0:00All right, I'm not going to lie to you guys. This is a very difficult week for wide receiver rankings. In week nine, we
0:06of course begin with Jackson Smith Jigbman. Then the A tier is Puka Nakua, CD Lamb, Jamar Chase, and I'm on Raj St.
0:12Brown. You guys might notice that Z Flowers is not in there. We are going to talk more about Z Flowers. A little bit
0:17later in the video, we are going to figure out all the start set decisions that you need to make with your fantasy
0:22football team at the wide receiver position. So, let's go ahead and go on this journey. The B tier begins with Drake London. really good matchup
0:29against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals defense is much better. They are much improved, but they are just really getting into these back and forth
0:35shootout games. Drake London only 13.7 points per game this year. A little bit disappointing to me. Um, you know, my guy Jinxy has Drake London, so I really
0:43am hoping that he has a good game here.
0:45Malik Neighbors against the Philadelphia Eagles. Pretty low total in this game, but a fairly healthy team total, at least in terms of what I was expecting
0:52for the New York Giants. You guys know I have been very high on Malik Neighbors for most of the year. There was a little
0:57bit of a period, I will admit, when Jackson Dark got hurt, when I lost the faith a little bit, and I'm glad I did
1:02not end up selling on Malik Neighbors on too many of my Spanish football teams. I feel very good about him as a start this
1:07week. Chris Alave, Jordan Tyson does look like he is trending towards playing this week. I'll be very interested to see what his playing time is like. I'll
1:15be very interested to see what the target distribution is like because if you look at what Chris Ave has done in
1:20Vantage football over the most recent season and a half. He's absolutely dominated targets, but he has not played with a single good teammate. You know,
1:27the best teammate that he has played with is Devon Bailey. This is to me kind of not that dissimilar from like a well
1:34appropriate enough for this game. Kind of like a Harold Fannon Jr. situation where I think the target volume is going to vacasillate for Chris A based on how
1:41good Jordan Tyson is playing. T. Higgins against the Atlanta Falcons at nine.
1:45Coming off an absolute smash. 27.8 team total for the Cincinnati Bengals.
1:50No scenario where you're benching these guys. Nico Collins against the Chargers.
1:54I have down at 10. I mean basically the Chargers are just so pathetic that teams don't even have to score against them.
2:00Teams like basically do not have to try against the Chargers and that's a really frustrating thing. One thing I'll be really looking for with Collins this
2:08week in terms of ranking him moving forward though will be does he get any routes out of the slot because Jayla
2:13Null is now on the season ending IR.
2:16Tank Dell I think is going to like max out at like 15 20% route participation in this spot against the Chargers. So
2:22with Marvin Harrison Jr. and Quan Booty and Xavier Hutchinson as the other primary wide receivers, it would make sense to give Nico Collins you know some
2:29more layups and some more horizontal crossing routes out of the slot.
2:33Christian Watson against the Patriots. I do have him ranked one spot ahead of Matthew Golden. This is how I've determined I'm going to keep my sanity
2:40and keep you guys happy is I'm going to consistently rank Watson and Golden as top 12, top 15 wide receivers both in a
2:47given week and for the rest of the season. And I'm going to rank generally Christian Watson one spot ahead. He has
2:54been slightly better this year. He has struggled with drops a little bit less than Golden has. Although Golden, I mean, his lead in terms of unrealized
3:02area yards is going to be one of the most unbelievable things we've ever seen. I I don't know how long the
3:08playbyplay nextg stats tracking goes, but I would guess Matthew Golden is on pace to set an NFL record for unrealized area yards. If you don't know what that
3:16is, it's actually a very simple stat.
3:19Are yards subtracted by the target. So, he's targeted on a 50 yard pass. He doesn't catch it. It's an unrealized area. You add that up, you add that up,
3:27you add that up, and that is what you get with the Matthew Golden experience because Matthew Golden uh also leads the
3:31NFL in drops. Obviously, part of that is that the guy's always open. If he gets a little bit more consistent at the catch
3:38point, I mean, there's every chance that Matthew Golden is like a top 24 player in fantasy football next season. I I
3:44feel really good about both these guys against the Patriots. I would guess that it is going to be Watson that gets the
3:50Christian Gonzalez assignment. That wouldn't mean that I'm not going to start him. Just something to be aware of as you are setting your lineups. Luther
3:56Burden against the Tempe Buccaneers. I have at wide receiver 13. Again, I'm going to guess that's very high.
4:02Although, hey, respect my goat Mason Dodd. We have the same ranking for him this week. Basically, I don't care about the second half stuff. I don't care
4:10about Roma Dunay like you know, finally coming good a little bit. Luther Burton is so unbelievably good. He is undeniable. His route participation did
4:19increase. He played a little bit more in both 11 and 12 personnel last week with Cole KT out. Khalif Raymond is still
4:25sort of annoying in that regard. J Walker still kind of annoying. Sam Rous is still kind of annoying. However, my overall takeaway from Luther Burden's
4:33consecutive wide receiver 14, wide receiver 7, wide receiver eight finish over the most recent three weeks is sometimes talent is just so undeniable.
4:42There's only so much a coach can do to keep a player from truly breaking out.
4:46And it's true that Ben Johnson, you know, keeps giving these touchdowns to DeAndre Swift, keeps playing Roma Dun, keeps playing Cle Raymond. It basically
4:54doesn't matter. Luther Burden now on the season in full PPR is the overall wide receiver 12. Uh he is just too good. He
5:02is simply too good. You cannot bench him in fantasy football. Uh I I just I want to be in on Luther Burton this week,
5:08every week. Dynasty, I I just want to be ahead of market on Luther Burton. And then Justin Jefferson I do have down at
5:14wide receiver 14. This is just an exception of, you know, I I am just accepting reality that Justin Jefferson has a much lower ceiling in fantasy
5:23football right now. 96 and 93% snaps the most recent two weeks. He's turned that into eight points and 14 points. My
5:30personal opinion would be this is not Justin Jefferson's fault. This is almost exclusively the fault of Kyler Murray.
5:36It's a low volume offense. I mean, that is one of the things that I do think is sort of most interesting about the way
5:42that Kevin Oonnell has reconfigured his offense without Sam Darnold, without Kurt Cousins, you know. Um, basically what he has decided to do is we are
5:51going to play this very conservative, very defensive forward style of football, which I would guess is not even what he wants to do. I would guess
6:00it's just how he thinks the team has the best chance to win. But it's clearly been very bad for Jefferson. TJ Hawinson
6:06continues to be a big part of the Minnesota Vikings passing game. I am worried about Justin Jefferson moving forward. I I think it's going to be
6:14really hard to find a way for him to pay off his overall fantasy football cost.
6:18But again, you're not benching Justin Jefferson, right? I mean, 14.4 points per game is is it's certainly not what you paid on draft day, but it's not that
6:27it's like not terrible. It's not a guy you you'd want to have on your bench.
6:30And this is actually a very good matchup against the Bills who are a very bad defense. Sort of given up to everyone.
6:35Bills don't really have a pass rush.
6:37They don't really have any like shut down corners. They just cut one of their starting corner CJ Cardar Johnson this most recent week. Like if this is a
6:45situation where we end up seeing 42 dropbacks from Kyler Murray. It could be a huge blowup game for Justin Jefferson.
6:52There's also been rumors that the team is interested in trading for Daniel Jones or Carson Wentz. they or sorry uh or or they actually were in the
6:59conversation for Jacobe Presc but they've been making calls car that the the talk on Carson Wentz was not that they're trading for him he's their
7:05backup it would be that this quote unquote hamstring injury for Kyler Murray might be turning the offense over to Carson Wentz which actually kind of
7:12makes sense honestly if you are the Minnesota Vikings you're like well we're winning because of our defense anyways so maybe let's just go ahead and get rid
7:20of uh you know just if KOC doesn't like Kyler let's go ahead and start Carson Wentz who he knows that he can have a
7:27functional offense with. That is the B tier. Moving to the Ctier, you might notice we still have not talked about Z
7:32Flowers. We'll we'll be getting there. I have Parker Washington at 15. The only reason why I have Parker Washington this low, I've got a crazy stat, which is
7:40that Parker Washington is only run 33 routes in the fourth quarter of games this year. Guess what? They're a bazillion point favorites against the
7:48Baltimore Ravens starting a undrafted free agent quarterback out of Yukon. The backup options are Cadence Slovis and Austin Reed. They're going to get
7:56absolutely Molly WP in this game. I would anticipate, you know, if Toutton is able to play with this ankle injury or or either Chris Rodriguez Jr. or Kent
8:04Allen or Amir Abdul, these guys are going to get a bazillion touches, the Jaguars are going to absolutely tee off on the Ravens offense. So, obviously,
8:11you're not benching Parker Washington, but I don't think unless Parker Washington has an insane like first quarter, which could happen, right?
8:17That's kind of the interesting thing about the way the Jacksonville Jaguars offense works is whoever does happen to eat in the first half can have a huge
8:24game, but there just has been very little playing in the fourth quarter.
8:28George Pickkins against the Indianapolis Colts I have down at 16. His routes and snaps have trended down. He only played 50 uh he only played 57% of the snaps
8:37last week against Arizona, 60% of the snaps against the Eagles. Uh looks like I'm right in the middle of ranking him
8:43on the site on flockfantasy.com. You guys can sign up over there using code Davis. Get access to all my stuff and
8:49get your trade questions answered over there. I'm worried about Pickkins from a fantasy football sense just in that they're not playing him as much and
8:57they're not letting him run as many routes because he's banged up and they're probably going to win this game by a billion against Indian. Oh well, it
9:02actually would be very Cowboys to lose this game and it would also be kind of Colts to win this game after they've
9:07like given up on the season and traded everyone away. The deal for me with George Pickkins is if he's only running
9:1260% of the routes, I I'm just not really I'm just not really interested. Uh Rashi Rice I have at wide receiver 17. He came
9:18back as a part-time participant last week, only played 57% of the snaps. Uh overall 36 of the Kansas City Chiefs offensive plays, but he turned in 7 for
9:2853 and one. He clearly is the key cog in their passing offense. Probably not going to be a ton of dropbacks against
9:34the Jets this week, but whatever dropbacks they do have, I would expect Rice to lead this team in targets. Some people, including myself, thought there
9:40would be a chance for a secondary, you know, thirdyear breakout for Xavier Worthy. That is not happening. The team has not traded for Josh DS or Brian
9:47Thomas Jr. or George Pickkins or Keenan Allen or Stefon Diggs or any of these guys yet. So, I don't think they're
9:52going to before the start of this game, which means that we should be in for 70% rap participation and a strong target
9:58volume. I I I was very down on Rice after the first three games of the season where it just looked like Kenneth
10:03Walker was going to be the sun and the moon and the stars. But Taekquin going out actually is also bullish for Rice
10:09because it basically just means there's just going to be these slow, boring drives. Like the Chiefs offense that that we saw for the first three games of
10:16the season, that's gone. It's over.
10:17They're they're not good on offense anymore. It's very brutal to watch. And the Chiefs not being good on offense anymore is actually very good for Rashi
10:24Rice. PPR scamming. Teneroy McMillan just a really tough matchup here against the Denver Broncos coming off of a relatively down game for him. uh you
10:33know generates 11 targets but only has six for 58. The Carolina Panthers are missing two of their starting offensive linemen. Bryce Young just looked like he
10:40had no chance against the Packers and that was the Packers. That's a very bad defense. The Denver Broncos is a very
10:45good defense. I'm pretty worried about some just like overall systemic risk for the Carolina Panthers. You know, Bryce Young was playing so well for that first
10:55month of the season. So Coker was looking great, Ted was looking great, Hubard was looking great. we were getting, you know, 50-yard Darren Waller
11:01touchdowns and things like that. And with the offensive line playing so bad and Bryce not really being able to extend these plays, which is what I I
11:08sort of thought the whole point of Bryce Young would be the continued extension of plays, but we just have seen very
11:14very little of that in the most recent two games. So, I think this is a fair ranking for Tedoy McMillan. Garrett
11:19Wilson, I've ranked here uh very low team total for them at wide receiver 19 and then a 19 point team total. We're
11:26going to get to Adnai Mitchell and Omar Cooper Jr. But I do think a real problem for Garrett Wilson. And he did get the
11:31targets last week as my co-host on Thinking about DFS said, you know, Garrett Wilson for sure told Gino and Frank Reich, he said, "You guys do not
11:38want to live in a world where I don't get 10 targets in this game, so you better figure out a way to get me 10
11:42targets." And they did. It was clearly an emphasis on their first two scripted drives to use Garrett Wilson. But the issue for Garrett Wilson, and this is
11:49just my opinion, and you can disagree with me, is that Gino Smith just loves throwing to Adnai Mitchell. He loves to
11:55make the type of throws for the routes that Adnai Mitchell runs. Adnai Mitchell is so gifted at getting open and it's
12:02probably very gratifying for Adnai Mitchell to have a quarterback and a coach and an offense that believes in him. For the first time ever, if you go
12:09look at the way he was treated by the Indianapolis Colts, like what a miserable loser way to treat a very talented wide receiver. Like I I I will
12:17never understand the Indianapolis Colts giving up on Adnai Mitchell in that trade. certainly would not have been what I would have done. You know, I
12:23think the right way to treat a guy like Adnai Mitchell is to put your arm around him and and really big him up. That is
12:28not what the Indianapolis Colts chose to do. And now the New York Jets are reaping the rewards of that. DJ Moore, I
12:34have ranked at wide receiver 20 here against the Minnesota Vikings. I think you could argue that this is actually low. DJ Moore has barely played with
12:41Josh Allen this year. And when he has played with Josh Allen, much to my chagrin because I was not a fan of DJ
12:47Moores coming into this season, he has smashed. So week one against Houston, he gets full snaps. He is 5 for 101. He
12:54gets injured against Detroit. He comes back against the Chargers, has 6 for 67.
12:59He gets injured in the second quarter against the Patriots. He's injured. He's injured. He comes back against Baltimore. Only plays 66% of the snaps.
13:06Has four for 82 and one. I don't think DJ Moore is any good anymore. But that basically doesn't matter because Josh
13:13Allen is so good that just via the power of friendship, he can power DJ Moore to be like a mid-tier wide receiver, too.
13:19That's exactly what he's going to be in this spot. I feel very good about starting DJ Moore in the dome game this
13:24week. Jaylen Coker, we just talked about it with Ted Roy McMillan, but just overall systemic concerns for me about this offense, but Coker has just been so
13:33good at earning targets. I mean, really, like if you just look at the way he's earned targets in most of these games,
13:37it's been very, very impressive. Uh, not as impressive against Green Bay, but does get the touchdown there. And then finally, we get to Z Flowers. This is
13:46the best I could do. Wide receiver 22.
13:49He played and ran every route last week against the Buffalo Bills with uh with Joey F. 82% of the snaps, five targets,
13:57zero receptions, zero yards. I think if you're it's almost impossible in my mind to like bench Z Flowers in a 12 team
14:05league where you start two running backs, two wide receivers, and two flexes or three wide receivers, one flex. Like, do I want to start Denzel
14:13Boston over Z Flowers? I think that's too I think that's just too hard. I don't really think you could do that. I
14:18think this is exactly what you do in your fantasy football league. I think you look at your starts at decision, whether it be Zay Flowers and a running
14:25back, Z Flowers and a wide receiver you drafted later, you know, Z Flowers verse Fton Chisum, and you ask yourself, what
14:32will I be more mad about? I start Z Flowers and he has one catch for 17 yards or I bench Z Flowers and he has
14:40four receptions for 42 yards, but he finds a way to score a touchdown. I think that's the question you have to
14:44ask yourself. I mean, ultimately, Flowers is so good that I would guess a huge part of the Ravens game plan is
14:51going to be a bunch of short area targets. I looked at the projections in terms of just like the raw stat
14:56projections for Z Flowers on Runthesims.com.
15:00They're not great. You know, the the overall raw projection in terms of what he is expected to do from the market and
15:05from like an advanced statistical perspective is is not great. But I just think I feel very similarly to Flowers about how I feel on a weekly basis about like
15:14Casey Conpsion or or um you know just like when these guy Nico Collins when he was playing with Davis Mills you know
15:22Justin Jefferson when he was playing with uh what was the guy from Jiren Hall you know Josh Dobs things like that it's
15:28like you just be more annoyed in the end and we know that we're getting Jacobe Brassette so it's not like we need to
15:33panic and drop Z Flowers or trade Z Flowers away. Um, it's it's clearly the biggest start set question of the week,
15:39which is why I'm spending so much time on it. And I went through all my teams to where I had Z Flowers before I did
15:45this video because, you know, a big thing for me is I want you guys to feel that I am giving you honest answers as
15:52to what I would do with your fantasy football teams the way that I would treat my own fantasy football teams. And
15:57you know, I have a lot of fantasy football teams. I play Dynasty. I play I play everything. I did not find a single
16:04league where my team was good enough to bench Z Flowers. Doesn't mean I wouldn't do it, right? Doesn't mean that it's
16:10even the right decision, but that is ultimately where I landed is Z Flowers as wide receiver 22 and that ends the C
16:17tier. Moving to the D tier, we have Jaylen Wadd, who again I I have talked about a bunch in videos this week. It's
16:23like, okay, he finally scores a touchdown. The targets per route run, all the peripheral stuff with Jaylen Wadd is good. The issue is he basically
16:30is not playing up to his absolute, you know, capability in terms of like ability to generate yards after catch and things like that. His target earning
16:38has been fine. The huge issue with the Denver Broncos is that Bo Knicks is bad and and like am I a little bit biased
16:45against Bick? Sure. I mean, I remember watching this guy at Auburn. I watched this guy a ton in college, right, at at
16:50Oregon as well. And I did not think he was going to be a good pro. I really thought they were overrated last year. I
16:57am of course a Kansas City Chiefs fan.
16:58So a little bit of natural distaste towards the Denver Broncos. I won't pretend. If any fantasy football analyst tries to pretend to you that they are
17:05not biased, they're absolutely lying to you. So I will just try and be as honest with you guys as I can. But Bo Nicks's
17:11inability to throw the ball down the field and his proclivity to throw to the nearest pass catcher to him is just
17:18clearly very bad for Jaylen Model. And it's also part of why Courtland Sutton has been so bad. I mean, obviously there's a a ton of age related decline
17:25for Courtland Sutton as well, but very clearly in my mind, Wadd having this miserable season is not entirely his fault. It's definitely partially on
17:33Shawn Payeyton and very much on Bo Knicks, but I I feel comfortable with Wadd here. Michael Wilson, I would have ranked higher, but it's a miserable
17:42matchup against that insane uh Seahawks defense, and he is playing with two broken ribs. Uh again, you could argue to rank him higher. probably wouldn't
17:50argue against you too much. Jameson Williams, again, the only reason why I have him down here at 25, averaging 14.4 points per game. I have like some crazy
17:59play volume concerns here. Like the Detroit Lions could maybe run like 45 plays in this game. Seriously, like one long touchdown from Jir Gibbs and then
18:08an 8minute field goal drive by the Dolphins and you are like cursing the heavens that you started Jameson Williams. Ston Diggs against the Rams at
18:1526. I ranked him and Antonio Williams backto back. So Diggs, I think, is obviously going to score more fantasy points per target. I think he's going to
18:23be the much more efficient wide receiver. But Antonio Williams for the rest of the season, hot take. He Well, actually, not a hot take. He for sure is
18:31going to lead them in snaps and routes, and it might end up being kind of close between who earns more targets between
18:37Diggs and Williams. Diggs, I think, is obviously going to score more touchdowns. Diggs is a better player, but the commander coaching staff was
18:44like true to what they said, which is, hey, we are not going to put any more on Diggs' plate with McLaren out. Like, we
18:50know what he can get and that has been the case. Every game this year, he has played between 51 and 66% of the
18:56offensive snaps. That was the exact range he was in against the Eagles.
18:59That's the exact range he is going to be in here. But I have both Williams and Diggs as starts here. I think the
19:05passing volume should be pretty good for this offense here. I don't think they're going to be able to run a ton against
19:10the Rams with Rashad White, Austin Eckler, and Robert Henry Jr. as their running backs. Then I have Casey Conpsion um in the dome here against the
19:17Saints. I've just decided very similar to the Jets, guys. I think I am just going to rank Conpsion higher than Denzel Boston most weeks unless
19:26there's a very specific matchup related concern. Uh Shadur Sanders is going to be starting this game, not Deshawn Watson, for the Cleveland Browns. It's
19:33probably slightly better for Conpsion. A little bit more of a checkdown artist.
19:37Watson's a little bit more comfortable throwing it deep than um [ __ ] Sanders is. So that is the D tier. Moving to the
19:44E tier. Pretty wide here. Debo Samuel.
19:46You guys might notice I don't have Mike Evans in the rankings. My expectation based on reading the practice reports is that Debo is going to be back this week
19:53and Evans is not going to be back this week. If I'm reading that wrong, obviously Mike Evans to me would be in
19:59the C tier there with Washington, Pickkins, Rice, Tet, uh, Garrett Wilson.
20:04Debo would move down. Debo would probably move down either to the bottom of this tier or to the next tier entirely. We'll see what happens there.
20:11But insane team total, 31 point team total, highest team total of the week for the San Francisco 49ers. So I I'm
20:18all in. I mean, and if all these guys go, like I mean, McCaffrey, KD, Perie, Debo, Evan, like you you want you want
20:24all these guys in your lineup. Like I think Debo is still like honestly here's here's a good one. If you guys really
20:30ask me in the comments, you said Davis, I have Debo Samuel. I have a feeling about Debo Samuel. I don't want to start
20:36Z Flowers with Joey F at quarterback.
20:38I'll say okay. All right, man. You know, that is the way it is. These these these decisions are so close. Fantasy football
20:43is supposed to be fun. I think leaning on team total is fine. a 15-point team total for the Baltimore Ravens, over
20:50double the team total for the San Francisco 49ers. I I would say, hey, that's fine, man. If if you want to go
20:55that way, like there's very little between these two players. Mai Lemon, I have a 30. Low team total here, but really good volume earning for Lemon. 91
21:04and 94% snap shares, eight targets, nine targets, back-to-back games. Again, honestly, kind of similar to the Flowers play where it's like, yeah, the team
21:11sucks and they're not going to score very much, but the volume is absolutely there for this guy. Lad Mani 8.6 points
21:18per game. Insanely difficult defensive matchup. The Chargers suck. You know, shout out to Lad for grinding out four for 86. Justin Herbert is playing like
21:26the worst quarterback in the NFL this year. So, it's not even one of those situations where you can sell yourself on like kind of a miraculous like, oh my
21:33gosh, the offense got so much better here. I don't think things are going to get any better for the Chargers. Maybe
21:38you do think things are going to get better for the Chargers, in which case, yeah, you should start Lad Mani, but I
21:43will I will not be doing that. Adnai Mitchell IV up at 32. I'm gonna guess that's way high relative to all the
21:48other. Wow. Shout out shout out to Mason and shout out to Avery for joining me on team 80 Mitchell coming off of the nine
21:55target, seven reception, 142 yard, one touchdown game. Uh the Kansas City Chiefs have no defensive backs to get really afraid of. They're not able to
22:02generate much pass rush either. I can easily see the Jets crossing their 19 point team total here. And I said this
22:08in the rest of season wide receiver ranks video, but I just have made the decision. I will be ranking Adnai Mitchell ahead of Omar Cooper Jr. on a
22:15given week. I will be trying to find starting spots in my line of Brad Nye Mitchell. I think he is a better target
22:20earning receiver at this stage of their careers. Omar Cooper Jr. very well. I mean, maybe this dude's a first ballot hall of famer. I don't know. But what I
22:26know is that Gino and AD Mitchell have phenomenally good chemistry right now.
22:30When Adnai Mitchell has been on the field this year with Garrett Wilson, right, a former first round pick, a former first round pick in fantasy.
22:37Adnai Mitchell has earned more targets per route run than Garrett Wilson. When they have been on the field together, so that means when Gino drops back and AD
22:45Mitchell and Garrett Wilson are both running routes, it has been more likely that Adnai Mitchell will receive a target than Garrett Wilson. I think
22:51that's pretty impressive stuff. I I just have always thought Adnai Mitchell is better than the Colts did and it feels very nice to see this performance from
23:00him. So I have him ranked at wide receiver 32. Keenan Allen just like again having having to worst part of my
23:06job which I love my job. I love you guys. Thank you for watching. Thank you for hanging out. Seriously couldn't could not appreciate anyone who watches
23:13this channel um any more than that.
23:16However, talking about the Indianapolis Colts and talking about the Los Angeles Chargers is like easily the worst part of my job. Like who knows what Keenan
23:24Allen's going to do. Like is he going to go seven for 67 or is he going to go three for 31? We certainly know he's not
23:30going to score a touchdown. This team is going to do very little of scoring touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys.
23:34But Keenan will be out there for full routes. Good for him. Uh Deario Douglas, one of the calls I really like this
23:40week. I think with no AJ Brown and in this spot, I I really like the potential route participation for Demario Douglas
23:47against the Green Bay Packers. He to me also there's just um there's kind of this element where when I watch the New
23:53York P uh the New York Patriots, the New England Patriots, his performance and his statistics and the way he runs routes just seem to be impressive to me.
24:01Like when I watch the Patriots and I see him execute a play successfully, I'm like, "Yeah, that play was always going
24:07to work." I don't know if you guys ever have that with players where their plays just look a little bit more impressive
24:12or a little bit more smooth or a little bit more eyepopping than other players.
24:17Um, I I kind of get that with Deario Douglas where it's like I watch Kyle Williams execute something and I'm like,
24:22okay, that was cool, you know, nice. And then I watch Deario Douglas and I'm like, that was sick. It was always
24:27Deario Douglas. Uh, and and he just has had a good target earning profile whenever he's been on the field with Drake May. Uh, Roma Dunay at 35, 9.1
24:36points per game. No touchdowns for him yet. Does finally have back-to-back double digit point games. It's just like I don't know. Rome is a better real life
24:44player than he is a fantasy football player. And I think that the the Chicago Bears are fine with that. Jacobe Meyers
24:49here at 36. I mean, sure, you know, whatever. Again, another very variable performance guy. Not that excited about Jacobe Meyers. Ryan Florenoi, this is
24:58the highest weekly ranking I have given Ryan Florenoi yet this season. I'm the highest on him here. This is a really
25:04good matchup for him against the Indianapolis Colts. Gets to play this game in the dome. Gets to play this one in Indianapolis. So, here's why I
25:11finally have capitulated big Ryan Florenoi. um which is that they're clearly limiting George Pickkins's routes and Jake Ferguson. I'm not expecting to play this week. I'm
25:21expecting Brevin Span forward to start at tight end. Span Ford is like more or less, you know, I mean, he's basically
25:26more or less a right tackle. Like he runs some routes, but he's not really going to earn targets. So, I think the
25:31target earning potential and the routes for Florenoi look really good. He's basically like a top 40 wide receiver in a given week. Denzel Boston I have down
25:39here at 38. Um, this is corresponding to the projections into the overall market.
25:45But again, like you know, a point and a half, a point in terms of projected points difference between Conpsion and Boston. The Boston target earning stuff
25:53has been great. He just has not cashed in on a touchdown in a while. Just a really inefficient offense. And as I
25:59talked about in the Monday recap video, it's really just kind of, you know, whack-a-ole now with the Browns pass catchers. where like one of Fannen,
26:07Conpsion, and Boston's probably going to have a good week most weeks because they're very good. But because their quarterback play is so subpar, it's
26:13going to be very hard for multiple of them to get there in a given week. The F tier now, we have Malik Washington, who
26:19is coming off of a touchdown game, gets this elite matchup against the Detroit Lions. I have no issue if you want to
26:25start Malik Washington. I don't think he's like an absolute jam. I don't think Caleb Douglas is a jam. was a really
26:30interesting stat last week that the Miami Dolphins of all their primary pass catchers. So, the four guys who run over 60% of the routes, Washington, Douglas,
26:38Bell, and Doulsich all had either five or six targets. And then, of course, Kevin Coleman Jr. ends up scoring the touchdown. Josh DS down at 40. He did
26:46score a touchdown for us last week, his first touchdown of the season. I hope this is his last game as Indianapolis
26:52Colt. Um, I hope that he goes down the road from Indianapolis, hops on I7, drives down to Kansas City, and has
26:58himself an apartment there. We'll see if that ends up happening. Eftton Chisum, I have ranked behind Deario Douglas, he actually had strong route participation
27:06and target participation last week. Five targets, five receptions, 37 yards. The most interesting thing to me about Chisum is that you would just look at
27:13him and you'd look at uh him, you, you know, guy looks like Edelman or whatever in a Patriot series, you'd be like, "Oh,
27:18dude, he's for sure a slot wide receiver." And he isn't. He is the AJ Brown replacement in this offense, which to me is just so funny. Like, of all the
27:25players to replace AJ Brown's routes, instead of it being Kyle Williams, uh, it's Eftton Chisum. One thing that could cause me to move Chisum and Kyle
27:33Williams into Mario Douglas down would be if M. Collins is activated from the designated return IR this week. We'll see what happens there. Jordan Addison
27:40at 42. We just don't want to start Vikings. I do have Caleb Douglas at 43.
27:45He is averaging 11.9 points per game, but that's pretty boooied by the one insane game against the Jets. Uh, I think Danny is crazy having him at wide
27:53receiver 28. So, I don't know. Maybe maybe you got to side with the fantasy stock exchange instead of Davis Madak.
27:59Jordan Tyson I have at 44 this week. I'm guessing he is not going to have fulltime route participation this week.
28:05I could be wrong about that. They'll probably ease him in. It'll probably look honestly similar to what Rashi Rice did last week where he ran about half
28:12the routes but had a pretty high targets per route run. That would be my anticipation for Jordan Tyson. Trey Tucker at 45 coming off of the airball,
28:20one target, zero reception, zero yards.
28:22The issue with Trey Tucker, and I've talked about this a bunch, is he is not that good himself. He just has a very
28:29nice target earning profile in terms of where he earns his targets. Bowowers is one of the six or seven best target
28:36earners in the entire league. Michael Mayer is above average target earner for tight end. And a big problem for him last week was Jack Besh came back off
28:44the designated for return IR. And Jack Besh might be a better target earning player than Trey Tucker. Chris Godwin at 46. So I don't have Emecha Ibuka in my
28:54ranks right now. Were I to put Emecha Ibuka in the ranks, I would put Igbuka in the D tier between Wadd and Wilson. I
29:01could maybe bring him up a little bit more than that, but I think he'll play limited with this foot injury. This ranking for Godwin is
29:06assuming no Ibuka. I would move him down one tier if Ibuka does play. Omar Cooper Jr. I have down at 47. Maybe I should
29:14pull him up a little bit. You know what?
29:16I will pull him up. I will pull him up.
29:18I'm gonna move Omar Cooper Jr. into this.
29:21I'm gonna move him ahead of Eftton Chisum. How about that? I I'll move him up. Uh so I'll move him up about eight
29:28spots. I'll move him ahead of Eftton Chisum. But I have I've put my I put my flag in the dirt. I have AD Mitchell
29:35ranked over Omar Cooper Jr. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. You know, you guys can point and laugh at me. But you know,
29:40part of fantasy football is we got to make decisions. You have to make decisions and they have to be logical decisions. It would not be logical to
29:47rank three New York Jets players as top 36 wide receivers in fantasy football.
29:51It's just not the way it's going to work. One of them at least one of them probably two of them is going to lose in
29:57a given week. Um and and I would guess that Omar Cooper Jr. is is going to be third in line there, but I again I could
30:03be wrong. Kosh Shakir at 48. You know what you were getting out of Shakir closing us down with Kyle Williams. I
30:08said last week I was very proud of myself for this one. I said last week in the wide receiver rankings video, I was
30:13I was feeling a touchdown for Kyle Williams. He got one target, one catch, and a 42- yard touchdown. Shout out to
30:20the Madak Fenny's Football Channel.
30:21Xavier Worthy at 50. This dude stinks.
30:23Devon Bailey at 51. Big loser with Jordan Tyson back. Uh well, Kendrick Bourne's out for the rest of the year, so I needed to delete him from the
30:30rankings. Christian Kirk at 53 and Dantavian Wixs at 54. That will preclude and conclude our wide receiver rankings.
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