The Tennessee Titans added Carnell Tate and Wan’Dale Robinson to an underwhelming wide receiver corps, and declared it all good from here. Are they right? Maybe! Let’s take a look at the 2026 Tennessee Titans’ fantasy football sleeper, undervalued, and overvalued players!
Sleeper: Nicholas Singleton, Running Back (RB66, Pick 201 OVR)
Singleton isn’t a particularly refined runner, mostly running as hard as possible north-south while letting tacklers bounce off of him. He is a great zone runner because he is going to hit one cut and go; he’s like me at middle school social gatherings: no dancing. He’s not a long threat, at all, either. But, he has one exceptional carrying trait that will help him in the NFL: he is an elite pass catching running back. This, combined with his pass blocking chops will get him onto the field as a third-down and two-minute drill back immediately, but it is up to him to grow from there.
The Tennessee Titans don’t have a particularly exciting running back room, with Tony Pollard, Tyjae Spears, and Michael Carter to go alongside Nicholas Singleton. Singleton isn’t a lot to write home about, either, but the Titans simply don’t have the depth chart that can hold him off if he has any sort of viability in the NFL. While Tony Pollard showed that he deserves the RB1 slot, neither Carter nor Spears have proven themselves as the RB2. And that’s where Singleton likely starts his NFL career when preseason shakes out. This gives him an immediate opportunity to produce, and puts him one twisted ankle away from the RB1 role in Tennessee.
He’s not going to be a high-end handcuff, but he is a handcuff nonetheless. In regular fantasy football drafts, you can likely ignore Singleton (though keep an eye on the reports out of Tennessee). In best ball drafts, you can take him as a deep injury flier in case Tony Pollard misses time. Without a Pollard injury, he likely kisses top-30 RB finishes a few times when he falls into a touchdown, but I’m not banking significant draft capital on that profile.
Undervalued: Wan’Dale Robinson, Wide Receiver (WR46, Pick 108 OVR)
Wan’Dale was WR17 last season as the scammy underneath PPR guy in a Brian Daboll-led offense with a sketchy 2025 draftee running the offense. Fast forward to 2026, and Wan’Dale Robinson will be the scammy underneath PPR guy in a Brian Daboll-led offense with a sketchy 2025 draftee running the offense. Robinson had 140 targets last season as he became the centerpiece of the Giants in a post-Malik Nabers world. While 140 targets isn’t in the cards, he is likely to out-target Carnell Tate (though Tate will get the deeper shots, and therefore, more air yards). But, fantasy football isn’t all about finding who is the best player, it is about finding who will get us the most fantasy points.
In my book, that’s Wan’Daddy. Let’s forget the post-Malik Nabers target share; Wan’Dale Robinson had 27 targets in the first four weeks of the season, or 6.75 per game, that comes out to 115 over the course of a season, and again, that was with the established uber-talented Malik Nabers hogging targets. Tate is far less established a receiver, and Cam Ward desperately needs to learn to take the underneath targets, and that’s why Daboll got him Robinson.
A healthy Robinson is a shoo-in top-25 wide receiver this season in PPR leagues, and you can get him after pick 100. It feels like an absolute layup to get him at his price, especially since there’s nothing in the passing game behind Robinson and Tate (RIP Elic Ayomanor).
Overvalued: Carnell Tate, Wide Receiver (WR30, Pick 63 OVR)
Tate doesn’t have a lot of carrying traits that jump off the tape, but he is a conglomeration of strong traits that should carry him into being a lower-end WR1 or a high-end WR2 at the NFL level, following in the footsteps of fellow Ohio State receivers like Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson. There is a bit of Olave in his game, but that is helmet scouting, not a direct comparison to Olave. He’s a slippery route runner who is more than capable of finding the holes in zones.
His best trait, however, is his ability to win at the second and third levels. He is an adept deep-ball threat, despite running a 4.53 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine. He can make slight adjustments to his routes to lose defenders downfield, and he has large, pillowy hands and incredible ball-tracking downfield. He doesn’t have strong contested catch skills, but he does a good job of minimizing that possibility by angling his attack to the football to prevent true 50/50 balls.
He knows that teams fear him deep, as he stacks defenders to snap off comeback routes exceptionally well, and he has the prowess to find the holes in the zones that will maximize his ability to catch passes at the next level. Tate’s biggest weakness is strength. He isn’t the skinniest receiver out there, but play strength is a serious issue. He gets bodied when trying to run block, and he gets jammed by stronger corners at the line. I also already mentioned that he gets worked by true 50/50 balls. All in all, he should hit the ground running, ideally as a WR2.
The Tennessee Titans love Calvin Ridley so much that they went out and got themselves a brand new one in Carnell Tate. He’s immediately Cam Ward’s WR1, as there isn’t really much else in that room to worry about. They added Wan’Dale Robinson to that room, but he isn’t the type of player who will take anything from Tate; he will operate much like he did with Malik Nabers in New York. Long story short, Tate is their WR1, and he is going to be their WR1 by a large margin. He is walking into an incredible situation with last year’s #1 overall pick and the man who let Malik Nabers run wild in New York, Brian Daboll, who is the OC of the Titans.
Malik Nabers was WR8 in fantasy points per game his rookie season under Brian Daboll, but Carnell Tate is no Malik Nabers; he just carries a similar profile. The Titans threw to their receivers at the ninth-lowest rate last season, with only 17.4 targets per game going their way. Nabers is likely to top out at 50% wide receiver target share, at eight targets per game, as he is the best receiver in the room by far. Eight targets per game come out to 136 targets, and even if he only gets seven per game, that still comes out to 119 targets. While that’s an intriguing target volume, the players around him excite me more than Tate does in what is likely to be a run-first offense; Rome Odunze, Parker Washington, Brian Thomas Jr., Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels all buttress Tate’s ADP, and I would take all of them over the #4 overall pick.
Heck, I’d take Wan’Dale Robinson over him in PPR leagues.
