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CJ Daniels
WR · LAR · 24 yrs · exp 0 · Miami (FL)
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1,332
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#352
Pos rank
#136
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Latest: Sep 7, 2026 · 1,332
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C.J. Daniels not only receiver surprising at Rams camp
Could he be the next Mario Williams to make a name for himself in the NFL?
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Jordan Whittington's Versatility Giving Him Leg Up for WR3 Role
Cameron DaSilva of the Rams Wire writes that Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Jordan Whittington is the leader of the WR3 competition early in training camp because of how experienced and versatile he is. Whittington is competing with Xavier Smith, Konata Mumpfield, and rookie CJ Daniels, with DaSilva also noting that Daniels has made some noise in practice and is drawing attention from fans and coaches. The No. 3 WR spot in head coach Sean McVay's offense will be an important one, but it also isn't expected to come with a lot of weekly volume as long as the top two receivers, Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, are healthy. The 25-year-old Whittington took a slight step back in 2025 in his sophomore season, catching only 18 of 25 targets for 171 yards and zero touchdowns in 17 regular-season games. The former sixth-rounder in 2024 from the University of Texas has yet to find the end zone in 32 regular-season games (nine starts) and will remain off the fantasy radar in the majority of redraft leagues going into the start of the upcoming campaign
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Rams going all-in on tight ends
In 2025, the Los Angeles Rams offense evolved from a team that was primarily based on one tight end to a unit that embraced three. L.A. coach Sean McVay didn’t use the three tight end formation until Week 6 of the regular season and from then on, according to Next Gen Stats, proceeded to employ it on 43 percent of plays going forward. The Rams appear to be all-in on staying with the multiple tight end offense. They basically left the wide receiver corps alone, only adding a Round 6 draft pick (CJ Daniels) and instead drafted another receiver-first tight end, Max Klare, in Round 2. They also re-signed veteran Tyler Higbee . At eight-strong, the L.A. tight end room is a deep, solid mix of veterans and youngsters. All have good hands, are good route runners, and can attack/stretch defenses. How many will be on the Rams opening roster? A likelihood of five and the in-house competition should testing for them all. Colby Parkinson – 6’7” 252 lb. After five seasons in the NFL as a rotational player, Parkinson put up career best numbers in starts, snaps, targets, receptions, yards, touchdowns, and catch percentage. Is he ready for a breakout? Or is this his ceiling as a pro? Came out of college as a receiver-first tight end. Drafted by Seattle and Pete Carroll, the Seahawks used a lot of two tight end formations, but didn’t really harness the unit as weapons. Parkinson never really broke through over four seasons in the Great Northwest, his first three seasons were as TE#3. However, his usage did go up each season and in 2023, he was on the field for nearly 50 percent of snaps as TE#2. He also improved his blocking chops with Seattle and is now visibly bigger than when he entered the league. At his best, Parkinson shows good hands and an ability to to box out smaller defenders. He runs crisp routes and can be dangerous at all depth’s. Tyler Higbee – 6’6” 249 lb. The Rams brought Higbee back for 2026 on a two-year deal worth up to $8 mil and only half guaranteed, well-below his previous contract. Now 33 and entering his 11th season as the Rams longest tenured player, it will be interesting to see how the season wears on his body. He should be at his par early in the early going, but after being dogged by injuries for most of his career, will the Rams need him to play through the pain now that they have a fully stocked tight end room? It is quite likely that Higbee will no longer man a feature role in the Rams offense. But his role is not just dependent on the continued development of Terrance Ferguson and incoming Round 2 pick Max Klare, it may also hinge on how the youngsters are used in the 2026 offense. If they are in games as a pseudo-WR#3, Higbee should have a fair share of the rotation. He’s a better blocker than both youngsters and Sean McVay/Matthew Stafford are comfortable targeting him, particularly on screen passes. Davis Allen – 6’6” 245 lb. Allen enters his fourth season in L.A. and is in the final year of his rookie contract. He’s coming off his best season as a pro, playing in all 20 games with six starts and logging 585 offensive reps, second amongst Rams tight ends, along with 211 on special teams. According to Next Gen stats, Allen was on the field for 100 percent of snaps when the Rams aligned with three tight ends (“13” formation). He caught 24 of 33 targets (three drops) for 208 yards, accounting for three touchdowns and 12 first downs. For coming into the league as a receiver-first tight end, Allen has really worked on upgrading his blocking. Known a a vacuum coming onto the league, he strangely has had some drops. Likely best suited to shorter routes and red zone work, his burst is adequate, but lumbers in space. Good explosiveness for contested catches and jump balls. Solid hand/eye coordination and body control as well. Long, lean build doesn’t look much bigger than when he got to L.A. As a blocker, his technique and hand work are much improved, he squares up and seals off, and has become much more [... truncated ...]
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Random Ramsdom: Reports they were interested in a receiver during draft
Reports are that the Los Angeles Rams were interested in drafting De’Zhaun Stribling during the 2026 NFL Draft, but Stribling was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second-round well before the Rams had a chance to take him. Some critics say that the 49ers reached for Stribling. Maybe. Odds are that the 49ers took Stribling before another team could, so if it was a reach, it was a risk the 49ers were willing to take to get their guy. I think that’s good management, in theory. Get who you want. Now, we’ll see if they can make the pick work, but I don’t doubt the 49ers will be able to incorporate Stribling as long as he stays healthy, we’ll see. This topic may be worth a re-visit later. Either way, the Rams took a receiver in CJ Daniels later in the draft, and some have high hopes for him . The Rams likely do which is why they took him. Always interesting to hear reports like this after the draft and seeing what teams actually thought or wanted during their respective drafts. Of course, we don’t know that all of these reports are facts, per se, but interesting nonetheless. It’s Wednesday. Please comment on whatever you want and thank you for checking out Turf Show Times! “According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter , the Rams were one of the teams that “had eyes” on Ole Miss receiver De’Zhaun Stribling. But before L.A. could land the receiver (their next pick after No. 13 was at No. 61) , the San Francisco 49ers swooped in to secure Stribling at No. 33. “There were a couple of teams that I spoke to leading up to the draft that felt like that De’Zhaun Stribling was the best wide receiver in the draft. Another team, supposedly the Los Angeles Rams had eyes on him as well,” Schefter said this week. “The 49ers didn’t just come up with this pick out of nowhere, they knew that there were other teams that had a very high grade on Stribling when the 49ers declined to trade out the top draft slot in the second round and take him there.” “What’s going on right now is he’s trying to get back into football shape,” Schefter said on the Pat McAfee Show. “My understanding is it’s going to be a while before we hear a final decision about him coming back. When he comes back, he’s going to want to be Aaron Donald and he’s not going to come back unless he feels like he’s Aaron Donald. And that’s why it sounds like it’s not going to be a quick verdict from him – that he’s going to be ramping up all during training camp and this may go towards the start of the regular season before we hear that he has or hasn’t signed with the team. He’s going through it all right now. This is his own pre-training camp routine.” “ Nate Atkins of The Athletic noted how Nacua is the one player on the Rams with the most on the line in 2026. With a looming contract that could be north of $160 million total, Nacua needs to prove his off-field issues are behind him. “Nacua spent weeks this offseason in a holistic care facility to try to curb some of these issues, and the Rams are making it clear to him that he will need a pattern of strong behavior to undo the concerns in order to earn the payday that his production justifies,” Atkins writes.“
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The traits that could carry CJ Daniels to a key role on Rams
It appears that L.A. Rams ’ receivers Jordan Whittington and Konata Mumpfield will have some serious competition for Sean McVay’s number three spot, because rookie C.J. Daniels has traits that make him one of the most intriguing players to watch in training camp this year. Although he was only the 197th pick in the draft, Daniels shares a couple of traits in common with the Rams’ two biggest stars at the position: Puka Nacua and Davante Adams . Even if Daniels doesn’t become an NFL superstar like those two, Les Snead clearly traded a few late picks to move up for him for a reason, and I think those include a Puka-like toughness and Davante-like route running. As you can see in this highlight from his time at Miami , Daniels is also no stranger to the nifty one-handed catch: With catches like this, it’s still a bit dumbfounding that Daniels fell all the way to the sixth round. There’s no doubt he would have landed somewhere eventually, and while it would be foolish to try to compare any receiver to Nacua and Adams, Daniels displays many of the traits that Snead and McVay look for in their receivers: Willing and capable run blocker, per NFL Draft Buzz Competitive toughness shows up in contested catch situations; converted 11 of 17 contested targets at Miami for a 64.7% rate while also drawing 3 pass interference calls. Fantastic ball-tracking skills , allowing Daniels to make over-the-shoulder catches in stride When you watch CJ Daniels on tape, you notice how easy he makes it all look. During his breakout year at Liberty, albeit against lesser opponents, he forced 31 missed tackles on only 55 receptions and averaged 5.9 yards after contact; that’s yet another trait that seems similar to Puka. The toughness to never go down. They weren’t all weak opponents at Liberty: Daniels had 8 catches for 79 yards in the Fiesta Bowl against No. 6 Oregon. Puka Nacua isn’t the only one who Daniels seems to emulate a little bit. Much like Davante Adams, Daniels has those little, subtle moves, the head fakes and the tempo changes to sell routes and get instant separation in short-yardage situations. And although his 40 time of 4.58 seconds surely dropped him in the draft, it’s not that much different than the 4.56 that Adams ran once upon a time. That’s why Adams learned how to use the twitchy moves and head fakes to create separation on his downfield routes. Now Daniels has Adams as a teammate who he can study up close. One of the traits you see over and over in Les Snead’s and Sean McVay’s draft choices is a high football IQ. With the sophisticated schemes the Rams use on both offense and defense, players must be able to understand the concepts or they will never fit on the team. Per NFL Draft Buzz, Daniels wins with his brain to overcome shortcomings as an athlete: “ Daniels is the type of receiver who probably won’t light up a room during the pre-draft process, but put his tape on and you see a guy who understands how to play the position. His route craft is legitimate . He uses his lower body to deceive defenders, changes pace within his stems, and consistently wins out of breaks with quickness rather than raw speed. The savvy is real, and it shows up week after week regardless of the uniform he’s wearing. He’s not going to run by NFL corners on go routes, but he’ll find ways to get open on the intermediate and short areas of the field where most offenses live anyway. “ Daniels fits best in a McVay type offense that values precision over explosiveness. Concepts built around timing throws, screen packages, and route combinations that create space through design fit him to a T. But now he has to prove himself in the ultimate “T”…an NFL Training camp. Daniels will face off against the likes of Whittington, Mumpfield, Xavier Smith , and others for a wide receiver 3 role that may ultimately not get that many snaps anyway. If McVay insists on running as many 12 and 13 personnel concepts as he did in 2025, the team’s third recei [... truncated ...]
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Jordan Whittington Competing for WR3 Role in 2026
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Jordan Whittington will be competing for the WR3 role in training camp this summer behind Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, according to Nate Atkins of The Athletic. Whittington was on the field more for the Rams in Year 2 in 2025, but his production dropped from his rookie campaign, as he caught just 18 of 25 targets for 171 yards and zero touchdowns in 17 regular-season games (six starts). The 25-year-old former sixth-rounder in 2024 out of the University of Texas had 22 catches for 293 yards and zero TDs in 15 games (three starts) as a rookie in 2024. Even if he wins the WR3 job this summer over the likes of Xavier Smith, Konata Mumpfield, CJ Daniels, and Tyler Scott, Whittington will be off the fantasy football radar in most single-year formats as long as both Nacua and Adams stay healthy
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Two Rams draft picks from a year ago ranked worst at their positions
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Two 2025 Rams draft picks, Konata Mumpfield (WR) and Ty Hamilton (DT), have been ranked among the worst at their positions for their rookie seasons. Mumpfield has a chance to see increased snaps due to the Rams' lack of offseason investment at receiver, competing with Jordan Whittington and CJ Daniels. Hamilton is currently deep on the depth chart behind Kobie Turner, Braden Fiske, and Poona Ford, despite seeing increased playing time late in the season and playoffs. Both were late-round picks, and improvement is expected in 2026 for them to secure long-term roster spots
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CJ Daniels a Low-Priority Dynasty Stash
The Rams selected WR CJ Daniels in the sixth round of the 2026 NFL Draft, adding him to a wide receiver room led by Puka Nacua and Davante Adams. Daniels will compete for the third receiver spot, but fantasy relevance is limited due to the team's tight end focus. However, with Adams aging and Nacua's injury history, Daniels has potential as an injury fill-in and is a deep league stash
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Crowded Tight End Room Impacting Max Klare's Dynasty Stock?
Los Angeles Rams tight end Max Klare has an intriguing dynasty outlook as a second-round pick, but a crowded position room adds an extra wrinkle to his fantasy stock. The Rams spent a second-round pick on a tight end for the second year in a row, pairing Klare with Terrance Ferguson (as well as veterans Tyler Higbee and Colby Parkinson). The Rams are a pass-heavy offense, which is encouraging, but there's no denying that there is still plenty of competition for targets. In addition to the four tight ends, Matthew Stafford will be busy throwing to Davante Adams and Puka Nacua, and to a lesser extent, Konata Mumpfield and CJ Daniels. Managers find themselves in a predicament when trying to forecast Klare's role. On one hand, we know the coaching staff wants to get him involved, since they spent a 2026 second-round pick on him. On the other hand, as a rookie, he's at a disadvantage relative to the other tight ends who have more experience in the Rams' system. Managers will likely have to be patient, as Klare has the potential to be the Rams' No. 1 tight end down the road, but he'll presumably struggle to achieve weekly fantasy relevance in 2026. For what it's worth, the experts are equally intrigued by his long-term outlook. He ranks as RotoBaller's TE20 in the latest dynasty rankings, and he projects as a late third-round pick in most 2026 rookie drafts
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Rams’ Sean McVay lays out vision for rookie wide receiver
Sean McVay discussed his vision for rookie wide receiver CJ Daniels, whom the Rams selected in the sixth round of the NFL Draft. McVay highlighted Daniels' maturity and engagement, comparing his potential to Puka Nacua's successful late-round drafting. Daniels will compete for a starting role against Jordan Whittington and Xavier Smith
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