The Ultimate Early 2026 Fantasy Football WR Rankings

Fantasy Football with Josh & Hayden

Underdog Fantasy

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

WIDE RECEIVER RANKINGS – Fantasy Football TOP 53 (2026) Josh and Hayden break down their Top 53 Wide Receiver Rankings for the 2026 fantasy football season. Where is the WR cliff? How should you handle WR3 bench stashes? And just how much higher is Hayden on Luther Burden than Josh? Underdog Fantasy SIGN UP HERE: Play 5, get 50 → https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-underedog-football-show Must be 18+ (19+ in AL, NE; 19+ in CO for select games; 21+ in AZ & MA) and present in a state where Underdog Fantasy operates. Terms apply. Concerned with your play? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.ncpgambling.org. NY: Call 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369). 📲 Follow the Show IG: https://www.instagram.com/udfootballshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@underdogfootballshow Twitter/X: https://x.com/UDFootballShow 🎧 Subscribe to the Podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-underdog-football-show/id1558961587 💬 Join the Discord (Giveaways + Promos)https://discord.gg/underdog 0:00 2026 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings0:20 Drafting WRs in 2026 – What’s the Meta? 2:41 Ja’Marr Chase3:12 Puka Nacua4:23 Jaxon Smith-Njigba6:11 Amon-Ra St. Brown6:49 Justin Jefferson8:24 CeeDee Lamb & George Pickens10:05 Drake London12:52 Malik Nabers15:11 Rashee Rice16:34 Nico Collins18:47 Tetairoa McMillan20:39 Tee Higgins21:26 Chris Olave23:20 DeVonta Smith24:50 A.J. Brown26:06 Ladd McConkey28:11 Garrett Wilson30:03 Jaylen Waddle31:58 Zay Flowers34:24 Jameson Williams35:53 DJ Moore36:48 Emeka Egbuka38:52 Mike Evans40:13 Davante Adams41:53 Terry McLaurin43:40 Carnell Tate44:59 Luther Burden47:45 Christian Watson49:12 Rome Odunze50:43 Alec Pierce52:56 Brian Thomas Jr.56:24 Jordan Addison57:36 Jordyn Tyson58:22 Marvin Harrison Jr. & Michael Wilson1:00:37 Makai Lemon1:01:36 DK Metcalf1:02:54 Courtland Sutton, Chris Godwin & Parker Washington1:04:20 Jayden Reed & Matthew Golden1:05:51 Xavier Worthy, Josh Downs & Ricky Pearsall 1:08:16 The Rest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Must remember, do not forget.
0:07.0	Remind me to bring photo ID.
0:10.0	Reminder, set.
0:12.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:16.0	All right, love.
0:18.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote in the elections in England on the 7th of May.
0:24.6	Find out more at electoral commission.org.ukest.org.ukest.
0:27.1	Okay. Oh yes, it's time for the first batch of wide receiver rankings for the 2026 fantasy football season.
0:46.6	Big question at the top, Hayden.
0:48.2	Has the meta or strategy changed for drafting this position?
0:51.5	I think so because the elite wide receiver ones have not lost
0:55.2	their value because when you start removing the wide receiver three is from being on the football
0:59.5	field, all of a sudden the wide receiver ones get the ball more. So I don't think we should make any
1:03.5	adjustments for like the top 10, 12ish wide receivers in fantasy. But wide receiver two land,
1:08.8	wide receiver three land. And then the further you could get down the
1:11.3	bucket it's really falling off and we finally see price tags changing best ball and i think it's smart
1:17.2	just because more tight ends are seeing the football field and we're running the ball more across the
1:22.1	league and quarterbacks are running the ball themselves in the red zone instead of throwing touchdown
1:26.1	passes more so it would make sense if fantasy wide receivers matter a little bit less in 2026 than they did five years ago.
1:32.8	And it would also be nice if, you know, the top two round wide receivers wouldn't get hurt as often as they did.
1:37.6	That's a big change. But yeah, I mean, in many other seasons when the league was so pass happy,
1:43.2	we could at least fall back on like a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Underdog Fantasy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Underdog Fantasy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.