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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

4 Wide Receivers About to Explode This Fantasy Season

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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4 Wide Receivers About to Explode This Fantasy Season


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0:00.0

If you want to win your fantasy football league, you are in the right place because today we were talking about the four wide receivers about to explode in fantasy this year. Now, if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatra. I've helped thousands of people win their fantasy league the last few years alone, and I plan to do the same for you with this video. And let's start with Mike Evans. Mike Evans is probably a name that you look at and you're like, okay, this is a 33 year old wide receiver, right? He's 32 years old right now.

0:20.8

He'll be 33 when the season is starting.

0:22.7

A 33-year-old wide receiver.

0:24.4

He's 32 years old right now. He'll be 33-year-old wide receiver. He's moving teams now from Tampa Bay where he spent his whole career, 1,000-yard seasons every year until last year to the 49ers. Sometimes it's a little bit suspect going to a brand-new offense. Especially at an older age when you're coming off of a season where you just miss more than half of the year. You miss nine games. You had a career low 368 yards, 30 receptions because of the hamstring injury that's kind of been on again, off again for the last four to five years, including the last two years where he missed nine games last year, where he missed three games the year before that due to this exact same issue, a hamstring injury. Now you're 33 years old. This is a concern because that injury risk is going to go up. The recovery rate is going to take even longer. I'm aware of all this. It all makes sense, but based on where he's currently going in drafts, which we'll get into, I do believe Mike Evans is a value. And a value that might be ready to explode based on the fact that we know he's going to be on a much better team, right? a three-year deal with the 49ers maybe this is kind of like a phantom deal like stephan diggs signed with the patriots last year where it's a three-year deal but for the most part they can get out of it after one year that's fine but despite missing half the year evans when he was actually healthy last season in those nine games 22.8% share, a top 10 target rate at 28%, meaning the

1:28.6

percentage of his route run where he earned a target more than 25% of them.

1:32.4

That is an elite territory.

1:33.6

That's why he's top 10.

1:34.7

And his overall 17 game pace last year as a 32-year-old wide receiver would have been,

1:39.4

73 catches, 894 yards and 7 touchdowns on 138 targets. Now that's also assuming that like the efficiency would have would not have continued due to the Baker Mayfield injury, right, all of that. For the most part, he would have pushed up around being like a fourth or fifth round pick worthy wide receiver. To kind of make it really simple for you, that's exactly the numbers that D. and D.K. McAff was like a third or a fourth-on

2:01.3

pick in fantasy drafts last year. So we mentioned that Mike Evans is now on this new team, the 49ers. And the 49ers, if we look at their team, so far this offseason, it's a little bit of moving pieces, right? Kendrick Bourne, a depth-wide receiver who's had some big games, especially when guys get injured on this team, which happens to be like every single year, he's gone.

2:17.3

Joanne Jennings is gone now with the Vikings.

2:18.9

Brandon Ayukai have him on here is gone.

2:20.6

As of this recording, which happens to be like every single year, he's gone. Juan Jennings has gone now with the Vikings.

2:18.9

Brandon Ayukai have him on here is gone.

2:20.6

As of this recording, he's still on the team. But by all accounts, it looks like they're probably going to hold on to his rights until September 1st, then cut him last minute to kind of screw him since they kind of screwed, since he kind of screwed the 49ers the last couple of years, right? Holding them hostage, not playing all

2:32.6

this stuff, demanding contracts, and never playing. Regardless of all that, these guys should be

2:35.7

gone. They've been replaced with Christian Kirk veteran receiver, Mike Evans, veteran receiver, and a second round pick taken at the top of the second round in the John Stribling. So lots of moving pieces for the San Francisco 49ers offense. In terms of what the receiver room is going to look like week one, Mike Evans probably, most likely going to be the ex-receiver. He's going to be healthy week one. Ricky Pierasol is going to be out there.

2:54.5

And then I think Chris is all. receiver room is going to look like week one. Mike Evans probably most likely going to be the

2:50.8

ex-receiver. He's going to be healthy week one. Ricky Pierisole is going to be out there. And then I think Christian Kirk could probably be the wide receiver out of the slot in three wide receiver sets. You have George Kittle coming off of the Achilles injury. You have Christian McCaffrey. But for three wide receiver sets, Mike Evans to me looks like the best wide receiver on this team despite despite being 33 years old, he's definitely going to be, I would say, the best third down option

3:10.6

and definitely the best wide receiver on this team, despite being 33 years old. He's definitely going to be, I would say, the best third down option and definitely the best red zone option. We've seen him do that for the past decade of his career. And he gets to play with Brock Purdy, who's one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the NFL since becoming a starter. I mean, we can look at this every single year of Brock Purdy's career right here, his yards per attempt, and a lot of this has to do with Kyle Shanahan. His yards per attempt in completion percentage, always great. Two of his last three years, he's at 69% completion percentage, never below basically a 66%. He's always above the league average in terms of yards per attempt. The league average is around 7.2 in his career last year, despite multiple injuries 7.6, 8.5, 9.6, and 8.1. He's always out there.

3:44.1

He adds rushing upside, multiple touchdowns in three straight seasons. And basically every

3:47.9

year from a fantasy perspective has been as a starter, a top 10 quarterback. His rookie season,

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