2026 NFL Draft: What's your flavor? — sorting top-20 WR prospects in archetype buckets

The 2026 NFL Draft is just around the corner and we’re finally set to get some answers as to where the top wide receiver prospects will land. All throughout the process, this has been regarded as a deep positional pool to choose from but also a group that presents many different flavors. My charting of these wide receiver prospects at Reception Perception backs that up, as I’ve found tons of different archetypes and skill sets available for teams in this year’s class.

Because of that, every team’s ranking and stacks for this receiver group will look extremely different. This makes intuitive sense because, despite all of these guys being labeled as “WR,” we know that there might not be another position in the sport where the body types for potential role players can vary so wildly. Take this example of Ted Hurst and Brenen Thompson: There are many reasons I love studying the WRs as closely as I do, but one of my favorites is that these two body types can play the same position.

Both a part of today's drop. Left, Ted Hurst. Right, Brenen Thompson.

https://t. co/Hlz0pwvYWc pic. twitter.