Ranking The Top 24 Rookies for Fantasy Football

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 in a couple of exciting tight ends

And we're gonna 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 tears. You could see the tears. I have listed right here in 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

Well of 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 and dynasty leagues and probably even in supervlex formats over for nano-mendoza

He's just a prospect that looks like an ashton genty probably not to the level of b-gen 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 the last two seasons in

2024 over 1100 rushing arts averaging seven 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 teams right then you get right here in 2025 the breakout continues

Over 1300 yards nearly 1400 rushing yards 21 touchdowns another 27 catches

He had almost

1700 total yards. He goes to the combine. He runs in the four threes

He has the size of 215 pounds

He does everything great the only knock against him past 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 Jeremiah love is going to be a top 10 pick in the NFL draft

Mel Kuiper'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 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 in my opinion for fantasy football

But we get to the high upside so these are definite starters in the NFL most likely from day one

With the chance to be elite in their ceiling outcomes the first guy my number two overall rookie

Carnal Tate out of Ohio State

This is going to be a player that in my opinion is just the most NFL ready

He can go out there. He can be the x-wide receiver for you on the outside

wins contest the catches has solid route running comes from a big high pedigree school in Ohio state

Of the naysayers will point to him running a four five three 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 his blazing downfield ability

He's not that type of player instead. He's an advanced route runner

He knows how to win contested catch situations in zone. He's a very smart player

He doesn't use his speed. We saw that on his tape at Ohio state where he had nearly 900 yards last year

While competing with guys like Jeremiah Smith who will be a top five pick next year

Carnal Tate is completely fine. Do not worry about his 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 Hartis on Twitter

Be sure to check him out you can just see he wins he wins against top top competition

In the big 10 Ohio state plays against other programs as well

Here's a matchup against big 10. He owe or against Penn State

He's just winning downfield. He's going to be a guy who that is four or five speed

He has four or five speed and he's still getting by both

Safety's both cornerbacks. He's going to be completely fine

JSN was the number one downfield receiver in the NFL last year

He had four or five speed and the next player for me above my head on the YouTube version

And the high upside ranking my number three overall

Rookie this year is going to be Mankind lemon out of USC

Mankind lemon is a totally different skill set than a carnal tape

Mankind 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 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 1200 yards

26% target share

He's getting comparisons to a JSN

He's getting comparisons to an Amara same brown to an atom feeling

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 carnal tape 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 sudden feet, clean routes, elite zone feels strong

Hands yards after the catchability

The downsides are going to be his size to some extent

Like he's not going to be a 220 pound wide receiver

He's 192 pounds

But like your Amara same browns

Like your JSN's

They don't let their size be a weakness

They use that as an advantage for them in terms of bending and getting around cornerback

So Makai lemons my number three overall player

Now for number four we're going to go to Jordan Tyson

A junior early declared 21 year old wide receiver out of Arizona state

And Jordan Tyson might be the number one wide receiver in this draft class

If it wasn't for all of the injuries that this player

Unfortunately has had to deal within his career

Jordan Tyson since his time earlier on in 2020

2022 a Colorado where he suffered a multi-legum in the injury

His ACL, his MCL and his PCL

Then he ends up recovering for most of 2023

Not really doing much

While in 2024 he suffers a fractured clavicle

Clack collarbone his clavicle

And then in 2025 he has a nice season

But he misses a couple of games with a hamstring injury

That forced him to miss not only the combine but his pro day

So when you start to look at some of these Jordan Tyson game logs from year to year on player profiler

You're going to see basically no work was done in 2023

Because he was covering from the 20 ACL from 2022

In 2024 he stayed healthy towards the end until the end of the season when the collarbone injury happened

And that's where we got the CNB monster

A 30% target chair is elite for a college prospect

1100 yards over 110 targets 10 touchdowns

Followed that up on another strong season before injury

In 2025 with a 23% target chair 711 yards

8 touchdowns another 99 call it 100 targets

This is a player who has a lot of strengths

Best route runner in this class he's right up there with KC conception

Big playability, has ball tracking, has speed

We just didn't get to see it at the NFL combine or his pro day due to the injury

So like when you look at his injury history

So far removed from this 2022 major injury

Which is the biggest injury on here by far

The ACL multi-legum in the injury

He's going to be four years removed from that when he starts his rook year

I'm not concerned about a fractured collarbone

Those things heal that's a bone

The hamstring is a little bit of a concern to soft tissue injury

But this is his first calling of it

Now it has been lingering that's why he's not at his pro day

Probably re-injured the hamstring

But assuming that's not something that's going to last his whole career

Which again he's a young player the hamstring should heal in a couple of months

At most and probably is already healing

Right now as we speak I think he's fine

Like he's four years removed from his last major injury

I think he's going to be a first round pick

Okay now that ends my tier two of high upside players

Now we're going to get into the solid range

This is going to be a bunch of solid players

So I think I'm probably going to be NFL starters

Either immediately right away or have some usage in week one or year one

Enough to be fantasy relevant

We'll start with my number five rookie and my number four receiver

Denzel Boston out of Washington

Now Denzel Boston is a totally different cat

Than a lot of the names we've already been mentioning

He is going to be sort of like your car null tape

From a big body extra seaver on the outside

He's just more of your stereotypical x-wide receiver

A little bit more limited

Denzel Boston then a car null tape

Six foot four, two hundred and twelve pounds

He didn't test at the combine

But this was a player that over his last two years

At a Washington program that wasn't throwing for you know

Four thousand plus yards a year

He was very productive

800 yards in back-to-back seasons

A 25 and 27 percent target chair is also very strong for

This type of a player on the outside ability to earn targets

Had some big games as well in key moments

Showed up in the bright lights against the ranked

Illinois team

Ten catches 153 yards

And finishes the season strong against Boise State

Six catches 126 yards as well

He has the NFL frame

He wins contested catches

He has a strong intermediate route running

ability the downside

And the reason is pretty obvious

He doesn't have acceleration or long speed if you watch his film

That's exactly why he did not run at the NFL combine

So he didn't put out there a bad 4 640

Or at least relatively bad compared to the other guys running

Four three and four fours in this draft class

Next up is going to be my number six rookie

Who's already rising for me since I did rankings

Last week I just re-updated them

Since we're heading into a new month of April

Casey conception on

And there's a good chance he only continues to rise for me

Casey conception on

He's going to be a junior coming out of Texas A&M in early declare

He played one year there last year

And he immediately made a name for himself

This is a guy who went out there

In his first season after already having success

Every other year to start his college career

28 percent and a 23 percent target chair

In his first two years at NC State

And then last year he comes out here

At Texas A&M battling other top talents there

At the tight end position and other wide receiver spots

26 percent target chair over 900 yards

While not playing with the greatest quarterback

Either you're talking about more of a mobile quarterback

Who was inconsistent as a pastor last year

And Casey conception was still able to be a very friendly weapon

For Texas A&M last year

I think he might be the best route runner in this class

I said the same for Jordan Tyson

They're both up there right next to each other

There's not a lot of flaws to Casey conception on this game

He could be a return man

He could be using the running game as well

But he's an elite route runner

Don't get this like gadget label on him

He's not bad

Now he did come out around mid-March

About a month or so before the NFL draft

That he underwent a routine and preventative

The language is very key there for PR purposes

Nice scope last week

He's expected to be 100 percent for rookie camp

So this might be a little bit of a concern

But if that makes him drop in your rookie drafts

Great for you because there's a world where

Pending landing spot

Casey conception goes from in our rankings and tiers

Like we have right here

He goes from being in the solid range

To the high upside range pretty easily

I don't think he'll get into that elite range

But I wouldn't be shocked if he turns into that

As a prospect heading into the NFL

But if he lands in the right spot

You're talking to 49ers in the late first round

That's around where he's supposed to go

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Now my number 7 rookie will stay in the solid range

And it's another wide receiver

This is a deep wide receiver class

And we're going to be looking at Omar Cooper

Out of Indiana

This is going to be another early declare

Look, he has one of the biggest risers

Out of all the players that we're going to talk about here

During this off season

And I think a lot of it was because

People like myself and people

Out there who watch film and study these

Whether they do it for a living or for hobby

Realize that he's a lot better than

I think the public

Realizes right

He goes to the combine runs a 4-4-2, 40-time

Fashion than people expected

Once you start to watch Omar Cooper's film

You realize that he has amazing hands

Yarge after the catchability

This is a guy who was mostly a slot dominant wide receiver

And he was very dominant in that role

In 2025 at Indiana with Fernando Bendoza

With this new

Just absolutely revamped offense

But he also won on the outside

There were plenty of big plays for Omar Cooper on the outside

Now people definitely point to the game logs

And some tougher competition matchups

In the big 10 against ranked opponents

And he kind of disappears

A little bit, especially earlier on in the season

I would say that offense got rolling

By the midway point

Towards the end of the year

And some big games were in there for Omar Cooper

Now you're talking about some weaker matchups

That he posts in the college football playoff

On a way to the championship game

You're facing some of the best defenses in the country

It's a small sample of one to two games

I would love to see much more production there

So that is something to note for sure

But I think the film speaks for itself

What you saw at Omar Cooper last year

Probably has him as a first-round pick in this year's drive

Now for my number eight rookie

We're gonna stay with the Indiana wide receivers

And we're gonna go to Eliza Sherrod

Eliza Sherrod a totally different player

Than his teammate Omar Cooper

This was a guy who was not in this slot often

He was mostly an outside boundary wide receiver

Who was scoring plenty of touchdowns in his career

Eliza Sherrod is a six foot three

210 pound wide receiver

He did not test at the combine

Because he's not a fast wide receiver

We already know that on his film

That's not how he wins

So it's fine

But these last two years at Indiana

Great production

And really his entire career

When you go back to 2023

When he's playing I think at James and Madison J.M.U

He puts up 1200 yards

And he says I want to challenge myself

I want to move up to the big 10

He does that immediately produces

24% target share nearly a thousand yards

In 2025 with a brand new

A whole offense put in place

A brand new quarterback

806 yards

21% target share

15 touchdowns

While competing with that slot dominant player

And Omar Cooper

Eliza Sherrod

He's not gonna be the flashy name

He might go in the second

Maybe the third round

But he should be a stable number two

And number three wide receiver

For a team

Potentially right away

And this is a guy who was battle tested

Again he's a four year player

In college

He's experienced

And in those big moments

He came to life

Top 10 Illinois team

Nine catches 92 yards

A number three ranked Oregon team

Eight catches 121 yards

You look at the college football playoff

You're getting Oregon again in the semi-finals

Seven catches 75 yards

He's scoring more of three touchdowns

In the college football playoffs

In total in those three games

This is a very talented player

But what he does well

Or what he does he does very well

Right

He's gonna move the chains

He has body control

He's good in the intermediate parts of the field

He has enough balltracking down field

That can make him a vertical threat as well

And when you get into the red zone

He's a big body

Who knows where it needs to be to score touchdowns

A lot of back shoulder success

With him in Mendoza in college last year

Now for my number nine rookie

We're going back to the running back position

After going on a massive streak

Of like seven or eight straight

What wide receivers

We're going to go to Giderian price

Another Notre Dame running back here

Giderian price

A lot of argument for him to be the RB2 in this class

It's going to be pending his draft capital

Like there's a chance that he goes 30 second overall

To the Seattle Seahawks who need a running back

And that would skyrocket him up

All fantasy and dynasty rankings

But more likely he's a second or a third round

Picked depending on the team that wants to take him

But he should be the second running back off the board

Now price went to the NFL combine

And I think he tested fine

Like a lot of people looked at these workout metrics

And because there's other guys running 4-3

Like Mike Washington

And looking great out there

Across different positions as well

I think people started to crap on Giderian price

I think he did good

4-4-9-40 times

So he gets in the 4-4s

That's great 66 percentile speed

Well above average burst

Well above average bench press

For whatever you want to say for that from a power standpoint

So I think this is great

Like during his time in college

He was never a workhorse

He never had a pass catching role

Only 15 career college catches in 3 years

Because for the past 2 years

He's been behind the best running back in college football

Jeremiah love

But even despite that

He's still average at Darian price

Six yards per carry during his college career

Had over 700 rushing yards on average

The past 2 seasons

So this was a productive player

He has great contact balance

I would say overall the patience

Downhill violence

Functional speed

He's just not going to be a guy that you'll ever know

Does he have a workhorse ability to him

It's going to be landing spot dependent

Team specific

Scheme specific

He's not a pass catcher

So he's probably an early down back

We'll never be a 3-down back in the NFL for the most part

He's more of a projection in terms of seeing how he can fall

To the NFL

But that's just the kind of draft class

We're dealing with it the running back position

You have a stud and Jeremiah love

And a lot of other projections

And landing spot dependent fits

All right next up is going to be my number 10 player

Into your 3 here

And it's Kenyans to Deak

The first tight end that we'll talk about in this video

If you wanted to take him a couple spots higher

Especially in like your tight and premium formats for dynasty

I think that's completely fine

But this is a rookie tight end

Who probably is going to gardener a first on draft pick

Might even go as soon as the first 15 to 10 picks

And if that's the case you start to say

Yeah, this guy could be involved

And very involved as soon as you're one

Like we saw in the past for guys like Kyle Pitts

Brock Bowers

TJ Hawkins in those names

Now Kenyans to Deak went to the combine

And he was a massive riser

Runs a 4-3-9

Which is top 1% speed for the tight end position

Ends up going out there having top 1% burst overall

I mean he was just a freak

His athleticism score was only second in the class

Because there was another freak tight end that we'll talk about later on

Who might actually end up being a wide receiver in the NFL

We will see

But this is a freak athlete

He's awesome

The one big downside people will point to though

Is he's a little on their size

He's 241 pounds

Like that's a good borderline 10 pounds away

From basically just being a wide receiver

Usually tight ends these days

Are pushing the higher 250s

To 60s in weight

If you're going to be asked to block and catch passes

But 241 depending on this team that he goes to

Could be used very nicely as a mostly slot wide receiver

Not as much blocking in line

Just depends on where he goes

A lot of teams that they're going to spend the high pick on a tight end

Or going to want you to block as well

He has the ability to do so

Just definitely need some work

Due to his size going up against bigger, faster, defensive backs

And outside linebackers in the NFL

All right next up we're going to go to tier number 4

I retitled this tier to be just called fine

Like their fine picks

I think they're okay

We'll see where the landing spot is overall

For an annum endosa

We'll start here with number 11 rookie

If this is super flex

He's going much higher

But and if you wanted to take him higher

In your redraft

If you wanted to take him like

Above guys like Omar Cooper

Elijah Sharajadarian Price

Ken Yansidik

I wouldn't blame you overall

I'm just not as high on for an annum endosa

In terms of like what his ceiling outcome is

So I do think he's a first round pick for dynasty standards

He's my number 11 rookie right now

We know where this guy is going

We know that he's going

To the number one overall pick

The LA Raiders

Who they have done a lot this off season

Bringing in a new center

Bringing in a new offensive coordinator

Tom Brady's apparently more involved in the operations there

So a lot should be changing to help the rookie

But at the end of the day

There's a lot that they have to overcome

From being the worst offense in the league last year

How much can you really jump in year one

We'll have to see

But for mendoza's purposes

A top 12 pick for me

And specifically what he did last year

Is like the only reason that's the case

He transfers to Indiana

And absolutely dominates

Career high

3500 passing yards

9.3 yards per attempt

Playing in the big 10

72% completions

41 touchdowns

Such as six interceptions

Goes on wins a national championship

The Heisman at age 22

He then comes to the NFL combine

Which is very un

Very surprising

Anyways 236 pounds

People were expecting his playweight to be somewhere around

215 to 220

Not the case at all

He's 236 pounds

Josh Allen type size does have mobility as well

Mostly on just like

Not scrambles but like direct QB runs last year

Up the middle so we'll see if that changes in the NFL

But mendoza comes into his rookie year

With so much hardware already

National champion

First Heisman trophy winner in school history

Consent to saw American

I mean look at all the awards

Big 10 championship MVP game

Big 10 offensive player of the year

Everything last year broke right for him

You're going to get the comps to Joe Barrow

Broke onto the scene in his final year of college

wins a national championship with LSU

Similar to Mendoza

Different type of players and how they play

But Mendoza is definitely going to be a starting quarterback

Right away as the number one overall pick

And because of that maybe he should be a little bit higher up in these rankings

Around eight

I think he's fine where he is around 11

In a non super flexibly

Argument for him being higher would be that

He's just more of a sure thing

You know he's starting right away

Compared to like Omar Cooper

Elijah Sharad around seven or eight

So I get that argument

Once the landing spot

Turned for those white receivers

We'll move these around after the draft

Next up my number 12 rookie

In the fine range is going to be Chris Brazel

At a Tennessee look the Tennessee volunteer

Is not the greatest like name to have overall

Like the school to be attached to it

Just out of all the other wider receivers

Jalen Hyatt most notably lately

Recently who went earlier in the NFL draft

And really didn't do much

But Chris Brazel like just remove the name on the helmet

Because this is a guy who deserves attention

Probably will be a second-round pick in the NFL draft

Because he has very unique skills

He has unique size at six foot four and 198 pounds

Some spots had him weighing in at 200 pounds

He ran a four three seven 40 time

Giving him 95th percentile speed

That's top five percent of all time

He's a downfield separator

A ball tracker

High point ability

He just wins downfield and has real big play juice

Thanks to his speed

But it's not just the speed

It's the size

Like this isn't your stereotypical

Six foot one 170 to 180 pound burner

He's six foot four or 200 pounds

Like this is T Higgins with more speed

Not the playstyle just the size comparison

A working down field for Chris Brazel

For a team that needs that type of fit in their wide receiver room

Already has their underneath winner

Like a Michael Pittman for the Steelers perhaps

And a DK Meccav intermediate can kind of be moved around the formation

Maybe a Chris Brazel fits there

As just a burner downfield

Overlapse a little bit with Meccav speed

But they're different types of receivers and how they win

My number 13 rookie is going to be a running back

Mike Washington Jr. out of Arkansas

Mike Washington Jr. by far helped himself

Probably more than anybody else that's fantasy relevant

At the NFL combine

He goes out there and tests as the number one ranked running back

In terms of relative athletic score

Out of over 2100 running backs to attend the combine since 1987

What did he specifically do?

He goes out there

He weighs in at 223 pounds

Let's just pull this up instead actually

He a player profiler

He weighs in at six foot

223 pounds

And then goes out there and runs a 4 3 3 40 time

100th percentile speed score

Has great burst from his vertical and broad jump

You look at it overall

In this class he's number one among turning backs

Number one all-time actually based on relative athletic score

And last year at Arkansas

In a SEC tough competition was good

6.4 yards per tenth over a thousand yards

A lot to like here pending his landing spot

There's a world where he ends up being the second running back

Off the board ahead of Jadarian price

And if that happens he'll probably move ahead of price

When we redo these rankings after the draft

He's a freak athleticism wise

A downhill runner

Lateral agility

Ability to catch passes as well

Just needs to improve his ball security

And pass protection at the next level

All right now at number 14 we have Zach

Araya branch a wider seaver out of Georgia

He's more of a controversial player in this draft class

Because a lot of people think he could go as early as the first round

I'm a little bit skeptical of that

Zach Araya branch different type of cat here

He's going to be five nine

177 pounds

He has the speed at four three five

Georgia used him really weird last year

A lot of his production came on

Passes like at the line of scrimmage or barely above

Or behind the line of scrimmage

So not as much downfield uses as you would like to see

But this guy is elite in terms of yards after the catch

His screen and short yardage ability is awesome

Has the speed, has the twitch

Game breaking ability

Reminds me in some ways of like a 2-2 at well

Both from a size and play type standpoint

Now the downsides are going to be

He has limitations from a contested catch standpoint

And physicality against potentially bigger

And stronger NFL cornerbacks

Always the case with these smaller 170 pound wide receivers

Can they last in the NFL?

They're really going to have to rely on their speed

Will he be one of the outliers that does

It's yet to be seen

It's good though that he was

Battlet has set out a top program at Georgia

So he has that feather in his cap

Alright next up we have another running back here

In my tier 4 and is going to be Jonah Coleman

Out of Washington

Jonah Coleman definitely is somebody who will be rising

Depending on or could rise

Depending on his landing spot here

He's kind of like a boring player

But in that regard he's also very reliable

This is a player who has produced for four straight years

During his time in college

Over the last two years specifically

27 total touchdowns

Has caught 20 plus passes

In three straight years

Thousand yard season in 2024

He does a lot of the little things really well

He's going to get you your four yards

He's not going to fumble

He's not going to drop passes

He's a very reliable player from that standpoint

And oh yeah he's a bigger back

Five foot eight two hundred and twenty pounds

You look at his combine testing

He only did the bench press from a measurement standpoint

So the fact that he didn't do the 40 yard dash

Probably means he doesn't have four three

Or four four

Or probably even low to mid four five speed

There's a decent chance it's closer to four six

At his size

Hopefully not four seven

But overall the contact balances there

The ball security natural hands high-end vision

The weaknesses are going to be that limited top and speed

And he's a little bit of projection

For how he could win in the NFL

For the style of runner that he was in college

But if he lands in the right spot

He does have the skill set

To be a three down back it just matters

Is he good enough

Draft capital will probably tell us the full story

Does he go in round three

Or is he going in round five or six

Next up in tier four for me is another wide receiver

Out of Louisville's time

Chris Bell and Chris Bell is going to be somebody

That could quickly rise up to easily tier three

Maybe even tier two

And that's probably where I would have had him ranked right now

Had he not tore his ACL in November

There's a lot of questions of if he will be ready for week one

Currently he's trending to be fine for week one

We're getting these types of like PT recovery videos

From all these prospects at this point

He looks fine

I mean this is just you know short

Just ladder agility type stuff

He's not turning side to side

But he shouldn't be at this point in his recovery

Apparently he's ahead of schedule

That's good to see

Because this is a six foot two two hundred and twenty pound wide receiver

Who absolutely dominated against some tougher competition last year

A ranked Virginia team

A good pit team

A ranked Miami team that went to the college football playoffs

He was getting a hundred plus yards against all of them

Last year we saw the production jump

As he took on a bigger role

In his age 24 season at Louisville

Nine to seventeen yards

Twenty seven percent archer and a hundred and ten targets

Before that in November twenty ACL

Now the problem for Chris Bell

The film looks awesome

The problem is

He was also 24 years old

He'll be a twenty five year old rookie coming off of a twenty ACL

Will teams really want to invest in that

If he didn't get hurt

He'd probably be a first-round pick

A late first-round pick

We'll see how far he falls because of the twenty ACL

And that age

Concerned

Alright next up for me and tier four

We're going to go to another wide receiver here

Jacobi Lane

Out of USC

Jacobi Lane

This is a guy who definitely helped himself

At the NFL combine

Jacobi Lane came out here at six foot four two hundred to four pounds

So weighed in nicely at two hundred pounds

And also tested really strong

Four four seven forty times way faster than I thought

Based on his film

83rd percentile speed

92nd percentile burst

And a very great catch radius was put on display as well

So he was a riser from the NFL combine

With somebody based on his film

That I wasn't really sure if he was athletic

How to feel about him overall

Just seemed okay

Like a good end zone player

Contested catches body control

He was just sort of like your

Your basic x-wide receiver on the outside

Like player profiler compares him to like a terrorist martial

And recent draft classes

Out of LSU

Never really made it in the NFL

But that type of player

Like the outside nothing flashy

Nothing really a calling card to his game

But the fact that he did have this nice burst and speed

Gives me a little bit of hope that he could develop

As he goes to the NFL to be more of a separator

Because we saw separation concerns during his time in college

We saw a limited release package

If he has this athleticism

And he gets some NFL coaches

Maybe he can turn things around

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All right so now we can go to tier number six

So tier number five is just a recap here

Number four is Mendoza

Chris Brazel and Mike Washington Jr

tier number five is Zachariah Branch

Jonah Coleman, Chris Bell, Jacobi Lane

We're starting off tier number six

With one Malachi fields out of Notre Dame

This is a senior wide receiver

And Malachi fields is a very interesting prospect

He's big

He's six foot five

Six foot five

Tall prospect

218 pounds

And you're going to get some really nice workout metrics

Number three in this class when he factor in

His size, his height and weight

Overall like

He runs a four six one 40 time

Which you're going to look at that on paper

And be like that's not great

That's actually really good for a 220 pound wide receiver

At six foot five

76 percentile

Good catch radius

Good burst

Actually did the agility testing

Which most wide receivers didn't

He was not good at agility testing

But it's just good to see that he put that out there

And actually attempted it when most guys aren't

Five year player

Spent his first four seasons at Virginia

Before transferring to a tougher competition

And Notre Dame

And he still was able to earn targets

20 percent target share last year at Notre Dame

He ended up having a 24 and 25 percent before that

I mean we're pretty far down the rankings at this point

Like he would end up being I don't know

My wide receiver 12

I think depending on if you go back and look at our rankings

He's my 18th overall rookie

You're just going to get the NFL size and fluid motion

Doesn't have that elite top end speed

But enough of it

And he does need some work in terms of route running

But he faced a toughest competition last year

And he showed that he can hang with them

Jumping up from Virginia the year before

So a lot of I would say upside here

For him to be a quality starter

I just don't know if I'll ever hit that elite level

Now for my number 19 rookie

We're going to go back to the tight ends here

With Eli Stowers out of Vanderbilt

Eli Stowers is very interesting

There's a world where he goes from being a tight end to a wide receiver

And makes that transition in the NFL

Because Eli Stowers

Number one by the way

Tight end in this class that athleticism wise

Which is saying something based on how well

Kenyans sedic tested

Four five one 40 time is great speed

100 percent outburst

Catch radius was off the charts in those drills

He's a 22 year old about to be 23 year old player

But here's the thing

Very similar to Kenyans sedic

These tight ends are small man

Six foot four

239 pounds

Now he did play in the SEC

He was battle tested in some of the biggest games of the year

And he showed out like when he faced a ranked Texas team

Seven catches 146 yards

Multiple touchdowns

Against that good Texas defense last year

This is a quality player

But I really think that he's probably going to transition

To the wide receiver position

We'll have to see

He just has elite yards after the catch ability

Especially for a tight end

He's a vertical threat

Natural hands

Versatility

Abused everywhere

He's just a very raw blocker

Like he doesn't do the tight end things

Well he does the receiver things

And he's kind of in that middle ground

Of like he's just a big wide receiver small tight end

So I could see him becoming a wide receiver

But a very talented player

And extremely athletic

Next up my number 20 rookie here

Into your six

We have Ted Hurst

He's a small school producer

But he's a real athlete

He comes out of Georgia state

Ted Hurst is fun to watch

This guy

Number five athlete

In the class amongst wide receivers

He's six foot four

206 pounds

So awesome size

When you look at what he did at the combine

Awesome speed

Four four two

85% towel burst score

So he's athletic

He has the size he's only 21 years old

And in his past two years

After transferring to Georgia state

He produced

Smaller school for sure

But he produced

961 yards and 1,000 yards

22%

And then this past year

When he broke out for his 1,000 yard

132 target season

28% target share

He's explosive

Has a legitimate release package

Can ball track has jump ball ability

The downsides are against press coverage

The drops

The limited competition that he faced

And the yards after catchability

For somebody so athletic and explosive

On tape against weaker competition

You would have liked to see better

But I do think at this point in the draft

Like if he ends up being a third round pick

From a smaller school

It becomes a very sneaky dynasty

And fantasy asset

Depending on the landing spot

Um he's sort of like

A later round darling

That I would I would like

From like a dynasty standpoint

Another guy that I really like

From a dynasty standpoint

Reminds me a lot of Chris Bell

In terms of some of the ways we can break him down

Is my number 21 rookie

Nick Singleton

Who if he lands in the right spot

Depending on his draft capital

Is only going to rise for me

Nick Singleton is a guy that

If you would have came out in the 2024 draft

Definitely a second round pick

Arguably a first round running back

That's how good his 2024 season at Penn State was

He went for 1100 rushing yards on 6.4 yards

Per attempt 17 touchdowns

And he also caught

Which is so rare for a running back at a big school

41 balls

12% target share

375 yards

He had almost 1500 yards this year

41 catches

But the entire team wanted to run it back

Drew Alar

The running backs

Kay Trin Allen and Singleton

They came back and that hurt Singleton

They fired the coach

The quarterback got hurt

He dealt with some injuries

And his entire production in 2025

Dropped off a cliff

To only having 550 rushing yards

His efficiency dropped

He got outshined by his college teammate

Kay Trin Allen

But this is a guy that if he did not break his foot

Entering the pre-draft process

At the senior bullback

I believe in February or early March

He would have been able to test

That the combine and show great burst

Athleticism speed

And he probably would have been a riser

But the injury halted him

I think he's going to slip

Because of that

But this is still a talented guy

Who thinks that that 2024 season at Penn State

1100 rushing yards

Almost 400 receiving yards

On 40 plus catches

I can't let that slide

Based on the athlete we know he is

He's somebody that'll be very interested

And seeing his landing spot

All right, now my number 22

Rookie is Bryce Lane

A widers he were at in North Dakota state

And this is a player who probably now is going to go on the top 100 after

Woody did it to combine

434 40 time

98% tall speed

98% tall burst

People started to look at him more now at 6 foot 3

And 200 plus pounds

And you see

Okay, go to North Dakota state

The same school

And similar athletic testing

As his

Alma Mater

Christian Watson

Back to back years of a thousand plus yards

Which Christian Watson did not have

That's 26 games of starter level production

Obviously it's weaker competition

Obviously there's going to be some downsides

Like separation on the top of his routes

Some of the route timing needs polished

The competitiveness level that he saw

But this was the guy who did produce in college

And probably now thanks to the combine

Stamping that he's a freak athlete

Will be a top 100 pick

Has to be in my top 24

Until we find landing spot

My number 23 rookie in tier 6

Is going to be K-tron Alan

The other Penn State running back

Now if you wanted to just like

Rank the guys based on their longevity in the NFL

K-tron Alan would be much higher

But if we're talking about like this

Sealing outcomes

How much production you really have

I think he'll mostly be a committee back

Maybe at times be a film

Like a Samajee P. Ryan

Brian Robinson type runner back

Running back if teams need him to be a starter at times

But man did he break out last year

Back to back years of 1100 yards at Penn State

And last year he goes for over 1300

While Nick Singleton was struggling

Not K-tron Alan

6.2 yards per 10

He's not much of a pass catcher

He did catch balls here and there

But mostly check downs

But you're talking about four years of production

At Penn State

Set some records there as well

Breaking records

Some of the Saquan Barclays records right

So this is the guy who's going to be like

Your safe volume back

He's steady

He has vision he has patience

But he's not explosive

He's not a pass catcher

He's not a freak athlete

He's just going to be a fine NFL back

And now closing off our top 24 rankings

I'm going to take Jeremy Bernard out of Alabama

He's just like a ready-made wide receiver

Like nothing super flashy

Kind of like the K-tron Alan at wide receivers

Will be a good wide receiver three in the NFL

Solid testing numbers at 44840 time

6'1 206 pounds

You had the competition level at

At Alabama

You played with some good quarterbacks

Ty Simpson right

This past year

21% target cheering back to back years

About 800 plus yards on average during that span

Look this is just going to be a guy

Who's a good route runner

Has a feel for his own

He's a reliable player

Consistent target earner

At a big school

So you know he's battle tested

He's just not a top-end athlete

He's just not a top-end wide receiver

But you know what you're getting at this point in draft

Probably will be hopefully a third-round pick in the NFL draft

But like I said with

He's the K-tron Alan of wide receivers in this draft class

He's safe

He'll probably last a long time in the NFL

He just probably will never be a number one

So these are my top 24 rookies as of right now

About a month before the draft

We'll do another version after the draft

Once we have landing spots

And can kind of set these guys a little bit more in stone

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