May 3, 2026

Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers quietly finished the 2025 season as the WR7 in Half-PPR formats, though he got there largely on the back of three massive games. Flowers opened the year with a career-high 143 receiving yards and a touchdown in a primetime matchup with the Bills. He would top 120 yards in two other contests, but the 8.8 fantasy points he averaged across his remaining 14 games would have landed him at WR40. Flowers has seen his targets, receptions, and yards rise each year in the league, but he has never topped five touchdowns in a season, and with much of his production tending to come from scattered boom games, his off weeks can be devastating, finishing with fewer than 5.5 points eight times over the past two seasons. The Ravens have shaken up their coaching staff ahead of the 2026 season, and new offensive coordinator Declan Doyle, who previously served as an assistant under Ben Johnson, arrived in Baltimore with a stated goal of creating more explosive plays. With the Ravens allowing two of their more explosive playmakers, Isaiah Likely and Keaton Mitchell, to walk in free agency, Flowers projects to be a focal point of that scheme. Baltimore spent third and fourth-round picks on USC's Ja'Kobi Lane and Indiana's Elijah Sarratt, and three-time Pro Bowl tight end Mark Andrews signed a three-year extension in December, so Flowers still does not project to see the steady volume needed to support the healthy floor of some of the other receivers going in his range of drafts. At RotoBaller's WR19, he will not always be the model of consistency, but for rosters built to handle his boom-or-bust nature, Flowers can single-handedly deliver several week-winning performances.--Patrick McGrath