Latest / Fat Daddy Sports / Week 4 Fantasy Football Rankings | QB, RB, WR & TE Rankings (2026) | Ep. 040
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- Craig: Week four is here, and maybe like me, your lineup's got some holes in it because of the injury bug. Today we're taking a look at my rankings for week four for the quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end position. I've got some guys moved way down, I've got some guys moved way up, but let's stop talking about it and let's get into it. All right, jumping right into the quarterback position, we will start with the quarterback number one, Josh Allen. Not a lot has changed. Even though he had a down week last week, he still put up about 18 points. ⁓ he's still a very service, serviceable quarterback. Even on his down weeks, he still outscored a lot of quarterbacks. So I like him in this matchup. A big division game for the Buffalo Bills. ⁓ Lamar Jackson is a close second. Joe Burrow in a game against Jacksonville, I think that that could be a very, very fun game. A lot of points being put up in that game. I want a lot of pieces in that one. And Joe Burrow, I think, could have a multiple touchdown day. Speaking of multiple touchdown day, Tyler Shuck, I have moved all the way up to quarterback number four this week against Atlanta. It's a big game there in New Orleans for a Saints team that is looking very, very good. I know that they lost a heartbreaker against the Raiders last week in week three, but a big night in New Orleans. I think that they're gonna be playing with a lot of emotion. I think that the Saints offense is a lot of fun and I have personally enjoyed having Tyler Shuck as my quarterback this year. He throws it a million times a game and usually that turns into good things. So I have him all the way up inside of my top four or inside of my top five. Right behind him is Trevor Lawrence, another guy that I also have on a lot of my teams. He has been very, very good these last couple years. Especially with Liam Cohen there. He kind of has unlocked a side of Trevor Lawrence that we haven't seen since college. Trevor Lawrence comes in at quarterback number five again in that Cincinnati game. I want as many pieces as I can, whether it's on the Cincinnati or the Jacksonville side. I think both teams are gonna score a lot of points. Scoring a lot of points is something that the quarterback number six, Brock Purdy, knows all about. He throws multiple touchdowns every game, it feels like. He is at quarterback number six this week against a tough Denver defense and without a lot of weapons on that 49ers offense, but it doesn't seem to matter for Brock Purdy. He just goes out and performs. He finds George Kittle, he finds Debo Samuel, he finds, you name it, some guy off the street. And Brock Purdy could probably throw him a touchdown. Most of his passes turn out to be touchdowns for whatever reason. So I like Brock Purdy in this matchup. Patrick Mahomes in a tough game against the Raiders. ⁓ that Raiders defense has looked a lot better than I think a lot of people thought coming into the year. That'll be a tough one, but I think that Patrick Mahomes could have a big game in that one. That interior line or that entire defensive line is gonna really look to shut down Ken Walker. And I think Mahomes and the Chiefs could really look to turn to that ⁓ passing game. Jared Goff's not in a dome this week on the road, so he gets a slight bump down, but I still think he's gonna have a phenomenal game. Against Carolina, Dak Prescott, Bryce Young, Jordan Love, Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray didn't have a great first game back, but again, it was his first game back. Justin Jefferson got banged up and missed a lot of time. And Kyler just seemed to dink and dunk or try to throw an 80 yard bomb every pass. We'll see this week if the game plan's a little bit different. We'll see if Jefferson's out there. But I I think Kyler Murray has better days ahead. I have him down at quarterback twelve, but he certainly could be a weekly, ⁓ you know, low end quarterback one every single week. Matt Stafford against Philadelphia comes in at quarterback thirteen. Jalen Hurts in the same game at fourteen. Marcus Mariota I have at fifteen right now. It's looking like he's probably going to start for the Commanders, although Jaden Daniels has been practicing or limited at practice with an elbow brace on. We'll see a game in London early on Sunday morning. Keep an eye on that, see who ends up starting. But I do think that this Colts defense is not very good. And so whatever quarterback is in there should have good success passing the ball against them. ⁓ so I have Mariota up there at 15 right now. If Jaden Daniels is in, I probably move him up just a little bit, maybe to like quarterback twelve just Because of his rushing upside, I don't think that they'll necessarily design any plays for him to run, but the scrambling is what Jaden Daniels could really boost his value with. After that, we've got Bo Nick, CJ Stroud, Geno Smith, Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins, I may be too low on. He is inside the top ten overall for quarterbacks this season, but playing against a tough Kansas City defense. I don't know how that's gonna go. So I have him down a little bit, maybe too low, but We will see on Kirk Cousins, Daniel Jones, Jacoby Brissett, Sam Darnold, another guy that maybe I'm too low on. And then two guys that I am totally okay being low on. I could probably even put them even lower right now. And it's Justin Herbert and Drake May down at quarterback twenty three and twenty four. Both of them have looked like piles of dog poop this year. And if you're like me and you had them on your team, I I'm just done with them. I I don't I don't have anything else to say about that. ⁓ Drake May, I have in Dynasty. I was very, very excited for this year, and he has really let me down. I don't know, maybe that's just my bias coming out. What do you guys think? Let me know down in the comments where are you at with Drake May, Justin Herbert, any of these other quarterbacks. Let me know down in the comments. Hit that like button if you're new here. Hit that subscribe. We are on a journey right now trying to hit our first 100 subscribers. So every subscriber means the world to me right now as we are starting this new channel. But Let's stop talking about it and get into the running backs. Over to the running backs, and this is gonna look a lot the same, pretty much week in and week out, barring any injuries. But you've got Jameer Gibbs, Derek Henry, B. John Robinson, Kenneth Walker, Christian McCaffrey, Jeremiah Love, Jonathan Taylor, Chase Brown, James Cook, and Ashton Genty as your top ten running backs. I could probably put this in a few different orders. ⁓ I moved some guys up, I moved some guys down. Two that I wanna highlight that I did move up, Derrick Henry against Tennessee. This is the first time that he has ever played against the Tennessee Titans. Maybe a little bit of a revenge game, even though I know coaching staffs have changed since he was there and yada yada yada, but Still playing against his former team. I could see them giving him a couple extra carries to try to get those touchdowns and make them pay. He really should have had more than two touchdowns last week. In a game against Dallas, I don't know what was going on. They kept giving it to him inside the five and he didn't get in. As a Derrick Henry owner, I was obviously rooting for him to get in and just kept getting stuffed for some reason. I think that that could change this week against Tennessee. We also haven't seen him bust out for a long touchdown run yet this year. I can see maybe one or two of those happening in this game. I I like the Ravens big in this one, and I think that's gonna happen through the ground and through Derrick Henry. The other guy I'm very high on this week is Jeremiah Love, maybe a little bit higher than consensus, but we saw last week they really kind of unleashed Jeremiah Love. He dominated the touches in that backfield. I think it was something like 26 to 6, him in Algier. I think that that number could even grow again this week. The training wheels are off. He seems to be back from the injury. We're in week four. I think that there was very clearly a two-week ramp up, maybe a three-week ramp up, and now it's all systems go for Jeremiah Love. If you were one of those that were able to get him later, like a third round pick, I think you're gonna be very, very happy with that pick going forward. He is going to get so much volume over the rest of the season. I really like him in this matchup against the Giants. All right, just outside of the top 10, we've got Kyron Williams, Chuba Hubbard, Saquon Barkley, Jalen Warren. Keep an eye on the Rico Dowdal news. If Dowdl in, I think I probably bumped Jalen Warren down just a couple spots, but I do think that Pittsburgh is going to use Jalen Warren a Whole lot more after seeing what he did last week. So I'll keep him there at 14 for now. DeAndre Swift, Javante Williams, Aaron Jones, Cam Scadaboo, Bayeshall Tutin, and Bucky Irving round out the top 20. A couple guys that I want to talk about in this list. ⁓ Saquon Barkley, I don't know what Philadelphia was doing against Chicago. It felt like every time they gave Saquon the ball, they got 10 or 15 yards. And then they just decided to stop going to him and tried to let Jalen Hurts throw the ball. It didn't work. I think this week. They're gonna go back to that run game against the Rams. The Rams have a very, very good defense, if you weren't aware. It'll be interesting to see if they're able to run the run the ball against them, but I do like Saquon in this matchup. And then another guy that I want to talk about in this top 20 is Bayeshall Tutin. I highlighted him in my trade video a couple days ago. I think that Bayeshall Tutin, much like Jeremiah Love, is getting the training wheels taken off and he is about to take flight. This may be the last time that you can buy him on the cheap. He gets a game against Cincinnati, which I think that the Bengals defense is a lot improved, but I do still think that they are a team that you can beat. I could see again, I could see this being a very high scoring game and Bay Shell Tootin maybe gets a couple of touchdowns on the ground. And then rounding out the top 24 at the running back position, we've got Braylon Allen for the Jets at 21, Amari and Hampton, who I am super out on right now. I was very, very in on him and the Chargers offense, but much like Drake May, they have disappointed, and I just want to move them completely off this list, but I can't quite do that yet. A very tough matchup on the road against Seattle. That moves Omari and Hampton all the way down to a back-end, low-end RB two, maybe even a flex play this week, which is absolutely crazy. This is a guy that I thought could be a top five running back this year, but here we are in week four, and everything changes. David Montgomery and Quinshawn Judkins round out the top 24. Over to the wide receiver position. Mr. JSN, Jackson Smith, and Jigba, another dominating performance last week. Keeps him at wide receiver one. Jamar Chase, Amon Ra, and Chris Olave in the top four. Garrett Wilson gets a bump up. We saw him kind of take over last week against a poor secondary in the Detroit Lions. I think he gets another crack at a poor secondary. Secondary in the Chicago Bears this week. I think that Geno Smith will look for him quite a bit this week. And then after that, you get CD Lamb, Drake London fresh off a big game against the Packers. Zay Flowers, Devontae Adams, and Christian Watson round out the top 10. Zay Flowers, we saw come back last week, have a little bit of a limited role and still put up good numbers. If he is all systems go this week, he Could put up a very, very massive game against Tennessee. Wide receiver number eleven, Parker Washington, Tedaroa McMillan, Rasheed Rice, Devontae Smith, George Pickens, T. Higgins, Matthew Golden, who is off to a very, very good start in year two for the Packers, ⁓ DJ Moore, Michael Wilson, and Terry McLaurin. Real quick on Matthew Golden, the Packers did just put Jaden Reed on IR, so he will be out for the next four weeks, which should I mean, open up more playing time, more routes, whatever for Matthew Golden. I don't know how much it actually impacts him because I think he probably already was that wide receiver too behind Christian Watson. But Golden certainly is off to a big start. If you have him on your team, you definitely need to get him into your starting lineup. And then at wide receiver number 20, Terry McLaurin, another guy that I highlighted in my trades video a couple days ago. I think Terry is about to take off. He is slowly ramping up. If Marcus Mariota is in there at the quarterback position, They seem to have some chemistry together. He looks for Terry quite often. ⁓ if Mariota's in there, I am definitely starting Terry McLaurin. If Jaden Daniels is back this week, I probably temper expectations just a little bit with Terry, but ⁓ still certainly a low-end wide receiver two, definitely a high-end flex play. Jalen Waddell has been off to a pretty disappointing start, but we'll put him at wide receiver 21. Josh Downs, very, very quietly a very good wide receiver with a lot of route participation, a lot of targets. ⁓ I may be way too low on him. He could absolutely explode in this one against Washington. And then Ladd McConkey and Malik Neighbors down At 23 and 24. It is important to mention at the time of this recording that we have some injury news that we still don't really know ⁓ certain guys if they're gonna play yet. Nico Collins, Justin Jefferson, guys like that, that we just don't know what the status is right now on them. Mike Evans is another one that comes to mind. So I left them off the list completely. So if you're wondering where your wide receiver one is at, I just didn't put them on there because I don't know what the injury news is quite yet. Obviously, those guys are back, they slot all right up into the top 15 or so. But let's take a look over at the tight end position and round out this video. ⁓ we've got a new tight end number one this week, and it is Brock Bowers, followed by Trey McBride, George Kittle, Dalton Kincaid, and Sam Laporta. I think Laporta is very, very close to taking off and having a major boom week. This week could be the week. ⁓ he is out there running routes almost every time he is on the field. Jared Goff's just got to look his way a little bit more and get the ball to him. It's tough to do when you've got Gibbs and Amon Ra on your team, but I think Laporta's in a very, very good position to have a massive week this week. Another guy who has been off to a very good start is Travis Kelsey. He comes in at tight end number six. Juwan Johnson, another guy. Colston Lovelin, I haven't moved him down quite yet. I probably should, but I am still holding on to that hope that he is going to be a top five tight end. We'll put him at tight end number eight this week, right ahead of Tyler Warren and Tucker Kraft as tight end number 10. And then rounding out the top 15 tight ends, we've got Harold Fannon Jr., Kenyon Sadiq, the exciting rookie tight end there for the Jets. Big waiver wire pickup this week. Hopefully you got him. If you did. Don't hesitate to put him in your lineup. ⁓ if Adonai Mitchell is back this week, I would definitely temper expectations a little bit, but I think the cats out of the bag on Kenyon Sadiq. They are going to look for him a whole lot more going forward this season. And then you've got Isaiah Likely, Mark Andrews, and Jake Ferguson, who is a touchdown machine so far in this year. ⁓ that's what I've got for you guys on this video. Let me know down in the comments who did I miss? Who would you rank a little bit higher, a little bit lower? Let me know. Hit that like button and make sure to subscribe. And I will catch you guys on the next video. See ya.