The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - 2026 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings and Tiers (Ep. 1966)

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

Join Joe Pisapia, Andrew Erickson, and Jake Ciely as they break down the Top 60 WRs in early consensus rankings and highlight players they are higher or lower on than the field! Timestamps: (May be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00 WRs 1-12 - 0:00:36 Chris Olave - 0:01:42 Malik Nabers - 0:04:40 Justin Jefferson - 0:06:41 FantasyPros Dynasty Channel - 0:10:02 WRs 13-24 - 0:10:32 DeVonta Smith - 0:13:10 Luther Burden - 0:13:53 Davante Adams - 0:15:17 Zay Flowers - 0:17:18 WRs 25-36 - 0:20:37 Emeka Egbuka - 0:21:12 Brian Thomas - 0:22:42 Rome Odunze - 0:24:25 Marvin Harrison - 0:26:02 WRs 37-48 - 0:27:01 Wan’Dale Robinson - 0:27:21 Quentin Johnston - 0:29:02 Ricky Pearsall - 0:30:18 WRs 49-60 - 0:31:43 Deebo Samuel - 0:32:12 Josh Downs - 0:33:16 Brandon Aiyuk - 0:34:50 Chimere Dike - 0:36:25 Outro - 0:37:26 Helpful Links: Hard Rock Bet - All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for Hard Rock Bet and make a $5 bet and you'll get $150 in bonus bets if you win. Head over to Hard Rock Bet, sign up and make your first deposit today. Payable in bonus bet(s). Not a cash offer. Offered by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in FL. Offered by Seminole Hard Rock Digital, LLC, in all other states. Must be 21+ and physically present in AZ, CO, FL, IL, IN, MI, NJ, OH, TN or VA to play. Terms and conditions apply. Concerned about gambling? In FL, call 1-888-ADMIT-IT. In IN, if you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-9-WITH-IT. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER (AZ, CO, IL, MI, NJ, OH, TN, VA).  Follow us on Twitch - The team here at FantasyPros is taking questions all week, every week on Twitch. Follow us on Twitch at twitch.tv/fantasypros and never miss a stream! Discord – Join our FantasyPros Discord Community! Chat with other fans and get access to exclusive AMAs that wind up on our podcast feed. Come get your questions answered and BE ON THE SHOW at fantasypros.com/chat Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we’d love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let’s make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football podcast. This is me, Joey P. Joe Pee, Zepia. And today we're going to take a look at the early ranks for 2026

because it's never too early to look ahead. Get a sense of where the early consensus rankings are falling. So we can start looking ahead to the 2026 fantasy football season. We're going to break down all the positions here. And you can find these ranks over at Fantasyprose.com slash rankings. And to help us go through and find maybe some differences of opinion because we love a good debate here on the program. Jake Sealy from the Athletic, Andrew Erickson of Fantasy Pros.

We're going to talk to the boys here, get their takes on some of these players here. We're going to start at the very top of the wide receivers. So gentlemen, that number one spot right now, we have a pretty clear guy, Puka Nakua, actually, believe it or not, goes to the top spot above Jamar Chase and above Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. So that's your tier one guys right now. JASN coming off a fantastic season. Jamar Chase, obviously missing Joe Burrow for a good chunk. of the year, but Puka Nakua gets Matthew Stafford back. So he has the top spot as of now.

In tier number two, at number four, we have C.D. Lamb with the Dallas Cowboys, Amon Ross, St. Brown, Steady, at number five. Drake Lund at number six. We'll see what Kevin Stefanski brings to that new offense as he is the new head coach. Belik neighbors coming back at number seven from a torn ACL. Justin Jefferson will see what quarterback situation he has at number eight, Nico Collins at nine, Rushie Rice will not have Patrick Mahomes to open the season, but he is still top 10 here. George Pickens of a great year at 11 and recently franchise tagged as well. And then Chris Olave at 12, who had a very surprisingly good season as Tyler Shuck emerged last year. So let's talk about these guys. Andrew Erickson, let's talk about some of the

differences here. And let's start with Chris Olave because you've got a difference of opinion on that one. Yeah, I'm a little bit lower versus consensus on Chris Olav. I have him at wide receiver 16 where he's eCR at wide receiver 12. I guess I'm just trying to stay grounded with my take on OLAVe where not trying to just copy and paste exactly what he did last year, finishing as the wide receiver six and half PPR, because you look at the first couple of years of his career, he was a player that was going outside and finishing outside the top 20 wide receiver. So he was really more of a wide receiver two. And you look at this past season, was it all because of Tyler Shuck just kind of unlocking Chris Olaave? I think that's.

part of it, but it's also that he stayed healthy. He played all of the games and he also had a career high in touchdowns, right? So chasing that touchdown production sometimes leads you down a wrong path. I know last year, I was trying to push back against a player like Terry McLaurin where, okay, he just had this monster outlier touchdown season, which he has never done to any point in his career. Obviously, the holdout, the injuries played a role with Merritt McLaren falling off. But it does kind of remind me a little bit of just kind of, okay, Jane Daniels, Tara McLaurin, year two quarterback, going to take this Ohio statewide receiver to the next level for another season.

Does it happen again with Tyler Shuck and Chris Olabe? So that's where I'm just kind of pressing pause a little bit of just getting two ahead of my skis on Chris Olavay. Now, it does work in his favor that after they traded away Rashid Jihad and Shuck took over as the quarterback in the second half the season, I mean, like the production was fantastic. 17 points per game and half PPR since week 10. I mean, that's top 10 fantasy wide receiver production. So I totally understand where he is at ECR, but I just have some hesitance with Tyler

Shuck. Again, he's an older prospect, entered the NFL as an older quarterback. And I'm not so sure that he has so much more room to grow, given that he's already played so much football. So that's kind of why I get a little bit concerned. And I would say, too, the last thing, the last two games for the Saints with Chris Olive is where he really smashed. Like the last week 16 and 17, he had two.

two monster, monster games, Devon Valet didn't play in either of those contests. So I do think that if there is a full bill of health between some of these other receivers in the Saints receiving court with its Juan Johnson, Devon Valet, they seemed like they wanted him to take on a larger role after they twayed away Rashidjaheed. That's another concern. But the big thing is nine touchdowns last year. That matched nearly his career total entering the 2025 season, which was 10 total touchdowns. So that's why I'm just a little bit lower.

All right. I'm, I think I'm a little bit closer to you, but I'm not quite as high as ECR. So I'm probably somewhere right in the middle there, which is, I think pretty good where it comes to Gris-O-Lave, you know, so I don't know about 16. I think that's a little low. I think 12 is a little high. I'm probably more in that 14 range when it comes to him just outside. Like, he's a great 1A.

That's what I think. I don't know if I'd love him as my number one wide receiver, especially with this concussion history as well. That's something to keep in mind with. Jake Seeley, Malik Neighbors ranked very aggressively here in the ECR. And to be honest with you, a guy returning from. From ACL, I think that's something we should maybe pump the brakes just a little bit in terms of our enthusiasm. Do you agree? It's not just the ACL. And the report is that he had to wait longer than

expected to have the surgery done. And now there's real questions of whether or not he's going to be ready for week one. There's real questions that if he is ready for week one, is it going to be the Saquan Barkley when he was a giant situation where we had to wait all of September to get him back to 100%. Is it Chris Godwin where, I mean, that's worst case scenario where it's all of a sudden like it's not happening, it's not happening, aggravate something else, and we lose half the season. And I know he's much younger. I know there's optimism for it.

But again, we're talking about today. There's a lot of questions right now as of today for week one. So much so that, as you guys have seen, the most common thing that people are mocking to them at the fifth pick is Cardinal Tate likely. I mean, like you look at the fact that the Y receiver is a need there, whether or not Wondell Robbins is there because there's the questions of Malik neighbors. So I just say, as of right now, I'm going to put him at 13.

and honestly, I don't know that that's not going to be lower, just because if you guys knew today, hey, you have to wait until October. Cool. This is the Rishi Rice situation. Like, we've seen we can make up easier in September for the rest of the season, and we have opportunities our team is healthy, all blah, blah, blah. I get that. But at the same time, it's four games potentially that you're not going to be able to start Malik neighbors.

Again, I'm speculating. I'm just saying as of today. So I just think there's enough concern that if you look at the names in front of them, they don't have that question and that's really what it comes down to chris olave i have well in front of them i'm different than you guys on chris elave so it really just comes down to i'd trust nico collins i would trust chris elave i trust you know down the list of drake london and even pickings and lamb on whether or not they're on the same team which they will be um so that's sure which really comes down to i just want those names in front of it before i roll the dice on somebody that might not be a hundred percent

to start the year all right andrew ericsson let's walk through another name that you have a little bit of a difference of opinion than the expert consensus rankings, and that's Justin Jefferson. Obviously, Justin Jefferson, all world talent, but the quarterback position right now, possibly a question mark again, going into 2026. Again, it's early in the process. We haven't hit free agency yet as of recording this show. That comes in March. And then, of course, we got the NFL draft and lots of other action to happen in the NFL. But right now, that ranking is where it is, which is number eight, and you have them a little bit lower. Let's talk about it. Yeah, I have him at 11, and it's really dependent on who, the quarterback in Minnesota is. I know that we talked about last week on some of these free agency

prediction shows where Zerjee McCarthy or guys that are going to lose their jobs. Is McCarthy even the quarterback for Minnesota? That's probably good for Justin Jefferson, but what's the alternative? Is it we're getting Carson Wentz as the quarterback? Are we getting Tyler Murray as a quarterback in Minnesota? So there's a lot of things that still need to play out to really feel confident about ranking Justin Jefferson because the quarterback does matter. Now, he's been quarterback proof up until J.J. McCarthy showed up in Minnesota. So that does bode well for him to still. Again, I still haven't ranked as a wide receiver one,

but just tempering expectations a little bit here. Wentz last year, 95 receiving yards per game. That's what Jefferson was at. But he also scored zero touchdowns. The big thing I talked about with Alavi having this massive touchdown output last year, total opposite with Jefferson, where he had two receiving touchdowns.

So you'd like to think that that can improve if the quarterback position can get a little bit more stable in Minnesota. And when you look at Jefferson's body of work, I mean, he's never finished worse than wide receiver six in a full season plate. He actually scored more points in 2023 when he only played 10 games than he did this past season, which just goes to show how bad it was for him as wide receiver 30 and 2025. So I'm still want to figure out who the quarterback is before I feel a lot confident about

putting Jefferson. But right now, just a little bit lower. And Jake, you have reservations about Jefferson as well. Where do you have him ranked? Yeah, why has Erickson level? because I'm at 12. It really comes down to. We talked about it on the free agency show.

You told me that Daniel Jones ends up being the option for this team. I know it's just Daniel Jones, but we talked about that at the time. I said, what if the Vikings want to bring them back? Because they're done with J.J. McCarthy, which seems to be the report. Everybody's saying that they're moving on from J.J. McCarthy. But this, unlike the carousel going the other way, where it was like there's too many quarterbacks for the openings, we have the reverse this year. We have too many openings and not enough quarterbacks to fill these options,

which is probably why Daniel Jones is going to get. a huge payday because somebody wants them and somebody needs them. What if the Vikings are left scrambling? What if they're just left held in the bag? What if Daniel Jones goes back to the Colts? And they're looking at Russell Wilson as their option to keep J.J. McCarthy on this team because everything Erickson said is right, he was actually, if you talk about qualified wide receivers, wide receiver 33 and points per game, and it was actually 36th with McCarthy. The only reason it wasn't worse is because what he said is like the Wendz situation, the yards were there, but the touchdowns weren't. So if he told me had a call,

Capital Corback, hell, if he had Carson Wentz, I'd move him up about two or three spots because at least one arm Wence was doing things. But if it's somebody like Daniel Jones or they do find an option, then I would actually put him back inside the top 10. I don't think he'll get back to be in top four for me, though. I don't think he deserves to be in that top tier even. I mean, they would need a massive shock at quarterback to get him back there. All right. If you're enjoying the debates about the ECR and just fantasy football in general, make sure you subscribe to this channel here over fantasy pros. and don't forget we got a new channel as well.

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That goes through the tier three continuation from that top group. Then you have tier four beginning. Garrett Wilson at 16. Who the hell of that quarterback is a Jets? We'll never know. Devante Adams at 17. Jamison Williams at 18. Ladd McConkey.

Disappointing year at 19. Zay Flowers at 20. Terry McLorin at 21. Jalen Wattle at 22. Devontes Smith at 23. Luther Burton at 24. Jake, what stakes out of what really sticks out to me about this grouping here is the amount of question

marks. I got to be honest with you. Like there are so many questions in this tier. Typically, this is a tier where I always go, all right, well, I'm going to get a couple of these guys and I feel pretty good. But you can poke holes in almost, what, 10 out of 12 of these ranks right here and ask yourself, is this a good investment? So let's talk about it and which investment here really varies the most for you in terms of your ranking versus the consensus. Yeah, this is something we talked about all sooner out the season, whether on waivers or the rank show or the shows you guys were on, you're echoing the same thing, is that wide receiver two's last year became more volatile than they had been in probably,

what, a decade? I mean, we're talking about the inconsistencies across the board. If you got 50% performances inside the top 20, you're actually having a pretty good Y receiver two. So I think there's a lot of questions. Mike, could you argue that that's because of the lesser quarterback play? You know, we saw a big turn last year towards more running the football from a lot of teams, but do you think it's because of some of the green quarterback play or the less than thrilling quarterback play? Well, they can make one wide receiver quality, but it takes a Matthew Stafford or somebody of that level to make two on one team quality. I think it's that but more.

I think it's what we're seeing this offseason from the massive, the biggest coaching change. Like this offseason, I started in 2010, Joe, and I was right, you were what, right about the same time. This is 2012. Yeah, the biggest offseason coaching movement I've seen in my career. and a lot of it involved offensive coordinators. I think there's a lot of poor game plans called. I think there's a lot of mistakes with using the quarterback and not getting the best out of them.

And then it's also the fact that because we went from arguing for years that Y receiver was so deep, but now that's become its own crutch because now the Y receiver threes are so good that they don't need to rely on the Y receiver twos for 24% of the target share. They can mix and match and go 18 and 12 and between those two options. So I think there's just a lot of facts. there's including the one that you said, the quarterback falloff, which is why you saw more run games and also the quarterback injuries. But anyway, speaking of one, we just saw the worst year of Devante Smith's career with Jalen Hertz and this entire offense. And I'm still a little bit lower on him. I actually think he's a great bylaw and dynasty. But I have him three spots below because I look at it the fact of, yeah, we're assuming that A.J. Brown's done with the Eagles. But what if he's not? What if they bring back Dallas Goddard, too? And it just comes down to what we've been talking about with wide receiver twos is that, Devante Smith even at his best was 60% of his games were top 15.

The others were Y receiver 45 and you just got to deal with that roller coaster. So I love him on my team as my Y receiver 3. I just don't really want to get him as my Y receiver 2. And that's why I bring him up. It's not a huge difference. There's only three spots. But I did want to talk about him for that. The other one is if you watch the show with Joe and me the other day with Laquan,

we've already talked about it with Luther Burden. It just comes down to we're stuck as of today. And the bears are the ones that are stuck. They can't get rid of DJ Moore. Maybe they figure out a way to trade them and figure out something with, there's a lot of money that they're still on the hook for if they do trade them. But if they clear out DJ more and it is just Roma Dunes and Luther Burden, but still Colston Loveland, I'll move them up.

But Luther Burden at 22 feels like what we're talking about with here with Defonte Smith. If you add in one extra factor like Goddard and a good run game, like it just, the volume is just got, is the biggest concern as we just saw with Smith. And Colston Loveland just had a massive breakout at the end of the year. So why do we just assume that, like, Luther Burden, and this is coming from one of the biggest fans about Luther Burden. Joe, you and I talked about it on that show. I just don't see where a healthy Roma Dunzee with Colston Lovin in the second season is going to get the volume to have a top 25 finish. So I have them as a Y receiver three.

That's a great show, too. We did a sophomore kind of recap for all the guys who were rookies last year going into their second year and what our expectations are. Laquan Jones, myself, Jake Seeley, checking out on the channel. Excellent show. Super fun. Andrew, walk us through two of your picks here that you want to single out here. I know Devante Adams is a guy you want to talk about another guy, another year older, had a great season, a lot of touchdowns.

Would have been on my list. But again, age isn't always on the table necessarily for 2026. So let's start with him and then walk me through another difference of your rankings. Yeah, I'm coming out with all these wide receivers that I'm much lower on than the consensus. So bringing the negativity here on this show, Devonthe Adams, I have basically buried. he's outside my top 24 wide receivers just because I'm just trying to get ahead of it, right? He is a wide receiver entering his age 33 year old season, mistime last year with a lower body tissue injury.

And all of his production, for the most part, was touchdown-based. And we know that can be the toughest thing that sticks from year to year, especially when you look at Matthew Stafford. Again, he still has this back injury lingering that could pop up at any moment next year. What happens if he's going down? They don't have Jimmy Garoppola as their backup anymore potentially. So what would the alternative be for the Rams if Stafford were to miss time? And Adams, the efficiency marks were not great last year.

Career low catch rate at 53%. And talked about the touchdowns. He had 15 touchdowns. And this was part of their game plan and strategy. Like, let's get Devante Adams the ball in the red zone. You look at his red zone targets, his end zone targets. He is lapping the field with ranking number one in those categories. It's bonkers.

And I think part of that is, hey, we want to get Matthew Stafford, the MVP. right we want to have to have him as many touchdowns as possible who's our best touchdown guy devante adams so if they're not as focused on that and it's more about let's keep stafford healthy maybe we'll feature the running backs a little bit more in the red zone between karen williams and blake korem that makes a lot more sense to me and you see that this 15 touchdown score maybe turns into six touchdowns and i think that dramatically influences where abams would finish because at this point his career not creating yards after the catch career low in yards out to the catch per reception. So I think it's more likely that he falls off than replicates last year's

production. So even at wide receiver 17, I think this is a really risky pick. And I think that you're hoping, oh, he finished as a back end wide receiver two, but I paid mid-range wide receiver two price for him. So I've got major concerns about Adams where he's going at 17. All right. So Adams is a concern for you. Let's talk about another wide receiver here, Zay Flowers. So where do you stand on Zay Flowers heading into first year with the new head coach for him and who knows what this offense might look like. Oh, it's going to cook. That's what this offense is going to look like. And Zay Flowers is going to be the focal point of his office. Because I think that Zayflares is just that good. I think that he has the talent to be a top five

fantasy wide receiver. When you look at last year, over 1,200 yards, 86 catches. And yes, what's the thing that we all get annoyed at? Only five touchdowns. But he was still wide receiver seven, wide receiver three over the last five games. Super consistent. Four plus catches and 13 of his 17 games played, but the metric numbers. Fifth in target share at 28%. 11th in air yard share at 35%. He has gotten better every single year he's been in the NFL. Fourth and yards per route run behind only.

Pooka, Jack Smith and Jigba, where are those guys in the tier number one and two? And Luther Burton, who we hate here, but that's okay. We won't draft him, but he's probably going to be decent in 2026. So we don't hate him. We don't hate him. We just want a temper expectation. Hate the price. I think Jake, Jake's just right.

like Loveland's there. DJ Moore is going to be hard to get rid of. It just to be where the rank is just seems like it would have to be the perfect storm of economy of targets. And that just seems unlikely. No, and I don't disagree. Put it this way.

If you told me that DJ Moore was gone and O'Donzee was still dealing with the, I was going to say, and O'Doonsay still dealing with injury concerns a week one, you put him up there with Chris Oliva. Like, that's how good he is. But it's just the fact. And let's also not forget,

Kila Williams still didn't even throw for 4,000 yards. Like we're still tall. about you know the league's worst completion percentage too because no bear quarterback will ever throw for ever house in the eyes. That's what we learned this already? Go ahead. Go ahead. Zayflasker.

It can never. It can never be as a flower. You started. It always has to get pushed into something else. But I would say because we talked about Zayflowers, myself, worm, and Jake earlier this year. And I got some pushback on Zayflowers. But at that time, Harbaugh was still the office of or the head coach, Munkin was still the office coordinator.

Now that has completely changed. So the Ravens have a brand new. office coordinator coming in, Declan Doyle. I think that opens the possibilities of increased play volume and increased red zone role for Save Flowers, which has been the biggest thing lacking in his three-year career up to this point. Ravens last year were 29th in place per game, the Bears. That's where Declan Doyle was the office coordinator last season under Ben Johnson,

ranked first in that category. And the first thing that Declan Doyle said in an interview recently was, offensively, we want to hunt and create explosive plays on offense. her player profiler, the third most explosive player among wide receivers last year, Mr. Zay Flowers himself. And I don't even think I have to convince anybody how explosive he is when he gets the ball on his hands. So I think that this could be a monster year for Zay Flowers.

He finally gets a little bit more usage in the red zone. He's attached to a MVP-level quarterback who we know can throw 30 plus passing touchdowns. If Mark Andrews continues to decline, Isaiah likely leaves in free agency, I think the planets could align for Zay Flowers. So I want to be aggressive on him because I think that he's an ascending talent entering year four. To me, he reminds me a lot of Antonio Brown coming out of college. What year did Antonio Brown absolutely blow up was his fourth season. So I love Zayflowers and I want to be aggressively ranking him ahead of ECR.

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Carnell Tate, incredible young talent from Ohio State. The early rank for him is 28 overall. After Cortland Sutton at 27. Then Emeka, Egbuka at 29. D.K. Meccaf at 30, Roman Dunezay at 31. Jordan Tyson and Mackay Lemon, two of the big prospects at 32 and 33, respectively. Ryan Thomas Jr., great rookie season, terrible sophomore year at 34. And then Jacobi Myers at 35.

Marvin Harverson Jr. at 36. Andrew, let's talk about a mecca-egbuka, the difference of your rank versus ECR. I'm higher on Emeka-A-Buka as well versus the ECR. 126 targets last year. That was top 10 in the NFL and a rare number to hit for a lot of rookie wide receivers, the last rookies that have done that. Malik neighbors, Brian Thomas Jr., Lamacankei, Rashi-Rice, Puka Nakuwa, Garrett Wilson. It's a really strong list of players predicting them, okay, how are their careers going to shake out? It's been pretty positive for the most part for some of those guys. Now we know that some of the second year guys

did not meet expectations between Brian Thomas Jr. and Lab Makonki. Last year, neighbors obviously got hurt, but I just don't want to ignore the fact that he had so many targets last year. And what if the production had flipped? So I know that he started the season really, really strong. Did not finish as strongly as we have liked it hoped.

But I don't want to just forget about what happened in the beginning of the year when he was melting faces. When Baker Mayfield was healthy, Egbuka was essentially a lock for offensive rookie of the year. We weren't even considering any of the running backs. Tessro McMillan was buried in terms of the betting odds for offensive rookie of the year. If Mike Evans potentially walking in free agency going somewhere else, I'm not sure why he wants to leave Tampa Bay in that no income tax in Florida.

But I mean, I think Egbuk could be really set up here to take another step forward here, bounce back, look like the guy we saw at the beginning of the year, especially if Baker Mayfield is healthy because I think that's the biggest impact on why Ag Buka struggled down the stretch was his quarterback is not 100% healthy. All right. Jake, the ECR is low on Brian Thomas at 34, but you're even lower because you haven't been 40. Yeah. I think Brian Thomas is a great opportunity for the Jaguars in real life to find a new spot

for him and capitalize on, you know, the investment of the talent because we saw it as the rookie. And, you know, I was one of the highest and continued to be one of the highest last year. That's why I got to sign football next to me. And it was a massive disappointment for me and everybody else. I sat here and made apologies for him to begin the season because of the injury to his hand. And that looked like he was limiting and scaring him over the middle and he didn't want to take extra contact. And they said, all right, well, he needs more time to develop with Trevor Lawrence.

And we saw flashes of it. But the biggest thing here is that Parker Washington did what Trevor Lawrence loves to do and just manifested his ability out of the slot. And that's where Lawrence loves to go. He loves to make the quick decision. He does take shots downfield. But when Parker Washington came on back healthy at the end of the season, the average depth of target, skyrocketed for Brian Thomas Jr. It was almost 50% higher. I mean, we're talking about almost Alec Pierce levels. And it's just when you're taking those shots as one, Trevor Lawrence doesn't need to throw it there. So the volume wasn't there because he's already making his decision throwing it to Jacobi Myers and Parker Washington and Brenton Strange or going to the

backfield. So the volume went down. And then the coalition percentage went down just because those are harder targets to catch. And if this roster is constructed as it is as of today, Jacobi Myers is back. He has a new contract. Parker Washington's essentially the number two. Hell, you can argue he was the number one at the end of the season. So I love Brian Thomas Jr. I love the talent. I love the kid. I love the football and put him on a new team. Now, on the Jaguars, he does not deserve to be higher. That's why I have him, yeah, as wide receiver 40. Yeah, I think that he might find a new home this offseason. Let's talk about Roma Dunezay, because we're talking about the whole bear situation here. The ECR is 31, but Andrew Erickson,

you have them a little bit lower. Let's talk about your reasons why. All paths lead back to Luther Burden in some way, somehow. I think that burden can be the potential focal point of the passing game along with Colston Loveland. And Ben Johnson handpicked these guys. First two draft picks he made as the head coach of the Bears, I'm drafting Coles of Loveland, I'm drafting Luther Burton. Although it took a lot longer than most of us wanted it to for those guys to see featured roles on offense,

because they had to play guys like Alimini Di Zakias, Cole Kement is still on the roster. Eventually those guys started to break out in the second half of the year and were both highly efficient, very productive players on a per route basis. So yes, O'Dunes, I did play through a lot of injuries last year and that I think was part of the reason why his production nose dived. Again, 12 games dealing with some late season foot limitations. After week eight, he averaged under 50 yards per game. His catch rate was really, really bad was bottom five in the NFL 48.5% catch rate. Now, he still did gobble up a lot of high value opportunities in terms of air yards or the red zone targets,

but ultimately still kind of felt short of expectations based on the role that he was put into, wide receiver 27 and points per game. So I do think he will move up my rankings from wide receiver 37 if DG Moore ultimately does get dealt, which I do think is going to happen. But I guess I'm more on the negative side of a Dunezay and less so on Luther Burden on just projecting how this offense looks in 2026. I would bet that burden has more targets than O'Donzee, straight out. So that's why I would rank him ahead of O'Donzee. You're a little bit more positive on Marvin Harrison, Jake.

He's at 36, but you have him at 32. Let's discuss the reasons why you think it might be a better situation for him this season than last. So I'm buying Marvin Harrison everywhere I can because it's the perception. It's the massive disappointment of, you know, a tier one wide receiver and then all the flaws that we consider were even greater and exposed with Kyle Murray and the continuing of this offense. Jacoby Brissette unlocked everybody. Michael Wilson, Trey McBride. He also went to Marvin Harrison, Jr., more than Michael Wilson, and peppered him the opportunity he had.

It was brief, but when Marvin Harrison was close to 100 percent towards the end of the year, and they're moving on from Kyle Murray. If Jacoby Percest the quarterback next year, I know everybody's super excited about Michael Wilson, somebody that I like coming out of college as a deep sleeper, but Marvin Harrison was still the one. And I still think that Marvin Harrison has a better upside than being wire receiver 36. We're that upset with him? Like, I'm going to buy Marvin Harrison in redraft and dynasty.

All right. Next grouping here starting at 37 is tier six. Chris Godwin, Stefan Diggs at 38, Ricky Pearsall, 39, Michael Wilson at 40, Michael Pittman at 41, Alec Pierce at 42, Jordan Addison at 43, Quentin Johnson, at 44, Juan Jennings, Parker, Washington, DJ Moore at 47, Wondale Robinson at 48. Jake, let's talk about Wondale Robinson, the ECR is 48, but you, are much more excited about his potential. You have him all the way up at 33.

Let's talk about this massive gap. It just comes down to what we're seeing is that somebody is going to pay him to be a top two option on their team, whether it's back with the Giants, whether it's reunited with Brian Dable and ruins my later pick that we're going to talk about

with the Titans. There's just an opportunity for Wando to step into a Stefan Diggs-type role with another team, and I'm not calling him Stefan Diggs. I'm just saying it's that role as the two,

and any offense that's going to pay in that kind of money to immediately be the two, we're talking about that similar volume. And Wondell Robinson's continued to be disrespected because of his size and the fact of, look at how much he produces on a deep bowl rate, even with his size. I think he is underrated in somebody that could be a top, as you can see, 30, 35 wide receiver at worst with potential for even more depending on that. Now, of course, the landing spot can ruin it, depending like he goes to a team that's clogged up. But I think somebody's going to pay him to be their number two and whether it's a return to

the Giants. He's going to pull back on that value as a top 35 wide receiver. Andrew, you have him higher as well, not quite as high as Jake, but he hates sentiments. Clearly, he hate Wendell-O-N-Robbins. Even though every time I publish my rankings, it always comes up with that notification. Are you sure you want to rank Wynette? I love that. It's like a heads up. Yeah, right? It's like, yes, I want to keep ranking Wondell Robinson this high. The only wide receivers was at least 130 plus targets last two seasons. Jemar Chase, I'm on Ross St. Brown, Jackson's the Jigba, Justin Jefferson, and Wondell Robinson. It's underrated.

All right. So underrated Wondell Robinson. Erickson, let's talk about Quentin Johnston here. ECR is 44, but you are not nearly as excited about him. You have him at 56. That's a 12 spot difference. I'm just not sure I'm ready for this to ride the roller coaster again with Quinn Johnson because, man, that's exactly what it is.

Starts out this year or last season out of the gates on fire. and then he just has these certain games where just totally disappears when he was basically used more as a deep threat, kind of a clear-out routes, and they were featuring more of the tight end and Lamacconki underneath. Now, I think I could probably still move him up a little bit from 56 just because you're taking such a big target monster out of this offense with Keenan Allen, presuming that he doesn't come back. And if they don't add anybody of significance, I could see, okay, Johnson, boomer bus, wide receiver four, yes, I want. want him in basketball. Do I want him anywhere in my redraft team? Like probably not. But that's kind of the way I'm viewing Johnson. It's just so boomer buskin. Wide receiver 26 and points per game, which would say like, man, you have him outside your top 50. That's crazy. But wide receiver 42 expected points per game just based on his usage. Again, it's a brand new office. Mike McDaniel.

So I think Spike Week is going to come for Johnston. But I am concerned that the consistency is going to be all over the place. All right. Jake, you've got Ricky Pearsall at 31, but the ECR is a 39. I'm actually kind of where you are. The health of Ricky Pearsall has been difficult to deal with two years. Yes, very. But with George Kittle, you know, not ready for the start of the season or God knows when in the season, it does seem like there's a path for Ricky Pearsall to really take his game to the next level. Yeah, and Joanne's is a free agent. Brian and Iyuk's not coming back to this team. So if you win a thing that we saw with Ricky Pearsall, as I know this is frustrating to say, and I'm going to say the words, but when healthy, he was majorly productive. He looked like it. Coming back from

injuries and we all joked about how it took them longer to come back from an actual injury than the gunshot wound. But like when he finally did and he was 100% out there, he looked like he was 100%. And Ricky Pearson in this offense, especially the Shanahan system, he does a lot of what Debo used to do for this team, obviously not with the rushing out of the backfield, but I bring it out to say is that he can do things inside, intermediate and outside to a time, more so exposing the space in the intermediate side of the field. But Pearsall essentially is the number one right now. for the 49ers. I know they're going to address it, whether they bring back Jennings or find a different

free agent option. But you brought up George Kittle. I made the joke on the other show as we finish things out that Jake Tonges was going to be a top 20 tight end. I haven't as a top 20 tight end because I don't think George Kittles playing at least half, if not the entire season. But who's the beneficiary? Ricky Pearson.

More people should be on a Pearson for next year. I know he's burned us with the injuries. All right. So the last grouping here is we round out the top 60 wide receivers. You have at 49, Jaden Higgins, who I'm very high on personally this year. at 50 Travis Hunter, 51, Tyree Kill is now a free agent, Khalil Shakir at 52, Jaden Reed, 53, at 54, Brandon Ayuk, we'll see where he lands, Debo Samuel at 55, Xavier Worthy at 56, Josh Downs at 57,

Jalen Koker, another one of my guys, circle him at 58, Troy Franklin at 59 at 60, Adonai Mitchell of the New York Chet. So, Jake, let's start with Debo, Samuel, ECR's got him at 55, you've got him at 44. Let's talk about the reasons why. Because, you know, you saw what happened last year. and Debo Samuel, like, again, somebody else that wasn't always 100% healthy, but he's still getting back to being like the production that we saw when healthy, when with a good quarterback.

Like, that's just the biggest problem that really killed him last year. And I'm not expecting Debo Samuel. Look, you're talking about, I'm at 44. Not 34, not 24. I don't think we're ever getting old Debo Samuel back. But similar to the revitalization that we saw with Stefan Diggs with the Patriots, I think you could find Debo Samuel on the right team in a similar situation. And I think that's what it's going to come down to.

If he ends up in a bad spot, if he ends up the third wide receiver on a team and he's just searching for deals, obviously you can throw this out the window and 55 is more the reasonable spot. But I'm kind of buying on the expectation that we still saw something left in the tank last year. We still saw that he could click with Judin Daniels. I think it's just the quarterback situation in the offense that just really killed him. So I want Debele in a nice spot. But again, this is just the hope on that there's something left in him. All right.

Josh Downs is at 57. But Andrew Erickson, you've got him at 41. on why? Because I think Josh Down's good. I think he's a very good underrated wide receiver. Does he have the best usage? No, not quite. But I want to look for value with some talent this down the ranks in terms of the wide receivers. PFF's 20th highest graded wide receiver last year, hyper-targeted, 24% target rate per outrun, a very high rate for a wide receiver. That led all quotes wide receivers in tight ends in 2025. So amid all that talent between Tyler Warren, Alec Pierce, Michael Pittman Jr., when Josh Downs is on the field, which again,

He's a slot receiver, so he's not on the field enough, but he was the one being targeted at the highest clip. 20th and average separation score. That's per fantasy points data suite. So looking at the optics of this Colts offense, Alec Pierce is a free agent. He might not be on this roster when we're talking about this team in 2026. Michael Pittman Jr. is in the last year of his contract. And every time I look at anything newsworthy with Pittman, it's, are they going to cut this guy? Right?

Because they're trying to get out from his contract and move on to some of these younger wide receivers, potentially get rid of Pittman. so they can pay Michael or Alec Pierce. So I think Josh Downs is kind of flying under the radar as, yeah, like the fantasy production is not there, but all of the peripheral metrics, he commands targets. He looks good on the field. He creates separation. It's like, check, check, check.

This guy, I think, is much better than wide receiver 57 when it comes to his talent level. And I think that the way that this roster might shake out, it might work in his favor to produce more fantasy points, especially now, too, you're getting a discount because the Daniel Jones injury. All right. Brandon Iyuk is at 54 Andrew on the expert consensus rankings, but you have met 48. That's simply because you're just, I assume, anticipating a new address for him in 2026.

Yes, he's going to the Washington commanders to play with Jaden Daniels, his former college quarterback. I really think that's the only spot that a team would be willing to take him on. I mean, after how things shook out with Kyle Shannon in San Francisco, I basically just like stop showing up to work. Like, you're really going to have someone's going to have to have a vote of confidence for, I used to bring him into the building. And I think that going to Washington would be a perfect spot for him. You pair him along with Terry McLaren who's not a certified alpha number one. It's you could also be dropped into that offense,

replaced Debo, Samuel as the wide receiver two or the one B to Terry McLorren's 1A. And look, man, this guy's really talented. And him and Kyle Shannon seem to never see eye to eye from the minute that he landed in San Francisco. But despite that he had very good seasons of really high efficiency, again, And he's completely removed from that ACL injury that knocked him out all of last year, even though, like, maybe he was actually healthy enough to come back. So full bill of health, Jane Daniels quarterback upgrade, better situation. I think I you could be someone that would look at and be like, man, this guy had like a George

Pickens-esque type of impact where kind of disgruntled. We don't know what we feel about him, but you watch him play on the field. Man, this guy's good. That's interesting. I like that comparison too in the right spot. Like, you know, George Pickens led it with Dak Prescott. That worked out, right? If Brandon I, you would glance with Jaden Daniels or another quarterback of that ilk,

that could be a very tantalizing possibility in 2026. Jake, you've got a guy ranked in the top 60 who isn't ranked in the top 60. You've got Chimray Deke, who is at 63, and the rank for him right now is at 54 for Jake Sealy. So let's talk about what you see in Chimray. I see, like I said, what could get ruined by Wondell Robinson signing with the Titans. But if he doesn't, and they go the Alec Pierce route or somewhere else, and then look for the deeper option to fill what I.

U.M. Manor hasn't been able to do. D.K. is essentially what Wondell Robinson can do for this offense. And you saw the volume was more consistent towards the end of the year. He started getting some touchdowns. The yards were never enormous. But again, Brian Dable coming in, we saw the improvement from Cam Ward. And if you're looking for somebody who can fill that kind of role with Brian Dable calling this offense, I think D.K. is not a perfect one for one, but very close to Wondell Robinson,

this offense. It all comes down to that they leave him alone and address the deeper threat, the outside wide receiver or do they bring Wondell over because he's comfortable with dable and then you kind of throw a day decay out the window unfortunately all right that is a quick look at the top 60 wide receivers again you can see them for yourself at fantasypros dot com slash rankings go check it out and we love to hear from you our youtube community drop your comments below which wide receivers do you have higher than the ECR or lower than the ECR give us your opinions we love to have them here and everyone's got opinions just like almost everyone has rankings

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