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🗓️ 19 July 2025
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5 Wide Receivers I’d Bet My Life Savings On This Fantasy Season (Data source credits: Player Profiler)
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0:00.0 | If I had to bet my entire life savings on five wide receivers to come through for you this season in fantasy, it'd be the five guys in this video. Because these five guys have the right mixture of talent, opportunity, and situation to actually come through for you in fantasy, and most people are sleeping on them. And if you draft just like one or two of these guys, heck, maybe even all five, it's going to be the keys and recipe you need to win your league in 2025. And we can start off with the receiver in Cortland Sutton of the Denver Broncos, who was literally just doing this last year, and he's actually coming off of a career best season, where in fantasy last year, he finishes the top 24 wide receiver. There is ACL tears in the past. There was high expectations early on in his career and then he had some |
0:38.0 | bad quarterback play, but last year with Bo Knicks, Cortland Sutton looked great. Now top 24 wide |
0:42.5 | receiver, averaging about 14 fantasy points per game is good, but when you actually look |
0:46.5 | deeper under the hood, it looks even better. Because Sutton quietly was a borderline top |
0:50.6 | 10 wide receiver with 135 targets, averaging eight targets per game. |
0:54.3 | He had a 25% target share, which starts to come into that great two borderline elite territory |
0:59.4 | at earning targets. |
1:00.7 | And he was commanding over 31% of the Denver Broncos red zone targets. |
1:04.7 | He was also scoring touchdowns, those cheat code targets at the wider seaver position |
1:08.6 | that we love, deep targets and red zone targets. |
1:08.5 | Yeah, he was getting those. So those high value situations where he's being used downfield, being used in the red zone, it all came out to Sutton putting up a very respectable season of 81 receptions, 100 and 81 yards. So he tops 1,000 yards as well. He has eight touchdowns, and he was also top 10 in contested catch rate. So not only is he winning in the red zone, |
1:45.7 | he's winning downfield in contested catch rate. So not only is he winning in the red zone, he's winning downfield in contested catch situations. And that's while Bo Nix was the rookie quarterback. Bo Nix's probably only going to get better entering year, too. I thought this stat on Twitter was interesting by Ft N fantasy. Contested catch win rate. We just talked about Sutton being top 10. He snags a chart topping 61% of his contested catches. You can see right here on this chart. He's all the way towards the top. He's up there with Joanne Jennings. Surprisingly, Ladd-McConkie, Nico Collins and Mike Evans, you would expect. Those are those circles right there. And you compare it to a guy like Jackson Smith and Jigba, who was in last place at 17%. Again, JSM we've talked about in previous videos. |
1:44.3 | That's not this subject right now. |
1:45.5 | But Cortland Sutton was among the best of the best, |
1:47.5 | depending on the site you live, who was in last place at 17%. Again, JSM we've talked about in previous videos. |
2:00.9 | That's not this subject right now. |
2:02.1 | But Cortland Sutton was among the best of the best, |
2:04.1 | depending on the site you look at, the best at winning contested catches. Now, that's kind of his game we already expect that, but it's pretty cool to see. Like clear his day last year, he was the Broncos, Sean Payton, and Bo Nix number one receiver. You could see this stat here by Fantasy Points, trusted targets. |
1:59.2 | These are the most targets on third down plus first down targets as well. |
2:03.4 | So you can see right here, number one was Wombelle Robinson. Okay, that's just because Daniel Jones was peppering him for targets for the first half of the year. Number two, Cortland Sutton, ahead of Amman Ross St. Brown, head of Garrett Wilson, ahead of Justin Jefferson, these guys who are commanding elite target shares, 150 plus targets apiece, honestly for years now when you're talking about Justin Jefferson and Amunrah, Coral and Sutton was doing that last year, trusted target. And boy, oh boy, this is where you really have to look under the hood. According to RotoViz, the final 10 games of the year, and let's just get this straight. The first couple of games, the first month of the year, Bo Nix was a rookie. They were trying to lean on the run. And the Broncos quickly realized, although their offensive line was good, they're running back stump. So they started to air the ball out more, especially after their biweek and Bo Nix started to get comfortable. Look at these final 10 games splits here to end the season. The second half of the year, Sutton started averaging over 18 fantasy points per game and 80 receiving yards per game. Let's compare that to the first half of the season. The second half of the year, Sutton started averaging over 18 fantasy points per game |
3:07.8 | and 80 receiving yards per game. Let's compare that to the first half of the season, these first |
3:12.1 | seven games, not even nine fantasy points per game, so more than doubled his production to end |
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