Ollie Watkins

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Ollie Watkins is the veteran No. 9 The Premier refuses to bury. Sixteen goals, four assists, Sleeper 26, consensus 21.1, hybrid 14. Igor Thiago and João Pedro both outrank him. Haaland lapped him. He is still the fourth forward on this list because 16 goals is 16 goals and Villa still play him as the point.

The kids have the narrative. Watkins has the career. The third list is where those two sentences have to share a ranking. Fourteen is 'you can still start him, you should not still draft him like 2023.' If someone in your league missed the memo that Thiago scored 22, Watkins is the name they will overpay. Let them.

Instruction: hold in win-now FPL. Sell in a long keeper league if the offer is a younger 15-goal forward plus. Do not fade him to waivers because Semenyo plays for City now. There is still a first XI on this board that has Watkins in it. It just no longer has him in the first six.

Ollie Watkins is a forward for Aston Villa, age 30, £8.0m. The Premier ranks him 15th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#26, 191.2 points) with the consensus of 7 other boards (16.43). The industry still has him 10 spots ahead of the 2025/26 Sleeper count. The Premier pays that reputation something, not everything. Brand does not outrun a down year, and a down year does not erase a player Aston Villa still builds around.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 33 starts and 2833 minutes, 16 goals and 4 assists, 22 tackles and 23 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 167 points (4.5 per match) with 26 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 191.2. Forwards get 9 a goal and 0 for a clean sheet, so this ranking is almost entirely the 16 finishes and 4 assists - not the defensive crumbs.