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Elic Ayomanor

WR·Tennessee Titans·#5·6'2"·206 lb·Rookie·Stanford
Tier 1Round 4, pick 136 in 2025
Updated November 4, 2026
70.4
Model Score
Down from 71.4 last year
Trade value ·a 7th

Elic Ayomanor has 13 catches, 211 receiving yards and 1 touchdown in 8 games for the Tennessee Titans this season through Week 8, 5 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).

Model Score by season

Down 1.0 from last season.

708070.420252026

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

A boundary receiver still stuck in a rotational role.

The case for

  • Famous 2023 Stanford game vs Colorado (13 catches, 294 yards, 3 TDs against Travis Hunter) showed elite contested-catch and route-running ability. 6'2"/206 is solid boundary WR build.
  • Six games of 7+ PPR in his rookie sample including a Wk 17 13.7 PPR is meaningful rookie production at a 4th-round value. Tennessee's investment guarantees roster spots through 2027.

The worry

  • Rookie tier 8 finish with multiple sub-3 PPR weeks (1.5, 2.7, 3.1) confirms the role was still rotational.
  • Calvin Ridley's $92M contract caps the alpha-target ceiling. Cam Ward's career arc remains unknown.

What to watch: Whether his 2026 target share clears 5 per game with Cam Ward in Year 2, the threshold every developing WR2 has historically needed to hit.

Full take and bio

The 2025 #85 (tier 8) rookie finish on a 4th-round draft slot is reasonable for a small-school developmental piece. Wks 14, 16, and 17 produced 8.4, 8.8, and 13.7 PPR, which is the floor of a defined WR3 role. The Wk 13 1.5 and Wk 15 2.7 sub-3 PPR games show what the rotation looked like when defenses bracketed Ridley. The 2026 trajectory depends on Cam Ward's development and Ridley's role stability.

Ayomanor came out of Stanford as Tennessee's 4th-round pick (109th overall) in 2025 after a junior season that produced 63 catches for 831 yards. He earned national attention as a sophomore for a 13-catch, 294-yard, 3-touchdown performance against Colorado where he repeatedly beat Travis Hunter in coverage. At 6'2" and 206 pounds he profiles as a boundary WR with above-average physical traits. Tennessee drafted him as the long-term complement to Calvin Ridley and a development piece for Cam Ward.

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Plays like: Brandon Tate, Mike Williams, Louis Murphy. Built like: Nick Toon, Geremy Davis, Kenny Britt. Coming out: Justin Blackmon, DeVante Parker, A.J. Green.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 3 stars, 9 starters, 8 backups, 0 didn't stick.

Elic Ayomanor Props This Weekat CIN

MarketLineOverUnder
Receptions2.5-145 Bovada+110 Bovada
Receiving yards33.5-110 Bovada-120 Bovada

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Elic Ayomanor Injury StatusNot listed

Elic Ayomanor is not on the injury report as of Nov 4. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

This season · 8 games

Rec13
Rec Yds211
Rec TD1
Targets26
Yds/Gm26.4
Fantasy PPG5.0
EPA / target1.723
Avg separation2.5 yd
Avg cushion4.6 yd
YAC over exp0.2
Catch %51.4%

5 fantasy points a game, 40 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.

Contract2026 cap

2026 Cap Hit
$1.2M
APY
$1.2M/yr
Guaranteed at Signing
$666K
Years on Deal
4
Signed
2025
Est. Value
$4.7M/yr
underpaid by $3.5M/yr

Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.

Fantasy outlookWeek 9

Our rest-of-season board has Elic Ayomanor at WR97 (the public consensus says WR98); the model has 52 PPR points left for him this season; this week he visits CIN.

Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.

Draft & College

Round 4, pick 136 to the Tennessee Titans in 2025, out of Stanford (ACC). He lasted longer than consensus.

Taken#136
Consensus board75th
Our college model#65 WR

In college, 2023-2024, 24 games: 125 rec, 1,834 yds, 12 TD, 14.7 yds/rec. Coming out: RAS 9.71, 4.44s 40 yd, 38" vertical, 127" broad.

Recruited

Class of 2022 · Receiver · High school: Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 923 in the nation. Composite 0.8633, the recruiting sites' average

His full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2022 class are still being added.

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