Wide Receiver Stacks for 2021 Fantasy Football

Generally we’re afraid of placing collectively gamers from the identical staff on our rosters, not to mention weekly lineups. To a sure extent, that is smart: the alternatives one will get will take away from the alternatives the opposite might have gotten. Why restrict the fantasy upside of our staff with two receivers taking part in in the identical offense reasonably than selecting two from completely different ones?

The reality is there are specific gamers which might be typically missed, who whereas going at low-cost ADPs, can nonetheless grow to be game-changers. Nearly each no. 1 vast receiver will get drafted inside the primary 10 rounds of your draft, and there may be nothing you are able to do to stop that. However on the subject of selecting second-fiddles and flex choices, you’ll be able to benefit from some “buried” receivers in sure depth charts that also carry tons of potential due to the groups they play for.

At the moment, I am making an attempt to focus on some groups/receivers value stacking even when they are going to be sharing alternatives of their offenses. Let’s get to it!

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Mike Evans & Chris Godwin & Antonio Brown

Simply two years in the past, Tom Brady was nonetheless throwing passes in New England. Simply two years in the past, taking part in below QB Jameis Winston (he of the 30-30), Mike Evans and Chris Godwin had a season for the ages, racking up 1,157+ yards on 67+ receptions every to go together with eight and 9 touchdowns scored over the 2019 season. Whereas they could not repeat that final yr, it was all due to Godwin lacking 4 video games in 2020, as each had been clearly on tempo to match or increase these 2019 marks.

Judging by PFF projections, each Evans and Godwin ought to end the yr as a WR1. I do not assume I would like to say it, however no different time have two wideouts projected for such a end, with the Vikings being the closest factor to that (no. 6 and no. 18 WR-projections). The pair of Evans and Godwin would mix for an enormous 503.2 PPR factors over the 17-game season, probably the most by far amongst two teammates on the place.

As a final observe, it should be mentioned that each Antonio Brown and Rob Gronkowski are clearly a notch under the extent of the opposite two today, however even they appear to be very neat values to draft late in your league draft. None is getting drafted inside the primary 140 picks today, but they’re projected to complete above or near their present ADPs. Brown’s 118th end is making him a optimistic ROI participant (170+ PPR) and Gronk continues to be a TE2-projected participant too (116+ PPR).

The mixture of the three WRs in that four-man group has the most important PPR projection (673.5 fantasy factors) whereas getting off draft boards at an affordable 248.1 ADP averaging the costs of the three gamers, solely the 14th-highest value amongst all 32 NFL groups.

Buffalo Payments

Stefon Diggs & Cole Beasley & Gabriel Davis

Even should you do not assume 2020 Diggs is True Degree Diggs, odds are he nonetheless thrives and places on weekly reveals all through the 2021 marketing campaign. Diggs’ final yr ranges of efficiency had been borderline historic and can undoubtedly regress a bit bit. Two gamers had been in a position to edge Diggs within the PPR-format WR leaderboard (Tyreek Hill by 0.3 FP and Davante Adams by 30 FP), however Diggs completed the yr with a ridiculous 1,535 yards on 121 receptions whereas scoring a low-for-his-volume eight touchdowns.

All of Cole Beasley, Gabriel Davis, and Dawson Knox had been already in Buffalo when Diggs placed on his profession yr final season. There’s a new boy on the town for the 2021 marketing campaign, because the Payments added Emmanuel Sanders to the fold after eliminating former supposed-WR2 John Brown. Seems, although, Brown was an afterthought and Beasley/Davis was the precise pairing taking up the heavier weight behind Diggs.

That is the basic offense led by a top-dog to go together with a bunch of secondary wideouts unfold over the sphere, however that does not imply these forming the latter group are unhealthy by any means. Judging by PFF projections, this squad has a WR1 (Diggs; 287+ PPR) in it and three extra gamers projected to both WR3 (Beasley; 198+) or WR4/FLEX (Davis and Sanders; 157+ and 139+).

Even should you do not imagine it, all of Beasley, Davis, Sanders, and Knox are getting drafted with ADPs under 137th general on the time of this writing, and all of them mission to complete above their ADPs within the general PPR leaderboard for the 2021 marketing campaign. Cannot get significantly better by way of ROI on the subject of Payments’ cross catchers.

Pittsburgh Steelers

Chase Claypool & Diontae Johnson & JuJu Smith-Schuster

The Steelers have a reasonably balanced offense by way of the position their wideouts play, their profiles, the truth that they’ve a dependable tight finish able to getting his fair proportion of defensive consideration, and a rookie RB whose upside cannot look significantly better. Put all of it collectively, and also you finish with a top-seven staff in projected PPR factors from the ability positions gamers if PFF projections maintain up.

Popping out of left subject, Chase Claypool actually discovered a spot within the NFL as a rookie final season. It took the freshman no time to rack up 214.9 PPR factors and snatch a WR2, top-23 end when all was mentioned and finished. We should always tame our expectations a bit, as he had a booming 42+ PPR recreation in Week 5 whereas no different got here at greater than 21, however he proved to be greater than a helpful participant for Pittsburgh.

Diontae Johnson and veteran JuJu Smith-Schuster, although, may very well be the precise league-winners popping out of Pitt, together with TE Eric Ebron. The vast receivers mission to succeed in 204+ and 189+ PPR factors respectively, ending contained in the top-40 vast receivers in 2021 and have related, short-route, possession-based profiles that undoubtedly assist them rack up receptions on giant goal counts.

The Steelers’ trio of receivers has simply the 18th “costliest” or greater ADP of all 32 groups on common, but the Pitt group (contemplating solely the top-three WRs of every staff) initiatives to attain extra PPR factors whereas being “cheaper” than all however two groups (Cincinnati and Dallas) amongst these 18. Pounce whereas it lasts.

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