This rookie wide receiver class is absolutely loaded, but it could be a little confusing.

So in this video, we're going to break down the 10 best wide receivers in the 2026 NFL draft,

and we're starting off with number one.

And even at number one, it's not consensus, but for me it's going to be Cardinal Tate.

I think he has the cleanest NFL ready receiver skill set in this draft class. He is six foot two out of Ohio State,

so top competition. He also dealt with top competition on his own team for targets and Jeremiah

Smith, who will be a top five pick probably in a future draft. Six foot two, 1952 pounds,

still only 21 years old. He's coming out a year early as a junior, which is a good sign. Now,

if you were to see anything

about Carnell T, maybe you're a casual college football fan, you don't watch it at all. Maybe you saw that

at the NFL Combine, he didn't run fast. Adam Schaefter had to come out and put these tweets

of about, hey, he was faster than it expected. He just started slow in all these excuses. I mean,

it was an entire saga if you follow the NFL draft or prospects or dynasty fantasy football or you're just into this stuff because he ran a 4-5-340 time, which as you can see right here according to player profiler is 47th percentile speed score, which means just average out of all the wide receivers to attend the combine. And again, he's supposed to be a first round pick, potentially a top 10

overall pick. So if you have just average speed, that doesn't sound ideal, right? Especially

because a lot of those wide receivers at the Combine were never drafted, we're middle

to later round picks. Like, it's not a glowing endorsement for average speed for a top 10 pick.

So I get the concerns there, but I'm not concerned because Cardinal Tate is not a player if you watched his film that won with speed. It's not like this is some sort of big part of his skill set. He's not using this. That's not his play style. He didn't have that elite speed, the 4-3 or the 4-4 speed in college. He had this 4-5 speed, and he did just fine. Last year at Ohio State, 51 catches, 875 yards,

a 16% target share might seem concerning to you, but keep in mind, this was a loaded wide receiver room at Ohio State. Guys like Chris Alave had similar concerns, Gara Wilson, when you're battling with so many players there, Jameson Williams had a transfer out of there and go to Alabama. You're battling with so many players. It's hard to get yours. That's what was happening to some extent with Carnal Tate battling Jeremiah Smith and other prospects. But this is still a player who scored a touchdown in eight of his 11 games last year. If you pull it up and you see what he started to do towards the end of the season where they really hit a groove against Minnesota, nine catches 183 yards.

Wisconsin, six catches 111 yards.

Penn State solid defense, five catches 124 yards, a top 15 Michigan school, five catches 82 yards.

The one knock against him could be that in his final couple of games of the year against Iowa

in the Big Ten championship, just four catches 45 yards, although one of the best defenses

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