Drake London Fantasy Outlook 2026: The Injury Is Gone, The Production Never Left

What the injury obscured

Drake London played 12 of 17 games in 2025 and finished as the 19th receiver in fantasy with 201.9 points. That number reads like a collapse until you divide it by games played: 16.8 points per game, which ranked seventh at the position.

The cause of the missed time was a hamstring injury that cost him five games in the middle of the season, not a skill regression or a role change. When he was on the field he caught 68 passes for 919 yards and seven touchdowns, playing to a per-game pace that would have produced 96 receptions, 1,300 yards, and ten touchdowns over a full season.

Compare that to what the market had posted before 2025: 96.35 receptions, 1,125.5 receiving yards, and 7.5 receiving touchdowns. He beat the yardage pace and matched the reception pace despite missing five weeks. The projection was not wrong about what he would do when healthy. It was just wrong about how many games that would be.

London's per-game numbers in 2025 were better than his 2024 breakout pace, and the market is charging you less for him now than it did a year ago.

The 2024 breakout that made him draftable

The reason London entered 2025 ranked seventh at the position by Vegas and tenth by ESPN was his 2024 season: 100 receptions, 1,271 yards, and nine touchdowns across 17 games. That finish put him fifth among all receivers in total fantasy points and established him as Atlanta's clear top target in an offense that had just added Kirk Cousins at quarterback.

His career target share is 28%, and over the past two seasons he has drawn 25 end zone looks, converting them at a rate that matches what the top-ten receivers do in the red zone. The volume is not scheme noise and it is not splitting with another receiver—London commands the role.