The Baltimore Ravens took a bevy of depth behind a day-two wide receiver. Can any of these players find fantasy football relevance in 2026? Did they take the better wide receiver second?
Round 3, Pick 80 Overall: Ja’Kobi Lane, WR
TALENT
Ja’Kobi Lane is exactly the type of receiver that I told myself that I wouldn’t get excited about: a contested catch maestro who dominates defenders at the catch point… but who is never open. If you watch Lane’s tape, you see some good traits, but there’s a metronomic “but” in the back of your mind. He has good focus on 50/50 balls, and his long arms put them on easy mode, but he’s not open. He has a great ability to body his defenders’ contested catches, but he’s not open. He has above-average YAC ability, but he’s never open.
All of his warts come with the fact that he is never open (and he suffers from focus drops). He runs at one speed, he gets crushed by man coverage, and he doesn’t snap off his routes very well. He will have a role for a team as a red zone monster, and could finish with a Quentin Johnston-style career arc, but I’ve seen this story before, and I don’t like it.
NFL Comparison: Keon Coleman
Draft Grade: Late 3rd Round
2026 OPPORTUNITY
Lane is one of two wide receivers taken by the Ravens in this draft, alongside Elijah Sarratt. Of the two, I preferred Sarratt predraft. Lane has a skillset that doesn’t lead me to believe that he will get any consistent volume in the low-volume, run-first Ravens offense. He’s a touchdown-or-bust player who is destined to be a 450-500-yard player, at best. However, he has the higher ceiling of the two wide receivers taken by the Ravens in this draft. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of ceiling that needs a lot of patience and development to reach its potential, and he has no guarantee of getting there.
2026 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
I am completely bearish on both rookie Ravens receivers this season for fantasy football, but less so for Elijah Sarratt (more on him in a second). Lane’s skillset just won’t work out in the Ravens’ offense, at least not without some baking to help him reach his full potential. He’s off my draft board entirely, unless I end up with some Lamar Jackson and need a 20th-round best ball stack. I prefer him over Sarratt in that role, as his skillset will provide for a boom-or-bust fantasy football profile.
Round 4, Pick 115 Overall: Elijah Sarratt, WR
TALENT
Nothing about Elijah Sarratt really jumped off the tape for me. He’s not bad per se, he’s just quietly effective at everything he does out there. He’s a strong possession receiver who slaps off would-be pass defenders, and he has a big frame to box out said defenders, as well as enough speed to not make them a problem to begin with. That having been said, defenders sit in his pocket on any sort of go routes, and his in-and-out routes also struggle to separate. He could be a demon underneath in the NFL, and he could be a PPR monster if a team gives him an opportunity. He just doesn’t provide enough athletic upside to end up outside of that role.
NFL Comparison: Jakobi Meyers
Draft Grade: Late 3rd Round
2026 OPPORTUNITY
The Ravens offense does not pass a lot, but when they pass, he will work as their Rashod Bateman replacement, as they allow Zay Flowers to work downfield and in dynamic underneath routes. The Sarratt role could develop into something in his rookie season, as a Lamar Jackson release valve. However, every passing weapon in the Ravens offense, not named Zay Flowers or Mark Andrews, is likely to top out at maybe 75 targets each.
2026 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
If I had to pick a non-Zay Flowers Ravens pass catcher to finish inside the top-50 at the position, it would be Sarratt. Unfortunately, that’s a pretty useless player for fantasy football purposes. Without a Zay Flowers injury wherein they have to rejigger the Ravens’ offense, there’s no path to Sarratt finishing as a fantasy football-relevant player in 2026.
Round 4, Pick 133 Overall: Matthew Hibner, TE
TALENT
Matthew “Himbo” is a very good pass catcher and a yards-after-the-catch threat, though he utilizes his speed, rather than toughness or shiftiness, to get those extra yards. SMU used him in conjunction with the much tougher RJ Maryland as a one-two punch, so he never reached any soaring heights in college, finishing his last two seasons with a combined 55 catches for 804 yards and eight touchdowns. He’ll make for a fine part of the offense for whatever team selects him in the 2026 NFL Draft, but he isn’t going to be a high-value weapon, at least not right away
NFL Comparison: Diet Tucker Kraft
Draft Grade: 6th Round
2026 OPPORTUNITY
The Ravens are a run-first, Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews-second pass offense. They also took two wide receivers in the draft ahead of Hibner, which makes him a depth piece for them in their first season without John Harbaugh since George W. Bush was president. Unfortunately, the team isn’t built in a way that will find Hibner having more than one, maybe two weeks of 5+ targets this season (unless things completely fall apart). He’s a developmental piece, which means you can’t expect to see him a ton in his rookie campaign.
2026 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
We are yet to see a day three tight end finish with a fantasy football-relevant season. Matthew Hibner will not be the first.
Round 5, Pick 173 Overall: Josh Cuevas, TE
TALENT
There’s nothing that Cuevas does that jumps off the page; he’s a solid, all-around tight end who isn’t the biggest (he’s just 6’3”), and his size shows in the fact that he gets blown off his block point by defensive linemen. For fantasy football purposes, he’s a good route runner, though not very fast. He is a get-it-and-go tight end who doesn’t have a lot of nuance or deft touch to his game.
2026 OPPORTUNITY
Cuevas is not going to get even forty targets for the Ravens this season.
2026 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
We are yet to see a day three tight end finish with a fantasy football-relevant season. Matthew Hibner Josh Cuevas will not be the first.
Round 5, Pick 174 Overall: Adam Randall, RB
TALENT
Randall is a former wide receiver, and it shows when he tries to read blocks, as he sometimes runs straight at his blocker, or just struggles to get his feet to see what his eyes see, barely making it to the hole before everything collapses ahead of him. If the big uglies can make a hole for him, however, he is great at maximizing it with his combination of speed and subtle moves at defenders to get chunk gains. Randall is still learning the position, so he is pretty unrefined, but he has some good instincts, like scraping the line to maximize their blocks. However, his best ability is to put his foot in the ground and get moving north-south on the defense.
However, his best trait is as a pass catcher, despite his size and willingness to bowl through people. As a converted wide receiver, he has the hands, routes, and ability to create separation that will make him a decent pass-catching back at the NFL level, but a little bit more refinement could lead to more down the line.
NFL Comparison: Kalen Ballage
Draft Round: Round 6
2026 OPPORTUNITY
The Ravens are under new management, but it takes a long time to change the DNA of a team, and the Ravens run first and do everything else second, and they run through Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry, leaving few rush attempts for Randall. They passed the ball at the lowest rate last season (45.5%), which led to them passing the fewest times in the league by a wide margin (422 pass attempts; the #31 team passed 469 times). They passed to running backs at a league-average rate (17.9%). This all led to them passing to running backs the fifth-fewest times in the league last season. Their team leader in running back targets had 27 last season.
2026 FANTASY FOOTBALL OUTLOOK
Should the new-look Ravens decide to go the route of a pass-catching running back (which I doubt they will), they already have Rasheen Ali and Justice Hill on the roster, who do that better. There’s no chance that Randall has fantasy football relevancy in his rookie campaign.
