‘Can Steady the Ship’ — Fantasy Analyst Preaches the Safety of Jakobi Meyers

PFN’s Kyle Soppe says Jakobi Meyers can “steady the ship,” and he’s right. That’s also exactly why I’m not drafting him.

Soppe’s case is airtight on its own terms. Reliable hands, a stable target floor, a veteran who keeps your weekly score above water while your studs carry the load. All true. Meyers has been one of the steadiest possession receivers in the league for years, and PPR pays for that. I don’t dispute a word of the profile. I dispute what it’s worth on draft day.

Jakobi Meyers Has the Lowest Ceiling in Jacksonville’s Receiver Room

Start with the company he keeps. Of Jacksonville’s three headline receivers, Meyers is the one whose best-case season you can already picture. Brian Thomas Jr. went for 1,282 yards and 10 touchdowns as a rookie and carries real WR1 range when healthy.

Parker Washington is a 24-year-old fresh off a breakout, one who closed 2025 on a tear and averaged 14.6 yards per reception to Meyers’s 11.1, the profile of a player still climbing toward his ceiling rather than sitting on it. Meyers is the known quantity, and the known quantity is a very good WR3.

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His profile says as much. Meyers ran a 4.63 forty and grades as a below-average athlete; he works at a 9.4-yard average depth of target, and he averaged 11.1 yards per reception last season. That is a short-area, high-volume game with almost no downfield juice. It piles up catches and first downs, not the 20-point spike weeks that actually swing a matchup.

The finish backs it up. Meyers has rattled off five straight top-30 fantasy seasons, which is the definition of dependable. It is also the definition of a ceiling. His 2024 peak in Las Vegas brought career highs in targets and receiving yards, plus his first 1,000-yard season, and even that landed him only around the fringe of the WR2 tier. Draft his best case, and you get a strong flex, not a difference-maker.

You Can Find a Jakobi Meyers Later or on the Waiver Wire

Here is where a fine player becomes a shaky pick. Steady, replaceable production is the cheapest thing to acquire in this game. Every season a few possession receivers post Meyers-style lines out of the double-digit rounds or straight off the wire, and you don’t usually have to guess who they’ll be come August.

Pay a mid-round price for that profile, and you have bought at retail what the market gives away later. Those picks are for swinging at players who can win you a league, the ones with a live path to a WR1 season, not the one whose ceiling is engineered to land on par.

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There’s a real scenario where Thomas gets moved, and Meyers leads Jacksonville in targets. Even then, the math changes in volume, not ceiling. A bigger slice of a Trevor Lawrence passing game still runs into the same athletic limits. His floor climbs. The roof stays put.

So let someone else draft the safety. In the range where Meyers goes, give me the player who can return three times his cost over the one built to return exactly what you paid. Upside wins championships. A steady ship just keeps you afloat while the managers who took swings sail past you.