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FFT Express - UPDATED Sleeper Players for 2026 Fantasy Football! Wan’Dale, Willis, Aiyuk, & More! (05/22 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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13 min
Duration
Estimated from transcript
May 22, 2026
Published
Fri, May 22, 2026
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Topics
Brandon AiyukMalik WillisWan'Dale Robinson
Player analysis
Player insights
Brandon Aiyuk
PositiveSleeper0:07
Brandon Ayuk is currently undervalued at wide receiver 68 with an ADP of round 15, but he has the potential to contribute significantly if he finds a new team. He averaged 15.6 PPR points per game two years ago.
Insight pageMalik Willis
PositiveSleeper0:04
Malik Willis showed impressive throws last year and has the potential to be a starting fantasy quarterback, possibly finishing as a top 12 guy. His current ADP as QB 21 makes him a worthwhile late-round pick.
Insight pageWan'Dale Robinson
PositiveSleeper0:02
Wandale Robinson has the potential to lead the Titans in targets, averaging over eight targets per game in the past two seasons. He is a Brian Dable guy, which adds to his appeal in PPR leagues.
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Episode Transcript
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1:42Wake up, everyone. It's time to talk about sleepers on Fantasy Football Today.
1:46Okay, Dave has his updated list of sleepers. Apparently, we just spoke about a number of them on the main show, Thursday's show.
1:54Good morning, Dave. Give me some sleepers. So, the names that we talked about on the show, highly encourage everybody going back
2:01to watch or listen to Thursday's show. Isaiah Likely, Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews, Jonah Coleman, Jalen Naylor, Antonio Williams.
2:07We spoke their names. They're on the sleeper list.
2:10But here are some that weren't spoken about on Thursday's show.
2:13Let's start with one that was spoken about earlier this week when we talked about players that we would draft in the middle rounds.
2:21And for me, it's Wandale Robinson. Just love the opportunity for him to potentially lead the Titans in targets.
2:27We've seen him average eight-plus targets per game in each of the past two seasons.
2:32He is a Brian Dable guy. He was drafted in the NFL by Dable, and now he followed Dable from New York to Tennessee.
2:40Cam Ward needs a short area option. This is somebody who can do it.
2:45I don't love him in non-PPR. I only sort of like him in half-PPR.
2:49But if we're getting a point per catch and Wandale Robinson's going to get eight targets per game, and I still think
2:56he will with Carnell Tate there, then he's absolutely somebody that I'm going to try and get in those middle-to-late rounds in my full PPR leagues.
3:05Might be starting him. Remember, we were starting him as a No.
3:092 wide receiver last year. I don't know if we're going to start him as a No.
3:142 wide receiver this year, but as a No.
3:173 wide receiver, I think he can do that.
3:20So that's my first sleeper. Okay, Wandale Robinson. I would say that's a lot of targets, eight targets per game.
3:27He's done it two years in a row. Yep.
3:30Exactly 140 targets, which is a little bit more than eight per game, I think.
3:35I don't know. I just don't see it. I just, my issue with him is I just don't think he's that good.
3:42He's fine. He's like a nice, fine, typical slot receiver.
3:45But if they didn't bring in Tate, yeah, but I don't know.
3:49For whatever reason, I just don't see it. Now, last year, you could say, look, Malik Nabors got hurt.
3:55But the year before that, Malik Nabors was mostly healthy, and Wandale still got 140 targets, so I could see, you know, that's encouraging.
4:03Agreed. That's why he's on my list. But eight targets a game is a lot.
4:08How many do you think Tate will get? I'm worried that he won't get to six.
4:13Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I think that Wandale's role there and the commitment that seems to be made between him and Dable will continue on.
4:21And it's not like there's a ton of other competition for targets there.
4:26Yeah. It's a big contract, too. 38 million guaranteed, four years, $78 million.
4:30Yeah. I mean, this is fantasy football. It's not the most talented guy in the wide receiver room.
4:36It's just the guy that's going to get the most targets and is going to get the most stats.
4:42Who's next? Malik Willis is next, Adam. I went back and I watched a lot of his throws from last year, and
4:49I came away impressed with what I saw from Malik Willis.
4:53We all know him as a rushing threat. There's no question about that.
4:57He will do that in Miami. But he made some doggone good throws in Green Bay when he had the opportunity last year.
5:04A nice high completion rate. It's not just nice and high.
5:08It was one of the best completion rates in the NFL, and his ADOT was not crumbs.
5:13It was actually good. And Bobby Slowick let it out that this offense that Miami will run is going to be a
5:21lot like what Green Bay ran last year. And I know the wide receivers and tight ends in Miami aren't anything to
5:28write home about, but I think Malik Willis is going to end up being a good enough thrower and a good enough
5:35runner to potentially be a starting fantasy quarterback. Maybe finish as a top 12 guy, and you don't have to draft him
5:42as one of the first 12 quarterbacks off the board.
5:45On fantasy pros, he's QB 21 as a round 12 pick.
5:49That sounds kind of weird. Like, are there really 20 other quarterbacks going in the first 12 rounds?
5:55That would surprise me in a one QB draft.
5:58But I think Malik Willis will be worth that late round dart throw.
6:0286% completion rate last year for Malik Willis. I don't know how anyone could watch the tape of the Chicago and Baltimore
6:09games and not come away just almost blown away, honestly.
6:12I completely agree with you. He was so good.
6:15Good accuracy, good anticipatory throws, was willing to throw downfield.
6:19That's also going to be something that I would expect Miami to do, is to challenge downfield and run a bunch of
6:26screen passes too with a lot of slippery wide receivers on that team.
6:30A guy that can make one defender miss, and suddenly a two-yard catch becomes a 10-yard catch, becomes a 20-yard catch.
6:37I kind of feel like we're, I don't want to say that we're underrating Willis, but we're kind of underrating him by
6:44not having him even higher in our rankings. I'm excited for what happens this year.
6:49Let's take a break and get another sleeper or 10.
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7:45Dave, who's our third sleeper here? Brandon Ayuk figures to play somewhere after not playing anywhere last year.
7:51And so any decent opportunity could yield some good fantasy numbers on Fantasy Pros.
7:56He's currently wide receiver 68, being taken as a round 15 pick.
8:00Obviously, if he signs, let's say, well, not signs, he gets traded from the 49ers to the commanders, which I think has
8:07been a team that's been linked to him because Jamie Eisenberg loves them.
8:11They're friends. Obviously, that'll change. And he'll still be of value if he's a round 10 pick.
8:17We're two years removed from him being a wideout that averaged 15.6 PPR points per game.
8:22There were 12 games. This is in 2023. Sorry for being an old head about this.
8:2712 games where Debo was playing and Kittle was playing.
8:30And Ayuk still averaged 17.1 PPR points per game on 6.3 targets per game.
8:35He's obviously had some injuries since then. He had a falling out in San Francisco.
8:40The Niners are probably going to be a little petty and hold on to his rights unless the team steps up and
8:47gives up a decent day three pick to get him.
8:50But I don't mind it. If we're drafting right now, he's somebody that I'm taking late because I figure at some point
8:57he will be on an active NFL roster and he will contribute.
9:01Maybe not 15.6 PPR points per game, but maybe 11 PPR points per game in round 15.
9:07Sign me up. It is a little weird that there's not more buzz about this guy who was awesome.
9:13Just awesome. Just a few years ago. All right, Brandon Ayuk.
9:17And then you can fire away with more sleepers.
9:20I'm just going to give you names. If you want me to stop at any point, say so, or I can run through the names.
9:28Then you can tell me who you want to talk about.
9:31Jacoby Brissett, Jordan James, Catron Allen, Jalen Knoll, Zachariah Branch, Greg Dulcich slash Jalen Tolbert slash Caleb Douglas and Jalen Royals.
9:38I went deep for this, Adam. We are going deep for sleepers now.
9:42You had Jalen Royals. Who was the other Jalen you had there?
9:46Jalen Knoll. Yeah. Knoll and Royals. Why are they on your list?
9:50Royals is only there in case Rice is suspended, slow to come back from the knee cleanup, anything else that happens.
9:57He didn't get to play a lot last year, second year in Andy Reid's offense.
10:02And I thought he'd be a decent slot receiver to begin with just coming out of Utah State.
10:08I wonder if he earns an opportunity in a thinned out wide receiver room in Kansas City.
10:13As for Jalen Knoll, we knew last year he wasn't going to have a big role, but he was made to play the slot.
10:21Christian Kirk was the slot for Houston last year.
10:24Kirk is now in San Francisco. Knoll has a clear path to being a slot receiver and an easy target for CJ Stroud.
10:31We talked for a second about Jaden Higgins on the Thursday show, the main show, the big show, the show where Dan and Heath went head to head.
10:41I wonder if Knoll has an opportunity to be second on that team in Houston in targets.
10:46And I think he's a pretty good player who can win both in the short area and downfield.
10:52We saw very few glimpses of it last year, but he's wide receiver 97 in fantasy pros ADP.
10:58He is free. You can literally take him with your last pick.
11:02No one's taking him right now. You'll just wait for him to do something off waivers.
11:07But if there's a little bit of buzz about him and we get to week one and I've got a player on
11:14my bench, I look at him and I go, why is this guy here?
11:19I might cut that guy and pick up Jalen Knoll and see what he does in week one.
11:25And maybe he could end up being a great deep fantasy sleeper.
11:28See if tank Dell is back. Maybe tank Dell ends up being the second highest drafted Texans wide receiver.
11:35He'll be back. I just don't know if it'll be week.
11:38I just don't. And I don't know if he'll be the same guy.
11:42Yeah. You can't, you can't imagine that he would be right.
11:46Right. If he's not as fast and he was very small to begin with, we're talking about a mild contributor and not
11:53somebody who fantasy managers will even be interested in.
11:56I hate to say it. I loved him. I remember when, remember when he and Nico and Steph Diggs were all on
12:03the same team and we had legit debates about who we liked the most from that group.
12:09There was a time there where I did like tank Dell the best.
12:13Obviously Nico was the best and still is. Okay.
12:16Thank you, Dave. Those are some updated sleepers. We'll have more content throughout the coming months with more updated sleepers and breakouts
12:23and busts and have a great weekend, everybody. Talk to you next time on fantasy football today.
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