0:00I am so excited to talk about these wide receiver rankings this week. Starting with JSN in a tier by himself, right?
0:07Like there is no wide receiver you could convince me to have over JSN rest of season. He was the wide receiver two in
0:14fantasy last year at 23 years old and at 24 years old he's taken it to a new level averaging 28 fantasy points per
0:21game, 10 targets a game and over 100 receiving yards a game. Going over to our A tier, this is where things get to
0:27flatten out. And you could convince me a bunch of different wide receivers for wide receiver 2. I would prefer Aman Ross St. Brown over anybody not named
0:35JSN, though, just for the consistency.
0:38This is somebody that's averaging 11 and a half targets per game right now. We know he never gets hurt. Even nagging
0:45injuries, he will just go through. He will play through them. And this Detroit Lions defense is so bad that their offense is gonna have to continue to
0:55throw the ball over and over and over again. Going over to Jamar Chase, Jamar Chase has a weird little statline here
1:03because week four he only scored five and a half fantasy points because he got knocked out with a concussion, right? He
1:09only played 20% of the snaps. Week one obviously was a dud game, but if we look at the games that he's actually played,
1:16which is week one included, you have three points, but then 26, 24, and 20.
1:22He's incredible. This is a really good offense. Obviously, we have a very large sample with him being dominant as well.
1:29So, we don't have to worry about regression. Now, with CD Lamb, Lamb is a little bit of an interesting case. Dealt
1:36with an injury this past week against Tampa. only played 57% of the snaps. If we get told on Wednesday that CD Lamb is
1:44truly 100% A-OK, okay, good to go, then honestly, I think you could convince me to go ahead and move CD Lamb ahead of
1:53the other wide receivers in this tier. I think that'd be a very fair argument.
1:57But with the injury stuff that we had this past week, I'm going to be a little bit hesitant before we make that call.
2:02And then Pukuna obviously will be playing in the game tonight. We don't know what's going to happen. I'm assuming he's going to go nuclear.
2:11Expectations are he's probably a wide receiver one, two, or three in the weekly rankings every week. But with the weird pre hernia situation that he has,
2:20it does sound like he's at an elevated risk for injury. So with that in mind, I think I would prefer the other guys
2:27ahead of him. And then Justin Jefferson, the last wide receiver in this tier.
2:31Jefferson very similar to CD, I'm sorry, Jamar Chase. the points per game are thrown off a little bit just because we
2:38go back and that game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he got knocked out early, right, with the ankle injury.
2:45Only played 12% of the snaps, he had scored five points, gets taken out. The games that he has actually played against the Packers week one, he dropped
2:5331 points. Against the Bears, week two, he scored eight and a half. Very weird weather game. Also, you had Carson Wentz. And then this week, he dropped
3:0119. So if we really average this out, he is averaging about 20 fantasy points per game so far this season. But you do have
3:09more uncertainty with him given the quarterback play of Kyler still being a little bit of a question mark in comparison to the quarterback play of
3:16Stafford, Dak, Burrow, or Goff. Now moving over to our B tier, it gets really flat here. You can make a ton a
3:26ton of arguments for which wide receiver should be at seven. I am going to put Chris Alav because we have had a lav as
3:34that elite option all season long. He's averaging about 11 fantasy points per game. And I know you're going to roll your eyes when I say this, but I will
3:43mention that I still think Jordan Tyson coming in in a few weeks will negatively impact the target share that you eventually get for Chris Ave. Whereas of
3:53now, I mean, it's either you throw it to a Jawan Johnson or Devon Vele. So every single ball is going in a Lav's
4:00direction. So he's absolutely incredible. Very similar to Puka. Maybe you're at a slightly raised injury risk though in comparison to some of the
4:08other guys, but the top end production is for sure there. And while Shuck looked horrible this past week, I think it was just due to the matchup against
4:14the Vikings. Now Drake London we are going to put here as well. So, we had Michael Penn get banged up in the game
4:22last night, but it sounds like Penn is going to be a-ok. Okay, based on the tiny little glimpse that we got into
4:31Tua, I think the hope is that we never have to see Tua under center again. The games in which London's played with
4:38non-Cooper Rush quarterbacks, he's had 28,4 and 19 fantasy points. obviously with the consistent target volume as well. Z
4:48Flowers here at nine. I know we talked about selling Z Flowers for Nico Collins and for Drake London last week. Um I
4:57still think I would prefer London over Flowers rest of season given the uncertainty that we have with the Lamar ankle injury. I am slightly concerned
5:06that Lamar's play does take a dip similar to what we saw last year once he had a lower body injury. But Zay
5:11Flowers, just like what we said last week, still a set it and forget it top 10 wide receiver. He is playing out of
5:18his mind so far this season with the efficiency. And then Nico Collins at 10.
5:24Difference from last week to this week is Marvin Harrison gets added into this wide receiver room. Fact of the matter is I don't think Marvin Harrison is a
5:31phenomenal talent. We'll talk about him later on. I don't think he's going to eat that much from Nico, but I have seen
5:39enough at this point where I think we can move Z Flowers ahead of Nico Collins. I probably should have had it
5:44that way last week. It's probably just straight up wrong. Now, going over to Ted McMillan, the benefit that you get with McMillan, and you'll see this with
5:53our rankings in general, is that he has already gone through the by-week. So if you compare McMillan to these guys like
6:01Nico Z Flowers, Drake London, you are going to get one extra game from Tedo and McMillan in comparison to these other names. So for me, I think it's
6:12always interesting if you could go through and um target them in a way uh on the cheap. Now, Malik Neighbors here
6:22at 12 for Neighbors specifically. We also had him as that sell high candidate trying to pivot over to Nico Collins. He
6:30was wide receiver 12 in my rankings coming into this past week. I wanted to move him higher after he just went
6:37absolutely nuclear with 20 targets and I literally pulled up my rankings to go, "Okay, well, we got to move him higher
6:43than where we had him." I don't know how I can like if you wanted to put him ahead of McMillan, by all means do it.
6:50My holdup here just slightly is going to be with Malik Neighbors, you have two different concerns. One, the injury stuff if that ends up being something we
7:00maybe need to be worried about later on.
7:02And two, on top of that, maybe we end up getting a concerning um switch at quarterback away from Jameus Winston and instead we transition
7:13this over to Gigi McCarthy for whatever reason, which obviously would be horrific.
7:20Then going to Christian Watson, I have Christian Watson on my own fantasy team.
7:26I will say the next two weeks, this dude's going to be insane. He gets the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions
7:33over the next two. So, of course, don't share that I'm saying this, but my plans with my own fantasy team is I'm going to
7:41start him, assume that he's going to be pretty damn close to a top five wide receiver the next two weeks. And then
7:46afterwards, I may try to flip him and look to see if I can move over and get to a name like Drake London and get to a
7:54name like honestly, we'll see how McMillan plays, but I mean with McMillan, I mean, he would have already gone through his buy. Then going to
8:02Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson's been incredible. This Jets offense is better than we are expecting it to be coming into the season. Still not a great
8:09offense, but Garrett Wilson's target volume is insane.
8:13And then the last wide receiver in this tier, it seems crazy low to have them here at 15, but
8:23what do you want from me? There are so many great wide receivers here. This B tier you can reorder in any way that you
8:31want. Parker Washington just looked incredible, dropping 30 points against the Philadelphia Eagles. My hold up that
8:40I may have is he is averaging seven targets per game which is the fewest amount of any other wide receiver that
8:49we have in this tier. So that's a small little note for the volume but clearly from a talent perspective he looks
8:56unbelievable and he's the clear wide receiver one in a very good offense while Trevor Lawrence is playing damn good football. Now moving to the C tier
9:05we are going to be led off with George Pickins. So Pickkins went absolutely nuclear this past week, but it was also
9:11in a game in which CD Lamb only played like 50% of the snaps. So I know we've talked a lot about buying George Piggin
9:18on the low, buying George Pickins on the low. And honestly, I think you can reiterate that same statement. This is somebody that still very much has top 10
9:26wide receiver upside. But I almost want to make these rankings for pickings under the assumption that CD Lamb is at 100%. And he's the first guy that we've
9:34talked about so far in this rankings video that is the wide receiver two in his offense. Now Tiggins is also the
9:40wide receiver two in his offense. I know a lot of people were upset with us having Tiggins this low in our rankings
9:46last week, but what we said last week was, hey, he's injured, right? So with the Tigens injury, I do think that you
9:53have to put a slight discount on him. I would expect Tiggins though to be good to go after the by-week. Um, so week
10:00seven onwards, he'll be a-ok. Okay.
10:02Don't worry about the bad game that he had in week five. Devont Smith is currently injured as well. He hasn't practiced in a couple weeks, so it would
10:12not be the most surprising thing in the world if he did end up missing week six.
10:17But even if he plays, while the target volume's going to be there, I mean, this is just a nasty ass offense.
10:25Now, AJ Brown is going to be that riser.
10:28Again, how I make my rankings is maybe going to be a little bit different because I mean, my rankings power the
10:34trade calculator on flockfantasy.com with all the other rankings of other people as well. So, typically like you'll see this AG Brown value obviously
10:44gets knocked when he gets injured. My rankings look a little bit different than the expert average. Like AJ Brown, we knocked him way the hell down um
10:53right after his injury and every single week he's gone up higher and higher and higher for us where eventually he is
11:00going to be a Btier level wide receiver.
11:03The reports that we have as of uh this week were that AJ Brown was seen walking around the locker room a-ok. Okay. No
11:10limp, no boot, nothing like that. Um, he is eligible to come back this week, but he's probably not going to be coming
11:17back for a few. I will say it's encouraging though seeing Drake May play good football. And in our rest of season
11:23rankings video next week, he'll be even higher than he is here. Now, going to the D tier, we have Michael Wilson at
11:3120. I know a lot of people are going to bump Michael Wilson way the hell up with the Marvin Harrison trade. And I think
11:39Michael Wilson deserves his respect given the fact that he is averaging over 10 targets per game. But I honestly don't think you need to move him up
11:47because Marv is traded. Like Marv had nothing in this offense beforehand.
11:51That's not going to really impact like what you throw all the more points on Michael Wilson. It doesn't make a difference. Going over to Matthew
11:59Golden. Matthew Golden averaging almost nine targets per game. I obviously it looks like Christian Watson's the more talented wide receiver between the two,
12:08but Golden is averaging more targets and this is still a very passy offense. Mike Evans looked incredible this past week.
12:16Mike Evans, I do worry that you're at an elevated risk of injury in comparison to some of these other names, but as it
12:22stands right now, he's coming off a 26 point performance and like he's fully healthy. So, I mean, he's probably going to be a borderline
12:31top 12 receiver in my rankings this week. Devonte Adams here at 23. I do not know what Devonte Adams going to do in
12:38tonight's game. I'll pull up the markets on Poly Market US. Right now, the Rams have a 62% chance of winning this. If we
12:46go over and look at what we have for some of the player props, you actually do have Devonte Adams with a 47% chance
12:52of scoring a touchdown. Now, I'm a little bit biased. I cannot have Devonte Adams outscore Daltton Concincaid by 12 or more points this week. If that
13:02doesn't happen, I get the highest scoring team in the Flock League yet again. I win another 5,000. We're going to donate it all to an animal shelter in
13:10Austin. So, I really want that to happen. Um, but yeah, so hopefully the no side hits on the Devonte Adams touchdown on Poly Market US. But
13:19obviously, if you want to check out any of those markets, you can find the link in the description comment section as
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13:31first 10. But I will be live after the game tonight going through and updating Devonte Adams in these rankings and we
13:41can discuss that. Then moving to Rasheed Rice.
13:46Tough spot to rank Rice. We don't know the update with the hamstring injury.
13:51So, I could see Rice moving up these rankings very easily, but with the pulled hamstring, I want to be a little
13:57bit hesitant of where we're putting them until we see the practice reports. Now, going to the E tier, this is where we
14:04get to the range where you could bench these wide receivers if you would like.
14:08Like, all these guys 24 and above are just absolute set it and forget it. You got to jam them in. Luther Burton, you
14:15could bench him. He is averaging seven targets a game though. And I do expect that this offense is probably going to
14:21be better now that we're getting Caleb Williams back in. So, um I think it's going to be fine here for Burden, but
14:27obviously if you were to bench him, I'm not going to question why. Going over to Jameson Williams, I have JMO on my own
14:36fantasy team. It's a deeper league, so I'm starting him every single week. I'm taking the duds, I'm taking the booms, and I'm just rolling with the punches.
14:44Um he's only averaged 5.8 eight targets per game so far this season. But the deal that we get now is we just know the Detroit Lions defense
14:55is horrific. We know that this Lions team's going to have to throw the ball a ton. But again, I think Burden and J Mo
15:01kind of boom bust options. DJ Moore currently dealing with a shoulder injury. If DJ Moore was fully healthy, I think he would be in the D tier, not the
15:09E tier. But we are going to be pricing in the injury discount going to Eggbuka.
15:15Um with Eggbuka, he is also on my own roster. Thank god we had the actual decent fantasy day this past week, but
15:23he's still averaging only 38 receiving yards. Now, if Baker Mayfield was out for the entire season, Abuku would be much lower in my rest of season ranks.
15:35The reason I'm ranking him here, even though it'll be lower in my weekly ranks with Jaylon Daniels, is the timetable for Baker was three to seven games. He's
15:44already missed two games. So maybe there's a chance we get Baker back in a couple weeks. Now Jaylen Wadd averaging six targets per game, right in line with
15:54what we have with Ibuka. again um just clearly hasn't dominated himself, I'm sorry, cemented himself as a dominant option here for this Denver Broncos
16:05offense. Like he is the wide receiver one, but it's not by a massive massive gap. Then moving to Jaylen Coker.
16:15Coker is going to be very much like Rasheed Rice. We need to see what the update is with the quad injury and the
16:22practice reports. There is a world in which we are moving Jaylen Coker up to the top of this tier or potentially to
16:29the D tier by the end of this next week.
16:31I mean, hell, he's averaging 17 fantasy points per game. And then Cardinal Tate, the last guy. Um, with Tate, phenomenal role in his offense. I still think that
16:40he's an incredible player, but like markets had the Tennessee Titans is the lowest scoring offense in the league this week. And what ended up happening,
16:49um, the Tennessee Titans were the lowest scoring offense in the league by far.
16:53So, I do think that you have to be a little bit worried that just we're never going to get touchdown upside here in
17:01this Tennessee unit. Now, going to the F tier, these are guys that if you're in like a 10 team league, you're probably
17:08benching. Deeper league, obviously, you can play them. Stefon Diggs and Terry McLaren are going to be backtoback. It's going to be tough to set these rankings
17:18right now. We're going to have to wait until we get some more injury information for them. I will say Jaden Daniels, outside of the horrific
17:26decision that he made this week, um did look pretty good from a quarterback perspective that I think Diggs and Terry can definitely be playable when they're
17:35healthy. The problem's going to be when are they going to be healthy? Denzel Boston, I'm still not a massive believer in the Cleveland Browns offense and he's
17:43still only averaging 4.8 eight targets per game. But the Casey Conception injury probably does make Denzel Boston a bigger target earner here in
17:54Cleveland. Lad Manki at 35. Lad, I think technically was active, but he didn't really get on the field this past week.
18:03The problem that you have is this Chargers team is just horrific.
18:09So, I don't have much interest in you going through and you playing lad until we actually see the production. But you also have
18:20Quinton Johnson injured. You also have Trey Harris now injured. Everybody's injured for the Chargers.
18:29Now, Roma Dunce at 36 over the past few weeks, he's had a considerable amount of target volume, but I am concerned that
18:38you may be in a spot in which Caleb comes back and then all of a sudden those targets that Rome was getting from
18:45Tyson Beant, they're no longer there and they're instead going over to Luther Burton. And Rome's also averaging only eight and a half fantasy points per
18:54game. And we have seen him now for three years only be viable for one monthl long stretch. Now Josh DS did look like he
19:02was trending in the right direction when Keenan Allen got injured but now that Keenan is back just the overall target volume that you have for Downs is down
19:11significantly. So I would prefer to avoid Josh DS in our lineup till maybe Keenan gets like suspended or so and then DS can go back. DK Mechaf here at
19:2238. Um, METAF honestly should probably be ahead of Josh Downs here. I'll go ahead and update that. He probably should be all the way up at like 34 or
19:3035, but still METAF's only averaging 45 receiving yards per game. This is just an offense that does have a severely cap
19:38ceiling. I don't expect it to get that that much better. And then our last wide receiver in this tier, very similar to
19:45AG Brown. He is going to continue to move up rankings every week that goes by, Jordan Tyson. Um, they initially gave us the two-month timetable about
19:56eight, nine weeks ago.
19:58So, technically Jordan Tyson could have already been back at practice by now.
20:03Was never really the expectation. Um, I think the real expectation is that Jordan Tyson comes back after the week eight buy and he is 100% healthy. but
20:14top 10 NFL draft pick. A lot of people made the argument that he is a better talent than Cardell Tate, but it was
20:20just the hamstring injuries on why he fell so far in the draft. Now, going over to our last tier that we have,
20:28Marvin Harrison at 40. I'm going to be honest, I have Jordan Tyson in my lineup. If I got offered Marvin Harrison
20:35for him right now, I wouldn't want him.
20:38I understand this may be a better situation in Houston and he can only go in one direction because right now he's
20:44averaging 4.9 fantasy points per game.
20:48The problem is he was running a ridiculous amount of routes in Arizona.
20:5233 28 44 32. Like hell he was averaging 34 routes per game and he was averaging
21:003.3 targets. So out of every 10 targets that Marvin I'm sorry 10 routes Marvin Harrison had he had fewer than one
21:10target per 10 route but obviously the usage may be better going over to Houston. I wouldn't expect that it happens immediately and it can only go
21:19in one direction. It can only go better.
21:21But if you could sell Marv for anybody in the E tier or above D F tier it's up to you you consider. But I am very
21:30confident in saying that if you could sell Marvin Harrison high with this tradey Houston for Tate Coker Waddle Ibuka Moore Williams Burden or obviously
21:41anybody in Dtier above you should probably do it now. Jordan Addison dealing with a hamstring injury.
21:47Jefferson's back he's probably not startable either. Xavier Worthy while technically yes we have multiple wide receiver injuries. So Worthy's the last
21:57guy standing here for Mahomes. Worthy just doesn't look like he has the talents. Then going over to Mai Limmon.
22:07He showed some signs of life this past game for the Philadelphia Eagles, but at the same time like Devonte Smith is
22:15eventually going to come back and this is a horrific offense as well. Then going to Jacobe Meyers, nine and a half
22:22fantasy points per game. But in terms of games with more than four targets, he's had one. I can't start him. He's like a
22:29handcuffed wide receiver. Romeo Dobs, boom, bust. AJ Brown's about to come back. Debo Samuel looks like he has a pretty serious injury. Juan Del
22:38Robinson, the wide receiver, too, and possibly the worst offense in the league. Dantavian Wixs. I probably need to move Malik Washington up ahead of
22:48Wix. Then we have Godwin and Bernard.
22:50I'll talk about Jeremy Bernard in the Waverwire video that's going to come out tomorrow. But obviously, um, please, if you haven't already, subscribe to the
22:58channel. I'm going to be live streaming every single day answering your fantasy football questions. And yeah, I don't think I have anything else for y'all. I
23:05really appreciate you. I am really rooting for your team. I hope that you're doing well. I had a phenomenal week this week and I am riding a
23:14massive, massive high right now. But much love, ladies and gentlemen. I really appreciate you and hope I get to see you out in the live stream later
