0:00updated rankings after week eight. Now, technically, we have yet to see what Jackson Smith and Jigba is going to do tonight against the Chicago Bears, but
0:08honestly, almost no matter what he does, considering he's averaging 28 fantasy points per game so far, he's going to be wide receiver one in these rankings
0:16regardless, as long as he stays healthy.
0:18Please, for the love of God, stay healthy. Now, our A tier, these are your top five receivers rounded out. Right?
0:24You can put Puka Nua in the S tier if you wanted. if it wasn't for the potential injury stuff that you have
0:32that obviously JSN Aman RA you typically don't need to deal with like if we look at Puka Nua over the past five games
0:41this dude is averaging over 12 targets a contest hell so far this season he's averaging 12 and a half targets a game
0:51so the target volume's better for Puka than any other player in the NFL he looks incredible just again elevated risk of injury. Aman Ross St. Brown,
1:00even if he gets banged up, he'll come back into the game. He is also averaging double- digit targets so far this season
1:06with over 20 fantasy points per game.
1:08You know who he is at this point. And his defense is not that good. So, the Lions are going to have to continue to
1:13air it out. CD Lamb averaging 11 and a half targets per contest. Like, it is insane how good these top four guys have
1:21been. I know we consistently rank Jamar Chase up here in this A tier as well because again if you look at Burrow, if
1:28you look at Chase, while the points per game numbers for Chase are a little depressed so far this season, it is
1:34skewed based on week four with him only playing 20% of the snaps than going down with the concussion. If you actually
1:42take that out, Jamar Chase would look a lot closer to these other guys like Puka Monro and CD Lamb. He's incredible. He
1:49was the number one wide receiver that went in your fantasy draft this year for a reason. Very easy A tier level option.
1:56Now moving over to our B tier, we are going to have Malik Neighbors who is coming back from the by-week. Now, what
2:05we saw before the buy was Malik Neighbors look elite with this man going
2:13through having 95 and 20 targets in a three-game stretch. Now, I keep on saying, "Oh, I'm a little bit concerned about what we are going to get with uh
2:25JJ McCarthy's quarterback play, but frankly, JJ McCarthy's looked really good." So, it is tough for me to continue to say that. Now going to Chris
2:35Ave. A has been incredible. He's averaged 10 targets per game so far this season, but you'll see later in these rankings. I am pretty high on Jordan
2:44Tyson. And it sounds like there is very much a possibility that we are getting Jordan Tyson back this week or into this
2:52offense for the first time this week, which could negatively impact the target volume you get from a lav. Tiggan's man is averaging over a 100 receiving yards
3:02per game. He is the only wide receiver not named Jackson Smith and Jigba averaging a 100 receiving yards per game. So it would be crazy at this point
3:12to not have him as a top 10 wide receiver. We have seen now for years that in the games in which Higgins is
3:20fully healthy and the games in which Burrow's fully healthy like Tiggins is very good. The problem historically has
3:28been that obviously um it's very rare that you get both these players fully healthy at the same time. Now moving to
3:36Justin Jefferson. I have Justin Jefferson on my own fantasy team. Now, the interesting thing that I need to point out here is going to be that we
3:46had word at the end of this Minnesota Vikings game that there is a chance that Kyler Murray is dealing with a hamstring
3:56injury. Now, because I am just stressing about this Jonathan Taylor trade non-stop, my entire Twitter timeline's just filled with Vikings fans. Like, I'm
4:07pretty sure Twitter thinks I'm a Vikings fan at this point. So, I am already seeing all of the Vikings fans going,
4:14"Oh, this is a soft benching of Kyler Murray. We're going to get Carson Wentz back in here." And if that happens,
4:21honestly, it may be what we need to save Justin Jefferson.
4:26Because over the past two years, the only quarterback that's looked competent in this Kevin Oonnell offense has been Carson Wins. It's so damn bleak right
4:36now. I mean, even with me being biased towards wanting to rank Jefferson high, like I I'm looking at this and going, it's
4:45too high. Jefferson, if we don't get a change with quarterback, may have to fall down to being a C-tier wide receiver, and I may have to move
4:52Christian Watson above Justin Jefferson.
4:54Christian Watson I'm going to be putting inside the top 10. the Thursday night game where he got into the ambulance in
5:03his football uniform, then went to the hospital, then came back, stepped out of the ambulance,
5:12fully suited up, ran onto the field, and played the rest of the game. It was the most exciting thing that I have seen in
5:22football in God knows how long. I love this man more than you could ever imagine. He's been incredible. Michael Parsons, we've heard, isn't coming back
5:33until week 12 at the earliest. I will say we have some tough matchups coming up for Christian Watson, but four straight games with eight plus targets
5:44and he is just giving you both big play upside as well as touchdown upside. Now, moving to our Ctier, Drake London. Um,
5:54the points per game numbers look horrible for Drake London, 13.7, but I want to excuse this away because he played two games at the beginning of
6:03the year with Cooper Rush and this past week where he played with Michael Penn as well. Wasn't a real football game.
6:10The weather was so damn bad. Again, you know this stat, everybody's talked about it a thousand times, but I mean, you had
6:16a total of zero passing completions for Baker Mayfield in that game. So, I don't want to hold the Cooper Rush games against him and I
6:27don't want to hold um this past week against him. And if you look at every other week, I mean, hell, he's been great. He's been sitting
6:35here like eight, nine targets a game and getting the receiving yards. The touchdowns haven't been there, but still. Now, moving to Nico Collins. Nico
6:44has fizzled out a bit over the past three weeks. Like Nico Collins had 10 and a half points against Tennessee, 10.9 against Jacksonville, 2.6 against
6:55the Giants. And I know a lot of people are still viewing Nico as like a set it and forget it, must start elite
7:01receiver, but it is getting to the point where it's a little concerning because he's up to a total of seven targets per
7:09game. The only wide receiver that's less than that is Justin Jefferson. And obviously Justin Jefferson left the game at the very beginning with an ankle
7:18injury. So it is concerning seeing the volume go down, but CJ Shrouds looked good. Matthew Golden's averaging over 10 targets a game. If this man caught every
7:27ball that hit his hands, he would legit be averaging 30 fantasy points per game and he'd be the wide receiver one. Like
7:33it's crazy how often he is dropping the football right now. But also at the same time with that, like drops are the
7:41easiest things to fix. Like what I would be m way more concerned with is if my wide receiver isn't generating separation. He's not drawing targets.
7:51That would be something that worries me.
7:53Now moving to Parker Washington. Parker Washington had a horrible week this past week, but it wasn't a real football game. Again, Trevor Lawrence had like 10
8:01total completions. He's very clearly the wide receiver one in a very good offense. And there are a ton of trade rumors, of course, circling around Brian
8:09Thomas. But here are your stud wide receivers. like you know you're starting those guys every single week. You can say in 99% of leagues you are starting
8:17everybody in the D tier every single week as well. And yes, we are finally going to have Z Flowers here. Now I had
8:25Z Flowers ranked I want to say as my wide receiver six coming into this past week. Like Z Flowers with Lamar Jackson
8:37I was so excited about. But you just have to completely change the way that you view this Baltimore Ravens offense.
8:47Like this is going to go from every single week being projected out as a borderline top five offense in the NFL
8:54to every single week being projected out as a bottom 10 offense. Tyler Huntley has turftoe. Lamar's done for essentially the rest of the fantasy
9:03season.
9:06So Z Flowers is an incredible player who has looked amazing all season that's now in a garbage offense that maybe signing
9:13somebody off the street like Andy Dalton. Maybe they're going out there and trading for like a Tyson Beagent.
9:20Best case scenarios they can somehow someway get Jacobe Brassette. But yeah, regardless it's ugly here in Baltimore.
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9:37that the Baltimore Ravens were winning this game before the Lamar Jackson injury. Once Lamar goes down, the Jacksonville Jaguars go up to having an
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9:52The early spread on this Thursday game is eight and a half points. The Jags are favored and this is in Baltimore on a
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10:25Now, moving to Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson had a ton of target volume this past week, but yet again, he's not the
10:33wide receiver one on his team. That is Adenai Mitchell. So, we've seen week six and seven, that be Omar Cooper. Week
10:39eight, it's Adenai Mitchell. So, I think it's safe to say at this point that this is the most target competition that
10:45Garrett Wilson has had in his entire NFL career.
10:50Now going to Tedo and McMillan. Um, with T-Mac, I actually would like to have him a little bit higher than this. And
10:57honestly, I think yeah, I'm going to move him ahead of Garrett Wilson. I'm going to move him ahead of Z Flowers
11:03because he's averaging 9.3 targets per game so far this season. The volume's been very good. Obviously, a lot of the points were inflated against the Detroit
11:12Lions in a really good matchup where you also had no Jaylen Coker and the games in which Jaylen Coker has played,
11:19McMillan has been much worse. Now, Luther Burton is a receiver that is super exciting. You get the big booms, you get some duds. now obviously is
11:31coming off a game against the New England Patriots where the man dropped 23.7 fantasy points and he had 130 receiving yards and the receiving touchdown. Now,
11:41I do want to point out that if we're looking at his usage, he does only play 60% of the snaps. He is only averaging
11:496.7 targets per game. So, the usage is not the best. like if he were to carry over this efficiency to better usage
11:59with more routes and more targets, he'd maybe be the best wide receiver in the NFL because the efficiency is off the
12:06charts. Again, it just the target volume isn't that strong.
12:10Now, let's go over and pull up Jameson Williams. So, I know y'all are probably annoyed with me talking about this, but
12:21the most important thing to me on the planet is my own fantasy team. And Jameson Williams is absolutely saving
12:31me. I have won four straight games.
12:34Looks like I have a damn good chance to be a top two team in my league for three straight seasons now, which shouldn't
12:42even be possible, but J Mo's been a massive reason for this. Four straight games with at least 15 fantasy points.
12:52Obviously, the massive spike against the Green Bay Packers two weeks ago, and this man just did this in a very tough
12:59matchup against the Minnesota Vikings.
13:02So, I am really excited about Jameson Williams. I absolutely love this dude.
13:08Now, I will say that it is a little tough knowing that the targets still aren't crazy. Very similar to Luther
13:17Burden. He is averaging only 6.3 targets per game. Now, moving to George Pickins.
13:24Um, George Pickkins very similar to J Mo Luther Burden. Boom. robust wide receiver that when he hits there are very few players that look better and he
13:35looks like he could very easily be um the a top three receiver in fantasy like he was during his stretch last year but
13:43again the floor is just so much lower than some of these other names. Now moving to Rasheed Rice. Rasheed Rice comes in almost has two touchdowns
13:53immediately. Like this man has eight targets. He has the receiving touchdown at the beginning of the game and at the end of the game he had another receiving
14:00touchdown that was called back due to a false start. But yeah, Rasheed Rice looks really good and I would say he
14:07belongs in the names inside the top 21 where these top 21 players need to be started in every single league. Now
14:18moving to our E tier. This is about the range where you can consider benching players or maybe they're not as reliable
14:26as the top options. But looking at DJ Moore, DJ Moore technically only averaging 10 and a half fantasy points per game this season, but it's so
14:36skewed. Week two he leaves early with an injury. Week three he's playing through it. Week four he reagravates it. So the
14:45numbers are depressed by DJ Moore. He looks really good. obviously gets to play with the best quarterback in the entire NFL.
14:56The holdup that I would have here is he gets banged up in this game yet again.
15:00Sounds like he's going to be fine, but with the older wide receiver as these injuries start to stack, it is something
15:07that concerns me slightly. Now, Jaylen Coker backtoback very concerning games.
15:14I understand we go back and look at what he had week one where he dropped 34 fantasy pointsish, but since then he has
15:22just been down in the gutter and on Thursday night if it wasn't for the one receiving touchdown, he would have lost
15:28a lot of people their matchup straight up and it was a very limited sample at the beginning of the year with him
15:34looking really good. So I am starting to lose confidence in Coker. Stefon Diggs obviously is a very safe play given the
15:44context that Terry McLaren's out for the season, but I don't know how good Stefon Diggs looks himself. And same thing with
15:51Jaden Daniels. Now, Michael Wilson is a very difficult ranking. We had Michael Wilson as the buy low this past week. He
15:59was obviously a must-star guy against the Dallas Cowboys. And I talked about this in the live stream last night, but given the context that we have of the
16:10game on the line for the Arizona Cardinals, Michael Wilson to have broken multiple ribs, clearly is out there in a
16:19ridiculous amount of pain, and then just somehow someway continues to play the game, wins people their
16:29fantasy matchups, wins the Cardinals their matchup. as well.
16:35Like incredible. I love Michael Wilson.
16:39I want to root for this dude so badly.
16:42But also at the same time with that, he now does have multiple broken ribs. And I would like to get some clarification
16:51on what the outlook's going to be in the future.
16:55Now, Mike Evans is a very, very difficult ranking. It is all gonna come down to the I don't even say practice
17:04reports because you know this dude's not gonna practice. But if we were told today Mike Evans is 100% healthy coming
17:14out of the buy and you can rely on him, what I would do in that case is I would probably go ahead and I would move Mike
17:22Evans up to the C tier of wide receivers. He'd be right there alongside say the combination of Drake London and
17:32Nico Collins, but I just don't know the health. I don't know the availability that you're going to get with Mike Evans
17:39here. So, it is very tough for that reason.
17:43Now, Carnell Tate dealing with the shoulder. The Tennessee Titans are going to be on buy this upcoming week and we'll see what it looks like coming out.
17:51Cam Ward looked pretty good in this game. So, if Cam Ward continues to improve, obviously that can only be a good thing here for Tate. Now, Eggbuka
17:59is a wide receiver on my own fantasy team. I am honestly thankful that he has missed the past two weeks because if I
18:07would have started him when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn't have to throw the ball because they boat raced the Carolina Panthers, I would have been
18:14pissed. If I would have started him in the worst weather game imaginable against the Atlanta Falcons when Baker Mayfield had zero completions, I would
18:24have been pissed. And I will say it's a slight concern seeing how good this Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense is. And there is a nonzero% chance that like
18:34this Bucks team is going to be able to just run the ball a ton in the second half if they're winning games. And also
18:40I am concerned about the Eggbuka foot situation because frankly I don't know the status there. Then moving to AG Brown. I I think I was just straight up
18:51horribly [snorts] wrong to call AJ Brown a B low candidate. I mean, I even went through and at one point this year, I
18:59offered a gabuka and Jameson Williams for AJ Brown, which at this point I would rather have JMO I have JMO a tier
19:09ahead of AJ Brown just straight up. So it is very tough here in trying to rank
19:19him when we don't know the status with this knee injury and we don't know at what point he will be healthy.
19:26Now moving to Devont Smith. It is also impossible to rank Devontto Smith as we just don't have the updated status in
19:35terms of is he getting shut down for the season or are they going to push him to come back. Clearly, this team is going
19:41to be garbage regardless.
19:44And I mean, I would completely understand if they wanted to just go ahead and shut him down for the year. I
19:50would almost think that makes the most sense. Now, moving over to our F tier, these are players that I would begin to
19:58say, I know it's an aggressive thing to say, but I would rather have them on my bench if we could. I think they would be
20:08good bye-week fillins, but I don't know if we want them in our lineup when our lineups at its best. We'll have Jaylen
20:15Wadd, who scored a touchdown this past week, obviously looked good, but at the end of the day, Bo Nicks doesn't look
20:22great. Well, at the same time, Jaylen Wadd is averaging 39 receiving yards per game. Now, Lad Maki obviously did uh look good. He looks like the only decent
20:33player that the Los Angeles Chargers have.
20:37But the problem you're going to run into with Lad is who cares how he looks he plays in the worst offense in the NFL.
20:45Now DK Mechaf is averaging eight targets per game right now. Like if you look at the underlying target volume, I don't
20:52know if there'll be anybody else in this tier that comes close to what DK Mechaf gets you. But the problem is I am
20:59worried that this usage is going to go down. Well, I know that this team said that they're not going to go out there.
21:05are not going to trade for a quarterback, I'm sorry, for a wide receiver. They're just going to get Pitman and Roman Wilson back later in
21:14the year, and I'm afraid that does have them scale a little bit away from DK Mechaf.
21:22Now, Jordan Tyson is a wide receiver on my own fantasy team, so completely feel free to ignore me with this ranking. I
21:30will admit that I am very biased. This is a player that I am so excited to see.
21:35The report that we got from Adam Sheffy on Sunday morning was that Jordan Tyson
21:42can be back as early as this week, which uh the report I want is okay, Jordan Tyson's for sure back. He'll be at
21:53practice on Wednesday.
21:55I am dying to see a Wednesday practice report where they just say, "Yeah, Jordan Tyson practice in full.
22:04Give me a Jordan Tyson practice in full injury report on Wednesday and I'll move Tyson to the top of this tier, but there
22:13is still a nonzero% chance that this dude just doesn't play this season."
22:19Now going over to Casey Conception. Um I personally have a very difficult time trusting anybody in the Browns offense
22:28given the context that like this past week they're spreading it out to not only now Conception and Denzel Boston, but if Harold Fannon's
22:39getting involved again, it is tough.
22:43Now, Jeremy Bernard here is a very difficult ranking where he did flash, but again, very similar to Medaf coming out of the by-week. I don't know what
22:52the update's going to be with Pitman. I don't know what the update's going to be with Roman Wilson. And if that takes
22:58away from Bernard Roma Dunay with a good game tonight, can very easily move up these rankings. Just not going to trust
23:05him right now. Denzel Boston again averaging six and a half targets per game in the Cleveland Browns offense.
23:12And then Debo Samuel can very easily be a big- time riser.
23:17Um, all we need is a good practice report from Debo this week. I mean, there is a non 0% chance of course that
23:25we end up say getting Mike Evans out for a decent amount of time. Debo Samuel comes back and all of a sudden
23:35Debo is just a mustart wide receiver every single week. Now, moving over to guys that I would really hope are on
23:40your bench. I hope Mai Lemon's on your bench, but as it stands now, he's the wide receiver one in a garbage offense.
23:47I would hope Omar Cooper's on your bench, but maybe he gets better as time goes on. He's only averaging four and a
23:54half targets per game, but he is flashed. I would hope Malik Washington's on your bench, but if I had to pick one
24:00of the Miami Dolphins running backs, I would say this is still probably the wide receiver one. Now, Marvin Harrison, I would hope is on your bench, but maybe
24:08he looks a little bit better coming out of the by-week. Jacobe Myers, I would hope is on your bench, but maybe they
24:14trade Brian Thomas. I would hope Trey Tucker's on your bench, but you know, you're going to get random big weeks. I
24:20would hope Josh DS is on your bench, but maybe he gets traded to Kansas City. I would hope Antonio Williams on your
24:26bench, but he did get a decent amount of usage with no Terry McLaren. I would hope we have Caleb Douglas on your
24:33bench. He's only averaging four and a half targets per game. I would hope Demario Douglas and Khal Shakir are on your bench as well. But I think that's
24:43all I got for you with this video. I really appreciate you. I hope I was able to help you out in some way. And yeah,
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