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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

WR Sleepers, Tiers, and Fears 2025

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The guys discuss the wide receiver position heading into this year’s fantasy season, what their general strategy is for drafting receivers, and which tiers the receivers of the league fall into for fantasy drafts. (1:41) Jordan Addison’s suspension (2:23) Keenan Allen reunites with the Chargers (11:20) How to approach drafting WRs this year (16:19) Tier 1: Ja’Marr Chase and CeeDee Lamb (21:09) Tier 2: Justin Jefferson, Nico Collins, Puka Nacua, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Malik Nabers (37:55) Tier 3: Brian Thomas Jr., Drake London, A.J. Brown, Ladd McConkey, and Tyreek Hill (48:52) Tier 4: Mike Evans, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Tee Higgins, Davante Adams, Garrett Wilson, Terry McLaurin, and Marvin Harrison Jr. (01:01:12) Tier 5: DJ Moore, DK Metcalf, Tetairoa McMillan, Jameson Williams, George Pickens, Jaylen Waddle, and Travis Hunter (01:12:12) Tier 6: Zay Flowers, Rome Odunze, Jakobi Meyers, Deebo Samuel, Jerry Jeudy, Jayden Reed, Jordan Addison, and Stefon Diggs (01:19:20) Tier 7: Chris Godwin, Marquise Brown, Cooper Kupp, Josh Downs, Rashid Shaheed, Brandon Aiyuk, Keon Coleman, Rashod Bateman (01:25:48) Emails Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy football show.

0:14.7

I'm joined by Danny Killing, Craig Krobeck, and today we are going over our

0:18.5

wide receiver tears, fears, sleepers.

0:21.4

A lot of players we hate as well, a lot of teams that I hate. But yeah, receiver, it is really deep this year. But then it gets super not deep really quickly. So we're going to go through all those favorite players. We also are going to hit some news. And more importantly, we have an email at the end of low-stakes conspiracy theory about a zoo, which is definitely right. Please wait around for the end of this episode.

0:40.9

Even skip ahead. Like, it's fine. I just want you to hear Andrew's email about his low stakes conspiracy about this zoo in New Jersey. It's all time. We're on board with it. Check that out. We might even go to New Jersey when we're in New York, which we will be in two weeks for a live show on August 19. We're dead. It's such a good email. We're actually going to make this drive to this soon. We're really thinking about it. Okay, so let's get to receivers. But first, let's take a quick break. This episode of the Ringer Fantasy Football Show is presented by Hyundai. Get into the Hyundai Getaway sales event and get away with the deal so right, it almost feels wrong.

1:12.5

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1:19.0

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1:26.3

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1:32.0

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1:35.2

Okay, some quick news before we get to receiver tears.

1:37.9

Just want to hit some receiver news.

1:39.8

Jordan Addison of the Minnesota Vikings officially suspended by the NFL for the first three games in the season.

1:45.2

We kind of knew this would happen because Jordan Addison once again pled no contest to wet reckless.

1:50.7

That sounds like like a 90s comedy.

1:53.9

It does.

1:54.9

That's the next rewatchables is wet reckless.

1:57.4

Craig, that's what they called you in high school, I thought.

1:59.0

That's right.

1:59.6

They did.

2:00.9

Wet reckless. He fell asleep on the free called you in high school, I thought. That's right. They did. Wet reckless.

2:01.7

He fell asleep on the freeway in a lane.

2:15.5

Not great. Not a great look. Not ideal. I still can't believe Jordan Addison and it makes millions of dollars a year was fine to $390. Right. I think the 390 is such a funny term. Anyway, yeah, so Jordan Addison I missed the first three games of the year.

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