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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

7 Wide Receivers You Need to Trade for BEFORE Week 1

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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7 Wide Receivers You Need to Trade for BEFORE Week 1

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0:00.0

Week 1 of the fantasy season is almost here and you need to move quick.

0:03.1

Because the seven wide receivers in this video could explode in value by the time they play in

0:07.4

week one. And that's why you should try and trade for them before that happens. I'll break down Y in this video. And if you're not familiar, I'm Salvatra. I've been helping people win their fantasy leagues for nearly eight years and plan to do the same for you in this video. And we're going to start with the Broncos number one receiver by far their number one receiver arguably like

0:03.7

their only receiver right that's going to get a lot of

0:23.1

target share this year. And Cortland Sutton, who's coming off for the most productive season of his career, and who knew it was going to happen with a rookie quarterback in Bo Nix, who a lot of people doubted, but not Sean Payton. Bo Nix played well towards the second half of the season after they moved the offense and shifted it around him a little bit more,

0:19.4

and that helped Cortland Sutton finished as a top 24 wide receiver.

0:22.4

Over 14 fantasy points per game. He ended up having eight touchdowns as well. But if you dive deeper into the numbers, his second half of the season, when Bo Nix finally got his footing in the NFL looked really good. Because over those final 10 games, Cortland Sutton ended up averaging over 18 fantasy points per game. Nearly nine targets per game. He had 80 receiving yards per game.

0:58.4

He was the only wide receiver over these 10 games to have at least a touchdown or 80

1:03.0

receiving yards in eight out of those 10 games. He was fantastic. He was a top 12 receiver. A wide

1:08.5

receiver won in fantasy during that time. And overall on the entire season,, this is what Sutton produced. 135 targets, the 13th best in the NFL, a strong 25% target chair and a red zone role that was a cheat code with 22 targets inside the 20 yard line. In downfield, Sutton was the same story. Like I mentioned, he had the cheat code targets. That's the red zone targets and the downfield usage. He had the second most air yards in the NFL with Bo Nix, who was deemed this only throw-it-short, short, checkdown type guy, not when it came to Cortland Sutton in the NFL last year. Bo Nix loved Cortland Sutton, and there's no reason to think that that's going to change this year. In terms of fantasy points data, this tweet, the most trusted targets. So most targets on third downs that went for a first down this year, number one in the NFL was Wondell Robinson.

1:28.8

I don't know if that's as much as a talent thing or as like, you know, Daniel Jones loving to check it down to the slot wide receiver in that offense with a bad offensive line. Number two, Cortland Sutton, 57% of his team's targets on third downs that went for first downs is going to be a very strong number

2:01.3

and it's only going to continue this year because this is the wide receiver competition in terms of the final preseason game the number two wide receiver was Marvin mims at the end of training camp he was a little bit banged up but he's going to be practicing this week a rookie and pat brymer who wasn't playing with the starters Troy franklin was operating as the number two receiver or number three receiver in preseason to end it maybe could be the number two receiver that's what we're

2:00.2

kind of getting right now. He has a history at Oregon with Bo Nix. And then if we go down here and we look at the tight end, oh, that's not the tight end. We look at the tight end edition in Evan Ingram, which there's rumors. Some people say true. Some people say it's not true. A lot of the Broncos insiders do believe that Evan Ingram will be the Joker for Sean Payton moved all around the formation.

2:36.3

And I do think he's going to soak up a lot of targets. I do think Evan Ingram this season could. I mean, at the high end, catch 80 to 90 plus balls. And yeah, sure, that's going to be more competition for Sutton than he had last year. But it's not the same area of the field. It's not those downfield targets where Sutton can really eat.

2:32.3

And as I mentioned, we're now moving into year two for Bo Nix,

2:35.0

a guy that already showed that he could break out in year one and maybe that continues heading into this season because we saw it last year in those final 10 games of the season. Bo Nix ended up ranking top 10 and basically everything. Passing yards per game, attempts per game, quarterback efficiency. I mean, you name it, completion rate, touchdowns. It was all there for the rookie, now turned second year player, sophomore Bo Nix. And we got to see that chemistry only continue in the final preseason game where the Broncos used it as sort of a dress rehearsal for about a half of football. Sutton played 100% of the snaps, ran 100% of the routes, and earned 50% of the targets. He had seven targets in one half of play, 83 yards, and a touchdown. Obviously, his preseason. Obviously, the defense he was facing wasn't going all out, wasn't every single starter on that defense. But this just shows like he does not have any competition this year for target share. And that's to start the season. That's not even to say if somebody was to miss time and get banged up like Evanan ingram has as recent as last year so when it comes to courtland sutton right now i just believe the second half of what we saw last year 18 points per game sure maybe that's a high end outcome but it's very much in reach i think he's easily a top 24 wide receiver this year i think the top 12 upside is certainly there for him we just saw it last season season. And if you can, before the season starts,

3:58.0

trade for Cortland Sutton, I'd be trying to do that right now. And I would definitely be trying to trade for this next guy. Before we get into him, two seconds, hit the subscribe button. We are so close to 200,000. It's a big goal of mine. I appreciate it if you could hit that. If you find these videos helpful, it would mean the world. And that player I'm talking about is Xavier Worthy who had a, let's just say, not great rookie year, but he definitely had a great finish to the

3:57.7

year, especially when it mattered most. Now, if we go is Xavier Worthy who had a, let's just say, not great rookie year, but he definitely

4:14.3

had a great finish to the year, especially when it mattered most. Now, if we go into Xavier Worthy stats as a rookie out of Texas for the Chiefs last year, it started off nice. That first game he had like the two touchdowns. You can see right here, one was a broken play, one was like an end around, 59 catches, 638 yards. In most years for a rookie wide receiver, if you're pushing towards 60 catches over 600 yards like that's a situation where you're coming into an offense where there was a rashi rice to start the year there was a Travis Kelsey this would be seen as a massive season but for the most part it was kind of a letdown because he was the first round pick rashi rice got hurt they thought there would be more for xavier worthy and at times in the beginning to middle parts of the season it seemed like, especially as an outside receiver, Xavier Worthy wasn't on the same page for Patrick Mahomes, being overthrown, stepping out of bounds, those types of things. But then his role changed to end the season when Rashi Rice got hurt, he moved into that slot roll, especially down the stretch. These final three games of the regular season, 21 fantasy points per game, 10 targets per game for Xavier worthy that only continued into the postseason if you can see right here in the first game of the

4:48.2

postseason he if you can see right here. In the first game of the postseason, he has five receptions. Second game, six catches, 85 yards and a touchdown against the bills. And then obviously, in the Super Bowl, a blowout. This was obviously partially also blowout run in the second half. Eight catches, 157 yards, two touchdowns. Again, we could put the a asterisk by that because it was a blowout.

5:21.3

But in his final six games of the year, just on paper, stats-wise, he was the number one receiver for this team, and he was producing like it. And then you look at this very helpful tweet that we've showed before from Jared Smola over on Twitter. Be sure to check him out. He compares the final eight games of Rashi Rice's rookie season to Xavier Worthy. Remember two years ago, Rashi Rice came on down the stretch.

5:19.2

Same thing with Xavier Worthy last year.

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