Jordyn Tyson joined the Saints with the No. 8 selection in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Let's look at the fantasy football outlook for Tate in Tennessee, both for seasonal leagues and Dynasty formats.
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Jordyn Tyson Fantasy Value With the New Orleans Saints
Tyson has one of the best production resumes in this class.
Over four seasons at Colorado and Arizona State, Tyson has averaged 4.8 receptions (6th in this class) for 69.2 yards per game (4th) and 0.67 receiving touchdowns per game (3rd).
When Tyson was on the field in college (more on this later), he was the most dominant player in this class, accounting for 46.7% of Arizona State’s receiving yardage and 64.7% of their receiving scores.
This past season, Tyson was targeted on 32.3% of his routes (2nd).
He was in the slot for 24% of his routes, where he gobbled up target opportunities, drawing a target on 37.5% of his routes.
Tyson tends to freelance more of his routes from this group in a Stevie Johnson (or Jerry Jeudy) fashion, if we’re being negative, which can be as much a positive as a negative depending on his system in the NFL.
One reason Tyson takes some liberties with routes is that he is one of the best receivers in this class at understanding leverage and getting open against man coverage.
While that was a staple of Tyson’s game in college against man coverage, his success versus zone coverage was more of a mixed bag, something he will see a lot more of in the NFL.
Tyson posted 3.02 yards per route against man coverage with a target on a class-high 43.6% of his routes.
Against zone coverages, he posted 2.18 yards per route run with a target on 27.2% of his routes.
One area where Tyson needs to grow to the next level is with the ball.
For as good as he is at getting open in space, that did not translate with the football in his hands.
He has only averaged 5.1 yards after the catch for his career.
That is the 20th percentile for prospects since 2015.
In 2205, Tyson had a lower rate of missed tackles per reception (9.8%) than lid lifters such as Carnell Tate and Denzel Boston while averaging 3.0 fewer air yards per target than those guys.
When on the field, Tyson has the strongest full-field profile and route versatility of this trio.
He has reps at all three receiver positions, has manufactured production, and wins in every area.
The rub is that he has to stay on the field.
Tyson has missed time in every season and has missed a third of his available games due to injuries.
In 2022, in Colorado, he tore his ACL, MCL, and PCL.
That caused him to miss the remainder of that season and limited his 2023 season to only three games.
In 2024, he fractured his collarbone.
This past season, he missed three games due to a hamstring injury.
You can make the case that all of Tyson’s injuries are unrelated and that he has been a victim of bad luck, but that will be a stigma for him to shed early in his career.
Joining the Saints, Tyson can come in and play alongside a target-earner in Chris Olave.
After an injury-filled 2024 campaign, Olave rebounded in a big way last year, catching 100 balls for 1,163 yards and 9 touchdowns.
Olave accounted for 27.6% of the team’s targets (WR8) and 39.4% of the team’s air yards (WR4).
Olave is playing 2026 under the 5th-year option, so his spike in production could not have come at a better time for setting up a long-term contract.
Factoring in Olave’s pending extension, the depth chart, and needing to see Tyler Shough play alongside some real talent if they are in a position to look at quarterback again in 2027, adding Tyson makes a ton of sense.
Devaughn Vele was the only other receiver on the roster who had shown signs of being a regular player on this depth chart.
Vele also had a stretch last season that showed a second target in this offense can be viable, attached to Shough next to Olave.
Vele only caught 25 passes for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns last season, but he was playing his best football after the trade of Rashid Shaheed.
Over the four games after the trade of Shaheed, Vele received 20.3% of the team’s targets, posting more receiving yards (232) than Olave (232) in those games.
There is a slight ding here to Olave as a fringe WR1/high WR2 getting another talented target-earner on the roster.
Tyson will open the year as a WR3/FLEX with upside for more should Shough develop.
Tyler Shough Fantasy Value With Jordyn Tyson
Shough is the largest winner here in the short term.
Taking over as the starter in Week 8, Shough completed 68% of his passes through the remainder of the season, which was sixth in the league over that stretch.
During that period, he averaged 7.3 yards per pass attempt (16th) with a 3.1% touchdown rate (32nd), 1.8% interception rate (11th), and an 8.7% sack rate (27th).
Shough’s biggest thorn as a rookie was downfield passing.
He completed 10 of his 38 (26.3%) throws of 20 or more yards downfield over that stretch, which was 27th in the league.
Shough was the QB16 in points per game (16.6) after taking over the starter role in Week 8.
The team went 5-4 with him as the starter after a 1-8 record prior to that point.
Their wins were against Carolina (twice), Tampa Bay, the Jets, and Tennessee, so there is plenty to still look for in terms of punching up in competition.
However, given arguably the worst surrounding core of skill players in the league for that period, paired with a battered offensive line, Shough showed plenty for the Saints to give him a full runway to be their starter in 2026 before making any aggressive changes, big picture.
The team had already added Travis Etienne and David Edwards this offseason.