Fantasy Draft Strategy at the Wide Receiver Position

An ever-deepening wide receiver pool is a fact of life in the fantasy football world. With winning options at every price point, there is no shortage of ways to successfully attack the position. Michael Beller, Jake Ciely and Brandon Funston take a wide-ranging look at wide receiver on this episode of The Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast. Rundown 2:08 Wide Receiver is Deeeeeeeep 6:57 Any Scenario Where You'd Go WR-WR to Start a Draft? 10:59 How Does WR Depth Influence Overall Team-Building Strategy? 14:34 Quick RB Aside: When Did D'Andre Swift's Stock Start Exploding? 18:08 I Like This Receiver, But... 24:21 Stacking Tampa Bay or Atlanta Receivers 32:00 Properly Valued Receivers We're Targeting Aggressively 36:33 An Extended Conversation on Tyler Lockett 41:38 Draft Him, Not Him 42:26 Tyreek Hill/Marquise Brown 43:32 Amari Cooper/Many Receivers (Jake, Obviously) 45:51 Robert Woods/Tyler Boyd 48:07 John Brown/Mike Williams, with an Extended Conversation on Mike Williams 50:59 Breaking News on Miles Sanders Follow Beller on Twitter: @MBeller Follow Jake on Twitter: @allinkid Follow Brandon on Twitter: @BrandonFunston Get 40% off the first year of your subscription to The Athletic at theathletic.com/fantasyfootballpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.