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Smart move. The Raiders are widely expected to take Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick and currently field an extremely thin wide receiver corps. The Raiders’ second draft pick is No. 36 overall, which could be used to draft a No. 1 wide receiver. Given Bonsignore’s “deep” comment, we expect them to take multiple players at the position. The team recently hosted Texas A&M WR KC Concepcion, who is currently viewed as a candidate to be drafted late in the first round or early in the second. Tre Tucker, 25, is the Raiders’ most proven wide receiver, though he caught just 57-of-90 targets for 696 yards and five touchdowns last year. Other penciled-in starters include WR Jack Bech, WR Dont’e Thornton and WR Jalen Nailor. All three failed to earn 50 or more targets last year.

Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Nailor will receive $23 million in guaranteed money on his deal. The former sixth-round pick has caught just 69 passes in his four-year career while being buried behind Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison, but has totaled 57-858-10 over his last two seasons. During the early portion of his career he played primarily on the outside, but Nailor saw a career-high 60.1 percent of his snaps come in the slot last season, per PFF. He joins a thin Raiders receiver room that will likely add more weapons in the coming days/week, but Nailor makes for an interesting late-round dart throw in deeper fantasy leagues as Klint Kubiak looks to rebuild the Raiders’ offense in his first season.

The Joshua Palmer fantasy stock could be in shambles, folks. Buscaglia connects the Bills to a wide assortment of receivers, notably stopping for a beat on Romeo Doubs, Jalen Nailor, and Calvin Austin as particularly good fits for Buffalo. Moore and Khalil Shakir are the two easy top targets, any other additions would likely sink Palmer into a background role in the second year of his contract.

Nailor didn’t exactly cook last year in Minnesota, finishing with a 26/395/4 receiving line, but nobody ate well with J.J. McCarthy and Carson Wentz. One NFC executive told Lewis that he could see Nailor producing an 80-catch season in the future, and Lewis believes he’s in line to make “between $12 and $15 million” per season. If that sounds like someone that could be fantasy interesting to you, well, it sounds that way to us. How interesting he will be depends mostly on where he lands, but if he landed a deal with a good passing game base, WR3/WR4 status isn’t out of the question in 2026.

J.J. McCarthy once again displayed a nice connection with Nailor, who finishes the 2025 season with 395 yards and four touchdowns on 26 receptions as the Vikings’ distant WR3 behind Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. Nailor, 26, will enter the offseason as an unrestricted free agent. He could stick with the Vikings after showing a solid connection with McCarthy, who is likely to compete for the starting role in Minnesota in 2026.

Nailor made the most of man coverage in the red zone, scoring twice from inside 20 yards - once in the first quarter and once in the final frame. He appeared to have the wind knocked out of him on his first touchdown, a beautiful catch in blanket coverage to the left side of the end zone with a defender draped on his back. He landed hard and remained down on the turf before returning to the game on the following possession. Nailor has more than returned value in fantasy circles as the WR3 for the Vikings this season and could become a heralded target in the late-middle rounds in best ball in 2026.

Nailor ran a route on 21 of the Vikings’ 38 drop backs and failed to record a reception for the third time this season. Nailor appeared set to see an increased role in the Minnesota offense with Adam Thielen listed as a healthy scratch for this game. There’s just not that many attempts or air yards to go around this Vikings offense for a tertiary option like Nailor to hold any fantasy value. He should remain on waiver wires ahead of Week 14.

Coming off a career game in which he caught five balls for 124 yards and a score, Nailor was JJ McCarthy’s fourth option in this one. Nailor ran a route on 21 of the team’s 34 drop backs. Nailor likely won’t have much fantasy value unless Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison miss time in the coming weeks.

Nailor got things started early in this one. The fourth-year receiver hauled in a beautifully thrown deep ball from J.J. McCarthy on the game’s opening possession, which helped set up an eventual touchdown run by Aaron Jones. Nailor would later haul in an 18-yard pass in the second quarter on a drive that ended in a field goal, and was rewarded for his efforts late in the game when McCarthy found him in the end zone for a 10-yard score in which Nailor executed a perfect toe drag to stay in bounds. Nailor was the lone bright spot for the Vikings on Sunday, but fantasy managers shouldn’t expect days like this. He can be avoided in Week 11 against the Bears.

He had another catch — for a touchdown — taken off the board in the first half due to holding penalty. While Nailor has not gone over 40 yards in any game this year, he seems to be producing fairly well when he is targeted and could be FLEX option if any of the options ahead of him in the Minnesota pecking order go down to injury.