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The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Ranking The Top 24 Rookies for Fantasy Football

The Fantasy Football Club with Sal Vetri

Sal Vetri

Fantasy Sports, Sports

5.0784 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0

If you play fantasy football, this video will help you because we are breaking down the top 24 rookies for 2026 fantasy football. These are the guys across all positions. This is a deep wide receiver class, not the greatest running back class, and a couple of exciting tight ends. And we're going to show you exactly where you need to be taking them in fantasy football and dynasty right now. And we'll be breaking these players into tiers. You can see the tiers I have listed right here, an elite tier, high upside, solid player, wait and see, and then a stash player. Wait and see will be because this video is being recorded before the NFL draft. We'll have another version after the NFL draft. So that's kind of a wait and see on where they land. If they land in a good spot, they'll rise. If they don't, they'll stay or drop. Number one here is going to be Jeremiah Love. He's going to be in the elite tier prospect. Look, this is just pretty clear at this point. Jeremiah Love is going to be the 101 in Dynasty Leagues and probably even in Superplex formats over for Fernando Mendoza. He's just a prospect that looks like an Ashton Genti, probably not to the level of Bijon Robinson, but right there and that's saying something. This is a guy with two years of production against some of the toughest competition while playing at Notre Dame in the last two seasons. In 2024, over 1100 rushing yards, averaging 7 yards per attempt, 19 touchdowns caught 29 balls while they went to the college football finals facing the toughest teams in the country ohio state all those

1:11.0

teams right then you get right here in 2025 the breakout continues over 1300 yards nearly 1400 rushing

1:17.1

yards 21 touchdowns another 27 catches he had almost 1,700 total yards he goes to the combine

1:23.5

he runs into 4 3s he has the size of 215 pounds. He does everything great. The only knock against him,

1:28.7

pass protection could use some work, but that's the case for every 21-year-old rookie running back for the most part. We don't have to spend much more time here. Jeremy Love is going to be a top 10 pick in the NFL draft. Mel Kuyper's latest mock draft, as well as PFFs and a lot of others, have him number four to Tennessee. Number five to the Giants could work. There's a chance the Cardinals get crazy

1:45.5

at number three. Number seven to the commanders. He's most likely going in those top seven, if not top five picks. And he's going to be an absolute slam dunk fantasy pick this year in all formats. Now, that ends tier number one. Yes, it's just one player in terms of elite prospects in my opinion for fantasy football but we get to the high

2:01.9

upside so these are definite starters in the NFL most likely from day one with the chance to be

2:06.3

elite in their ceiling outcomes the first guy my number two overall rookie carnal tate out of

2:10.6

ohio state this is going to be a player that in my opinion is just the most NFL ready he can go

2:15.1

out there he can be the ex- wide receiver for you on the outside.

2:17.8

Wins contest the catches, has solid route running, comes from a big high pedigree school in Ohio State. Now, the naysayers will point to him running a 4-5-3, 40-time at the NFL Combine, which is just average, which is not ideal. But again, this is not a player who's going to win based on his speed and his blazing downfield ability.

2:34.3

He's not that type of player.

2:35.9

Instead, he's an advanced route runner.

2:37.4

He knows how to win consistently. based on his speed and his his blazing downfield ability he's not that type of player instead he's

2:36.4

an advanced route runner he knows how to win contested catch situations in zone he's a very smart player

2:41.6

he doesn't use his speed we saw that on his tape at ohio state where he had nearly 900 yards last

2:46.4

year while competing with guys like jeremiah smith who will be a top five pick next year

2:50.0

carnal tate is completely fine do not worry about speed. He should be the first or second at latest wide receiver taken in the draft. You can see some of his all 22 tape here posted by Ian Hart is on Twitter. Be sure to check him out. You can just see he wins. He wins against top competition in the Big Ten. Ohio State plays against other programs as well. Here's a matchup against Big 10 or against Penn State.

3:08.6

He's just winning downfield. He's going to be a guy who, that is 4 or 5 speed. He has 4 or 5 speed and he's still getting by both safeties, both cornerbacks. He's going to be completely fine. JSN was the number one downfield receiver in the NFL last year. He had 4 or 5 speed. And the next player for me above my head on the YouTube version

3:24.4

and the high upside ranking, my number three overall rookie this year is he had four or five speed. And the next player for me above my head on the YouTube version in the high upside

3:25.1

ranking, my number three overall rookie this year is going to be Mackay Lemon out of USC. MacI Lemon is a totally different skill set than a Cardinal Tate. Mackay Lemon is going to be somebody who mostly is going to win in the slot. Now he has tape of him winning on the outside, but he was absolutely dominant in the slot, knows how to find zone coverages, knows how to leverage his skill set against those

3:42.7

cornerbacks that are usually weaker in the slot. And from a production standpoint, he did everything you wanted to see. In 2024, he got a larger role and he was awesome with it, earning a 14% target share, almost 800 yards on that. In 2025, he gets to be the guy at USC, once a bunch of other players finally leave the program over these past couple of years, puts up nearly 1,200 yards, 26% target here. He's getting comparisons to a JSN. He's getting comparisons to an Amman Rahsaan-Brand, to an Adam Thielen. All of these guys were predominantly slot-wide receivers have shown success on the outside during or while they're in the NFL as well. That's the type of player he is. Now, similar to a Cardinal Tate, he's not a blazer. His 40-yard dash at his NFL Pro Day was 448 to 453, the exact same range that JSN's was at his Ohio State Pro Day when he was coming out. So I'm not concerned about this. This is a guy who has has sudden feet clean routes elite zone feels strong hands yards after the catch ability the downsides are going

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