Jordan Addison 2026 Season Preview — a down year on a suspension and bad QB play | Muffed

Jordan Addison was a top-fifteen-ish receiver in each of his first two seasons, then took a step back in 2025 — three games lost to a suspension, the rest dragged down by shaky quarterback play. He's the forty-fourth receiver off the board, closing our run at pick ninety-eight. The Muffed 2026 preview.

The 2025 season was the down year: after a three-game suspension to open it, forty-two catches on seventy-nine targets for six hundred ten yards and three touchdowns over fourteen games, nine-seven a game, WR46 per game. The signature was a nine-catch, a hundred twenty-eight-yard day against Philadelphia in Week 7 — the talent flashing through a frustrating year. The volume and the scoring both slipped.

The arc is the reason for interest: thirteen a game as a rookie, fourteen-two in year two — two genuinely productive seasons as Minnesota's number two next to Justin Jefferson — and then the nine-seven dip. The first two years are the player; 2025 was the disruption.

What the data says: his touchdown rate is low, a positive-regression note, and the underlying talent that produced two top-fifteen-ish seasons doesn't vanish in a year. The dip tracks with the suspension and the quarterback play more than any decline in him.

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The situation, per the reports, is the swing: the down year was largely subpar quarterback play, and 2026 hinges on whether J.J. McCarthy — coming off a hand injury — takes a step, or Minnesota upgrades. Addison's not expected to face another suspension, and the team picked up his fifth-year option, a vote of confidence. Better quarterback play unlocks the player; more of the same caps him.

The price: pick ninety-eight, the forty-fourth receiver. Verdict: WATCHLIST — two prior productive seasons and a clean, healthy slate argue he's underpriced; the quarterback uncertainty that sank 2025 argues you can't bank the bounce. The counter for him: a proven number-two next to a defense-bending alpha, with home-run ability, at WR44, is value if the quarterback play improves. Against: that's the same "if" that broke last year. The talent says buy; the quarterback says watch.

September watch: J.J. McCarthy's play — the whole swing; and Addison's target share next to Jefferson. Your guys, every week. That closes the run — previews now cover the entire ADP top hundred.