The Late Rounds Are a Black Hole at WR, But These 5 Deep Options Could Be Tournament Winners
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Does the Wide Receiver Avalanche have you on the defensive in summer best ball drafts? Shawn Siegele breaks down his favorite deep sleeper options at receiver.

The 2023 fantasy landscape features brutally WR-heavy tournament drafts. Those drafts become even more aggressive at WR when you look at the toughest rooms. Check out an OT listener league draft or a Best Ball Banana Stand contest.

In current Underdog drafts, Jameson Williams, the WR49 comes off as the last pick in Round 8. If you jumped in a time machine from even a couple of years ago, you’d be blown away to arrive in 2023 and find that a young player without impressive NFL credentials, and with a six-game suspension, is going so early.

You’d probably also think it’s justified when you see what the next couple of tiers look like at the position.

It’s not impossible that a couple of these receivers hit, but these names are so bleak that it actually makes the bland names from the QB Window look a little more palatable.

Unless you’re set up with a Bengals-heavy start and need inexpensive Kansas City bring back options, there’s only one WR this entire range who’s truly draftable. (More on him soon.)

In many cases you may push to select six WRs in the first seven rounds and be done with the position, but in many other drafts you simply won’t be given enough of your personal WR targets in those early rounds. If you choose to benefit from RB prices or layer in a QB or TE for playoff upside purposes, you’re going to need late WRs.

Today we’ll look at five of the best sleeper options, giving you different profiles at different prices, including an undrafted name for participants who want to differentiate their last-round pick with an extreme upside selection.

5 Late-Round Wide Receivers Who Could Be Tournament Winners

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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