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Chris Olave
Chris Olave is a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints. Depth chart: WR1.
Scouting report
Chris Olave: the full picture
Chris Olave at a glance
Chris Olave is a 26-year-old wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, listed at 6'0" and 187 pounds. The New Orleans Saints drafted Olave 11th overall in the first round in 2022, out of Ohio State; this is year five in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Olave at 228.6 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR11 at the position and works out to 15.7 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Olave has scored 113.0 PPR points, or 18.8 per game. That is 49.4% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Olave would finish with about 320 points, ahead of the 228.6 projected. The best week so far is 28.2 points in Week 1 against DET, the WR5 finish that week. Olave has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 5 of 6 games, a 83% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Olave ranks in the 98th percentile in receiving yards, the 97th percentile in receptions and the 87th percentile in target share. Three of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Olave has finished as WR25 in 2022, WR16 in 2023, WR94 in 2024 and WR6 in 2025. One of those 4 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 268.0 PPR points in 2025. Across 61 regular-season games on record, the totals read 334 receptions, 4,308 receiving yards and 21 receiving touchdowns.
Chris Olave by the numbers
Olave has finished in the weekly top five at the position 4 times and finished in the top twelve 16 times. The career high is 36.8 PPR points, set in Week 16 of 2025 against NYJ. The game log also shows 1 game of 30 or more PPR points and 15 100-yard receiving games. In all, Olave has reached 20 points in 12 games, 20% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Olave drew 10.8 targets per game at an average depth of 13.5 air yards. 31% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 5 targets came in the red zone.
Contract
Olave is playing on a four-year, $124 million contract signed with the New Orleans Saints in 2026, an average of $31 million per year with $52.7 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2029 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Olave carries a GV stock price of 8,751, which ranks 9th overall and WR5 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Olave 11th overall. Value has moved up 0.5 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Justin Jefferson, Jalen Coker and DeVonta Smith. See where Olave sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 228.6
- PPR / game
- 15.7
Week 1 projection
Chris Olave is projected for 17.4 PPR points on the road at DET in week 1, with a likely range of 1.2 to 35.4.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 0.5 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 85.7
- Dynasty
- 84.8
- Superflex redraft
- 81.0
- Superflex dynasty
- 80.9
- TE premium dynasty
- 51.1
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NO | 6 | 61 | 43 | 580 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 113.0 |
| 2025 | NO | 16 | 156 | 100 | 1,163 | 9 | 1 | -3 | 268.0 |
| 2024 | NO | 8 | 44 | 32 | 400 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 76.7 |
| 2023 | NO | 16 | 138 | 87 | 1,123 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 231.3 |
| 2022 | NO | 15 | 119 | 72 | 1,042 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 198.2 |
Wide receivers ranked near Chris Olave
- Nico Collins WR8 · 232.4 PPR
- DeVonta Smith WR9 · 229.2 PPR
- Tetairoa McMillan WR10 · 229.0 PPR
- Emeka Egbuka WR12 · 227.9 PPR
- Rashee Rice WR13 · 222.8 PPR
- George Pickens WR14 · 221.0 PPR
New Orleans Saints fantasy players
- Tyler Shough QB · 241.5 PPR
- Travis Etienne RB · 167.2 PPR
- Juwan Johnson TE · 126.4 PPR
- Jordyn Tyson WR · 102.2 PPR
- Alvin Kamara RB · 102.1 PPR
- Devaughn Vele WR · 100.0 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.