Shawn Siegele breaks down four post-cliff wide receivers who help rescue any fantasy football build in 2024.
In 2024 drafters are faced with a choice: hammer WR early . . . or lose?
The evidence is pretty convincing. In his simulation of thousands of seasons and millions of teams, Jake Boes found that early WR was the best way to attack the new ADP environment in Underdog formats.
In taking a global look at best ball strategy in 2024, Michael Dubner found that Zero RB was strategically dominant, and charted a path where drafters should take few detours and instead focus on being the avalanche.
My 2024 FFPC Best Ball Strategy Guide found that the 2-RB, 2-WR, 2-Flex PPR format creates incentives that are just as strong and recommends six WRs in the first 10 rounds.
WR6 BEFORE ROUND 11 (2021-2023)
In looking at the 2024 RB Dead Zone for Stealing Bananas, Ben Gretch and I found a brutal redraft landscape for early RBs.
RotoViz subscribers are likely to come out on top with their nuanced understanding of how to attack different formats at the WR position, but all of us will eventually get caught in a draft with too few WRs. Regardless of your Zero RB experience or sensibilities, it can be difficult to take that many early WRs draft after draft.
Or maybe you’ve executed your draft perfectly, but you need one more WR to tie the room together. In such an event, these later WRs are the Dude’s rug.
Most post-cliff WRs will put holes in your roster, but these four players could be the key to fantasy championships and millions of dollars.
