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Both Nailor and WR Jack Bech played tonight while WR Tre Tucker took the night off. Bech failed to earn a target and played into the fifth drive. Nailor called it a night after the third drive. The Raiders’ top-three wide receivers appear to be Tucker, Nailor and Bech, in that order. Tucker might warrant matchup-based FLEX treatment in 12-team leagues.

The depth chart placement is a tad curious because it suggests Benson ran ahead of either WR Tre Tucker or WR Jack Bech. Benson has been rotating in with the first-team offense for more than a week, so this isn’t groundbreaking news, but one wonders if he can use the opportunity to make a compelling case for a starting role in three-wide receiver sets.

The Raiders are reportedly rotating five different wide receivers through team drills, including Tre Tucker, Jack Bech, Jalen Nailor and Dont’e Thornton. Tucker is the most proven player of the bunch and should be expected to secure a starting role. Things are fluid beyond that. McFadden named Benson, a sixth-round rookie, his “biggest surprise” of spring practices. He reportedly fostered a strong connection with QB Fernando Mendoza. Given his draft capital, Benson is likely a long shot to earn a starting role, but he also possesses intriguing upside as a field stretcher. Don’t bank on a breakout, but keeping an eye on him this summer is worthwhile.

Per Warren, “the Raiders have a lot more confidence in their wide receiver group than those on the outside looking in,” and that should give Jalen Nailor and Tre Tucker a little bit more juice as late-round best ball picks. We’re having a really hard time forecasting where Diggs will land after his respectable 85/1,013/4 receiving line last year off a torn ACL. The Commanders seem to be waiting on Brandon Aiyuk, and only the Ravens and Chiefs have really been mentioned of late as a reasonable landing spot for the veteran wideout.

The Raiders did not address wideout in April’s draft until the sixth round, leaving Nailor, Tre Tucker, and Jack Bech as the team’s likely starting receivers. It’s easy to see how Nailor could be the featured target in that group given how things have played out to this point. He’s got a WR4 case as we head into best ball season, though he’s being drafted outside of the top 150 picks more often than not at the moment.

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.