14 Critical WR Rankings Changes To Make Right Now! artwork

14 Critical WR Rankings Changes To Make Right Now!

Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh & Hayden

August 18, 2026

Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings Changes | Josh and Hayden break down all of the key wide receiver rankings changes following Preseason Week 1.
Speakers: Josh Norris, Hayden Winks

Topics: Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

**Josh Norris** (0:00)
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Sizable, seismic, crucial ones for the wide receiver position. Hayden, we have injured players. We have overperforming rookies. We have veterans joining and maybe muddying the waters here a little bit. It's going to be a fun episode.

**Hayden Winks** (1:49)
My boy Keenan, who when I was interning with the Chargers, he was the vocal person in that locker room. We hung out a little bit and he's just hilarious. I'm glad that he's back with Shane Second. So we'll get into the Keenan Allen stuff. But one of my favorite plays.

**Josh Norris** (2:02)
That boosts him at least three or four wide receiver spots in your rankings. It does. Just for that experience. Okay. We're going to dive right into it. If you enjoyed this episode, again, we do this throughout preseason. Hit that subscribe button, leave a thumbs up and go and check out the running back rankings video after this one. We had to kick things off with Jordyn Tyson. This is a hamstring issue.
Timeline puts him at two months right now, Hayden. Two months from today is October 18th. That is the day that week six begins. But really, is it that simple? Is it as simple as a two-month timeline here? Because if you just look through Jordyn Tyson's history, he has four hamstring issues, four injuries since the start of 2025, plus a longer injury history before that.

**Hayden Winks** (2:48)
So I think the longer injury history is important because he nearly dislocated his knee, torn ACL, MCL, and I think it was PCL. That's a very serious injury. We've seen from other players that it takes a long time for your body to fully readjust. Sometimes you have to go back into the lab. We saw this with Marshawn Lloyd who tore his knee up, and then he learned that he was overcompensating. Maybe Jordyn Tyson has to do that long-term. I think the hard part about this two-month timeline, and first of all, I think the Saints are doing this in a smart way by taking their time with this, but how much are they going to take their time? Because week six, like you said, that game is on MetLife's turf. Would you want to do that if you were in the Saints? No, then they play in France in week seven before week eight by. So unfortunately, this is like two months. If they want to rush him back, now you're playing with fire, or you can say, this is about the long-term, and then maybe he comes back in week nine, which is a home game against the Browns. I'm now assuming he's going to miss seven games if he's out there earlier. Awesome, and then obviously he still has the injury risk in the season, because it's like his third or fourth time messing up with this hamstring. I'm officially nervous with Jordyn Tyson. I got to move him down to 129th overall, behind Denzel Boston, Jalen Coker and these types.

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