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Ja'Marr Chase
WR · CIN · 26
Plus
- Consensus WR1 on The Keep (avg 4.0) and a top-six redraft name in both PPR and standard.
- 2025 tape still shows the tackle-breaking, 60-yard-chunk profile that made him a 1.01 skill player.
- Superflex first-rounder on The Keep (#3).
- Shows up on four-plus Ball Keep lists — not a one-board meme.
- Ranked on 10 Superflex sources — not a one-list darling.
Minus
- Bengals quarterback health is the only real tax — Burrow's availability swings Chase's weekly ceiling.
- Erickson has him WR-side at 8, a reminder that some SF boards will take two QBs before any receiver.
Ball Keep Take
Ja'Marr Chase is the skill-position 1.01 that Superflex has not fully dethroned. Our average of 4.0 across seven boards puts him in the Allen/Maye/Bijan cluster, and Yates still has him as a top-four PPR pick. The 2025 Can't-Miss play — 63 yards of broken tackles — is the scouting report: speed, strength, and a refusal to be brought down by the first or second man.
Where boards disagree is not talent, it is format. Erickson sliding him to eight is a Superflex tell: some experts will take Daniels/Herbert before they take a receiver. That is correct process and still leaves Chase as the first non-QB off most of our sheets. PPR redraft loves him even more than dynasty does, because you do not have to save a slot for a second passer.
The minus is Cincinnati's quarterback room, not Chase. If Burrow misses time, the weekly floor dips and the 'is this still a WR1 week?' tweets start. Dynasty can live through that. Redraft feels it immediately. We are not fading the player. We are fading the injury news cycle around the person throwing him the ball.
Tape · 2025 season
Can't-Miss Play: 63-yard TD! Ja'Marr Chase enters tackle-breaking mode for six vs. Panthers
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