The Cleveland Browns selected KC Concepcion with the 24th overall pick of the 2026 NFL Draft.
Let's look at the fantasy football outlook for Lemon in Philadelphia, both for seasonal leagues and Dynasty formats.
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KC Concepcion Fantasy Value With the Cleveland Browns
Concepcion is a three-year player with one of the more versatile profiles in the front-end group.
He broke out as a true freshman in his age 18 season at North Carolina State, catching 71 passes for 839 yards and 10 touchdowns, adding 320 rushing yards.
He then suffered a down 2024 season, posting only 496 total yards and 6.9 yards per touch (though he still found the end zone 8 times).
He led the team with 53 catches, but was out-gained by Justin Joly, who is in this tight end class.
Transferring to Texas A&M this past season injected new life into Concepcion, who caught 61 passes for 919 yards and 9 touchdowns through the air, tacking on 75 yards and a rushing score.
Concepcion was targeted on 27% of his routes (WR10 in this class) with 2.26 yards per team attempt (WR8) and 2.46 yards per route (WR11).
He produced a first down or touchdown on 12.8% of his routes, which was WR4 in the class.
He did that with some up-and-down quarterback play.
25% of Concepcion’s targets were off target.
Only Ted Hurst (29.3%) and Germie Bernard (26.9%) had higher rates of inaccurate targets with as many overall targets as Concepcion this past season.
There was also a handful of self-induced mistakes.
His10.3% drop rate was the fourth highest in the class.
In 2024, he had a 11.7% drop rate, so this was a steady issue the past two seasons.
Matt Waldman has highlighted some of the technical flaws that have led to the drops for Concepcion, which we hope to clean up in the NFL.
While Concepcion can be inconsistent in putting some balls down, we don’t always paint them as a complete negative since you can’t drop the ball if you aren’t getting the ball (CeeDee Lamb law).
A high drop rate can also indicate that a team really wants to keep getting the football to a player, which is the case here.
Concepcion kept getting opportunities because he is always getting open.
Matt Harmon labeled Concepcion the best separator in this class, and that is hard to argue with.
He had steady production in 2025 against both man coverage (2.83 yards per route) and zone coverage (2.52 yards per route).
He makes up for some mistakes by creating on his own.
With 70 career rushes, Concepcion is one of the best in this class when he does hang onto the ball.
Concepcion averaged 7.2 yards after the catch, paired with an average depth of target of 12.3 yards downfield.
No player in this class posted more yards after the catch per reception with a higher target depth.
For a player with his background as a rusher, only 12.9% of Concepcion’s targets were screens.
Compare that to a 21.3% rate for Makai Lemon and a 27.5% rate for Omar Cooper, and that stands out.
While Concepcion dropped more passes than Lemon, he plays aggressively and wins in the contested game area despite his size limitations (30 ¼” arms and 9 ¼” hands).
Concepcion also pulled in 66.7% (10 of 15) contested targets in 2025, the same rate as Lemon.
While the landing spot in Cleveland comes with short-term ceiling question marks, there is runway for Concepcion to be a full-time player on a team that should throw a ton.
That gives Concepcion some appeal as a volatile WR4/FLEX for 2026.
Big picture for Dynasty, he could be the WR1 on the roster sooner than later.
In 2025, Cleveland's wide receivers combined for a league-low 6.9 receptions and 86.3 receiving yards per game in 2025 while catching a league-low 4 touchdowns.
After a breakout season in 2024 with 90 catches for 1,229 yards and 4 touchdowns, Jerry Jeudy totaled 50 catches for 602 yards and 2 touchdowns last season.
Jeudy’s 2024 output was fueled by his splits playing with Jameis Winston, but the Browns changed his usage on top of that, which gave him fewer successful target opportunities.
After playing 63.7% of his snaps out wide in 2024, Jeudy was lined up out wide for 86.3% last year.
His slot rate went 34.6% down to 13.3% last season.
As a result, he went from an 11.7% deep target rate in 2024 up to a 17% rate in 2025.
Only 6.9% of Jeudy’s targets in 2024 were on go routes, but that rate ballooned to 15.1% last year.
As a result, he went from a 10.3% inaccurate target rate in 2024 up to 16% last season.
The addition of Concepcion could boost Jeudy’s slot rate, but I would expect both players to move around and Concepcion to limit a full return to those 2024 numbers.
And of course, the short-term is heavily impacted by the quarterback room.
Cleveland quarterbacks combined for the worst passer rating in the NFL last season (71.8).
Their passers completed a league-low 58.2% of their passes for 6.0 yards per pass attempt (31st), a 3.2% touchdown rate (30th), a league-high 3.5% interception rate, and took a sack on 8.1% of their dropbacks (25th).
The team selected two rookies last season in Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders.
Gabriel made six starts (1-5) with Sanders making seven starts (3-4), while neither player looked the part of being the long-term solution.
Out of 45 quarterbacks to have 100-plus dropbacks last season, Gabriel was 37th in rating (80.8) while Sanders was 44th (68.1).
Gabriel threw for 5.1 yards per pass attempt (44th on that list) while averaging only 5.8 air yards per throw (also 44th).
When Gabriel did attempt to push the ball, he completed 38.8% of his passes (19 of 49) on throws 10 or more yards downfield, which ranked 41st.
Sanders was at 6.6 Y/A (32nd).
Both year-two quarterbacks have a low bar to clear for improvement, but they will also compete with Deshaun Watson this summer.
Watson missed all of 2025 with an Achilles injury.
Cleveland is finally in the final season of Watson’s contract, which has been revamped a handful of times to expedite his exit.
The last time we saw Watson play in 2024, he completed 63.4% of his passes (29th) for 5.3 yards per pass attempt (44th), a 2.3% touchdown rate (42nd), and a league-high 13.3% sack rate.
