Fantasy Football Draft or Pass: Second-Year Wide Receivers

In today’s article, I’m diving into some of my top Year 2 targets and fades from a dynasty fantasy football perspective, focusing on players from the 2024 NFL Draft class. To evaluate how my views stack up against the market, I compared my dynasty rankings on FantasyPros with the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR). The results were eye-opening for me. There are several players I didn’t realize I was significantly higher or lower on until I saw the data. Hopefully, these insights will help guide your trade strategy as we head deeper into the offseason. Let’s kick things off with my top Year 2 fantasy football targets. I’ll then share second-year fantasy football players I’m planning to avoid.

Dynasty Players to Target & Avoid (Fantasy Football)

Fantasy Football Players to Target

Troy Franklin (WR – DEN) | My Rank: WR71 | ECR: WR90

I was a notable Troy Franklin bull this time last year, but after a wildly disappointing rookie season, I nuked him in my rankings and figured I was about even with the market on him. Clearly, that’s not the case, as I have Franklin 19 positional spots ahead of ECR. Yes, Franklin was bad in Year 1, but his prospect profile coming out of Oregon was excellent, and there’s a non-zero chance this guy is Bo Nix’s WR1 in 2025. They have a rapport dating back to college, after all.

Xavier Worthy (WR – KC) | My Rank: WR21 | ECR: WR26

Worthy was another player I didn’t think of myself as particularly bullish on prior to this exercise, but I’m well ahead of ECR. I think a good percentage of the dynasty community views Worthy solely as a gadget guy, but he proved in the latter half of the season he’s much more than this. From Week 15 through the Superbowl (excluding Week 18, when the starters sat), Worthy averaged 8.7 targets, 6.7 receptions, 89.2 scrimmage yards, and one touchdown per game. That’s 21.6 PPR points per game.

That wraps up my biggest Year 2 targets for Dynasty this offseason. Let’s take a look at four of my biggest fades below.

Fantasy Football Players to Avoid

Rome Odunze (WR – CHI) | My Rank: WR28 | ECR: WR21

There’s no disputing Rome was a premier talent coming out of Washington, and the draft capital supported that. His 8.5 PPR points per game is somewhat excusable as well, given he had to compete for targets alongside D.J. Moore and Keenan Allen. That said, the target competition looks even tougher in 2025, and there’s a new head coach in Ben Johnson, who didn’t hand-select Rome. He selected Colston Loveland and Luther Burden despite Moore and Odunze already being there. That’s concerning.

Keon Coleman (WR – BUF) | My Rank: WR57 | ECR: WR51

Looking at my rankings, I feel like I should move Keon down even further. There’s not a situation where I could see myself feeling good about placing Coleman in my starting lineup on a weekly basis. Khalil Shakir earned 43 more targets than Coleman in 2024. Even Dalton Kincaid, who was awful last year, earned 18 more targets in the same number of games played as Coleman. I simply don’t see the path to fantasy relevance with this one.

Thank you for checking out my article today! If you have any dynasty or devy-related questions, feel free to reach out to me on X @jim_DFF. I’m always down to talk football.