After losing Mike Evans, the Bucs replenished their receiver room by selecting Ted Hurst with the No. 84 overall pick of the 2026 NFL Draft.
Let's look at the fantasy football outlook for Hurst in Tampa Bay, both for seasonal leagues and Dynasty formats.
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Ted Hurst Fantasy Value With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Even though the Bucs lost Evans this offseason, the cupboard is not bare.
2025 first-round pick Emeka Egbuka is coming off a productive rookie season, Chris Godwin should be healthier in 2026, and Jalen McMillan flashed as a rookie before a mostly lost 2025 season.
That does not leave a ton of room for early production for Hurst, especially when adding in Tez Johnson, but that picture can change quickly, as we learned last year with the Bucs.
Ted Hurst's Fantasy Scouting Report
Rich Hribar wrote a comprehensive fantasy profile for Hurst before the 2026 NFL Draft:
Hurst is on the “my guys” list.
Of course, there are plenty of others like Hurst, but he is one of the players I am most interested in drafting.
Hurst built on a productive Senior Bowl at the NFL Combine, where he checked in at 6-foot-4 and 206 pounds with 32.5-inch arms.
At that size, he registered an 85th-percentile physical profile, running a 4.42 forty (83rd percentile adjusted for size) and logging a stellar 94th-percentile explosion score with a 36.5-inch vertical and an 11-foot-3 broad jump.
That reinforces what you see from Hurst.
If you are playing at Georgia State, you'd better jump off the page when it comes to looking the part, and that is what Hurst did.
After 961 yards and 9 touchdowns in 2024, Hurst caught 71 passes for 1,004 yards and 6 scores this past season.
He was targeted on 30% of his routes (3rd in the class).
That was while 29.3% of his targets were inaccurate.
That was the second-highest rate in the class, and Hurst had 53 more overall targets than the player ahead of him.
His measured athleticism showed on the page against his competition, forcing a missed tackle on 25.4% of his receptions.
Makai Lemon was the only player in this class with a higher rate on as many receptions as Hurst.
It is hard to gauge how much Hurst was aided by his climate, but he did have 7 catches for 97 yards against Memphis and 7 catches for 71 yards against Vanderbilt in non-conference play.
In 2024, he also roughed up Vanderbilt for 7 catches for 128 yards and 3 touchdowns.
While Hurst benefited from attending a smaller school, he is not an older prospect.
Typically, when you see guys from these smaller programs, they are older prospects in the 24-year range.
Hurst is the seventh youngest receiver in this class.
The downside for Hurst is that we still need to see a team invest in him, and he did put several balls down.
Hurst dropped 9% of his targets, which was 38th in this class.
Paired with his off-target rate of opportunities, there was meat left on the bone.
The question is whether he will be a target earner playing with NFL teammates.
At the high end of the spectrum, Hurst could be on the Christian Watson side, while at the lower end, he is like Justin Hunter.
