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We’re working our way through the Shuffle Up series for the new fantasy football draft season. The dollar values you’ll see below are unscientific in nature but reflect how I see the clusters of talent at the wide receiver position. Use these tiers however you like.
We’ve already put the tight ends and quarterbacks through the car wash. Today we work on the wideouts. Running backs will come later in the week.
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Wide Receiver Overview
This is a critical position for me because most of my roster builds are going to be dominated by early-round receivers. I prefer an Anchor RB (sometimes called Hero RB) build, where the idea is to get one significant runner you trust in an early round and otherwise focus on other positions. But for me, that non-RB focus is almost always going to be driven by the receiver chase.
The simple concept is this: I want a roster of wide receivers who start themselves.
I do not want to play the guessing game on which WR in the 40-60 range is going to have a playable WR15 type of week. Obviously, I will pick some bench receivers too, with the hope that some of them will emerge into credible weekly plays. But when we’re talking about finding talent on the waiver wire, you’re less likely to grab an impactful wideout than a key player at any other position.
I know, Puka Nacua happened last year. That’s a major exception, not some new rule.
The Big Tickets
$45 CeeDee Lamb
$43 Tyreek Hill
$43 Ja’Marr Chase
$41 Justin Jefferson
$41 Amon-Ra St. Brown
$39 A.J. Brown
$37 Puka Nacua
$37 Garrett Wilson
Lamb’s game climbed a level during an absurd closing kick last year; over his final 11 games, he posted a 101-1, 274-11 line, with touchdowns in nine of his starts. Generally speaking, early-summer holdout talk rarely amounts to missed time in-season; Le’Veon Bell is the one notable exception in…
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Publish date : 2024-07-08 19:26:29
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