2026 Fantasy Football WR Rankings: The Biggest Values, Sleepers & Busts with Pat Daugherty (Ep. 2161)

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Get ready for your 2026 fantasy football draft with a deep dive into the wide receiver rankings. Chris Welsh is joined by Pat Fitzmaurice and Pat Daugherty from Rotoworld to break down the biggest values, potential busts, breakout candidates, and sleepers at WR.

Is Rashee Rice being drafted too aggressively with the Kansas City Chiefs potentially shifting toward a more run-heavy offense? Is Malik Nabers actually undervalued after his ADP fell amid injury concerns? And can Davante Adams continue producing as a fantasy WR2, or are age, touchdown regression, and changes to the Rams offense pointing toward a decline?

Welsh, Fitzy, and Pat work through the FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings and identify the wide receivers they believe fantasy managers should be moving up, and down, their 2026 draft boards!

Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)

Intro - 0:00:00

WR1s - 0:01:28

Rashee Rice - 0:02:14

WR2s - 0:07:40

Malik Nabers and Davante Adams - 0:08:16

LeagueBase - 0:12:27

WR3s - 0:13:48

Christian Watson - 0:14:18

Jameson Williams - 0:17:12

Makai Lemon - 0:19:12

Chat Q&A - 0:22:32

Outro - 0:28:07

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