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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Top 10 Wide Receivers heading into 2026! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We all know Jeremiah Smith is the best wide receiver, but is he the best “football player” in college or does that go to Malachi Toney? McElroy goes through and lists the Top 10 wide receivers heading into the 2026 season and outside of Smith and Toney you will see other familiar names like Charlie Becker, Ryan Wingo and Duce Robsinson but watch out for Beau Sparks at Texas State and transfers Cam Coleman and Wyatt Young. Keep an eye on Michigan, Notre Dame and Alabama headlining some potential breakout WR players. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8

If we're going for pound for pound, football players in college football, you'd be hard for us to find a whole lot better than Malachi Tony.

0:40.3

He is without question one of the greatest football players in college football heading into the 2026 season.

0:46.3

Hello and welcome in, it's always college football. I'm your host Craig McElroy.

0:52.3

Happy to be with you here today as we look ahead to the 2026 college football season.

0:58.6

And last year produced one of the great wide receiver years we've seen in a long time. But gone is Mackayle Lemon. Gone is Elijah Surrat.

1:07.5

Carnell Tate, Malachi Fields, a handful of others, all gone. The 2026 NFL drafted

1:13.9

basically eight up wide receivers and bunches, right? Position, however, is still loaded. There are a lot

1:20.8

of really great players left behind. I think you can probably find one in Columbus that's pretty

1:26.3

special. Maybe a true freshman that

1:28.3

burst on the scene in Coral Gables last year, a guy that's been a monster for a handful of years,

1:34.0

now in Tallahassee, but was prior to at USC. You got a couple guys in Texas. There's a lot of very

1:40.9

exciting things going on right now at the wide receiver spot.

1:44.9

So what will today deliver?

1:47.4

Well, today is about listing our top 10 wide receivers in the country for 2026.

1:54.8

We love this.

1:55.7

We do the full list.

1:56.8

We're actually going to give you a handful of honorable mentions as well because it's a bunch of guys, man. I mean, we're not going to cut any corners here. We're going to give you a handful of honorable mentions as well because a bunch of guys, man. I mean, we're not going to cut any corners here. All right? We're going to give you a really widespread of people that we've watched thoroughly. And then we're going to give you the top 10. We'll give you the honorable mentions. We'll hone in on a couple of honorable mentions that just narrowly missed the top 10 before we start this season. Before we get into the list, always encourage you to go and subscribe to the podcast.

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