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Tee Higgins vs Zay Flowers

2026 draft comparison · half-PPR

Updated Aug 30, 2026

ADP 38.9
Tee Higgins
WR · CIN · WR16
ADP 42.6
Questionable
Zay Flowers
WR · BAL · WR19
VS
The crowd's leanAll time
52% would rather draft Flowers over Higgins
48%Higgins
52%Flowers
Based on 25 comparison results

Should you draft Tee Higgins or Zay Flowers?

Last season — 2025, per game

Higgins15 games
2025
Flowers17 games
12.1Fantasy pts11.8
15Games17
6.5Targets6.9
3.9Rec5.1
56Rec yds71
0.7TD0.4
Full game log & past seasons
Tee Higgins
2025 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
CLE
4.8
WR59
4
3
33
0
2
JAX
13.1
WR26
8
3
56
1
3
MIN
2.0
WR92
2
1
15
0
4
DEN
4.7
WR62
6
3
32
0
5
DET
9.7
WR32
7
3
22
1
6
GB
8.7
WR31
8
5
62
0
7
PIT
18.6
WR12
10
6
96
1
8
NYJ
10.9
WR27
2
1
44
1
9
CHI
29.6
WR2
9
7
121
2
10
11
PIT
13.8
WR15
8
3
63
1
12
NE
5.6
WR42
6
5
31
0
13
14
BUF
24.2
WR4
11
6
92
2
15
16
MIA
12.8
WR20
3
3
53
1
17
ARI
7.9
WR35
5
4
59
0
18
CLE
15.7
WR9
9
6
67
1
Earlier seasons (2024)
2024 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
2
3
WAS
5.4
WR60
6
3
39
0
4
CAR
9.0
WR41
10
6
60
0
5
BAL
24.8
WR5
14
9
83
2
6
NYG
11.2
WR27
7
7
77
0
7
CLE
16.2
WR8
8
4
82
1
8
9
10
11
LAC
25.3
WR3
13
9
148
1
12
13
PIT
15.4
WR16
10
5
69
1
14
DAL
3.3
WR60
5
2
23
0
15
TEN
17.3
WR13
8
5
88
1
16
CLE
15.8
WR15
11
8
58
1
17
DEN
34.6
WR1
12
11
131
3
18
PIT
7.3
WR47
5
4
53
0
Zay Flowers
2025 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
BUF
24.6
WR1
9
7
143
1
2
CLE
11.4
WR31
11
7
75
0
3
DET
2.3
WR89
3
2
13
0
4
KC
10.9
WR26
8
7
74
0
5
HOU
9.7
WR33
5
5
72
0
6
LAR
5.6
WR47
10
6
46
0
7
8
CHI
10.6
WR28
9
7
63
0
9
MIA
8.9
WR33
5
5
64
0
10
MIN
10.1
WR30
6
4
75
0
11
CLE
9.8
WR21
5
3
78
0
12
NYJ
9.4
WR30
6
5
58
0
13
CIN
-0.4
WR158
7
2
6
0
14
PIT
16.6
WR8
11
8
124
0
15
CIN
14.3
WR17
5
3
68
1
16
NE
17.7
WR10
7
7
84
0
17
GB
11.0
WR24
5
4
30
1
18
PIT
27.8
WR1
6
4
138
2
Earlier seasons (2024)
2024 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
KC
8.1
WR39
10
6
37
0
2
LV
18.6
WR11
11
7
91
1
3
DAL
3.8
WR73
4
3
20
0
4
BUF
1.5
WR94
2
1
10
0
5
CIN
15.5
WR15
12
7
111
0
6
WAS
17.9
WR11
9
9
132
0
7
TB
3.5
WR65
1
1
11
0
8
CLE
15.0
WR17
12
7
115
0
9
DEN
27.2
WR2
6
5
127
2
10
CIN
5.4
WR50
6
4
34
0
11
PIT
10.9
WR31
6
2
39
1
12
LAC
8.7
WR33
8
5
62
0
13
PHI
8.6
WR41
7
3
74
0
14
15
NYG
8.3
WR38
7
6
53
0
16
PIT
12.8
WR23
8
5
100
0
17
HOU
4.1
WR71
5
2
31
0
18
CLE
2.6
WR89
2
1
12
0

Latest takes

Tee Higgins
  • Tee Higgins (WR – CIN) While Higgins has a history of injuries, he has finished in the WR15 through WR19 range in PPR scoring in three of the past four years, including 2025, despite Joe Burrow missing over half the season. Despite averaging slightly fewer targets per game with Burrow (6.7 vs.

    Mike Fanelli· Aug 27
  • The trio of Joe Burrow , Ja'Marr Chase , and Tee Higgins forces defenses to respect the passing game.

    Curtis Hirsch· Aug 11
  • Joe Burrow (QB – CIN) According to Sharp Football Analysis , the Bengals have the second-easiest schedule this season, which bodes well for a passing attack featuring Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins

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  • For example, fantasy players would need to use four of their first five or six picks to build a Cincinnati Bengals stack of Ja’Marr Chase , Chase Brown , Tee Higgins , and Joe Burrow

    Mike Fanelli· Aug 6
  • ADP: +6 Tee Higgins continues to thrive as Cincinnati’s high-end No.

  • 20 come from two buckets: Hyper-specified role players (Stefon Diggs, Rashee Rice) Guys with other top 24 or strong ancillary target competition (Both Rams WRs, Jameson Williams, CeeDee Lamb, Tee Higgins, Quentin Johnston with Ladd McConkey/Keenan Allen) You may notice there’s one guy on this list who fits in neither, and it’s Thundering Herd legend Christian Watson (shout out to NDSU).

    Tony Martin· Jul 30
  • Undervalued: Tee Higgins, Wide Receiver (WR16, Pick 37 OVR) Tee Higgins is a #1 receiver; he just happens to play with one of the biggest alphas in the NFL with Ja’Marr Chase. He’s a dominant playmaker who just happens to lose targets to the dominant playmaker in the league.

    Jeff Krisko· Jul 25
  • Higgins is right behind Burden in LTV, and if Burden were to match Higgins in scoring, well, I’d say that would be a successful season.

  • We haven't seen a full season out of Tee Higgins since 2022, but he's a TD machine when healthy. Higgins has 21 receiving TDs over the last two years; only Chase, Amon-Ra, and Davante Adams have more.

  • Higgins has been propped up by some massive touchdown totals the past two seasons. After 24 scores over his first four seasons, Higgins found pay dirt 21 times in 27 games between 2024 and 2025. With numbers like that, Higgins' expected fantasy points per game were at 11.3 last season, but the touchdowns pushed his actual average up to 14.1.

  • Over the past two seasons, Higgins has finished as the WR5 and WR13 on a per-game basis. That said, his value can only go down from here. He's already 27.5 years old, so he's about to hit that age range where dynasty managers start getting antsy and unloading receivers before any decline starts.

  • Tee Higgins is undoubtedly the best WR "2" in the NFL. He ranks as our 18th WR, higher than 15 other teams' highest drafted pass catcher! He lined up out wide on 87.7% of his routes, the seventh-highest rate among all wide receivers, cementing his status as a primary boundary receiver.

    Chris Cash· Jul 7
  • Despite averaging slightly fewer targets per game with Burrow (6.7 vs. 7.8), Higgins averaged more fantasy points per contest (15.2 vs. 13.4) and fantasy points per target (2.3 vs. 1.7) with the superstar quarterback.

    Mike Fanelli· Jul 1
  • Back at the Round 3-4 turn in 2026, Higgins offers an excellent combination of floor and ceiling — even in a range with several other intriguing wide receivers.

  • Tee Higgins (12th in total WR points last year) is going for an average auction value less than their projection.

    Evan Hoovler· Jun 19
Zay Flowers
  • There’s a world where Zay Flowers has the talent to be a top-5 fantasy WR if he can ever score TDs. Over 1,200 yards. 86 catches and 5 TDs (WR7) in 2025. WR3 over the last five games. 4+ catches in 13 of his 17 games: a testament to his reliable floor and consistent involvement.

  • Zay Flowers (WR – BAL) “I’m smelling the flowers and want Zay on all my teams if I can get him. I’ve been high on Baltimore’s WR1 all offseason, and it seems like the Ravens are too after giving him a four-year, $140-million extension recently.

  • Zay Flowers will be the focal point of the passing attack, leading Baltimore in targets. However, Lane is competing with Rashod Bateman and an aging Mark Andrews for the No.

    Mike Fanelli· Aug 25
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  • He now works behind a reworked offensive line with a new playcaller and a thin receiving corps behind Zay Flowers and Mark Andrews . The QB1 ceiling is real, but at a top-two quarterback price the market is baking that ceiling in as a near certainty when it is anything but.

  • Head coach Todd Monken spent the past three years coaching Zay Flowers in Baltimore and should see similarities with Concepcion. Last season, the former Texas A&M star had the fifth-highest yards after the catch average (7.

    Mike Fanelli· Aug 23
  • Zay Flowers dominated Baltimore’s passing game in 2025 and remains Lamar Jackson’s most trusted target.

  • Zay Flowers (WR – BAL) “ Zay Flowers is being drafted as WR17, which is a bit of a head scratcher considering he finished as WR12 in PPG for receivers that played more than half the year (WR14 if not).

  • Flowers posted 86 catches, 1,211 yards, and six total touchdowns last year despite playing for a team that threw the fewest passes in the league over the last three years.

  • Zay Flowers (WR – BAL) is set up for touchdown regression in the best way. Every other receiver who topped 1,200 receiving yards last year scored at least eight touchdowns except him.

  • Zay Flowers is a popular target of the fantasy community due to his ability to separate from defenders, along with Declan Doyle’s new offense. Camp reports have been extremely positive, with a lot of talk that Flowers will be the absolute focal point of this Ravens’ passing game.

  • There’s a world where Zay Flowers has the talent to be a top-5 fantasy WR if he can ever score TDs.

  • Isaiah Likely is gone, and I don’t think Ja’Kobi Lane or Elijah Sarratt provide the level of incentive to keep me off of drafting the guy who has been the other boundary target next to Zay Flowers for years now.

    Tony Martin· Jul 30
  • The Fantasy Hitman grabbed his beloved Zay Flowers to be his WR2.

    Kurt Mullen· Jul 29
  • The Ballers really like Zay Flowers , who will serve as the primary pre-snap chess piece operating from the Z-receiver spot. This alignment keeps him off the line of scrimmage to dodge press coverage while creating misdirection.

  • The Declan Doyle addition makes me more bullish on Flowers, who was the entire Ravens’ passing game last season.

    Jeff Krisko· Jul 23