How to Draft the Next Great WR in Your Fantasy Football League
June 12, 2007 by
Why should you listen to my fantasy football advice? In 9 years of playing fantasy football I have won 5 Championships.
When I started playing fantasy football back in the 1998 season Jerry Rice was still the best WR in football, and fantasy football. I joined a keeper fantasy football league that year with a friend of mine and as we talked draft strategy he kept lamenting that he wanted Jerry Rice but
couldn't get him because he was obviously being kept by the fantasy owner who had him in our fantasy league. I kept saying to him that Rice was getting old and that I didn't want him, I wanted the Next Jerry Rice.
So I began looking at fantasy stats to see if I could find the next great WR that way. I didn't come up with a perfect plan to find the next Jerry Rice but I did find one stat that was, and still is, a very useful tool for finding the next great WR.
The stat is yards per catch, or average yards per catch. When a young WR has a high average yards per catch in a limited number of catches, usually around 20-50 catches, that WR could explode the next season and be the next great WR. I've found the magic number to be 14.5 yards per catch average or over.
I'm going to give you some examples of what I mean, and then list all the young WR's from last season who match the criteria. The young WR's are far from sure things to be the next great WR and should be drafted as 3rd, 4th and 5th WR's on your team. If you hit with one of them your off to the races in your fantasy league.
Terrell Owens - in his rookie year he made 35 catches good for 520 yards, a 14.9 average per catch. I took him with my second pick in my very first Fantasy Football Draft right after Marshall Faulk with my 1st pick in that fantasy draft (keeper league). TO went on to grab 60 catches for 936 yards, a 15.6 average, with 8 touchdown scores in his second year. And then he exploded in his 3rd year for 67 catches, 1097 yards, 16.4 average and 14 more scores. Now with the Dallas Cowboys, of course.
When I started playing fantasy football back in the 1998 season Jerry Rice was still the best WR in football, and fantasy football. I joined a keeper fantasy football league that year with a friend of mine and as we talked draft strategy he kept lamenting that he wanted Jerry Rice but
So I began looking at fantasy stats to see if I could find the next great WR that way. I didn't come up with a perfect plan to find the next Jerry Rice but I did find one stat that was, and still is, a very useful tool for finding the next great WR.
The stat is yards per catch, or average yards per catch. When a young WR has a high average yards per catch in a limited number of catches, usually around 20-50 catches, that WR could explode the next season and be the next great WR. I've found the magic number to be 14.5 yards per catch average or over.
I'm going to give you some examples of what I mean, and then list all the young WR's from last season who match the criteria. The young WR's are far from sure things to be the next great WR and should be drafted as 3rd, 4th and 5th WR's on your team. If you hit with one of them your off to the races in your fantasy league.
Terrell Owens - in his rookie year he made 35 catches good for 520 yards, a 14.9 average per catch. I took him with my second pick in my very first Fantasy Football Draft right after Marshall Faulk with my 1st pick in that fantasy draft (keeper league). TO went on to grab 60 catches for 936 yards, a 15.6 average, with 8 touchdown scores in his second year. And then he exploded in his 3rd year for 67 catches, 1097 yards, 16.4 average and 14 more scores. Now with the Dallas Cowboys, of course.
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