Week 1 Fantasy Football WR Rankings: Starts, Sits & Sleepers You NEED to Know! (Ep. 2176)
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What are the key wide‑receiver start/sit decisions for Week 1?
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Week one is here, and so are your wide receiver ranks. This is the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast. I am Chris Welsh, and with me is the great Pat Fitzmorse and the great Andrew Erickson. As we are gonna be going through the top 36 wide receivers for week one. We're gonna be breaking down where all the big questions are: the starts, the sits, what changes from your drafts, maybe even peek around at a couple other little extra ones in here. I will say, Just as an aside coming off the RB episode, Mr. Andrew Erickson, wide receiver seems a little bit more chalky to the draft equity than running back does right now. Like like what you did in drafts kind of is doing a little bit more of the answering of what you should start and who you should start at wide receiver this week.
Yeah, I would agree with that. Start your wide receiver studs. Feel a little bit better about the target pecking order, especially with some of the injuries that have kind of cleared the way for some players to be the clear cut alpha in their week one matchup. So hopefully we can be accurate projecting these wide receivers in week one for everybody.
And Fitzy, the rookie wide receivers seem to be some of the biggest questions. We'll kind of tackle those. How many of those actually are going to get into the top thirty-six? Uh, but again, like draft equity kind of carrying over with, you know, less questions. I mean, I know there's obviously questions, but like with running back, we're like, what do you do with Mike Washington? What do you do with Jonathan Brooks?
How does Chris Olave’s matchup against the Lions affect his WR1 upside?
What do you do with Marshawn Lloyd? There's a little bit less of that at the wide receiver position, or unless you tell me different.
Yeah, with the rookies. I mean, plus we've had some guys get thwarted by injuries. Jordan Tyson, Mikha Lemon lost a lot of his training camp. Um, we've got questions about the effectiveness of Carnell Tate's quarterback. Um, Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston's quarterback. Yeah, it's kind of a rough scene for the rookie receivers.
Well, if you guys want to follow along with us, go to fantasybros.com slash rankings. You can check out what they look like. Disclaimer on this, like I did in the running back episode, is that uh this is probably the biggest week where you're gonna see from when we are doing this episode to the start of what the ranks page looks like because of the people that are transferring from their draft ranking to week one ranking. So we have a hardcore group that have been dialing in and locked into week one rank. And maybe that's even gonna be a little bit more beneficial because you're gonna get to see what that looks like here. But then you are gonna have hordes of people that are gonna lock those in on like Tuesday.
So depending when you look at this, just want you to know that what we are talking about on the episode might differ a little bit more than usual to what even you're seeing on screen or what you go and take a look at uh for when the ranks are there. So just keep that in mind. But follow along, fantasybros.com/slash rankings. Gentlemen, let's take a look at the big board. And we are going to start with your wide receiver ones one through twelve. Jamar Chase coming in at one, Puka Nakua, Jackson Smith in Jigba, Amonra St. Brown, CeeDee Lamb, Justin Jefferson. Well, chef's kiss. Perfect. Nico Collins, Chris Olave, Drake London, George Pickens, AJ Brown, Rasheed Rice. Not a lot that you know wavers off of what you did in drafts, really, unless you know you had like maybe like a Zay Flowers that's popping up there.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the key wide‑receiver start/sit decisions for Week 1?
0:00–1:54
2
How does Chris Olave’s matchup against the Lions affect his WR1 upside?
1:54–3:31
3
Should I start Drake London in Week 1 despite his inconsistent target volume?
3:31–5:06
4
Is Rashee Rice a viable start this week given his matchup and recent usage?
5:06–7:36
5
How can the ‘Who Should I Start’ tool help resolve my lineup questions?
7:36–8:22
6
What makes Zay Flowers a potential sleeper in the Ravens’ offense?
8:22–13:11
7
Can Malik Nabers rebound in Week 1 after his injury‑limited rookie season?
13:11–16:32
8
Which deep‑play wide receiver (Wan'Dale Robinson or Rashid Shaheed) should I target beyond the top 36?
16:32–47:43
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