50 Players to Target From The Most Accurate NFL Experts (2022 Fantasy Football)

It’s important to know who to target and who to pass on when it comes to your fantasy football draft. To get a better sense of players to avoid and others to reach for, use our Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) and compare them to a player’s average draft position (ADP). Players that are going higher in ADP versus ECR are likely those that you want to reconsider at their current cost. On the flipside, players that experts are higher on versus ADP are those that could be worth reaching for, or at least targeting at their current ADP.

And you can use our expert accuracy rankings to help determine which experts to select when you are building your custom fantasy football draft cheat sheets.

Here’s a look at players the experts are targeting at their current ADP.

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50 Players to Target From The Most Accurate NFL Experts

RK	PLAYER NAME	TEAM	POS	ECR VS. ADP
4	Justin Jefferson	MIN	WR1	2
5	Dalvin Cook	MIN	RB4	2
15	Alvin Kamara	NO	RB9	4
30	Michael Pittman Jr.	IND	WR13	6
32	DJ Moore	CAR	WR14	12
33	Breece Hall	NYJ	RB17	8
37	Courtland Sutton	DEN	WR15	17
38	Mike Williams	LAC	WR16	11
39	Travis Etienne Jr.	JAC	RB19	6
44	Brandin Cooks	HOU	WR19	14
47	J.K. Dobbins	BAL	RB22	5
49	Allen Robinson II	LAR	WR21	12
57	Michael Thomas	NO	WR23	9
58	Darnell Mooney	CHI	WR24	15
60	Miles Sanders	PHI	RB27	11
61	JuJu Smith-Schuster	KC	WR25	15
68	Kareem Hunt	CLE	RB29	11
71	Rashaad Penny	SEA	RB30	9
72	Elijah Moore	NYJ	WR30	12
74	Chase Edmonds	MIA	RB31	13
76	Rashod Bateman	BAL	WR32	9
78	Dameon Pierce	HOU	RB32	40
84	DeVonta Smith	PHI	WR35	8
93	Allen Lazard	GB	WR37	9
98	Drake London	ATL	WR39	7
106	Pat Freiermuth	PIT	TE11	14
107	Darrell Henderson Jr.	LAR	RB40	8
110	Cole Kmet	CHI	TE12	24
114	Skyy Moore	KC	WR46	18
115	Nyheim Hines	IND	RB42	9
116	Tyler Allgeier	ATL	RB43	24
118	Jakobi Meyers	NE	WR48	62
119	Justin Fields	CHI	QB16	19
121	Hunter Henry	NE	TE13	48
123	Kenneth Gainwell	PHI	RB44	16
126	Albert Okwuegbunam	DEN	TE14	11
129	J.D. McKissic	WAS	RB47	16
130	Jamaal Williams	DET	RB48	28
133	Brian Robinson Jr.	WAS	RB49	27
134	Irv Smith Jr.	MIN	TE16	27
137	George Pickens	PIT	WR55	11
138	Noah Fant	SEA	TE17	39
139	Khalil Herbert	CHI	RB50	49
140	Matt Ryan	IND	QB18	28
141	Trevor Lawrence	JAC	QB19	21
144	Tyler Higbee	LAR	TE18	78
149	DJ Chark Jr.	DET	WR59	14
150	Gerald Everett	LAC	TE19	48
151	David Njoku	CLE	TE20	24
152	Sony Michel	MIA	RB53	24

Player Notes

Courtland Sutton (WR – DEN)

Entering Year 3, it looked like Courtland Sutton was on the cusp of true elite fantasy WR1 production, but his 2020 season was lost due to a torn ACL in Week 2. It was unclear how productive Sutton would be returning from the devastating knee injury.

But to start the 2021 season, the Broncos wide receiver looked like his old self. He averaged 13.8 fantasy points per game (17th) and had a 27% target share in Weeks 2-7 during the regular season.

It wasn’t until Jerry Jeudy’s return from injury that Sutton – and the rest of the Broncos pass catchers – became obsolete in a crowded, run-heavy offense led by a combination of Lock/Teddy Bridgewater. Nevertheless, Sutton finished the season as the fantasy WR46.

However, even in the anemic offense, Sutton still finished seventh in air yards (1,756), cemented in between Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalf, in 2021.

Sutton has a real chance to recapture his elite form another year removed from his ACL injury. It also helps substantially that he has received an ultra upgrade at the quarterback position with Denver’s trade for Russell Wilson.

Wilson has always been an elite downfield passer – he had the sixth-highest passer rating on throws of 20-plus air yards last season – which plays heavily into Sutton’s strengths as a vertical threat.

Mike Williams (WR – LAC)

Mike Williams had the opportunity to take his talents elsewhere this offseason in free agency but decided to stay in Los Angeles with quarterback Justin Herbert. Hard to argue with the choice to sign a three-year deal worth $60M attached to a young superstar quarterback, especially when that quarterback fueled a career year.

He stormed out the gate in 2021 as the WR2 in fantasy through the first five weeks of the season, averaging 94.2 receiving yards and 1.2 receiving touchdowns per game.

Big Mike finished the season as the WR23 in fantasy points per game despite cooling off considerably in the later weeks in addition to leaving a boatload of touchdown production on the table.

He finished sixth in end-zone targets (16) but caught only five for touchdowns.

With positive TD regression on his side, Williams looks like a sneaky candidate to repeat his WR12 overall finish in the half-point scoring format.

Brandin Cooks (WR – HOU)

Brandin Cooks has finished worse than the fantasy WR20 only once since 2015, and that was due to injury. He has eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards six times with four different teams during that span.

At just 28 years old, Cooks shows little signs of slowing down. Last season, he was a target and air yards hog, finishing fourth in air yards share (36%) and ninth in target share (24%).

And during the final four games of the season with Davis Mills at quarterback, Cooks was top-10 in fantasy points per game (15.0) to go along with a top-5 target rate per route run (33%).

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