0:00It is a great day to break down my week one wide receiver rankings and tears after seven long cold months. We are
0:06back to meaningful football, baby. Gonna have my top 60 wide receivers. Also, seven bigger picture questions. Things like who has the best and worst early
0:14season schedule. Some guys with awesome slot matchups and also some players who are actually pretty freaking cheap over in the DraftKings DFS streets yet will
0:22still have full-time roles. So, all that and much much more. Appreciate you guys tuning in. And with that, let's get after it with the big four at the top.
0:29Shouldn't really be surprising anyone.
0:31Wide receiver one is going to be Puka Nakua in Australia. Aussie Aussie.
0:35Aussie, you guys are supposed to say, "Oi, oi, oi." Anyway, Deamar Chase, wide receiver two would have been a lot cooler if he didn't, you know,
0:41hyperextend his knee two weeks ago. I am not a doctor, contrary to popular belief. Sounds like he'll be okay though. Bucks Bengals really could be
0:48one of the highest scoring shootouts of the week. Wide receiver three, our one true sunra started a little bit slow last couple
0:54week ones, but this is another matchup in the friendly confines of a dome.
0:58Saints Lions. I really could see a bunch of points being scored, particularly with the Lions secondary being a bit bagged up right now. Wide receiver four
1:05for me, Jackson Smith, Nigba in that Super Bowl rematch. So pumped for Wednesday night football this week. And yeah, guys, I did want to focus on JSN
1:13here for again kind of our other side question because I do think there should be a little bit of concern about 2025
1:20being an outlier year for Smith and Jigua. Hear me out. I'm not debating this dude being amazing at football, but like historically speaking, last year
1:28was incredible from a volume standpoint.
1:30Okay, we're talking about a 35.8% target share in the games he played. That's the highest mark of the past decade. Only
1:372017, DeAndre Hopkins has actually even come close and also reached that 35% barrier. And it's the same thing with Ariarts. Ariarts, for those that don't
1:44know, it's measuring the distance that balls traveled in the air. Shocker, I know. But again, just trying to get an idea of who's getting those fantasy
1:51friendly downfield opportunities. He had 49% of the Seahawks airy yard share last season. That was the highest mark since DJ Moore in 2022, who had only 48%.
2:01That's the highest mark overall again of the last 10 plus years. So, nobody is debating JSN's status as one of the best
2:07wide receivers in the NFL. He just won offensive player of the year for crying out loud. I do wonder though, you take
2:12away Clint Kubak, you got a full season over Shahed if he could just be a little bit closer to that mid-tier wide
2:19receiver one as opposed to the wide receiver one. Food for thought. Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. You are starting them. I will
2:25say, don't let anyone tell you that he didn't have a good game in the Super Bowl just because he had four catches
2:30for 27 yards. If you guys remember, less than 10 minutes in that game, Sam Darnold avoided a little bit of pressure. JSM was wide open downfield
2:38for what could have been an 86 yard touchdown. a little bit of a blown coverage situation. Couldn't quite connect with Mr. Donald. So again,
2:45almost a much much bigger game. Very much so in a hurry. Christian Gonzalez just got paid. He's a great quarterback, but yeah, JSM feeling good either way.
2:53Tier two guys, I got some badass wide receiver ones. Wide receiver 5 through 12. We got AJ Brown making his debut for
2:59the New England Patriots going up against the Seahawks. You know, Nick Awaran Emani Nick Emani. There we go. We got there. Has the ankle injury. Not really
3:08expecting him to play. Make sure you tune in to Rotoire NFL Twitter coverage for all those activives and inactives as they grow in throughout the week. But
3:15yeah, just thinking again against a Seahawks defense. It's very good. Okay, fine. Eight to 10 targets a week from Drake May for a talent like AJ Brown who
3:23even in a down year last season still posted low-end wide receiver one numbers. He's my wide receiver five going into the year and for week one.
3:31Wide receiver six, I got CD Lamb. George Pickkins is also going to be a mustart obviously. I will say though, 12 full
3:37games together last season, Sidi led the way in targets, 116 versus 99 and PPR points per game, 16.6 versus 15.9. Still
3:46very good numbers for pickings, but I do believe C to still be the wide receiver one in Dallas.
3:51Wide receiver seven, Nico Collins only show in town against the Buffalo Bills.
3:54Got to love that. Wide receiver eight, Justin Jefferson going up against the Packers. We should find out in a hurry if Kyler Murray is going to be a
4:01big-time upgrade over the artist known as Nine. As expected, it did look good last year. Catchable pass rate to wide receivers and I even removed screens. It
4:09was 69.6%. Nice for Kyle Murray, just 60.7% for JJ McCarthy. So again, expecting bigger and better things hopefully because last year Justin
4:18Jefferson finished as the wide receiver 30 somehow on a perame basis. Wide receiver nine could have honestly even been higher, but Chris Ave again Saints
4:27Lions really expecting a lot of points in that one. We got Jordan Tyson on the IR with that hamstring injury. should
4:32once again be the engine of this passing game. I'm talking about Chris Ave to start the season. Wide receiver tenant Devonte Smith in the Jigba going up
4:40against the Washington Commander secondary that looks pretty rough on paper, guys. All right, maybe they figure everything out, but we got Rousul
4:47Douglas who wasn't bad last year or anything, but just bigger picture. He turned 31 two weeks ago. He's on his fourth team since 2023. Not ideal. Okay,
4:56we also got Meek Robertson. He allowed the second most receiving yards in his coverage last season. And then Mike Sarin still, Michigan man. Did some
5:02great things against my Buckeyes back in the day, but didn't do too many great things in 2025. Actually allowed an NFL
5:07high nine touchdowns and coverage last season. So look, Devonte Smith will be a wide receiver one against pretty much any secondary out there. But I really do
5:14think we could see some season debut fireworks here against this group in particular. Wide receiver 11, I got Drake London against the Steelers. And I
5:22actually did a show, it's collabed on this channel if you guys want to check it out. I'll be on there every single
5:26week. Always a fun time with my guy Pat Mayo and also the athletics Jake Cely.
5:30Pat had Drake London like low-end wide receiver too just out of basically hatred for Tua which I get. It would be
5:38a lot cooler if Michael Penn was out there. They do have Jaylen Ramsey, Joey Porter Jr. like those are the sort of
5:43bigger body defensive backs that could feasibly give someone like Drake London more trouble. But man, even without PennX in there, I just think we could
5:51look up and it's like, oh yeah, Drake London had 15 targets today. I do subscribe to the general start your studs idea when those studs have
6:00accompanying accompanying sky-high volume and that is Mr. Drake London, my wide receiver 11. And then finally, wide receiver 12, Malik Neighbors against the
6:08Cowboys. And this will be another shout out to Pat because when I initially put my rankings together last week for week
6:13one, by the way, you can find the full list over at rotoire.com.
6:17I was a little nervous about Malik. I was just wondering, man, do we want to put him around that wide receiver two
6:22borderline just in case there's a pitch count of sorts out there for him? I decided, f all that, guys. Malik Neighbors against the Cowboys defense
6:30that finished dead last in BPR points per game to wide receivers. We saw what he did in Jerry World and just I don't
6:36even think he's really going to be limited. We haven't heard that. And the Giants also decided to release Darius Sllayton, which I don't think they would
6:42be doing if they felt, you know, bad about Malik Neighbors early season availability. Can you imagine having Malik Neighbors on your fantasy bench
6:49and just watching him going bonkers on the first Sunday Night Football game of the year against the Cowboys? Yeah, I don't want to imagine that. I'm not
6:56going to do it. He's my wide receiver 12. Key question for this. I mentioned a couple of them already, but I want to
7:01get an idea of what week one matchups actually profile as fantasy friendly back and forth shootouts. Okay, so my criteria for this looking at games with
7:08a game total north of 48 points. A little bit arbitrary, but only a handful of those. So I'm not trying to list, you
7:13know, 10 matchups here or anything. And then also have a spread that's a touchdown or less. So again, we're looking for high-scoring games and also
7:19games where Vegas isn't exactly thinking this could be more than a one-sore game.
7:24Four matchups fit this criteria. the 49ers at the Rams again in Australia, the Buccaneers at the Bengals, the Saints at the Lions, and also the
7:31Cowboys at the Giants. So, I do generally guys as a tiebreaker tend to earn more so on the side of what game
7:38environment and what offense specifically can be expecting to put up the most points. These will be four matchups where again we're feeling very
7:44very nicy about the scoring upside really on both sides of the ball. Tier number three, we are starting these men with confidence. wide receiver 13 George
7:52Pickkins mentioned how I do think he is going to be more of a one B to CD but guess what you know we've seen 15
7:57offenses over the past 10 years produce multiple top 12 wide receivers in the same season the Cowboys and Rams actually did it last year I would not be
8:05surprised if at least the Cowboys managed to do so again this year same sentiment here for wide receiver 14 T Higgins don't love the fact that he's
8:12already dealing with the Bruise heel that said last time we saw him and Joey be together for an entire season got
8:17wide receiver five numbers in fantasy land so get Higgins in those starting lineups And same thing with Jaylen Waddle, wide receiver 15. A toughish
8:25first test in Kansas City against Steve Spagnolo and company. But man, obviously the Rams invaded Kansas City for pretty much all their quarterbacks. They use
8:33their first round pick on Manor de Lane.
8:34I'm sure they'll coach these guys up.
8:36Also brought back the dude from Tennessee. Why is his name escape me?
8:41Chiefs always do. Someone else pays him when they bring him back. Larger Sneeed.
8:45There we go. Maybe he's going to start playing like an absolute baller again.
8:48would expect it to be better than it was in Tennessee. Either way though, Jaylen Waddle interesting nugget in the preseason despite not seeing him much.
8:5566% of his routes did actually come from the slot. So, I do think we're going to see a nice mix of downfield opportunity
9:01like we usually got in Miami with more layups being used as a slot receiver, not having to face number one quarterbacks as often. Very much excited
9:09for Jaylen Waddle, one of my guys for the season. I think he gets it going early here on Monday Night Football.
9:14Wide receiver 16, Lab Mcconkey. Look, I mentioned those kind of Vegas totals and spreads and trying to use that actually to our advantage of fantasy football. We
9:22can also use Vegas team implied totals.
9:24That's gonna be something I'm gonna be referencing a lot throughout the season.
9:26If you already know what it is, you're a scholar and a gentleman and just hear me out for 30 seconds so I can tell
9:31everyone else basically because we're getting spreads and overunders for every single game. We can take calculations from that and actually see the actual
9:39individual team totals that Vegas is expecting to happen. And for week one at least, guys, nobody is implied to score more points than the Los Angeles
9:46Chargers here. So, it's obviously a good matchup against the Cardinals, reigning 29th ranked scoring defense. They got some young guys in the secondary. Will
9:52Johnson fell in the draft in the first place because of injury related stuff.
9:56He otherwise could have been a top 10 quarterback. So, not saying it's, you know, the biggest layup on the slate or
10:00anything, but we love Justin Herbert.
10:02This is a condensed target tree right now with Lakoni expecting to lead it.
10:06And we're certainly not scared of the matchup. L Makoni, my wide receiver, 16.
10:09Honestly, that even feels low. Wide receiver 17. We got Zay Flowers coming off the,200 plus yard receiving season.
10:17Tons of target upside here in the Ravens passing game. Honestly, this one too in the dome. You guys remember last time
10:22Lamar Jackson played this Colts defense?
10:24It's like 2023, I think. But dude was unconscious there in the second half and I mean that in the best way possible.
10:30Really do think we could see Zay Flowers joining guys like L Manki, Jaylen Wadd, Devonte Smith as legit borderline wide receiver ones this season. Wide receiver
10:3818. I got Rasheed Rice.
10:41He'll be ranked higher in the future. I know I was fading him this season. All right, but we're in week one rank. So,
10:46what I said in August and July, we're going to have to adjust some new information. Rasheed Rice when he's been on the football field has been a wide
10:52receiver one. This matchup though against the Broncos in a spot where we have a healthy Xavier Worthy. Maybe we do see him start taking away some of the
11:00underneath screen stuff. And this Denver defense really has limited Rice pretty well in three career matchups. four catches, 72 scoreless yards. Four
11:08catches, 56 scoreless yards. More recently, six catches, 36 scoreless yards. And that last one was even without passer Tam playing. So, I'm
11:15expecting more of a runheavy Chiefs offense, particularly in the early going of the season. Richie Rice should still be in all your fancy lineups. But again,
11:22that's the only reason why he's not higher, at least for this week. Wide receiver 19, Devonte Adams again in this Australia themed shootout here. Ranked a
11:30bit higher than we were drafting him.
11:31That is going to be a common, you know, theme here with some of the more unc receivers who we had to balance the age
11:35and the injury sort of stuff and the reddraft, uh, you know, lead up to the season. But here in week one, it got to
11:41be feeling good. Again, 10 more end zone targets for Devonte Adams next closest player last season. Will they continue to force fielding the ball inside the
11:49goal line? Yeah, probably. Why not? He's really good at it. Devonte Adams, my wide receiver 19, followed by wide receiver 20. The other on the other side
11:56of the ball, Mike Evans been banged up all August. has come out and said though that really it was just more so
12:01maintenance than anything. Similar to CMC guys, maybe not quite the same sort of heist, but when Mike Evans is healthy, we're expecting him to score a
12:08touchdown and be the alpha in this ever high-flying Brock Perie Kyle Shanahan attack. Get him in fantasy lineups of all shapes and sizes. Key question for
12:16this tier, I want to look at what wide receivers have the best and worst early season schedules, okay? And this will
12:21get better as the season goes on and we can actually start using 2026 numbers.
12:25But at least in terms of 2025 PPR points per game allowed to position, the Eagles, Saints, Ravens, Giants, and Jets actually stand out by far as having the
12:34best early season matchups. The worst are going to be the Buccaneers, Jaguars, Bears, Steelers, and Lions. So, I like using matchups as more of a tiebreaker.
12:43And for number one wide receivers, guys, with plenty of volume, I'm not going to be sweating it. So, please do not worry
12:48about Amra St. Brown, even the Buccaneers guys, and Mecca Ibuka and Chris Gobwin. I'd say Parker Washington especially because he's going to be from
12:56the friendly confines of the slot. All right, BTJ is going to be the one dealing with a lot more of those scary
13:01number one quarterbacks for the first portion of the year. Chicago, I trust the offense. I'd say the Pittsburgh guys, that's a little bit more more
13:08where I'm worried about and then more so the complimentary receivers. But yeah, guys, again, Devonte Smith in the early going, also perhaps Mai Lemon, Dontavon
13:15Wixs in deeper leagues. Chris Alav of course feeling great about but Devon someone that we talked about as a potential you know if you need him early
13:23season waverwire addition I'll highlight him again later but he is someone who deserves to have a boost in the early going with the Ravens pretty much just Z
13:31Flowers but hey Rashad Baitman Jacobe Lane DFS you guys can imagine Giants we're not starting Malachi Fields out of the gate someone to keep in mind though
13:40wouldn't be surprised if he's going to be someone highlighted in week two waverwire articles and then with the Jets it's kind of similar like Garrett
13:45Wilson is our guy but you deeper leagues. I'm in these 14 team leagues where you guys start three wide receivers and three flexes. Adie
13:52Mitchell and even Omar Cooper could be worse options out there for the first month of the season. Tier four now just
13:58a little bit of concern but still guys I would imagine will be in lineups of most shapes and sizes. Wide receiver 21 Tedoa
14:04McMillan guys this Bears secondary is hurt dog. We got Kylo G Kyler Gordon excuse me on the pup list. Jaylen Jones
14:11on IR, Jaylen Johnson deal with an arm injury and Tyreek Stevenson dealing with an undisclosed injury that again we'll find out here very soon as we finally
14:18get official practice reports in the safety room as well. Kobe Bryant, Elijah Hicks and Xavier Woods also banged up. I said for this tier there's one concern
14:27and for Tedro McMillan it is Mr. Bryce Young. Man, if Bryce can go ahead and play like the good version of himself
14:32that we admittedly have seen more often during his, you know, later stages of his three-year career so far, really do think T-Mac and maybe even Jaylen Coker
14:40could do big things in the season opening spot. Wide receiver 22, Garrett Wilson going up against the Titans.
14:46Again, we'll see what Gino Smith and company look like. I mentioned those early just Vegas team totals for week one. This is what I'm talking about,
14:54guys. I could see how it goes right for the Jets and Cardinals. We've seen Gino and Jacobe play some good football.
15:02Vegas though, a neutral party you could say. Like they're trying to be accurate here. They have billions and billions of reasons to be as accurate as possible.
15:10They had the Jets ranked 29th, the Cardinals ranked 30th, the Dolphins 31st, and the Browns 32nd in their week one team totals. We'll see what goes
15:16down.
15:18Wide receiver 23, Jameson Williams.
15:20Didn't love the splits with Sam Laora last season. I'm also maybe overthinking it because this is an ultra talented, speedy, field stretching, explosive
15:27demon out there in an offense. We love Jameson Williams. Again, one of those guys I didn't draft a ton of and
15:32honestly it does scare me. Wide receiver 24, Christian Watson, last year's wide receiver, four and euros per out run. I can see him being much higher in future
15:40weeks. The Packers schedule really does open up nicely, guys. I'm a little bit scared of week one. Brian Flores is one
15:46of these guys who's gonna send a lot of blitzes. And just with that Packers offensive line, I'm high in this group
15:51as a whole. I'm just a little bit lower to start this season and maybe I shouldn't be because Jordan Love has
15:56been fine against the Blitz and I know Matt Laflur is capable of overcoming tough, you know, schematic matchups and things like that. I'm still starting
16:03Christian Watson where I got him and everything. I would just be a little bit hesitant and expecting too big of a blow
16:09up here. So after week one though, we got the Jets, Falcons, Buccaneers, Bears, and Cowboys giddy up for Jordan Love and company at that point. Wide
16:17receiver 25 Parker Washington versus the Browns. most applicable fivegame stretch of last season featured Parker absolutely balling out and target share
16:24with 27% and PPR points per game at 19.1 and again guys tough early season stretch for the Jaguars wide receivers shouldn't be so much for Parker
16:33Washington from the slot Denzel Ward is going to be the one that's again going to be more so of an issue for Brian
16:37Thomas Jr. Wide receiver 26, DJ Moore against the Texans will be a lot higher, but unfortunately going up against Derek Stingley and company. Wide receiver 27,
16:45Amecha Ibuka at the Bengals will be higher if we didn't have at least a little bit of concern about this toe
16:50injury keeping on. It's one of those things where it's finding that balance where it's, yeah, it's an August injury.
16:56He didn't miss any game time. We didn't lose any fantasy points from Mecca dealing with this, but could it linger?
17:02Maybe. That's the problem. Is he going to be at less than 100%. Because we saw what happened last year. If we're
17:08blaming in large part Acha Ibuka's falloff from week seven on last season on an injury, yeah, I don't love the fact that he's currently dealing with
17:16another one. So, wide receiver 27 for right now. If it goes out there and looks great, guess what? He's going to
17:20be inside the top 20 next week. Similar sentiment for wide receiver 28 Luther Burton and even wide receiver 29 Roman Dunes. Burden with the groin, a Dunay
17:28with this leg injury that I am concerned about because he wasn't even out there practicing on Monday. Bear said it wasn't serious. I think he'll probably
17:36be out there. We'll see what happens though. So maybe a Dunay emerges as the one. I still think it's going to be
17:42Burden. And if we do see a big target gap, 12 versus four or something in week one, guess what? We're going to see that
17:47split widen. I do wonder though with this whole off seasonason, oh Burden or Dunay or Lovelin. Maybe the answer is just yes, guys. Because having three
17:56dominant target alphas potentially in the same offense, we can live with that if Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson are going to be as good as they as at least
18:04someone like me thinks they could be here in year two together. Wide receiver 30, Terry McLaren. Quinton Mitchell has done a pretty good job against them,
18:12man. Hasn't shut him out every single time. They've had five career matchups, though. First one, Terry went for 10 scoreless yards. Then he went 60 yards
18:19and a touchdown. 51 yards and a touchdown. Two games last season, 53 and 57 scoreless yards. So, it's not an easy
18:26matchup against the Eagles. Vegas actually has Washington very low, 27th in terms of their implied team total.
18:31And I do worry about Stefon Diggs being a bit more of target competition versus Terry. Then he's pretty much had the
18:37rest of his career. Wide receiver 30 here for now. Key question for this one.
18:41I'm going to list the injuries out here on the screen for you YouTube subscribers. Make sure you guys check that out. If you are more so audio,
18:47appreciate you either way. But I'm not too concerned about this crop of injuries. Again, make sure you guys check out Rotoire's injury report and
18:53practice participation pages and follow Rotoire NFL. They're going to give you everything you need to know throughout the week. I will say out of all these
18:59guys that just have injuries right now that we will see confirmed in the severity of as the week goes on.
19:05The Acha Ibuka concerns me. We'll see if Malik Neighbor is on a pitch count.
19:10We'll see if Alec Pierce is on a pitch count. The Roma Dun missing the Monday practice I do not like at all.
19:18And that's basically it. Those are the main ones I'm worried about going into week one. Tier five, we have flex plays
19:23that you should still feel good about.
19:24Wide receiver 31, Chris Gobwin. Again, I'll be interested to see how much he's in the slot versus Ibuka. Bengals quarterback DJ Turner, guys. Really
19:32freaking good out there. And he did go ahead and shadow some guys. I think Goblin will be okay in this spot. But
19:38man, that's why he's wide receiver 31.
19:41If we do see a better matchup here for him moving forward and we don't have to worry about potentially getting shadowed, would be probably more so
19:46inside my top 28. wide receiver 32.
19:49Quinton Johnson versus the Cardinals.
19:51Guys, you know, I've been high on the Chargers all off seasonason. I drafted a ton of Quinton Johnson. I think he's
19:56truly, in my heart of hearts, gonna have a great season here. That said, I could see it not working out potentially. My pick for this year's
20:06Sammy Watkins Memorial Award honor for the guy who balls the hell out in week one and then does a whole lot of nothing
20:13the rest of the season. I just think it could be Quinton Johnson.
20:18I was trying to go with the pick. I saw QJ's name. It makes sense. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he goes off in weeks one,
20:24week one, then goes off again in weeks two through 17. But man, I can see it being QJ. Let me know if you got any
20:31names out there. Kevin Olgree was another one who had it going for the Cowboys. Big game against, of course, the Giants in Sunday Night Football to
20:38start the season. Keon Coleman won this last year, by the way. We'll see. I got QJ for 2026.
20:45Wide receiver 33, Jaden Reed. Again, I mentioned this with Christian Watson as well. Going to be hiring him in future weeks. Would be good to see though a
20:51higher route rate and not getting taken off the field every time the Packers want to go at multiple tight ends. Wide
20:55receiver 34, Stefon Diggs. Reminder, guys, Obama was in office the last time Diggs finished any worse than the wide receiver 25 PPR points per game. I don't
21:04like to get political on here, all right, but I thought I had to get that fact out there. Wide receiver 35,
21:09Barbara Harrison against the Chargers.
21:10Going to be talking a little about him versus Michael Wilson in a minute, so I'll save it. But yeah, curious to see
21:15what goes on. Chargers defensive coordinator Chris Olir has never called plays at the NFL level. That said, Frank Reich, I've talked about this at
21:23Stanford, horrible offense. Eric Benemy when he was at UCLA, horrible offense.
21:28Shout out Chris Olirri. He's never called plays the NFL level. He did lead college football's ninth ranked scoring defense at Western Michigan last season
21:36for whatever that is worth. And you know, Western Michigan, they beat the Michigan Wolverines in 60 minutes. You know, 60 minutes and 1 second. I guess
21:44Michigan won that game. But in terms of a 60-minute football game, Western Michigan, pretty nice win. Congrats to them. Wide receiver 36, DK Mechaf
21:52against the Falcons. Nice little point recently from Aaron Rogers. We got to get the ball with DK. He's our number one for a reason. Tough match up against
21:58AJ Terrell. And they got Jesse Bates, Savior Watts, pair of awesome safeties there. But pass rush really has taken a beating. I do think DK Mechaf can kind
22:05of be what he's always been throughout his year, throughout his career. Boomer bust wide receiver three. Maybe he booms in the spot. Wide receiver 37, Josh DS
22:13against the Ravens. Very interested to see what this Jesse Mentor Ravens defense looks like and also if Josh is going to be playing in two wide receiver
22:19sets with Alec Pierce healthy and also Keenan Allen involved. Wide receiver 38, Brian Thomas Jr. It's just only so low you can rank someone who's young,
22:28healthy, and is one year removed from going for,200 yards and 10 touchdowns.
22:32Guys, wide receiver 39, Jordan Addison before the JJ McCarthy debacle. Wide receiver 30, wide receiver 23 in PPR points per game to start his career.
22:41Kyler Murray's going to be really good again. Good chance Addison is as well.
22:45Key question for this one though, who are the best and worst teams against slot receivers last season, guys?
22:50Because again, it's one of those situations where if you're trying in your flex to just try to get that extra advantage, I do think looking at the
22:56extremes of some of these matchups can be helpful. So, five worst defense in terms of PPR points per game allowed to
23:01wide receivers from the slot. We got the Bears, Niners, Colts, Commanders, and Cowboys. So, some of this is common sense, right? We're starting Devonte
23:09Smith against the Commanders no matter what. Maybe though Mai Lemon gets a nice debut in terms of the Colts. Maybe Zay
23:14Flowers has a nice breakout game. 49ers more reasons to be happy. You have Puka.
23:19Similar sentiment with the Cowboys facing Malik Neighbors. The Bears though, guys. Tedrell McMillan and Jaylen Coker.
23:27I know I don't have them. And we'll get to Cooker in a second. I did move him up into the wide receiver for territory. I
23:32know I don't have these guys skyhigh in the ranks. And there is a reason for that. All right. I'm not starting Jaylen
23:36Coker over Christian Watson just because of a good matchup. But man, DFS flex tough start sit. I like these Panthers wide receivers this week. It's a bad
23:45defense. Pat, bad pass defense. Last year had lived on takeaways and now they're so banged up. Come on, Bryce.
23:51Give us one week. Tier six. We're saying there's a chance. Wide receiver 40. KC Conception at the Jaguars. Please, for the love of God, get Deshun Watson out
24:00of here. I don't know if Shador Sanders is going to be all that much better, but ah KC though should get playing design
24:07touches. He is my top ranked rookie wide receiver, I believe, uh, on the slate.
24:10So, there we go. Wide receiver 41, Don Stribbling again in the Australia game.
24:14I just think with all these Niners healthy, he's probably going to be a number four option, but we'll see how it
24:19goes down. Wide receiver 42, Carnell Tate against the Jets. No sauce Gardner to worry about. Obviously, now for the Indianapolis Colts, so maybe we can
24:26actually see Carnell Tate get a catch in a football game. Didn't happen in the preseason, but you could imagine. Very curious though, if you guys caught my
24:33preseason trends video, let's see if Brian Dable was ready to open things up, use some motion, use some good schematic principles, or if truly they were just
24:41being vanilla, you know, to keep everyone on edge there in the preseason.
24:45Wide receiver 43, Matthew Golden. Boomer bust wide receiver four. We'll see what happens. Wide receiver 44, Michael Wilson. Going to be highlighting him
24:52here in a second, but congrats on becoming a very, very rich human being.
24:56Three years, $75 million extension. Wide receiver 45, Courtland Sutton. It does scare me. It does about how all in I've been on Jaylen Waddle and the potential
25:05for someone like Courtland Sutton, who I've called boring at several points throughout this off season, which is true. You guys have never drafted
25:13Courtland Sutton and called your, you know, mom or your girlfriend and been like, "Holy [ __ ] you aren't going to
25:18believe this." Respectfully, he is wide receiver 21 per game over the last two years. I get it. He's just boring. It's
25:25Quin Sutton. He's going to be 31 in October. We'll see what happens. Wide receiver 46. mentioned him already.
25:30Jaylen Coker. This did surprise me. I knew Coker had a good end of season stretch last year. I didn't realize how
25:36much he actively outproduced Tedro McMillan, though, guys. Arbitrary timeline for sure. But weeks 13 to the wild card.
25:46That's seven weeks. I just counted on my freaking hand. Didn't even need to use cloud or chat GPT. 14.6 PPR points
25:52versus 10 for T-Mac. The target share was also in favor of Coker. 22% versus 21%. Who are we starting? T-MAC with
26:00Jaylen Coker. Man, people forget.
26:02Absolute dog. Shout out to all my cokeheads out there. Wide receiver 47, Alec Pierce. I want to see him look 100%. And if he looks great and he hauls
26:09in a deep ball, Daniel Jones looks great. Achilles isn't bothering him. I will stand before you all and say that I
26:15was wrong and stupid to be doubting this Colts offense. We'll find out on Sunday.
26:18I'm going to have a lot of people to apologize to if that's the case. Wide receiver 48, Michael Pitman going up
26:23against the Falcons. Be a little bit banged up a hamstring, I think. And again, the Aaron Rogers quote for DK.
26:28Maybe I'm putting too much into one bar there, but just I'm not overly expecting too many wide receivers to be balling
26:34out in Pittsburgh. I'm not going out of my way to start Michael Pitman here either. Key question mentioned Michael Wilson. So, here's the case for Wilson.
26:42He just got paid, which is great. His numbers last year were amazing to end the year. Okay, wide receiver four from
26:48weeks eight to weeks 18 last year.
26:51That's incredible. Only Puka N Puka Nakua outscore him during the final two months of the season. And he looked good. Like I cut up the film. You guys
26:58can see my highlight clips. I post over on Twitter. I get those from going through every single target, picking out the best ones. Go. You know, it's a it's
27:05a process. Michael Wilson looked good out there. There were some times though where it was garbage time induced.
27:12Specifically, 57.6 PPR points while trailing by three plus scores in the second half. Highest mark of any receiver over the last five seasons. And
27:21the thing that really gets me is the lack of production when Marvin Harrison Jr. was out there. Okay, shout out to
27:28Jared Smaller does great stuff over at Draft Sharks. Michael Wilson last year in eight games with Marv playing at least 70% of the snaps 67 yards per hour
27:38run. That was dead last among the sample of wide receivers. But with Harrison sideline, that number went up to 2.33.
27:44That was the 12th highest mark. So we also had Z Jones and Greg Dorch injured down the stretch. And I don't know,
27:50Michael Wilson was going to work ahead of them, but I do wonder if it could have been a little more of like a
27:54low-end wide receiver, too, as opposed to some of these guys were healthy. He got paid. I get it. But there have been
28:00some damning, guys. Damning examples of dudes balling out in the second half of the season after really not doing anything during the first couple months
28:09on bad teams whose season was over.
28:11Specifically, last 10 years, here's the list of guys who averaged at least eight additional PPR points per game. the second half of the season compared to
28:18the first half on a bad team. Michael Wilson last year, Devon Vele last year, 2024 Jerry Judy 2024 Marquez Bald Scantling 2024 Adam Thielen Amra St.
28:28Brown 2021 that one absolutely did hit.
28:32We also had 2021 Elijah Moore 2020 Marvin Jones 2018 Dante Pettis. Far more whiffs than hits. Very curious to see how this Cardinals offense looks in week
28:43one. A lot of mouths to feed. We know Trey McBride is going to get his Mar versus Michael Wilson. One of the
28:48biggest questions I have going into the opening week of the season. Last tier guys, I got wide receiver five long shots. Wide receiver 49. Jacobe Meyers
28:55is expecting to be the number three wide receiver in a game where yeah, I don't think the Jaguars are going to have to
29:00keep their foot on the gas for all 60 minutes. Trey Tucker against the Dolphins is my wide receiver 50.
29:05Winnable enough matchups, but just beyond Brock Bars. No one in this passing game I'm actively trying to play right now. wide receiver 51 or [ __ ]
29:11shahed versus the Patriots under 10 receiving yards in seven of his 12 games last year but I could see Sam Donald
29:17similar to Jordan Love throwing a bit more based on their current running back room full offseason to get together new system Rashid Shahed is a sleeper I like
29:24and a boomer bust wide receiver five for me wide receiver 52 Jale Robinson against the Jets it felt low to me but
29:30here's my thing guys all right I know scandale can get going but more so we see these underneath slot types really
29:36get their numbers against more zoneheavy defenses and we do not have that the Jets and Aaron Glenn actually ran the fifth most man covers last season. I
29:43think it's going to be more of a Carnell Tate and Calvin Ridley game accordingly.
29:47Wide receiver 53 Devon Vele guys again I could see me getting higher up here. We saw it in weeks 12 through 15 last year.
29:56Devon Vele had more receiving yards than Chris Ave. That happened output in fantasy. I think he was the wide receiver 15 during that stretch, but
30:03Bailey was a low end wide receiver too in his own right. Mentioned that good schedule. mentioned the matchup against the Lions here in week one. We got
30:09multiple safeties out. Brian Branch and Kirby Joseph, Devon Bailey, guys, he's gonna be in a lot of DFS lineups for me.
30:16More on that shortly.
30:18Why were 54 Romeo Dobs against the Seahawks again? Could we see Mollins, Kyle Williams, who else they have? Dear Douglas rotating in here, likely, but he
30:29just paid the guy $70 million. I'm pretty optimistic AJB and Dobs got full-time roles with Drake May under center could certainly do a lot worse.
30:37Wires rece 55 career secure against the Texans. Actually had career not career single season high marks against this defense last year. Went eight for 110 on
30:4510 targets. Hasn't been banged up since mid August. So now DJ Moore is there.
30:49Not trying to go out of my way to play him in this spot. Wide receiver 56 Xavier Worthy. Again it's just the
30:54Broncos. He could be higher in future weeks. Wide receiver 57 Mai Lemon versus the Commanders. Maybe Dantavian Wix really is number one. I have a little
31:01bit more respect though for Mcken Lemon.
31:03Really was awesome at USC against that cornerback room. Guys, wouldn't be surprised if some people out there openly criticizing the reigning
31:12defending Blitenoff award winner of the world could be looking silly for again putting too much stock in one not so great preseason game. Wide receiver 58
31:20Rashad Baitman. Lamar's actual number two receiver guys. I like Jacobe Lane too, but you know what's better than balling out in the preseason? Being so
31:27cemented at top the death chart Dean after playing the first place. Wide receiver 59, Denzel Boston. Looking forward to Watson not being under
31:33center. And wide receiver 60, Trey Harris against the Cardinals. Great matchup. Curious to see how they're rotating these wide receivers. Last
31:40point, who's some cheap wide receivers with full-time rules that we can play in DFS, baby. I don't know about you, but I
31:46do enjoy going over to DraftKings, getting some lineups in on Sunday morning. I'm not going crazy with it. I got too many start sit shows and stuff
31:52going on to be able to actively, you know, be adjusting lineups basically with 30 minutes to go before everything locks. But these guys should have
32:00something close to a full-time role and coming in at under $4,000 at DraftKings.
32:05I mentioned Rashad Baitman. He's at 3,900. Trey Harris is 3,800. Jan Dawson for the Falcons. We're getting gross now with two under center, but he is 3,700.
32:14We got Texans wide receiver Jaylen Noel 3,600. Been a little bit banged up though. I don't love that one. Devon Vele at 3500. Guys, I don't know if he's
32:24going to become the chalkiest guy in the world. We got Dantavian Wixs and Adie Mitchell just above this tier. I think
32:29they're like 4,4100. But Devon freaking Vale got them loving them this week.
32:35Let's go. Devon Vele. And then also Dolphins wide receiver Chris Bell 3200 and Dolphins wide receiver Caleb Douglas at three grand. If you guys listen to
32:43the fantasy footballers, you should because they're freaking awesome. But I actually got invited to go ahead on to their MVP episode. Everyone touting, you
32:51know, the Coulson Lovelins, the Chase Browns, all these top four round picks.
32:54Your boy Ian decided to get a little bit crazy. Chris Bell sleeper of the year.
32:59It came a little bit out of nowhere because, you know, we thought he was going to be out for the first bit. It
33:05seemed like everything was pacing towards a start on the pup or IR or whatever, you know, to start the season, but he's ready to go. I would be a
33:11little worried in week one about the ramp up, but seriously, guys, one of the best candidates to be plastered everywhere on the cover of week two
33:18waiverwire articles, it is Chris Bell.
33:21Really? And I do not say this lightly. I got some AJ Brown vibes from watching his film, particularly in that Miami
33:26game. It's an offense where maybe Malik Willis is okay. All the numbers say he's been the most efficient passing quarterback of the past two years. I do
33:33not think he is. But could he be 16th, 20th instead of 32nd? Sure. Then look at some of the wide receivers, you know,
33:40the Panthers guys, for example, of quarterbacks that have actively finished well below that. And then it's like the Dolphins can say they want to run in
33:47August. It's easier to say when you're not down 21 points at halftime like they're going to be in halftime games.
33:52So, love me some Chris Bell and reddraft long-term this week though. Devon Vele, my favorite lowp price stud receiver to get after in DFS. But guys, that's going
34:00to do it for me. Hope you've been enjoying these positional rankings and tier shows because they're going to be back all throughout the season each and
34:06every week. Running back, wide receiver going to be a little bit closer, 25, 30 minutes. We'll keep quarterback and tight end short. Otherwise though, you
34:13can catch me. I'm going to be doing some live start sits I believe for both Wednesday and Thursday night this week
34:17typically more so Thursday night. I'm going to be on Friday live around 5:00 p.m. to break down all the injury stuff
34:23cuz that is the other thing. You know, I'm giving you these ranks early before I've even had a chance to see the
34:28official practice participation report.
34:30So, I'm sure there are going to be some misses. Uh someone shouted on my running back video that yeah, it doesn't look
34:34like Trayvon Henderson is going to play.
34:35I'll reply to your comments. Let me know if there's any issues there. But also again, I will be back on Friday with all
34:40the updates there. And if you want them sooner, guys, again, not going to be jamming the Rotoire sub down your throat
34:46all season. Pause. But it is a situation where I'm updating my ranks all the time over there. I have these written in
34:52articles as well if you want more context there. So yeah, if you're into that kind of thing, it's out there for
34:56you. But all in all, just be pumped that football is back. Hope everyone had fun Labor Day weekend. If you like the
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