Top Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings for New Season

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00:00about. We make our money on the wide receivers. So we're talking about early season ranks.

00:07All kidding aside, we've talked quarterbacks, we've talked tight end, but now let's get

00:09into wide receivers because this is where I think if you reach too early or you wait

00:14around too late, it could make or break your season. Joe, let's get started. All right,

00:19let's start at the very top with C. D. Lamb. He's my one on one period this year. Yes.

00:24More than Christian McCaffrey. Even why? Because wide receivers stay healthier than running

00:27backs. And I know McCaffrey was fantastic last year. He's back to being, you know, the

00:32elite level Christian McCaffrey. That's fine. I don't want to live in the past. Running

00:35backs get hurt more frequently in C. D. Lamb. Finally, after all these years of us waiting

00:40for him to become this guy, now he's become this guy and now we don't want to believe

00:43in it. It's stupid. It's stupid. Let's not do it to ourselves. C. D. Lamb at the one

00:48Tyree kills at the two. But Tyree killed did have some issues down the road last year.

00:52The second half that are a little concerning again, quarterback play at the end of the

00:55year to wasn't great. Let's hope that some better health will get us there. But again,

00:59when the players have their games that are so based in their speed, when that speed even

01:03starts to take a half step away, things are a little bit more concerning. But still, again,

01:08we're trying to split hairs with the elites. It's kind of a waste of time. Jamar Chase

01:11at three. Now, Chase could easily be the guy at the number one spot at the end of the year.

01:15All that has to happen is curly haired. Joe Burrow has to stay healthy for an entire season

01:21offensive line that protects him. And Jamar Chase also has to stay healthy for an entire year

01:27with curly hair. Joe Burrow, in order to get to the top of this, right? It's very possible he

01:31could. Joe is bald for all our radio listeners, by the way, just, just do a quick search on Joe

01:36Burrow. I love Joe Burrow. The hairstyle is a little soul glow right now. It's a little,

01:42it's fantastic. Eric LaSalle would be jealous. Justin Jefferson at number four, which is

01:48not where we're used to seeing Justin Jefferson. We're seeing him at one, but the problem is

01:52can we make him one with Sam Darnold or JJ McCarthy? That's a hard sell for me

01:57because to be prolific, you do need a quarterback that can help you get there.

02:01It's not very often. You get somebody who's a prolific wide receiver one overall. It doesn't

02:05have a quarterback again, or the presence of a Kirk cousins, or even last year at Dak Prescott,

02:09right? Think about how much crap those two quarterbacks take, but they've produced number

02:13one, overall wide receivers, haven't they? So can JJ McCarthy and Sam Darnold do that?

02:18Probably not. So you can't put Justin Jefferson one. I'm on Ross St. Brown is probably the most

02:22underappreciated asset. You're going to be in the fifth, sixth spot of your draft. And I'm Ron Ross

02:27St. Brown is going to be there pretty much every time. And you know what? I will take him every

02:31single time he's available. He has been so steady last year, 164 targets, 119 receptions, 10

02:38touchdowns, 1500 yards. Again, if you, if you say those were Jamar Chase's numbers last year,

02:44everybody puts Jamar Chase number one, but they're not going on Monroe St. Brown one.

02:47I think it's, I think it's a failure collectively of the fantasy football writer community,

02:53analyst community, whatever you want to call it, because I'm on Ross St. Brown has been that dude.

02:57And again, the middle of the draft this year, it's just so easy to take him there. If you're

03:01in a salary cap league and Jefferson goes high and chase goes high and I'm on Ron goes for a

03:05little bit less, take the savings with them on Ron, uh, Aja Brown at six puking to cool all the

03:09way up at seven, an incredible season for him and incredible offense for him to operate in

03:15health. Sometimes it can be an issue for him. That's the only outlier for him that you throw

03:19in there saying, uh, could be negative. He was hurt a lot in college at some injuries. He had to

03:23work through last year, but man, what an impressive rookie season for him. Garrett Wilson is an

03:28incredible talent, but this is the poster child for at number nine talent is great. If you don't

03:35have the quarterback to execute that channel, it doesn't matter. Just ask Garrett Wilson, how he

03:38feels about it. Devante Adams at 10, Marvin Harrison jr. Again, aggressive ranking by me at 11

03:43and Drake London, even more aggressive at 12. I think those two guys are in a situation for

03:49breakout seasons, both exceptional talents, Marvin Harrison, especially. So I expect Marvin

03:55Harrison to hit the ground running. There's no early discounts with Marvin Harrison. He's going

03:59as early as 10 and as late as sometimes 15. So you just have to, you know, kind of grit and

04:05bear it. If you want Marvin Harrison jr, you're going to have to pay for it. But Matt, that's what

04:08the wide receiver one grouping looks like in my ranking so far as we're looking early on in the

04:13fantasy football season.

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