5 Wide Receivers Who Could be League Winners This Year
The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri
Sal Vetri
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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5 Wide Receivers Who Could be League Winners This Year
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to win your fantasy football league, you're in the right place because today we are going into the deepest position in fantasy that you can't afford to mess up the wide receiver position. More specifically, we're breaking down the five wide receivers who look like league winners right now. You should draft them. And if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatri. I've helped over 10,000 people win their fantasy league the last few years alone. And I plan to do the same for you with this video. Yeah, let's start with DeVant de Smith, who was lined up to be the Philadelphia Eagles clear-cut number one wide receiver for the first time in his career, and nobody is talking about it. Now, based on this time of the recording, we should be maybe a couple of days away from when AJ Brown is going to most likely be traded based on all the reports, credible reports to the New England Patriots. |
| 0:38.1 | And this opens up the opportunity for DeVantz Smith to be the number one receiver because |
| 0:42.0 | AJ Brown came here before the 2022 season. Now, in that season, you still saw a nice year of |
| 0:47.4 | almost 1,200 yards of career high despite playing next to AJ Brown. The year before that was when |
| 0:51.8 | Devontas Smith ended up having a rookie year of 916 yards, 103 targets. Like it was likely that he was the number one receiver on the team, but he was just the rookie. He didn't come out of the gates firing by any means. So right now in the prime of his career, he's going to be their number one option, most likely. And Smith is coming off of another solid season. Like when he's actually out there |
| 1:10.8 | and healthy, he's one of the most underrated wide receivers easily. I mean, one of the best wide receivers in college football history, if you're talking about his reign at Alabama, Heisman Trophy winner, a 24% target share last year. Now, this was on an Eagles team that obviously struggled. Offensive line broke down. Offense in general wasn't jelling with a new offensive coordinator, weren't throwing as much, drives weren't sustaining, but still a 24% target share, |
| 1:32.0 | top 20 in the NFL, that's good to see. And like we mentioned, all the rumors right now is that |
| 1:36.2 | AJ Brown is looking into luxury apartments as one of them right now in Boston Seaport area. |
| 1:42.3 | He was on a podcast with like Julian Edelman and some other guys there and they basically joked about how we're all patriots here right and AJ Brown was just kind of smirking at that and he said that he would give up his number 11 Julian Edelman for AJ Brown to be there it kind of seemed like at this point it was a foregone conclusion and that was months ago based on the time of this recording. |
| 2:01.3 | Since then, it's only become, like, more concrete that Brown is likely out the door, most likely to the Patriots. So Brown's going to reconnect with his former coach Mike Vrable during their time together at Tennessee. And what does this leave? I mean, based on the offseason, the Eagles have been preparing for an AJ Brown departure. What does that mean? well, they drafted a first round pick in Mackay Lemon. |
| 2:18.9 | Not only did they draft McKay Lemon, |
| 2:20.4 | they traded up to hop the steed. been preparing for an AJ Prown departure. What does that mean? Well, they drafted a first round |
| 2:17.7 | pick in Mackay Lemon. Not only did they draft McKay Lemon, they traded up to hop the Steelers in the |
| 2:22.2 | first round to take McKaylemon. They ended up trading for Don Tavian Wicks, who has been sort of like |
| 2:26.3 | this underrated player in the Green Bay Passing Corps. He's been a rotational guy. He's been |
| 2:30.5 | banged up last year, at least, drops problem the year before that. But what does Howie Roseman, the Eagles GM do? He finds value in places. Don Tavianwix is like the perfect example of a value guy based on what they traded to acquire him. Now, the biggest target competition, assuming AJ Brown is gone for Devante Smith this year, is likely going to be Mackay Lemon. Again, he is a first round pick, a 22-year-old wide receiver. This is a guy who in college was one of the better wide receivers over the past couple of seasons. That's exactly why he went in the first round, especially last year when he broke out at USC for over 100 targets, over 1100 receiving yards, 26% target here. This is a guy who is going to most likely operate out of the slot, maybe out of two wide receiver sets on the outside. |
| 3:08.2 | He'll have to compete with guys like Marquis Brown and Antavian Wix, veterans in the NFL. |
| 3:11.9 | But in three wide receiver sets, McKaylimin's probably operating out of the slot and should |
| 3:15.4 | benefit. |
| 3:15.8 | Now, according to the team changes tracker in my fantasy blueprint, you can check it out at |
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