2026 Fantasy Football WR Rankings: The Biggest Values, Sleepers & Busts with Pat Daugherty | Best of the Fest (Ep. 2161)

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We were doing so good. You're muted, Patrick. See? I don't know. You would think I'd ever go. The podcast today wouldn't be muted. That's like a first podcast mistake, because I've been in the podcast car wash today. Not a joke, four shows. Not really sure how that happened, but best for last is what I would say we've done here. Thank you so much for that. Yeah, but as I was getting set and prepping, I saw you live on and it's great to have you and we're going to be talking about "Wide Receiver" ranks. We move from the RB. So the same thing applies here for this episode. "Wide Receiver" questions in the chat. We will save some time at the end so we can answer some of your "Wide Receiver" based questions, whatever those might look like. We are going to take a look at the big board and Pat has picked out some specific names. Unfortunately, I can't say Pat here because we got too much. We got too much Pat. So we got Rodo Pat. There's too many. So I'm going to have to be a little bit more specific. But Fitsy, you're going to have to just take on Fitsy and then Patrick is going to take Pat or Patrick. I'll use both of those, but Patrick, you will be reacting to some of the ones that we've picked here. So let's look at the big board. We are using ECR Fantasy Pros Expert Consensus ranks for the top 12 "Wide Receivers". This is half PPR. You guys can go and check it out yourself. And the big board looks as such, Jamar Chase coming in at one, Pukanakua at two, Jackson, Smith and Jigbert, three, a minor St. Brown CD Lamb that's your top five, Justin Jefferson at six, Drake London, AJ Brown, Nico Collins, George Pickens, Chris Olave and Richie Rice. That is the top 12. So looking at the "Wide Receiver" ones, just like we did in the RB episode. Fitsy, which "Wide Receiver" is too high? Which "Wide Receiver" do you not like at cost right now, just like we did with RB's? Who are you going to single out? First of all, just want to say, great to have my buddy Pat here with us, especially since Roto Worlds got him working 80-hour weeks this time of year. He's got a house full of little kids who are probably breaking things as I speak right now. So very nice of him to make time for us. For me, it's Richie Rice and I keep thinking of that quote about how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And I'm not talking about Richie Rice getting in a serious legal trouble by causing him like our crash and fleeing the scene, then getting thrown into jail for violating his probation by smoking pot right after having clean up surgery on his knee. No, I'm actually talking about the chief's offense and the insanity of continuing with the same offensive MO when your offense has been no better than average for the last three years, which by the way, coincides with the arrival of Richie Rice in Kansas City. Cheers. Yeah, Mahomes averaged 8.1 yards per pass attempt his first five seasons and was just shy of averaging 4,800 passing yards a year over that stretch. Last three years, 7.0 yards per pass attempt and averaged about 1,000 fewer passing yards per year. His first five seasons as a start of the chief's rank first, second, third, fifth, and first in yards per play. The last three years, 9th, 21st, and 25th, not a favorable trend to the credit of chief's GM Brett Vitch, the man who once by pass Jonathan Taylor to draft Clyde Edwards, a lair. He recognized the need for some sort of offensive shake up and gave a lot of money to Kenneth Walker. So I just, I think it's reasonable to believe that the chiefs are going to run the ball at a higher rate this year. They were the sixth pass heaviest team in the league last year. I also think it's reasonable to believe Kenneth Walker is going to play a role in the chief's screen game. We've already gotten reports indicating as much and if Walker and the chiefs, other running backs are more involved in the screen game, probably means fewer screens to Rice and we know that Andy Reed has dialed up a ton of screens to Richie Rice. So maybe if Walker runs the ball effectively, the chiefs opponents are going to force to come out of those two high safety looks they've been using against the chiefs so much. Maybe that means more deep shots to Xavier Worthy, Cyrus Allen, Ty Quam Thornton. I just think there's a good chance Rice is used a little less this season in which case it might be hard for him to pay off on his current cost. Pat, you seem to, you were kind of shaking your head. Looks like there's an agreement here. So I mean, this might be easy, but is Richie Rice rank too high in expert consensus ranks? It's first time a big podcast nodder. I like to really nod in agreement. We were bobble heading it early on the show in deep, bro, we're listening to JJ and we're just like, yep. Oh, yeah. That's very understandable. Yeah. At first up, not to derail us. I've somehow been in Pat's van twice and I've never been on his podcast. This was so long overdue. And that you made it out. Congratulations. I did. Oh, thank you so much for having me, but I was nodding a lot because you really were just preaching to the choir, Pat, where she writes to, even if you ignored all the negatives, how many of the positives with Richie Rice have happened in such small sample sizes? I think he's a small sample size superstar, where I feel like going on what age 26, I believe, we still just don't even entirely know what kind of player he is, then yet almost comical red flags, like typically I would prefer for my wider receiver one to not have spent part of the offseason rehabbing and literally, like, is this not something that I would typically invest in? I think the most important thing you said, though, was about the investment in Kenneth Walker, the investment in the running game where the chiefs knew something had to give on offense. They had to invest in something. It's unfortunately, as they've learned the hard way over and over again, it's really difficult to augment your receiver core when you have all these, like, really highly paid linchpin players, like the chiefs have, especially obviously, including Patrick Mahomes. And they knew they had to shake up something. I think they decided it was too difficult to overhaul the receiver core yet again. They get, in relative terms, compared to a wide receiver, a bargain with Kenneth Walker the third. I think they further signal their intentions when they go back and reunite with Eric B. Enemy, as they respect it off into mine, as they really respected the run game mind. I just feel like there's a lot of smoke there, as Patrick Mahomes comes back from the torn ACL, that it's just going to be a more run-heavy system than we're used to seeing. This is an inexcusably bad chiefs running game, really, over the past two or three years. And I just think all of it's kind of conspiring to put a pretty hard lid on Rashee Rice. I don't think Rashee Rice would be like a ruinous pick as your wide receiver 12 or 13, because the floor is probably still 1,000 yards, it's probably still at least 80 receptions. I don't think he's going to kill your team. I just don't really think the upside is there with Rashee Rice, and I think a lot of people kind of tantalize themselves to the question, if we ever get 17 games out of Rashee Rice, look out. I just think it's going to leave people wanting when that actually finally does happen. He's very polarizing. If you go and look at our real-time ADP, again, we've talked a lot about that, but probably one of the more valuable, just like get it to know tools that's happening as of recent the recency tool, he is wide receiver 16, so he's going off as a 16th wide receiver and half PPR, according to real-time ADP, but you go to projections. He's wide receiver number 8 in fantasy pros projections, where he is projected 97.9 receptions, almost 1100 yards and just under 10 touchdowns. The polarizing spot of this is you've got ECR, you've got ADP, you've got projections. What side do you sit on? The path's kind of agreed that this is a little bit of a concern here, so maybe you guys should as well. Let's go to wide receiver 2s. We're going to go with this next group here, we're going to look at 13 through 24. The list, Malik neighbors comes in at 13, Devonta Smith, at 14, Z-Flowers, Tedero, Macmillan, T Higgins, Lad Maconkey, Amechaig, Booc at 19, Jalen Waddle at 20, Garrett Wilson, Terry McClaurin, Devonta Adams, and Luther Burton. This is going to be a positive and a negative, so Mr. Pat Fitzmorris, you're positive in that you think this guy should be ranked higher and you're negative that this guy is ranked too high at the wide receiver spot in this tier are who. I sort of fill a bustard on Roshie Rice, so I'll keep these short. Malik neighbors, positively, I think it's easy to understand why neighbors is listed as a tier 2 guy. We have to bake in the injury risk, but a healthy Malik neighbors is probably right up there with Jackson, Smith, and Jigba, I'm going to Ross St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, CD Lam, and I think he'd be ahead of Drake London and AJ Brown, so if neighbors is healthy and the reports have been pretty positive lately, maybe he's underpriced, and then negative Devonta Adams, who, look, I'm a, I'm a packer fan, Devonta Adams is awesome, it wouldn't be shocking if he were awesome. Again, this season, he's 33 though, turns 34 being before the end of this season, and a big percentage of his 2025 production came on touchdowns. Like I realized that Adams is one of the best red zone receivers of this era. Like I used to joke that the Packers' goal on back was Devonta Adams, but last year's touchdown rate was crazy even by his standards, led the league with 14 TD catches, scored a touchdown on 23.3% of his catches, and 12.3% of his targets, 4.3 catches and 56.4 receiving the game, though, his lowest totals in those two categories since his second year in the league. Matthew Stafford, average 35 passes a game last season probably isn't going to need to throw as much this year. Now that the Rams have Miles Garrett and all this additional defensive talents, I just see more upside, more downside than upside for Devonte. So Pat, do you think that Devonte Adams is too high in Malik neighbors is too low and then you're welcome if there's another player that you think maybe qualifies in one of those that you really feel strong about, please do, but Adams too high neighbors too low, too low by or sell. Yeah, not to come on and just be a parent, but just agreeing with everything Pat says and Malik neighbors, the injury, the way his injury news was sequenced, I think really affected the ADP. The news of the second surgery got reported kind of late and you never want to hear a guy undergoing a second operation after a torn ACL, but it's also not that uncommon. It was just a cleanup procedure after a major procedure. It's not like it's standard, but it's also not abnormal. This isn't as big of a red flag, because I think people thought it was. And if they've been reported earlier in the off season or occurred earlier in the off season, I don't know if it would have created this kind of panic that we had in June and July with Malik neighbors as ADP because the reality is he went down last week for. Even by like 10 or 15 years ago NFL standards going down a week for being back to following week one would not be unusual. It's really not unusual in 2026. Everything just kind of suggests they're trying to dot their eyes and cross their teeth with his rehab. And ever since this cleanup procedure, things have been proceeding on schedule and he's just everything you could look for in a wide receiver fantasy profile where he's the target dominator, he's a compiler, but he also has the big play potential. He's a very little target competition, which is sometimes a negative when the defense can focus all their attention on you, but I think he's good enough. He will rise above that. I love the Malik neighbors ADP. I was taking him even when it was still unclear, which was very risky. I will admit. I think neighbors is too low and divine to Adams, it's the wrong position to be touchdown reliant at. You don't want to be touchdown reliant at wide receiver. It's of course great if you're receiver and you score a million touchdowns, but you got to do more. And to Pat's point, I mean, under 60 yards per game last year, he's 33 years old. The hamstrings aren't getting any younger. The Rams defense is going to be so much better. Blake Korum's another ear matured into the system. I think staffers attempts are going to come way down. I definitely think the staff it's passing touchdowns are going to come way down. And that this wide receiver two is probably just a little too rich for Devante Adams, even if it's a low end wide receiver two. Real time ADP neighbors is, and this is again, we're talking ECR how the experts have them rang for if you look at ADP, real time ADP has neighbors at 11. So that's moved up and Devante Adams at 25. So the ADP and especially in the real side is kind of speaking to a lot of this. We're going to be doing wide receiver threes and a deeper play here in a minute. But fantasy fest, 2026 is sponsored by league base league base is a private clubhouse for your fantasy league as we talked about before. 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I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, how to live forever on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Alright, let's go take a look at our final tier here. These are the wide receiver threes. These are 25 through 36. Starting at 25. We've got Jamison Williams, Mike Evans at 26, Christian Watson, DJ Moore, Roma Dunes, a Parker Washington, Carl Tate, Marvin Harrison, Jr. Brian Thomas, Jr. DK Metcalf, Chris Godwin, and Cortland Sutton. So for this tier, which wide receiver can jump in to be a wide receiver to or possibly a wide receiver one. So the most upside fitsy of any of these wide receivers. And who is that player? I'm going to say Christian Watson. And there were several times during the off season, we would have a show and I would talk up Christian Watson. And our social media team would clip it and post it and tag me. And all of a sudden, I'd have 29 notifications of people telling me Christian Watson was going to be injured by week three. And maybe that might happen, but it's a credit to the hate. Yeah, Watson did come back from an ACL tear last year and managed to get in 10 regular season games without re injury. Actually did get banged up in the Broncos game in mid December. But like even went to the hospital because there was some shoulder thing that seemed like it was really serious. Wanted to playing the next week. But in his 10 regular season games last year, Watson averaged 17 and a half yards of catch, 11.1 yards per target, 2.28 yards per round run, produced at a thousand yard, 10 touchdown pace. I think they're going to be increased target opportunities now with Romeo dobs and done, Tavy and Wicks gone and just a tighter wide receiver rotation for the Packers. Watson is 6-4. and as 436 speed, and it shows up on the field. Like this guy can fly, wins contested catches. Packers have been run heavy the last two years. They've been 31st and 22nd in pass rate over expected. What if Green Bay has to throw more this season with no like a Parsons for the first half of the year? And what if the targets are more concentrated among fewer pass catchers? So I just, I think he has the potential to be special. I think this cost even sort of bakes in the assumption that he's going to miss a few games. But with the season of good health, I absolutely think he could be a wide receiver one. So Pat, do you agree that this in this tier, 25 to 36, that Christian Watson is the guy that can make the biggest jump or do you have another player that you would also want to hit? So you're welcome regardless to talk on Christian Watson. But if you have someone that you like a lot more, please feel free to hit on that player. I do have another player, unfortunately, Division rival for Pat. But I agree with the Watson bullishness because the case is pretty straightforward. We've never seen him stay healthy. At some point, he's going to appear in every game in an NFL season. And if he does that, he's kind of like a souped-up Alec appears so most where I can really see him at least crashing the top 24, maybe not the top 12, but the big playability, the condensed target tree, like Pat said, which was the total focus of the Packer's Office season was making their offense simpler, including just who's going to get the ball, talking about finishing better, which I think is translated to not being so conservative. Passing more, just upping their past attempts a little bit, maybe more down the field stuff for a guy like Christian Watson. So I definitely see the vision of the Christian Watson. I would say for my choice, I'm going to go Jameson Williams, who I think a lot of times now in fantasy as a player is talked about more for the things he hasn't done than things he has done. We haven't seen him take the final step. And I suppose to be so explosive, but he's just kind of been a thousand yard guy. We haven't gotten the true massive breakout that we think is possible. But I think he doesn't get enough credit for his floor. He's officially a thousand yard guy. He's done it back to back seasons. He scores touchdowns at a fairly high rate for being someone who's not like a massive target commander, not a PPR style player. Dan Campbell loves him. It seemed like Dan Campbell took over play calling duties last year solely because he thought they weren't getting J-mo of the ball enough. Drew pettings there now. I know he supposedly runs the offense to the extra see for position. They're not going to not run their offense through Manras a Brown. But this guy who's still young, a guy who has made progress over here. I love the floor. I still believe in the ceiling potential for Jameson Williams. And if he gets, even if he does everything he did last year and has just one or two more blowup games, you've got a pretty solid wide receiver two then. And I've loved getting him to my wide receiver three because I just really think he can finish this at top 24 guy at Whiteout. All right. So the final in this group that we're going to talk about is we're going to look outside the top 36. Fitsy, I want you to give me a wide receiver outside the top 36 that you think can not just beat their ECR. I mean, I want to say destroy it, but I don't know what level you're at. But someone that is going to beat their ECR outside the top 36, who do you have for us? Yeah, just real quick, I want to say I agree with Pat on J-mo. I've actually got J-mo ranked ahead of Christian Watson, but when he said division rival, I thought he was coming off the top rope with your University of Missouri guy bad. I thought you were bringing in Luther Pardon. I thought it was going to the Bears too. That's what I thought. I'll be three, but his game lends itself to injury. I'm not saying he's injury prone. I'm saying the way he plays, he takes a lot of hits. I hear you. I hear you. So yeah, outside the top 36, McCoy lemon. And the Eagles traded up to draft him in the first round. The Eagles no longer of AJ Brown. The Eagles no longer of Kevin Petulo, more importantly is their offensive coordinator. I'm not sure why there is a more excitement about the potential upside for lemon when he was the best college receiver last year. One, the bulletnikoff award. Average better than three yards per run against both man and zone. Runs good routes as crazy good hands, very dangerous after the catch. I think this hamstring injury has been dealing with this created in a nice buying opportunity, and he's good to go now. The key is back at practice. He's ready for week one. So it's going to be a slow roll up, but you don't need to start McCoy lemon the first couple of weeks of the season because he is being drafted outside the top 36 of the position. Pat, are you a McCoy lemon guy? Do you agree that this is someone that's going to break their ECR? I love McCoy lemon as a prospect. He was probably my favorite receiver prospect. I really liked him in case he conception. I think the reason for the skepticism is just, is this Eagles offense just kind of at an end? Is the Jalen Hertz era kind of petering out? It's quite possible that it's not, and everyone's going to be a bargain in this offense, especially with the new OC on his Pat points out. I just think people are waiting to buy back in on the Eagles, because they're wondering if this thing is further to fall. This guy where I think the Eagles skepticism comes from, but I love McCoy lemon would not be surprised at all. If he finishes in the top 30, maybe even the top 24. My guy outside the top 36, I must say, and I do not take any pleasure in it really, 'cause I don't know how good of a player he really is. I just know that in fantasy, his game tends to translate to spam PPR points, Juan Del Robinson, who, why does he for 13 by total PPR points last year? Like I know total is kind of misleading. We do per game, but he was 16 or 17 by per game. Just stunning staggering stuff. Making way more money than I feel like people are giving him credit for, realize how broken that Titan's offense was, and they're trying to build it back up. He has his old offensive coordinators, his old play collar, Brian Dable, now in Tennessee. And I just would not be surprised to see Juan Del just get absolutely spammed with targets. Finish in the top 30 again. And everyone's kind of like, yeah, Brian, probably shouldn't think that come in. That was pretty obvious in hindsight. And that's just what he does. We don't know how valuable it really is in real life, but we know it's valuable in fantasy. And I have a dangerous amount of Juan Del Robinson, which isn't great. Typically, you want to be really invested in the player because you think they're awesome. I don't necessarily think Juan Del's awesome, but I think what he does for fantasy is awesome. 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Where does Teteromaic Millen finish this year, Pat? Myself. Well, Teteroma loves him as a player. A guy after that rookie season would normally be steamed so high. I just wouldn't be surprised with the state of the overall state of the Panther's offense. Bryce Young, I know he's made incremental improvement the past two years. It kind of feel like he's maxed out. And we're just going to get a disappointing repeat of Teteroma Millen's rookie season, which was, of course, anything but disappointing. I just think the leap for Teteroma is probably going to come next year, maybe not like a Drake London path a little bit more. We know he's great. We know he's potentially special. But that is offensive circumstances is kind of conspire against him for the first few years of his career. And I'd say the 16 to 18 range feels right for Teteroma. Maybe a spot or two lower, probably not a spot or two higher. I think solid wide receiver two, I think in a more perfect world, it would be higher than that. In a better quarterback situation, I think kind of smack dab in the middle of the wide receiver two ranks. Fitsy, any quick, Teteroma? That's where I have him wide receiver 17. But I wouldn't be totally shocked if he gave us a wide receiver one season, because he came out as an early declare prospect, has a 1,000 yard season with a quarterback who averaged 6.4 yards per attempt. If there's any even incremental improvement by Bryce Young, we probably hit the end of the road as far as that goes. Yeah, like I wouldn't shock me if he had been 1,300 yards. Let's go to Shane here. Godwin or Diggs, which one do you like? And which one is worth reaching in the seventh? I gave us some parameters. Two flex to wide receiver. This is full PPR Fitsy. I got to go Diggs. I just, you know, two seasons ago, we saw Chris Godwin's foot turn backwards, basically. I just, I don't know if he's ever going to be the same guy who was pre-entered. Mayfield did say he's the best Godwin he's seen as a recent, but you know, a lot of lip service out there. But JJ obviously talked about Diggs being a top 24 guy early in the show. So Pat, what do you think? Godwin or Diggs? I'm not really drafting either. Diggs was so efficient last year, but I think it was doing parks. They rationed his snaps. The bucks seem to love Godwin so much. I think he's going to be out there probably every play. I don't know the same for Diggs. He should be. I just don't know that for sure if they might try to copy the way the paths deployed him. I think I'll lean ever so slightly to Godwin. This is from Gil, let's say. earliest round, you would take Alec Pierce Pat. Wow. By the way, I wish I never clarified the Pat Fitsy thing so I could have just hit Pat. And you guys could have just like battled for it. I'm glad because I wanted to hear Dordy answer this one before I would. Yeah, Dordy's got it. Oh, it says 8th or 9th round. Yeah, 9th, I think. I'm waiting for a huge discount on Alec Pierce. So I guess if he gets the double digits, I mean, I get hung up on dumb things sometimes. Four years. in the NFL and he's still never caught 50 passes. I just don't know of his games ever gonna really change and this kind of volatile game that he has, it's super valuable in real life. I wish there were more true field stretchers in the NFL, like we saw when Pat and I were growing up. But I just kind of feel like he's due to run cold. And missing training camp, he's behind, Dana Jones is supposedly healthy and fine. I would wait for a discount on Alec Pierce, so I guess I'm waiting to the double-digit rounds. - Fitsy, same thing. I'm with Pat, I want double-digit rounds. But I thought the same thing, when they gave him the bag, I figured he'd run a more complete route tree. But then you realize what he does is actually really valuable, as far as just taking the top off the defense, and that's kind of what they paid him to do. So I think it's just gonna be more of the same with maybe less efficiency. - All right, let's do two more quick ones. Pat, how far up the rankings are you moving, in case I'm booting? - Not particularly. - Or you pat, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're all right. - You guys did it. I didn't even try to do it. You did the thing. - Yeah, Fitsy, you go, you go. - It's finally a problem. I was gonna give the same answers, Pat. Like I thought it was kind of just a nut neutral. Probably bigger role for a team that's gonna throw less and has a worse quarterback. - What I'll say on booty is I think, when he was on New England, he was probably gonna go on drafted at most 12 team leagues, maybe 16 round leagues. Now, where he's the clear number two, a team at a really acute need for him, I think he's at least in the mix for a late round flyer. Before you get into the kicker defense territory, 13th, 14th round or whatever, I think you can justify taking a flyer in case you're on booty. - Okay, final one here. Are we getting nervous about a mecca at this point for the start of the season, a lot of that, Dirty? - We were in that relationship together. So, why don't I end it? Since we spent a good 30 minutes together, Dirty, you get to pick, are you nervous about a mecca? - I think the Buka thing was poor sequencing of kind of a thinly veiled coach smoke screen where he basically said, I'm good to go week one. And then Todd Bulls was like, we don't know if he's, I feel like a mecca Buka kind of let the cat out of the bag. And then Todd Bulls maybe kind of wished he didn't let the cat out of the bag and wanted to like restore this air of mystery to it. Famous last words, injury optimism can be a very dangerous thing. Scott Pianowski talks about that all the time. I think a Buka will be out there for week one though. - Fitsy? - I lean that way too. I have like dropped him a couple of spots. Just, there are a lot of receivers I like in that range, Devante Smith, Jalen Waddle. I think I've dropped him below a couple of guys in that range, but I think I'll play too. - Why do receiver ranks in the books? Paddy, thank you so much for joining us. Fitsy, it's been great guys. That is it for me. But here's a couple of things. I don't want you to go anywhere because absolute banger is about to come up. No name issues here, all different names, and they're all amazing. But I do have to publicly say, I'm not gonna be available here. And I feel bad earlier in this show. Not only did I kick off Seth Wolcock, I also called him Timo J.J. Zachary, just Zachary said. I feel bad about all that. He is a switch army knife. So if anything happens in the show, we officially can now break in case of emergency. It is not Timo J.J. Zachary said. It is Seth Wolcock breaking in case of emergency. Anything happens later in the show. Seth is gonna be here for you and he will be around for the after party. So make sure you do it. But I am out of here. You know Seth has got your back. And trust me, the next couple, you're gonna absolutely love. So do not go anywhere because fantasy fest rolls on. It's warm. It's Erickson and an absolute awesome guest. I wish I was here for it, but I gotta go. Thank you guys so much. Let's do some more fantasy fest after this. Thanks for listening to the fantasy pros, fantasy football podcast. If you love the show, the best free way to support us is by leaving a positive review on Apple podcasts at fantasyprose.com/review or on Spotify. Follow us on X, Instagram, and TikTok at fantasyprose and subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/fantasyprose. 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