How High Should Drake London Be Ranked For 2026 Fantasy Football?
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How High Should Drake London Be Ranked For 2026 Fantasy Football?

Ian Hartitz breaks down Drake London's outlook for the 2026 fantasy football season.

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Drake London recently got #paid, and it begs the question—just how high is too high to rank London among the elite fantasy football wide receivers? Ian Hartitz breaks it down as part of his 2026 Atlanta Falcons fantasy football team preview.

ATL_falcons-logo.svgIs Drake London poised to push for the league lead in targets?

Well, the Falcons now have 141 million reasons to force-feed London the football!

And why wouldn't they? The plus-sized 24-year-old talent already posted an electric 100-1,271-9 receiving line in 2024 (WR13 in PPR points per game) and was putting up some bonkers numbers before spraining his knee in 2025. In fact, London was banged up for most of last season, as he also played through shoulder and hip issues during the early portion of the season … and he still finished as the WR7 in PPR points per game!

Now, the aforementioned lackluster QB room isn't ideal, but we have seen Penix be more than happy with peppering his No. 1 receiver with targets, and Tua certainly didn't have a problem force-feeding Tyreek over the years. Our fantasy football projections currently have London as one of just seven wide receivers expected to see at least 140 targets this season.

The question becomes just how high is too high to rank London …

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… and our rankers have decided that WR8 is the absolute lowest mark for the rising fifth-year stud. These eight wideouts combine youth with proven talent and 150+ target upside—that's a hard combo to complain about inside the top two rounds of any fantasy draft.

Also note: Once upon a time, Zachariah Branch was THE No. 1 wide receiver recruit in the 2023 class. Unfortunately, things didn't go overly great with Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans, leading to Branch transferring to Georgia and being deployed in a pretty gadgety manner. Seriously: 82% of Branch's 2025 targets came from screens or RPOs—Omar Cooper was the only other draft-eligible receiver over 50%! Now, just because Branch didn't run more big-boy routes at the college level doesn't mean he can't do so, but the pint-sized (5-foot-8, 177 pounds) speedster (4.35-second 40-yard dash) certainly needs some polish before we pencil him in as a difference-maker at the professional level. While it's possible, if not likely, that Branch earns the second-most targets of any Falcons wide receiver, he still projects no better than the passing game's No. 4 option overall due to the additional weaponry at running back and tight end.

Players Mentioned in this Article

  1. Drake London
    DrakeLondon
    WRATLATL
    PPG
    13.8
    Proj
    213.1

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