comparable to Acha Ibuka where he was a top five fantasy wide receiver. and and that was like, okay, this was the Rome that we were all waiting for when he was drafted top 10 and uh was just smashing week in and week out. Then the stress fracture came and things kind of fell apart and now it's like where does this land? Where does this leave us? But I do think the points of oh DJ Moore is gone, Olami Zakius is gone and that opens up 30% of the targets. Like I think you have to make the same argument for Roman Dunce now getting more targets. He gets a lot more downfield targets than Luther Burden does. So they're a little bit more inaccurate but they're also higher value if he's going to come down with them. I think Caleb Williams' downto down accuracy is also a little bit of concern. Let's let's be real here. He's a great playmaker, but he needs to be a little bit more consistent throwing the ball on a downto- basis.
And then lastly, we have Christian Watt Stain. He's my wide receiver, 29. Vegas's line for him is 750. A lot of people think he's going to be like the alpha alpha in Green Bay. I'm not overly sold on it. Um I Tucker Craft is still my favorite player in this offense. Even coming off of the ACL tear, everyone's like, "Oh, they're going to be like more condensed this year." I still Christian Watson, Jaden Reed, Tucker Craft, Matthew Golden, Josh Jacobs. Like, I still think it's going to be a little bit of a nightmare on a week- toeek basis. Watson looked great second half of last year, but his entire career is kind of made off of two small sample sizes at the end of his rookie year and at the end of last year. They paid him accordingly this off season. I think he fits great in Lafllor's offense. So, I think he's a very, very high ceiling weekly player, obviously. But, do I trust that he's going to turn into like an alpha? Not exactly. So, I have him ranked here at 29 because at the end of the year, if you told me that both Tucker Craft and Jaden Reed out targeted Christian Watson, would not surprise me. I I don't think he's like a very high volume receiver. I think he'll get four to six targets a game. They'll be pretty high value targets cuz I do like attaching to the floor. I do like attaching to Jordan Love's arm. And I think Jordan Love's arm fits well with Christian Watson's game, but it's going to be volatile. And I think you need a lot of lucky breaks to break right. It's a game of inches when you when you talk about Christian Watson. If you're getting four to six targets a game and two of them are a little bit off by a few inches, like there goes the entire game for you fantasy-wise. So, can he hit the upper spectrum of outcomes, 90th percentile finish, and a lot of those breaks and bounces and long balls fall within his hands? Of course. But we also saw a couple years span where like Love and Christian Watson had so much trouble connecting on deep passes and then all of a sudden that kind of flipped the script last year. Where do we get it? Somewhere in between. I don't know. But I haven't met wide receiver 29. Miss ADP, it's wide receiver 29. So, I'm not really ahead or behind a consensus. He's not a full fade for me really, but I'm I'm skeptical because of this small sample sizes. And I' I've been playing this game a long time, long enough to know that, you know, when everybody's super super hyped about these small sample sizes, usually ends up backfiring, but he's a top 29 guy for me.
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