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Devaughn Vele
Devaughn Vele is a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints. Depth chart: WR2.
Scouting report
Devaughn Vele: the full picture
Devaughn Vele at a glance
Devaughn Vele is a 28-year-old wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, listed at 6'5" and 210 pounds. The Denver Broncos drafted Vele 235th overall in the seventh round in 2024, out of Utah; this is year three in the league.
2026 projection
Our season projection has Vele at 100.0 PPR points for 2026, which ranks WR85 at the position and works out to 7.3 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Vele has scored 69.4 PPR points, or 11.6 per game. That is 69.4% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Vele would finish with about 197 points, ahead of the 100.0 projected. The best week so far is 19.9 points in Week 1 against DET, the WR10 finish that week. Vele has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 2 of 6 games, a 33% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Vele ranks in the 79th percentile in receptions, the 69th percentile in receiving yards and the 68th percentile in receiving TDs. One of the 6 tracked categories sits at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 8th percentile in average separation.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Vele has finished as WR75 in 2024 and WR95 in 2025. The high-water mark is 106.5 PPR points in 2024. Across 28 regular-season games on record, the totals read 94 receptions, 1,062 receiving yards and 7 receiving touchdowns.
Devaughn Vele by the numbers
Vele has finished in the top twelve 2 times. The career high is 23.3 PPR points, set in Week 13 of 2025 against MIA. In all, Vele has reached 20 points in 1 game, 4% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Vele drew 7.4 targets per game at an average depth of 9.6 air yards. 24% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 6 targets came in the red zone.
Contract
Vele is playing on a four-year, $4.1 million contract signed in 2024, an average of $1.0 million per year with $104,480 guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2027 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Vele carries a GV stock price of 2,922, which ranks 234th overall and WR85 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Vele 197th overall. Value has moved up 2.7 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Dontayvion Wicks, Demarcus Robinson and Tre Tucker. See where Vele sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 100.0
- PPR / game
- 7.3
Week 3 projection
Devaughn Vele is projected for 8.3 PPR points at home against LV in week 3, with a likely range of 0.0 to 22.8.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 2.7 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 27.2
- Dynasty
- 28.3
- Superflex redraft
- 43.5
- Superflex dynasty
- 41.3
- TE premium dynasty
- 17.1
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | NO | 6 | 43 | 28 | 294 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 69.4 |
| 2025 | NO | 9 | 39 | 25 | 293 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.3 |
| 2024 | DEN | 13 | 55 | 41 | 475 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 106.5 |
Wide receivers ranked near Devaughn Vele
- Mack Hollins WR82 · 103.8 PPR
- Jordyn Tyson WR83 · 102.2 PPR
- Andrei Iosivas WR84 · 100.0 PPR
- Kayshon Boutte WR86 · 97.8 PPR
- Tyreek Hill WR87 · 97.8 PPR
- Adonai Mitchell WR88 · 96.8 PPR
New Orleans Saints fantasy players
- Tyler Shough QB · 241.5 PPR
- Chris Olave WR · 228.6 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
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.