Fantasy Football Week 16 wide receiver rankings: Tyreek Hill returns plus more COVID and injury updates

There aren't many WR you can truly feel good about trusting this week

By Chris Towers

Dec 26, 2021 at 11:54 am ET • 2 min read

How many wide receivers can you really trust in Week 16? For many of you, this week is your chance to get into the Fantasy championship, after likely having skated by during one of the worst Fantasy weeks I can remember, and right now it feels like there aren't any wide receivers you can trust.

Of course, that's not true. There are dozens of them! Dozens!

Okay, probably not plural-dozens. Maybe just a dozen. In my rankings this week, there is a pretty dramatic drop in projected production between No. 10, Deebo Samuel and No. 11, Jaylen Waddle. However, I would still feel pretty good about starting basically everyone through WR14, Marquise Brown. And, heck, I'll throw CeeDee Lamb in there, and probably Tee Higgins, despite his struggles in Week 15. And yeah, Russell Gage is pretty hard to get away from, and Emmanuel Sanders looks pretty good with Cole Beasley and Gabriel Davis out. Okay, fine, Christian Kirk, too – he has 31 targets in the four games DeAndre Hopkins has missed this season.

But certainly not Michael Pittman, Ja'Marr Chase, Chase Claypool, Terry McLaurin, Amari Cooper, or … well, you get the point. So, not quite dozens, but more than a dozen, for sure. Hopefully, having made the playoffs, you don't have to reach too much further than, say, No. 20 in the rankings for your starters. Because it's rough out there.

Here are my top 48 wide receivers for Week 16. To see the rankings from Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard and Heath Cummings, make sure you head here.