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5 Wide Receivers Our Experts Like Less Than ECR (2021 Fantasy Football)


 
Rankings are the backbone of your fantasy football draft preparation. Rather than use the rankings from a single person, we provide you with a consensus of over 100 fantasy football experts via our Expert Consensus Rankings.

Today, we’re taking a look at players our experts — Mike Tagliere, Kyle Yates, Dan Harris, and Joe Pisapia — are lower on versus our Expert Consensus Rankings. You can find the consensus of our four analysts here.

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Mike Evans (TB)
Our Experts WR19 | Expert Consensus Ranking WR13

What Evans has done throughout his career is no small feat. In his seven seasons in the NFL, Evans has never finished with less than 1,000 receiving yards in any given year. With that being said, he’s a roller coaster to have on your fantasy football roster. Last season, Evans had numerous games where he only had one to three receptions, but he was able to come down with a touchdown on several occasions to save his fantasy output. Evans brings some massive upside based on his size, skillset, and talent. However, fantasy managers need consistency from their WRs if they’re being drafted at a premium price. There’s a possibility that we see Evans move up into the top-12 WRs in ADP by the time draft season rolls around. He’ll provide you with some of those week-winning performances, but that’s too steep of a price for me to get on board with that unpredictability.
– Kyle Yates

Tyler Lockett (SEA)
Our Experts WR24 | Expert Consensus Ranking WR20

Sure, Lockett finished as the No. 9 fantasy wide receiver last year, but ask anyone who rostered him if he was a WR1. Heck, as them if he was a reliable WR2. The answer would be no, as he finished with WR2 or better numbers just 37.5 percent of the time which was behind players like Diontae Johnson, Curtis Samuel, John Brown, and Jamison Crowder. How’s that possible? Because 48.7 percent of his production last year came from just three games. He’s going to have massive games, but relying on him as anything more than a volatile WR3 is going to lead to disappointment.
– Mike Tagliere

Kenny Golladay (NYG)
Our Experts WR27 | Expert Consensus Ranking WR25

Going to a new team is never easy, especially for someone who’s coming from a team that was lacking any depth of pass catchers. It was easy for him to get eight-plus targets per game, especially when Marvin Jones was hurt. Now going to the Giants, who have a bevy of options, including Sterling Shepard, Kadarius Toney, Darius Slayton, Evan Engram, Kyle Rudolph, and Saquon Barkley is going to be tough. To be fair, you don’t go out in free agency and sign someone like Golladay to give him five targets per game, but he’s not going to get the consistent targets he got in Detroit, and the targets he does get aren’t going to be as efficient coming from Daniel Jones.
– Mike Tagliere

Tyler Boyd (WAS)
Our Experts WR38 | Expert Consensus Ranking WR33

For the past couple of seasons, Tyler Boyd has been the definition of consistency. In 2018, he finished as the WR17, meanwhile he was the WR23 in 2019. Additionally, through the first 10 weeks of the 2020 season – when Burrow was healthy – Boyd was the WR18 in all of fantasy football. Once Burrow left the lineup though, Boyd’s production fell off a cliff and he was the WR66 from Weeks 11-17. There are certainly reasons to be optimistic that Boyd can get back to performing at a top-tier level, but it all comes down to the difference between AJ Green last season and Ja’Marr Chase entering the lineup. Boyd was performing well because of Green’s inefficiencies and inability to make the most out of his targets. Chase should see as much – if not more – work than Green did and he has the ability to capitalize on his opportunity. At that point, once you factor in Tee Higgins too, there’s not much left over for Boyd to perform as a top-20 receiver like he was last season. He’ll still be very fantasy relevant, but he should play third fiddle to Chase and Higgins in this offense.
– Kyle Yates

Will Fuller (MIA)
Our Experts WR40 | Expert Consensus Ranking WR37

Not only will Fuller finish up his suspension and miss Week 1 this year, but he’ll also be returning to the field with a new quarterback, and let’s just say that life without Deshaun Watson hasn’t been kind to him. In 20 games with non-Watson quarterbacks, Fuller has averaged 6.0 targets, 3.1 receptions, 38.7 yards, and 0.10 touchdowns, which is a far cry from his 6.5 targets, 4.5 receptions, 70.6 yards, and 0.67 touchdowns per game with Watson under center. Can Tua Tagovailoa take a step forward in his career in 2021? Sure, but he’s not going to be Watson, and there are suddenly tons of options for him to throw to, which means Fuller is going to have to fight for his target share. There’s more risk than you’d like with Fuller, who’s also had his fair share of injuries throughout his career. Getting him as a WR4 would be ideal, as you aren’t relying on him for production week-in and week-out.
– Mike Tagliere

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