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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

7 Wide Receivers I’d Bet My Life Savings On This Fantasy Season

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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7 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 you draft the right wide receivers in your fantasy football league, you're going to have a massive edge when it comes to winning the whole league.

0:05.3

But the problem is most people aren't drafting the right wide receivers. They're chasing last year's stats or the hype pieces from this year. Instead, you want to be taking the players who can actually help you win. So in this video, we're breaking down the seven wide receivers I bet my house on this year. And if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatry. I've been helping people win their fantasy leagues for nearly eight years, and I plan to do the same for you in this video.

0:04.1

And let's start

0:23.1

this video off with a guy in Jacoby Myers who is arguably the most disrespected and underrated and underappreciated player and probably receiver in all of fantasy football. And there's a couple of reasons for this. And I think last year where you can point to a career year for Jacob Myers is the perfect example. Last year, Jacoby Myers had a very impressive 87 receptions.

0:20.9

That's nearly six per game. Over a thousand receiving yards. All of this is very strong. It was his best season of his career. And he did this keep in mind while playing just 15 games. Not only did he play 15 games. He left one of those games early. So 14 fully completed games with his quarterbacks being Gardner Minshu and Aidan O'Connell for both of those performances.

0:55.5

Now, despite the terrible quarterback play, Myers finished as a top 20 wide receiver and fantasy points per game,

1:00.2

despite scoring just four touchdowns. He only scored four touchdowns because his offense did not sustain drives.

1:04.9

They did not get to the red zone all that often. This was a very quality performance given everything that was around him.

1:10.2

This is a guy who was stuck in one of the worst environments in football and still was a top 20 producer in fantasy, but now people are taking him around like the wide receiver 40 range, even though his situation has arguably gotten better. Look, if you're going to go out here and have nearly 130 targets, 8.6 targets per game last year, that's pretty crazy. Like, that is something that you really

1:28.0

don't see, especially when you're competing with Brock Bowers, who set the rookie reception record. This is a very strong performance, and it wasn't like he was just going out there and having empty targets. He was also seeing some cheat code usage. If you're not familiar, cheat code usage is those targets that are both in the red zone and also deep downfield of 20 plus yards, which lead to these big splash performances that we like for fantasy.

1:26.1

Myers ranked top 25 in both deep targets and red zone targets last year. And according to Shifty over on Twitter, Shifty QB1, as the account he says, notable contested catch rates for press coverage last year with a minimum of 50 targets, you can see Nico Collins is up here, Joanne Jennings and his breakout year. Amun Raim, you know how great he is.

2:01.1

Number one was Jacoby Myers catching 77% of his contested targets in press coverage. This is a guy who is known as a slot receiver. That's basically where he makes his do the most part of his career. Last year, though, with the Raiders, he proved that he can be an outside receiver and do it at a high level. He was able to produce, despite having bad quarterback play, like we mentioned, only 71% of his targets were catchable, which ranked 49th in the NFL.

2:03.2

So if you're talking about this, 30% of his targets. So if you want to look at this right here, 30% of these 130 targets, meaning like 40 of these targets were not even catchable last year. The idea is that now improves since he has a quarterback upgrade in Gino Smith coming there. I mean, this guy was already producing as a wide receiver too. In some weeks, a wide receiver one last year with bad quarterback play. If Gino can just get any type of protection, well, you might be seeing a Jacoby-Meyer's many more top-10 performances. And I think this, that's pretty important, because this is a split on Rotovis. The in is his first three games of the year. The out is his final 12 games a year. This is important because these final 12 games are when Devante Adams was traded away to the New York Jets and during that time Adams was also battling a hamstring so he wasn't playing. In those 12 games, Jacoby Myers averaged over 15 fantasy points per game, a very impressive 9.3 targets per game, and over 72 receiving yards per game. During this stretch, he was a top 15

3:08.1

fantasy receiver ahead of some of the guys that you like in fantasy this year who go rounds before him like, oh, I don't know, Garrett Wilson. He was up there with Devontah Smith. These are third and fourth round fantasy picks and Myers now is going in like round seven or eight or even nine. To me, it doesn't make all that much sense when you look at the situation this year. If you look at the team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint you can check it out at join the blueprint.com

3:06.8

the additions on offense the key additions this off season the big all that much sense when you look at the situation this year. If you look at the team changes tracker in the fantasy blueprint, you can check it out

3:24.8

at join the blueprint.com.

3:25.9

The additions on offense, the key additions this offseason, the big one was Gino Smith. So that's already a quarterback upgrade. Garner's now gone. Aiden O'Connell will not be starting. And if you look at what they added at the wider receiver position, nothing in free agency. if you look at the NFL draft.

3:22.0

Fourth round pick Deontay Thornton,

3:23.2

who looks like he'll be a starter right now.

3:24.7

Second round pick, Jack Betts,

3:25.6

who looks like he's going to be a backup.

3:27.0

Deontay Thornton, who looks like he'll be a

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