Fantasy Football 2016: Highlighting Top Team Names and WR Rankings

Wide receiver might stand as the most difficult position to draft in fantasy football these days.

Quarterbacks aren’t hard to project so long as owners take them in later rounds. A platoon of signal-callers gives owners plenty of options. It’s the same for running backs, minus the late-drafting part, as the old adage about opportunities equaling production continues to stand.

Wideouts? It’s trickier because one has to take into account an incredible number of factors ranging from scheme, quarterback, running game, health, schedule and so on.

Below, let’s take a look at receiver rankings for standard leagues based on history and projections.

WR Rankings

Antonio Brown is where the money is at wideout this year.

It’s not exactly a surprise, but there’s a need to stress that owners shouldn’t get cute in the first round. The Pittsburgh Steelers fed Brown a ridiculous 195 targets last year. He caught 136 and went for 1,834 yards and 10 touchdowns.

In fantasy terms, that made him the top-scoring wideout at 243 points. Brown gets a lot of the high-percentage throws behind the line of scrimmage and does the work himself, which makes him a gold mine. Pittsburgh hasn’t gone out of its way to find Brown notable competition, and rightfully so.

The riskiest player in the top 20? Dez Bryant. The Dallas Cowboys star appeared in only nine games last year, going for 401 yards and three touchdowns in the process.

Bryant isn’t the biggest injury risk, having completed three 16-game seasons in a row before last year. The problem is quarterback Tony Romo, who played in all of four games last year and hasn’t played a full 16 games since 2012.

Bryant is a high-risk pick who’s absolutely worth the investment, but he’s not for the faint of heart.

Kelvin Benjamin of the Carolina Panthers is …

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