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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

4 Fantasy Football DRAFT VALUES Experts Love to Target | Players Who Will Outperform Their Rankings (Ep. 2024)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Join Ryan Wormeli, Derek Brown, and Jake Ciely as they high four fantasy football draft day values that the experts love to target in 2026!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.9

Hello, everybody.

0:06.0

Welcome into the Fantasy Pro's channel.

0:07.6

I'm Ryan warmly joined by Jake Sealy from The Athletic and by Derek Brown.

0:11.9

We are talking players that the experts love to target.

0:16.1

This is early on in draft season, right?

0:17.6

This is a malleable living document of a list.

0:20.7

We are saying we can change

0:22.6

our mind on these. It is only mid-May, but as of where we stand on mid-May, looking at some of these

0:27.6

early rankings, you can find, by the way, all the consensus rankings and tiers for 2026

0:31.5

at Fantasypros.com slash rankings. Looking at those half-PPR-ECR rankings, we are saying who we like. We're going to pick a name each from inside the top 75 overall, and then pick a name each from outside the top 75 overall. This is supposed to be just general values we like. You guys did happen to both pick two wide receivers, so we could almost call it a receivers. We love to target episode. That was just happening.

0:54.8

These are just players.

0:55.7

That's on me.

0:56.4

I thought it was only wide receivers.

0:58.1

No.

1:11.5

No. Blame it on Jake. Claim it on Jake. You'll be safe. You'll be just playing on Jake. But it's fine because we love to draft wide receivers in general. So we're happy to do that. All right, let's start off with the top 75 guys, Dibro, who do you love to target in this range?

1:28.5

I feel like I just, I'm a broken record, guys. But it's another year. So I'm going to talk about Christian Watson again. But really, the productivity was there where I don't understand. Like, right now in ECR, he's 56 overall. He's wide receiver 27. It's like we all fell asleep and didn't see what he did for the majority of when he was healthy last year. He was awesome. He was wide receiver 21 in

1:33.1

weeks 8 through 17. Romeo Dobbs is gone. Tucker Kraft is still in limbo coming off the torn ACL. So what do we

1:40.7

get out of him? Then you got Matthew Golden and Jane Reed, who's not even a full-time player in the Packers' offense. And yet Christian Watson producing as a wide receiver two last year is a wide receiver three in ranks. Like he's my wide receiver 21. I've got him at 40th overall. Like he just produces. And now the runway with Dobbs gone, craft we know is probably not going to be 100% for most of the year, even when he is out there. Luke Musgrave can't draw targets. I'm only on Christian Watson yet again this year because when he was on the field, 2.67 yards per route run, 23% first read share. He's going to be their wide receiver 1 this year. And he was, I mean, you said like, a wide receiver 21, I think, from when he came back. He was like wide receiver 13 from week 11 on, like after those first few weeks. Yes. He was like legitimately basically a wide receiver won in 12th. Filting leagues. Yeah, he was really, really good. And obviously there was a lot of spike weeks in there, like league winning weeks with some of his big touchdown days. Yeah, I think the reputation of the Packers is, oh, they, like, spread the ball around, you know, don't, you know, they don't have a true wide receiver one. But, like, Watson pretty much was that in fantasy for the last two months of the season. So I'm right there with you. Do you have any concerns, D, bro, just about, like, you know, injury stuff in general

2:54.3

with him?

2:54.7

Like. was that in fantasy for the last two months of the season. So I'm right there with you. Do you have any concerns, D.

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