0:00top 50 wide receiver rankings after the suspensions and injuries. So, Pukunakua I know a lot of people are worried about and I have seen him falling down drafts
0:09as of late. September 1st this New York Post article came out. Um the headline is ex-girlfriend makes new abuse claim as Rams weight suspension verdict and
0:19the quote is what broke me. If you go through and read this article, the headline is very deceiving. In my opinion, as an idiot on the internet who
0:29knows literally nothing about the law, while it seems like Puka Nukua is probably a really crappy dude and probably a horrible boyfriend, there is
0:38nothing in there that's incriminating to the point where he is going to get suspended over that. It was essentially her ranting that her ex-boyfriend on
0:45TikTok was a piece of crap, which I'm not going to say he wasn't. seems like he probably was. But if the NFL was
0:52going to suspend Puka Nakua, I think it would have already happened by now. I think the fact of the matter is they
0:57need that star power playing in the Australia game and they don't want one of the league's premier young stars to be missing a game that the entire world
1:05is watching. So, I don't think Puka is getting suspended. And now that he is back at practice, I'm willing to rank
1:12him at wide receiver, too. So, obviously, we know Jamar, Chase, and JSN are absolute studs. with Jamar. Maybe you need to be somewhat concerned about
1:20the injury stuff at the moment, but all reports are saying that he is going to be good to go week one alongside T.
1:26Higgins. Now, let's move over to the A tier, and this has remained the same all off season. St. Brown, Lamb, Justin
1:32Jefferson. St. Brown highest floor of any round one pick, but maybe he doesn't have the same ceiling as Chase, Puka, JSN, CDL, Lamb, Jefferson really
1:41disappointing last season, but Lamb's now fully healthy, not dealing with the ankle sprain. and Jefferson has a significant upgrade at quarterback going
1:49from the league's worst quarterback in JJ McCarthy to a slightly below average quarterback with Kyler Murray. So, we should see bounceback seasons from these
1:57two guys here, but I would prefer a Monrod just because he has a higher floor. Now, moving down to our B tier.
2:02These are going to be your round two wide receivers. If you take them in round two, you should feel okay, but if
2:08any of them fall to you in the third round, it is an absolute smash. I'm going to be moving AJ Brown up here to
2:14seven and Drake London down to eight.
2:17All the reports that we have had coming out of New England camp this off seasonason have been AJ Brown looks incredible. This offense looks great and
2:24wheels up for the Brown experience in New England. All the reports that we've had coming out of Atlanta is Tua is the
2:32worst quarterback that Atlanta has ever seen. Hell, he may not be playing pee-wee football in the Atlanta area by the time we get to the end of the
2:40season. So, it seems like the Tua experiment has failed before it even started and they are going to be going with Michael Penn as long as he's
2:47healthy. But, um, for London's purpose, I would have rather the reports in Atlanta been, oh, Tua looks great. Um, Michael Penn's recovery is going well.
2:57Um, the Atlanta Falcons offense is looking to improve, but um, the reports we've had not great. Nico Collins here at nine. I kind of go back and forth
3:05between Nico and Neighbors. So, the report that we had with Malik Neighbors yesterday that was maybe a little concerning was they were iffy on if he
3:16was going to be practicing, if he was going to be good to go for week one. But if you go through and search what came
3:21out today, Malik Neighbors was on the field, he was practicing, he was running around. So, obviously, this is going to be something that we're monitoring all
3:28the way to kickoff. Now, Malik Neighbors has been unccommittal on if he is going to be playing week one. you would expect
3:35such a devastating injury does have him starting a little bit slow going into the year, but the fact of the matter is
3:41he is such a talent that if he were to be fully healthy, he would probably be right in between JSN and Amadra in these
3:47rankings. But you do need a discount on Malik Neighbors due to the injury stuff.
3:52George Pickkins at 11, absolute stud, phenomenal offense. But the big issue of course is the fact that CD Lamb's probably the wide receiver one and Lamb
4:01is healthy this year where he had the high ankle sprain last season. Rasheed Rice at 12. I am of the opinion that the
4:07Kansas City Chiefs are going to be a better offense and throw the ball more than the public thinks this season.
4:14Rasheed Rice, yes, he may not be the most talented wide receiver in the league. And to be frank with you, I
4:20actually think out of the 12 wide receivers that we've talked about so far in this video, Rasheed Rice is the least
4:25explosive. Rashi Rice is the least talented and overall he's the worst wide receiver on this list. But he's getting the ball from Patrick Mahomes and he has
4:35no target competition whatsoever. He averaged 9.8 targets per game last season. So, I think he's going to just be set up for a good fantasy year. You
4:44do have some off the- field stuff you always have to be worried about. and he did get the knee procedure this off
4:49seasonason. And then the last wide receiver in this tier that if you can draft him in the third round, it is an
4:54absolute smash. Taking him in the second is acceptable. I probably wouldn't do it myself is Chris Ave. He used to be a
5:02C-tier wide receiver for us, but now that Jordan Tyson is on the IR and Jordan Tyson's going to at least miss
5:08the first four weeks of the season, possibly five, six, seven weeks, um Chris Ave is going to be an absolute stud. And when I put out my week one
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6:00streams. We're doing it every single day till Christmas. Now, let's move over to Ctier. Devont Smith, nothing's changed since the last time we made this video.
6:08He's fully healthy. Dealt with a hamstring injury at the beginning of camp, but he should see an expanded target share with the departure of AJ
6:14Brown. T. Higgins currently is dealing with a heel injury, but all reports are saying that Higgins is going to be healthy and good to go for week one.
6:22Now, based on the T. Higgins injury history though, that may be something to be on the lookout for because obviously we've seen Higgins play in games before
6:31where he is just a straightup decoy and he's not 100% health. Um Zay Flowers also had a lower body injury, but it
6:37sounds like he is going to be good to go week one. He is the wide receiver one for the Baltimore Ravens and the
6:42changing coaching staff. We don't exactly know what the passing rate over expectations going to be for Flowers this year. Now, moving over to Jaylen
6:51Wadd here at 17. With Waddle, the change to the Denver Broncos offense, in my opinion, is significantly better than what we have with the Miami Dolphins
7:01offense that he dealt with a year ago.
7:02Um, this is a phenomenal offensive line.
7:04I think he is a significantly more talented wide receiver than Courtland Sutton at this point of their respective careers. And I wouldn't be surprised at
7:11all if Wadd's a low-end wide receiver.
7:13One, Teda McMillan is a very safe play.
7:16I want to call him discount Drake London because he is going to see every single target in the Carolina Panthers offense.
7:22He was an elite prospect getting drafted inside the top 10 picks of the NFL draft. The hesitation you're going to have with McMillan is Bryce Young and
7:29the Carolina Panthers offense stink.
7:31Now, Eggbuka, I am rocking his jersey right now and this is the guy that is on my own fantasy team that I cannot stop
7:40reading updates with. I promise you every single night in the live stream I am going to bring you the most upto-date
7:47information that we have with him because for my own fantasy team I'm stressing on if I'm going to be able to
7:52play him week one. We did get a video of him actually going out there and working out during warm-ups with the team. He
8:00wasn't a full participant at practice, but at least he was running around and we do have about 10 days or so before
8:06the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have to play.
8:08Uh the big concern for me with my team having Igbuka isn't that he's going to miss week one, it's that he's going to
8:14be hampered through the beginning portion of the season, which obviously we want him at 100%. Going over to Lad McConi at 20. If you wanted to rank Lad
8:22Manki all the way up at 14, I'm completely fine with you doing so. For me, I would just prefer Quinton Johnson
8:29at a discount. Quinton Johnson was the better wide receiver in fantasy last year between the two of them. They're the exact same age, but obviously both
8:38wide receivers get a better situation this year with the improved offensive line, improved coaching staff, and no Keenan Allen. And then the last wide
8:45receiver in this year is going to be Garrett Wilson. Now, I want to reiterate where I would be drafting these guys.
8:51Taking them at the end of the third round is acceptable. However, once you start to get to the middle of the fourth
8:58or especially the end of the fourth round, that is when they become incredible picks. But all of these Ctier wide receivers I view in a very similar
9:07lens. Now moving over to our Dtier, Devonte Adams here, 22. If Pukanukua's injury turned out to be more serious where Pukanukua was missing time, hell,
9:17Devonte Adams would maybe be an A tier wide receiver. Like let's be honest with ourselves. If we got an announcement that Puka Duo was going to miss week one
9:26and I had to go to flockfantasy.com and put Devonte Adams into my week one wide receiver rankings, I probably rank him
9:33at five. He's a top five wide receiver in that instance. He averaged 15.9 fantasy points per game last year, but obviously we are going to expect some
9:41regression given how old he is and the fact that he ran extremely hot on touchdowns. Now Christian Watson at 23.
9:49I drafted Christian Watson on my own fantasy team, so maybe I am very biased here, but hear me out. Christian Watson
9:55last season had a very limited amount of time to come back from the torn ACL. He was able to do so. Not only was he able
10:05to do so, he was able to post the wide receiver 19 season from a points per game perspective. So Watson last year
10:12was the wide receiver 19. Now going into this season, you remove Romeo Dobs. you remove Dantavian Wixs, seemingly giving Christian Watson more snaps, giving him
10:24more routes, and giving him more targets in this offense. Then lastly, you remove Josh Jacobs, and not only is removing Jacobs going to maybe mean a little more
10:35targets closer to the line of scrimmage, but more importantly, it is going to skew the Green Bay Packers to be a more
10:41passhappy team than they've been in the past. So, I think that Watson is set up to be much better than he was last year.
10:48And last year, he was already the wide receiver 19. So, we can rank him at wide receiver 23. And honestly, I feel like
10:55this is a conservative ranking, even if we're obviously a lot higher on him than other people. Now, Jameson Williams, I am to the point of the year where I'm
11:04just going to be honest. I am reading every little blurb about the guys that I drafted and I am telling myself the
11:12perfect story with them. I am convincing myself, "Oh my gosh, I drafted the best team man has ever seen. I'm the best
11:20fantasy football player on the planet."
11:22Blah blah blah. Now, of course, is this rational?
11:27I I don't exactly know. But there was this tweet that somebody attached to me.
11:32Yeah, look at this. Um, JMO could lead the Lions in receiving a B reporter from Detroit coming through saying that. Does
11:40that have any reality or any basis in something that could actually happen?
11:45Hell to the no. But I mean, I just love Jameson Williams in this offense this year. I think that the Detroit Lions
11:52could also lean more pass happy now that they lose David McGomery and the guy they brought in to replace him with
11:57Isaiah Pacheco is now going to be missing.
12:01I don't know if they truly want to give Jir Gibbs 35 touches a game. So maybe they lean a little more pass happy.
12:07Luther Burden is back at practice. And with Luther Burden being back at practice, of course, I'm going to go through and move him up in my rankings.
12:15Luther Burton incredibly high ceiling, incredibly low floor. When he got on the field last year, he was unstoppable, but he couldn't get on the field over
12:24Zakius, which I do think is a red flag.
12:26Terry McLaren at 26. Uh Terry McLaren I think is in line for a bounceback type season, but keep in mind last year was
12:33the wide receiver 36. He is 31 years old and all the reports we've had coming out of Washington have been about um this
12:40commander offensive line really struggling and if that is going to be the case maybe Terry doesn't have time to get downfield. Roma at 27, he is in
12:48the same tier as Luther Burton for me.
12:50Again, I would say any of these wide receivers, um DJ Moore here at 28, Mike Evans at 29. You can draft these players
12:57in whatever order you want. You cannot take any of them in the fourth round.
13:02Drafting any of these guys in the fourth round, I personally think is a bad pick.
13:05Unless you're in like a 14 team league, taking them in the fifth round is acceptable, but taking them in the sixth
13:12round or later is incredible. So again, I took Christian Watson in the sixth. I took Jameson Williams in the fifth. In
13:18my fantasy league, I felt fine about the Jocost. I love the Christian Watson one.
13:23Um, but again, these are fifth round picks, but if they make it to you in the sixth, they're auto picks. Now, going
13:29over to guys that you could only consider once you get to the sixth round of your fantasy drafts. Carnell Tate at
13:3530. He had a bad preseason. Cam Ward had a bad preseason, but I still do think the Tennessee Titans are going to be a
13:41better offense this year than they were last. And Cardinal Tate is like the cheapest top five wide receiver draft pick that we have seen in a long, long
13:49time in fantasy football. So, most people are pricing in the Tennessee Titans to be a garbage offense. Brian Thomas at wide receiver 31 and then
13:57Parker Washington at wide receiver 32.
14:00I've said this for a while now, but what you see in high stakes leagues, like if you're just going through and looking at
14:06a random $5,000 fantasy draft, $2,000 fantasy draft will be that Parker Washington goes like three rounds ahead of Brian Thomas.
14:18like it is not even remotely close where these guys get drafted in those high stakes leagues. Now to be fair to my
14:25justification for having Brian Thomas over Parker Washington is firstly if we go through and look at the age of these wide receivers just stick with me here
14:35for a second. Brian Thomas is 23 years old about to turn 24. Parker Washington is 24. So Brian Thomas is slightly
14:43younger, but again that's not going to have that big of an impact where I want to rank these guys. But let me go over
14:48to flockfantasy.com. Let's look at the player comparison. Let me look at both of these guys over the past two seasons.
14:54Right? If we average out the 2024 and 2025 campaign for these guys when again Parker Washington's the slightly older wide receiver between the two, Brian
15:04Thomas stomps on Parker Washington in every major statistical category. So, if we look at the larger sample, Brian Thomas has been the better wide
15:14receiver. Now, of course, the final three weeks last year, Parker Washington crushed and Parker Washington has had all the hype coming out of Jacksonville
15:23Jaguars camp, but I typically like zooming out, looking at the larger sample and thinking that's going to be predictive of what happens going into
15:30the future. Now, looking at Marvin Harrison, I am not the biggest Marvin Harrison guy. I think that Trey McBride's going to take a ton of
15:37targets. I think that Michael Wilson's pretty damn good. And this Arizona Cardinals offense is going to be worse this year than they were last when it
15:45comes to the passing volume. They're going to skew to be more runheavy. Now, Chris Godwin at 34. Godwin is rising because again, we still don't have the
15:55clarity on Ibuka. Not only did I get banged up, but so was Jaylen McMillan.
16:00And Godwin has had a phenomenal camp. I mean, all the beat reporters are coming out and absolutely raving about Chris Godwin. So, he does need a rise in our
16:09rankings. And then DK Metaf has missed a bunch of time, but this coaching staff's been insistent that not only is DK
16:17Mechaf playing, but DK Mechaf is the wide receiver one for this team as well.
16:22Now, moving over to the F tier, Jordan Addison at wide receiver 36. With Addison, I understand he was horrendous last season. Absolute garbage. The wide
16:34receiver 49 in points per game. But the year prior he was the wide receiver 25.
16:40And if we are going to look at the Addison falloff, it's the same exact thing as Justin Jefferson. I know we've
16:45said this a thousand times, but Jefferson was a wide receiver three last year. Justin Jefferson barely hit 1,000 receiving yards. He had two receiving
16:52touchdowns. And that was just strictly due to JJ McCarthy. So it's the same exact thing here with Jordan Addison. I don't even need to pull up the player
17:00comparison tool on fogfantasy.com.
17:01You've seen me do it with the onoffs of McCarthy for Addison's profile. I'm getting J.J. McCarthy out of this offense and replacing him with Kyler
17:11should move Jordan Addison to be much closer to what he's been in the past. Um Quinton Johnson at 37. I don't draft a
17:18lot of Lad Mani in the third round because if I can get Quinton Johnson around eight, I think Quinton Johnson is
17:24about the same bet and he comes at a massive, massive discount. Again, the Big Q had more fantasy points per game
17:31last year than Lad, and they're essentially the same exact age, and the things that are helping Lad Makanki this season will help Quinton Johnson as
17:39well. Mai Lemon at 38. I I don't expect you to be able to play Mai Lemon early on. This is going to be somebody that
17:45you stash on your bench. You hope he works himself into two wide receiver sets for the Philadelphia Eagles, and then maybe he breaks out in week six
17:52afterwards. But um once we get to this range of the draft like Michael Pitman Jr., Courtland Sutton, Deshun Stribbling, I would hope that you don't
18:01have to play these guys week one. If you drafted a team where your week one starting lineup consists of you putting
18:08Deon Stribbling in there, I don't know if you did it correctly. I I I don't know if this is a range in which you
18:16want to be banking on these guys. I would hope that they are kind of the top options options on your bench. you can
18:23see what happens in week one and then potentially decide to put them in your lineup afterwards. Now, Stefon Diggs at 42. Diggs is going to have a cap
18:32ceiling. I mean, this man is about to turn 33 years old. He was the only target for New England last year and he
18:39was still the wide receiver, 25 in points per game. So, now he's got more target competition. He's another year older. So, I am worried about Diggs. We
18:46have him down at 42. Alec Pierce looks like he's probably gonna miss the beginning of the season. But again, I would throw Alec Pierce in the same
18:52range of these guys like Mai Lemon and Deshawn Shribbling. A really high ceiling that once he gets going, you could put him in your lineup and you're
18:59going to have to wait. Wandell Robinson I have on my fantasy football team. Um I would end up actually starting Wandell
19:05Robinson on my second flex spot if I'm missing Ibuka week one, but that's also because I freaking drafted like Jordan Tyson and obviously he's going to be
19:13missing time. I drafted Jaden Higgins who's out for the year. Michael Wilson at wide receiver 45. Michael Wilson was a leaguewinning waiverwire pickup down
19:22the stretch last season. But the big problem that you have this year is now Marv's healthy. The offense is going to
19:27be worse and they're going to skew more runheavy. Josh DS had 46. I don't love downs because you have Tyler Warren and
19:34you have Keenan Allen as well. Um Matthew Golden at 47. Matthew Golden was a very bad prospect coming out of the
19:41University of Texas. Hookah Hawren at least. I know he went round one, but I hated his analytical profile. And on top
19:48of that with Matthew Golden, he had a horrible rookie season. But um he has a path to have a pretty decent role here.
19:54While at the same time, of course, you're in a situation in which the Green Bay Packers I want to say, are going to throw the ball more,
20:03which again is me justifying the Christian Watson ranking. Casey Conception at 48. Incredible talent, much better than a lot of the wide
20:10receivers we've talked about in this video, but he plays for the Cleveland Browns. Then Jaden Reed, 49. Maybe he gets used more with the departure of the
20:18other names. And then we are going to have a couple players that I drafted on my fantasy team here at the very end
20:22with Jordan Tyson and Xavier Worthy. The only way that you could ever go through and put Jordan Tyson in on your roster
20:30is if you can slide him into your IR slot, but we're not going to get him for like the first two months of the season.
20:35So, he is just a stash for later on and you hope that you hit on his ceiling in the second half of the year. But I
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