In this video, we're going to be breaking down the seven wide receivers that you must start.

I'm getting a ton of questions about starts. These are the seven guys you must start for week 16 fantasy football.

And these aren't your obvious names. We're in the fantasy semifinals. So these are the guys that you could actually put in your wide receiver two or flex spot and they'll help you out.

And we'll start with a guy on Ladd-McConkie who in my opinion, and many people, you would probably think he should be an obvious name, but based on how he's performing lately, it makes sense that I'm getting a ton of questions about Ladd-McConkey. So many people are concerned about him, and now they're saying, can I trust him in week 16, my fantasy semifinals, or are trying to avoid going to the toilet bowl? And it makes sense when you look at what he's doing recently. Two weeks ago, one catch for 12 yards. He got you two points in your fantasy lineups for PPR this past week. Oh, he doubles it. Two catches for 20 yards. Like in the most important

weeks of the for 12 yards. He got you two points in your fantasy lineups for PPR. This past week,

oh, he doubles it, two catches for 20 yards. Like, in the most important weeks of the season, week 14 and 15, getting into the fantasy playoffs, in the fantasy playoffs, he's been letting a lot of teams down. Now, if you've survived that, maybe you benched him. Heading into this week, I think you can finally start him. And yes, you could trust him even though he has three catches for 32 yards total the last two weeks. Because at the end of the day, when you look at the larger sample of the past 10 weeks or so, he's still producing very good. About 13 fantasy points per game over seven targets per game. And there is a reason why over these last couple of weeks, something that correlates directly with the drop in the overall Chargers offense. They've had some tough matchups, the Eagle secondary, the Chiefs defense. But also Justin Herbert broke his hand. Now, it was his non-throwing hand. That's why he's still been able to play. But I'm sure that kind of affects something, right, in terms of how he's getting the ball out, how he's receiving the snap, the timing, all these things, maybe even just mentally it's messing with him. But thankfully, they're not having a difficult matchup again this week. They will next week against the Texans, but this week it's the Dallas Cowboys, a Cowboys defense that as of right now is allowing the most passing yards per game. It's basically been all season long that they've been allowing this. 255 passing yards per game. A whopping 7.1 yards per passing play is the second or the third highest in the NFL right now. Everybody gets there against this Cowboys defense. I mean, you just saw J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings offense put up over 30 points last week against his Cowboys defense. So when you look at this game, it looks like there should be plenty of points scored. The charges are actually going to be underdogs coming into this one on the road, so maybe a little bit more pass attempts than usual for Justin Herbert. and the game total is set on draft kings at 49.5 points. So you could expect a lot of points this week.

That is one of the highest totals on the entire week, I believe, depending on the site, it is the highest total. So you're getting a nice game environment, a good matchup for Ladd-McConkie. I get it. He hasn't done anything the past two weeks when you look a little bit further out from that he has been a stable wide receiver the past 10 games or so, and this is the perfect matchup to get him back in

your lineup. And I think this should be the week that you get Jaden Reed in your lineups. There's a good chance you haven't been playing him since he returned from injury. Maybe he's been on your waiver wire, but this is the week to pick him up. And on a short week on Saturday, I think it's a good spot to play him. Now, last week, it was a tough matchup. His second game back from injury,

he had to take on the Denver Broncos defense, a defense

that has Patrick Sertan, probably maybe the best cornerback in the NFL, and just a quality unit overall. Now, despite that, Jaden Reed ended up having a team high five catches, a team high 55 yards, a team high in targets. He looked pretty solid out there. His routes ended up coming up to 67%.

He played a season high, 66% of the snaps.

And by all accounts, he finally looks healthy. And they're going to need him right now. Christian Watson got banged up last week. It looked like a serious injury. Thankfully, it's not going to keep him out the rest of the season. And there's even a chance he could play this upcoming week as he was able to get a limited practice in with this chest injury and shoulder injury on Wednesday. The Packers will have one more practice day on Thursday before Friday being off and then Saturday and then they end up playing their division rival the Bears on Saturday night football. So it's a tricky situation. If Watson does play, will he be a full go? He's probably only going to play limited snaps, maybe just 15 to 20 snaps,

those deep routes when they actually need him third down. So no matter how you slice,

that Jaden Reed is going to be a bigger part of this offense. And he's already naturally becoming a bigger part. We know over the past couple of seasons, when he's actually healthy, he's arguably the number one receiver on this team. Not to mention the Packers lost, Micah Parsons to a torn ACL last week.

They also ended up losing Evan Williams.

It doesn't seem like a serious injury, but he is now banged up on defense.

So if this Packers' defense is no

longer a top-five pass-rust, a top-10 overall unit, that's going to make the secondary even worse.

You could probably put up points, which will force the Packers to keep up maybe in this game

at times with the Chicago Bears. More pass attempts. It means more targets and points possibly for Jaden Reed. So when you get this matchup on the road against the Bears where the Packers come in as slight underdogs,

I mean, look, we saw this matchup two weeks ago. Sure it was in Lambo. Sure, it was a totally different set of things with the Packers not having all these injuries. Even the Bears themselves are dealing with injuries. Romadunes, they likely out. Luther Bird might be out. For another week, DeAndre Swift is on the injury report, but we just saw Jordan Love have one of his best games of the year against the Bears earlier this season.

He averaged 9.4 yards per attempt. Now, you look at the accounting statute, you say, oh, he only only had 234 passing yards, yeah, but he only threw 25 times. He had three touchdowns on those 25 pass attempts. 9.4 yards per attempt was his second best outing of the year in terms of efficiency. So he had a good day out there last time. It's not like the Bears defense has gotten

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