With all this year's organized team activities (OTAs) and mandatory minicamps behind us, the NFL is taking its annual month-long break before training camps start rolling out in the second half of July.
Ideally, there won't be much going on -- in terms of NFL news -- during this lull in the action. But for fantasy managers who take their preparation seriously, there is no downtime.
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That's why the Fantasy Notebook will keep rolling with a position-by-position series on underrated players. Last week it was Underrated Running Backs.
This week, it's Underrated Wide Receivers. We started Monday with First- and Second-Round Wideouts with WR1 Overall Upside. Tuesday, we looked at a pair of Fourth-Round Receivers Who Could Produce Like First-Rounders. Yesterday, we examined Overlooked Veterans with WR1 Upside. Today, we'll take a look at . . .
Underrated Receivers the Market is Missing
The list of receivers capable of outperforming their draft capital is long and runs deep. Here's a look at some players being drafted in Round 7 and later who fit the underrated archetype.
New Role Means Continued Volume
After averaging 4.3 targets and 7.6 fantasy points per game during his first 38 NFL games, Cardinals wideout Michael Wilson broke out with Jacoby Brissett under center during the final eight games of 2025, averaging 11.0 targets and 21.2 fantasy points per game.
Wilson, who was WR6 overall in the 12 games Brissett started, was WR2 during those final eight weeks.
As ESPN's Mike Clay pointed out, the stretch also coincided with Marvin Harrison Jr. dealing with health issues, and it's worth noting that Wilson's receiving lines in the three games Harrison was active weren't quite as good.
Adding to the intrigue this season, incoming head coach Mike LaFleur, who worked under Sean McVay in Los Angeles, recently told reporters that Wilson is likely to play the "Z" receiver that Puka Nacua plays for the Rams. This means we'll see more quick-hitting targets and volume directed Wilson's way.
Should we expect Wilson to earn the 9.7 targets per game we've seen from Nacua during his career in the Rams' offense?
According to our colleague Matt Waldman, "Yes."
Waldman added, "Wilson is the WR1 in this offense. He's performing with a veteran quarterback, and even when the Cardinals go to Carson Beck -- whether it's early or late in the season -- Wilson will be the first read in a lot more reps."
A WR39 Average Draft Position (ADP) -- which has been falling since May -- and seventh-round price have him going well after Harrison, who is WR31, and make Wilson a fantastic value with exactly what we saw last year: WR1 upside.
Reliability Matters
Last season, the Las Vegas Raiders traded veteran wide receiver Jakobi Meyers to the Jaguars in exchange for a fourth and sixth-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
The veteran quickly established himself as Trevor Lawrence's go-to target.
Bleacher Report's Kristopher Knox noted that, in addition to catching 42 passes for 483 yards and three touchdowns for Jacksonville, Meyers also returned a 95.2 passer rating when targeted. That's impressive for a player jumping into a new system midseason.
One reason for that?
As Jaguars general manager James Gladstone said last year, Meyers' "superpower is not dropping the football."
Meyers, who compiled 2,186 yards and 12 touchdowns in his two seasons in Las Vegas, is a talented route runner who was also a significant contributor in New England, where he played his first four seasons as a pro.
Knox recently ranked the most underrated wide receivers in the NFL entering the regular season, and Meyers was listed at number six. USA Today's Jake Boico took that a step further, suggesting that Meyers will once again enter the season "as one of the most underrated wide receivers in all of football."
His ADP backs that argument.
He's the third Jacksonville receiver off the board, with Brian Thomas Jr. (WR33) and Parker Washington (WR37) going well ahead of Meyers, who is going as WR42 in Round 8, a round later than his teammates.
I'm not against taking any of the three, but I'll remind you that Meyers has three WR2 finishes in the last five years and hasn't finished lower than WR30 over that span. Just because he's the last Jaguar off the board doesn't mean he can't serve your team well.