2026 Rookie WRs Pt. 2 (Tate, Bernard, Fields, Branch, Rivers, Montgomery)! Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast EP. 811

Dynasty Nerds Podcast | Dynasty Fantasy Football

Rich Dotson

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Dynasty Nerds Show is back with Episode 2 of the 2026 wide receiver tape breakdown. Rich Dotson, Matt O'Hara, and Garret Price work through six receivers from their personal tape grades, and the early takeaway is that this class is notably cleaner than the running back group. There are no players the crew wants completely off their boards, which makes the tier separation between them all the more important heading into draft season. Carnell Tate opens the show and earns unanimous WR1 status. Garret's tape score of 79.18 puts him in the same all-time company as Ja'Marr Chase, CeeDee Lamb, and Malik Nabers. His 86% contested catch rate ranked third in the entire country, he had zero drops on the season, and the passer rating when targeting him was 151.8, best nationally. The crew calls him the safest player in the 2026 draft class and a multi-contract dynasty asset who wins in every area of the field. Germie Barnard draws a Robert Woods comp from the crew: reliable, smart, and landing-spot dependent for his fantasy ceiling. Malachi Fields is the most debated name on the show. His ball skills, catch radius, and physicality grade at an elite level, but only 36 catches at Notre Dame left too many questions about route tree and burst. Garret has him with a first-round grade. Zachariah Branch is viewed as a special teams ace and gadget piece with limited dynasty value, while Eric Rivers falls even further for the group due to poor hands and unrefined routes despite running a 4.35. The episode closes with a strong endorsement of small-school sleeper Tyren Montgomery, a former walk-on basketball player at LSU turned polished route runner out of John Carroll who turned heads at the Senior Bowl. The crew plans to draft him in rounds 4 to 5 as a high-upside stash with real development upside. Check out the Dynasty Nerds Film Room for all-22 tape on Malachi Fields and Carnell Tate, and stay current with the latest Rookie Big Boards and Dynasty Rankings as the NFL Draft approaches. Start Using the Film Room Today! FFPC: New Users: Use promo code NERDS for $25 off your first FFPC Orphan Team! 00:00:00 Start 00:03:17 Carnell Tate 00:17:28 Germie Barnard 00:28:41 Malachi Fields 00:42:47 FFPC 00:44:19 Zachariah Branch 00:56:18 Eric Rivers 01:02:07 Tyren Montgomery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready, set.
0:01.5	Hot, hood.
0:02.3	Welcome to the Dynasty Nerds Fantasy Football Podcast, where we discuss Dynasty Strategy, Ranking, and all things NFL.
0:11.5	So get ready to geek out on fantasy football with your host, Rich Dodson.
0:16.8	And welcome to the Dysonastard Fantasy Football Podcast.
0:22.5	I'm Rich Dotson.
0:23.5	He's Matt O'Hara.
0:24.6	Hey, hey.
0:25.1	It's Garrett Price.
0:26.0	How's it going?
0:26.6	We are on episode two of the 2026 Y receiver rookie tape breakdown.
0:33.2	I feel like these next two episodes, it's going to be like the crux of our dynasty rookie drafts. I feel like after getting through all this tape, I feel so these next two episodes, it's gonna be like the crux of our dynasty rookie drafts.
0:38.4	I feel like after getting through all this tape, I feel so far like I could rank almost everybody in order of how I would draft them.
0:45.1	But the guys in this class, I feel pretty good. Good's a good word to use.
0:50.4	Good. Yeah, there's not a lot of bad that we're gonna see today. I mean, everyone's pretty solid to absolutely fantastic. So yeah, there's a big, big spectrum, but there is none of the
1:00.1	crap that we saw at the running back position that I've seen so far in the wide receivers.
1:04.0	Yeah, and we were talking about it kind of a little bit beforehand. I don't have anybody on here
1:08.9	that's like completely off my board.
1:11.1	No.
1:11.7	Which is nice to have.
1:13.7	So that's going to be the tricky part because in this class, typically my strategy is I don't really care about receivers later.
1:21.8	Right.
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