

Fantasy Football Wide Receivers Tier 3: The Third Round ADP There’s no chance Hopkins averages 10+ targets a game again and taking him as the WR5 is just asking too much of him. The Cardinals have Larry Fitzgerald, Christian Kirk, and took two WRs in the first 103 picks last season. Over the last six seasons, he’s averaged over ten targets per game with a lot less competition for targets. His yards per reception have decreased each of the last three seasons, and he is going to lose his biggest fantasy asset: targets. Julio is immortal and will be a top-five wide receiver until the end of time, he’s the most recent WR to get 200+ targets, but Calvin Ridley, Todd Gurley and Hayden Hurst cap a repeat of that. He won’t get as many targets as Davante Adams, but the targets are going to be about three yards deeper, on average. Then you get Hill, who is the deep shot guy for the most potent offense in the NFL, he was banged up last year but when he played, he tied for the sixth-highest air yards market share last season. Rob Moore holds the NFL record for targets in a season with 208 targets in 1997, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Adams, who paced out to 200 targets from week ten until seventeen in 2018, has breaking that record in his profile. Adams is going to be an absolute target monster this season, and is the only player who can contend for the WR1 throne.

They offer four different 2020 receiver profiles. These are the tippy top of the guys not named Michael Thomas. Fantasy Football Wide Receivers Tier 2: The Elite ADP If you pick after 1.07 and Michael Thomas is still on the board: smash that draft button. If you aren’t convinced by Dalvin Cook or Derrick Henry and you pick between 1.05 and 1.07, you’re probably going to end up with Michael Thomas on your roster. There’s only one challenger to his throne as the WR1, but we will get to that in a second. There isn’t much argument that he shouldn’t be the first wide receiver off the board, in all formats. Thomas is a slam dunk pick after the first four running backs are off the board, and shouldn’t go any later than pick seven in the first round. He broke the record last year with 149 catches, and his 300.1 fantasy point sin HPPR was the most since Antonio Brown’s 310.2 in 2015. It’s Michael Thomas, who led the league in receptions in each of the last two seasons. Fantasy Football Wide Receivers Tier 1: Michael Thomas ADP Part two comes tomorrow with the second half of the tiers. So, today’s wide receiver tiers article covers tiers one through seven. This is part one, as I did not want to inundate folks with too much information. That’s why this wide receiver tiers piece focuses on grouping the players into tiers by average draft position. Fantasy football drafting is all about getting the players you want at their ADP while taking into account the players you’re skipping at their ADP.
