These are my favorite wide receivers going in the later rounds of fantasy drafts. If you’re looking for tight end sleepers, I highlighted a few here.
Stefon Diggs, WAS
Diggs was fantasy’s WR24 in points per game last season despite a 56.6% snap share (WR82) while coming off ACL surgery (and scoring just four TDs on 85 catches). He ranked third in first downs per route run and was the WR9 in fantasy points per route run, so Diggs is hardly washed while approaching 33. He’ll battle Terry McLuarin for targets now in Washington, but Diggs should see the field more another year removed from surgery.
The Commanders have a thin WR room outside of McLaurin and Diggs, and both receivers should benefit from new OC David Blough’s increased use of play action. There’s a real chance Diggs' role is better than McLaurin's when it comes to producing fantasy stats this year.
Jalen Coker, CAR
Coker was slowed over the first half of last season thanks to a serious quad strain suffered late in August, but he emerged down the stretch once healthy. Coker averaged nearly as many targets and more catches, receiving yards and fantasy points than Tetairoa McMillan after Carolina’s Week 14 bye. Coker also outperformed McMillan in yards per route run and first-read target percentage while seeing four times the number of red-zone targets. Coker owned a 22% target share over that final stretch if also including the playoff game, when he put up 12-9-134-1 against the Rams. Coker’s 9.8 yards per target over the last two seasons ranks eighth among 121 WRs.
Coker only ran 12 routes in two-WR sets last season, but he’s locked in as a starter in 2026. Cokeheads unite.
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