Nothing makes the NFL more fun than fantasy football and few things make fantasy sports more fun than rankings, rankings, and more rankings. WRs are ranked in this post with the ESPN and Yahoo! standard fractional scoring.
Rank |
Player |
Team |
1 |
Odell Beckham Jr. |
|
2 |
Julio Jones |
|
3 |
Randall Cobb |
|
4 |
A.J. Green |
|
5 |
Demaryius Thomas |
|
6 |
Larry Fitzgerald |
|
7 |
Antonio Brown |
|
8 |
DeAndre Hopkins |
|
9 |
Calvin Johnson |
|
10 |
Brandon Marshall |
|
11 |
Alshon Jeffery |
|
12 |
Julian Edelman* |
|
13 |
Jordan Matthews |
|
14 |
Amari Cooper |
|
15 |
T.Y. Hilton* |
|
16 |
Emmanuel Sanders* |
Broncos |
17 |
Mike Evans |
|
18 |
James Jones |
Packers |
19 |
Allen Robinson |
|
20 |
Brandin Cooks* |
|
21 |
Keenan Allen* |
|
22 |
Jeremy Maclin* |
|
23 |
Vincent Jackson |
Buccaneers |
24 |
Kendall Wright* |
|
25 |
Davante Adams |
Packers |
26 |
Eric Decker |
Jets |
27 |
Donte Moncrief |
Colts |
28 |
Dez Bryant* |
|
29 |
Jarvis Landry* |
|
30 |
Allen Hurns |
Jaguars |
31 |
Leonard Hankerson |
Falcons |
32 |
Martavis Bryant |
Steelers |
33 |
Rishard Matthews |
Dolphins |
34 |
Travis Benjamin |
|
35 |
Mike Wallace* |
|
36 |
Brandon LaFell |
Patriots |
37 |
Michael Crabtree |
Raiders |
38 |
Kamar Aiken |
|
39 |
Willie Snead* |
Saints |
40 |
Rueben Randle* |
Giants |
41 |
DeSean Jackson |
Washington |
42 |
Sammy Watkins |
|
43 |
Marvin Jones |
Bengals |
44 |
Golden Tate |
Lions |
45 |
Steve Smith* |
Ravens |
46 |
Eddie Royal |
Bears |
47 |
Victor Cruz |
Giants |
48 |
Breshad Perriman |
Ravens |
49 |
Terrance Williams |
Cowboys |
50 |
Devante Parker |
Dolphins |
51 |
Cole Beasley* |
Cowboys |
52 |
Cecil Shorts |
Texans |
53 |
John Brown |
Cardinals |
54 |
Ty Montgomery |
Packers |
55 |
Ted Ginn |
|
56 |
Steve Johnson |
Chargers |
57 |
Percy Harvin |
Bills |
58 |
Devin Funchess |
Panthers |
59 |
Pierre Garcon* |
Washington |
60 |
Tyler Lockett |
|
61 |
Kenny Britt |
|
62 |
Doug Baldwin* |
Seahawks |
63 |
Mohamed Sanu |
Bengals |
64 |
Nate Washington |
Texans |
65 |
Tavon Austin |
Rams |
66 |
Nelson Agholor |
Eagles |
67 |
Roddy White |
Falcons |
68 |
Dorial Green-Beckham |
Titans |
69 |
Justin Hunter |
Titans |
70 |
Anquan Boldin |
|
71 |
Torrey Smith |
49ers |
72 |
Marques Colston |
Saints |
73 |
Jermaine Kearse |
Seahawks |
74 |
Charles Johnson |
Vikings |
75 |
Andre Johnson |
Colts |
* - notable players with increased PPR value |
Notes:
- There is a special bump for the Patriots and Titans receivers, who have 13 games remaining in their regular seasons against everyone else's 12.
- As we go down the rankings, there is an increase in the weight of strength of schedule. And the better matchups sooner than later because there is sell-high value to come. These are not weekly rankings, but the idea of these rankings is to measure whom we should be owning now over whom. For example, an WR3 with a bad schedule until Week 12 is useless to our rosters compared a below average WR4 with two or three nice matchups in the coming weeks.
- There are a lot of injured players in these rankings. Their value combine my expectation of how many weeks they will play for how many points plus replacement level values of roughly eight points per week for the weeks they are expected to miss.
- Antonio Brown and Odell Beckham, Jr. are most noteworthy. Brown falling to WR7 is simply an indictment of Michael Vick, as I have him projected as a low-end WR2 while Ben Roethlisberger is out. He will rise as Roethlisberger is closer to returning and will fall with any setbacks. Beckham is WR1 instead of WR2 because his schedule is amazing, while Julio Jones' is around the middle of the pack. Not an indictment of Jones at all, but a slightly greater expectation of monster weeks to come.
- I have zero interest in WRs who don't get the ball enough to elevate above replacement level. I don't care how good they are IRL. Players who are not getting snaps but have upside greater than the Anquan Boldins of the NFL are more worthy of roster spots. If a guy will never enter our lineups, the bench spots are better utilized by stashing players with upside--especially at the WR position where boom potential is greatest.
- Do your research and use rankings cautiously, as they are always a work-in-progress. Rankings are a bad tools to tell us what to do. They are conversation starters, tier setters, value mirrors, and a combination of the scientific explanations of what has happened with the art of predicting what will happen. Feel free to supply contrary evidence to me on Twitter at @AlexSontySBN or in the comments. They will help me help you.