2013 Wide Receiver Rankings Hitting on wide receiver in 2013 fantasy football is going to prove to be incredibly important to your fantasy teams sake. Deciding to take Calvin Johnson or Dez Bryant at the top of your draft dramatically shifts your strategy for the rest of the season, or deciding to wait on Vincent Jackson or Marques Colston as your WR1 will have the same impact on how you play the waiver wire and trades all season.
The saga continues on WR speed. Yesterday I looked at wide receivers who ran slower than 4.56 40 in the NFL Combine Results database who were drafted in between rounds 1 and 3. Today, we will look at wide receivers with a 40 time faster or equal to 4.55 seconds (the sweet spot of 40 times for WR performance) drafted in between rounds 1 and 3.
I really hope you guys have been following with the Vincent Brown saga. It started with this piece, moved over to the Football Guys forum and then a piece published on Rotoviz about historical aberrations in relation to 40 times and fantasy production.
In the offseason, Ozzie Newsome and the Ravens brain trust flipped Anquan Boldin to the 49er’s for a a 5th round pick and then proceeded to not address the hole at WR2 in the draft. It was reported yesterday that Jacoby Jones reported to camp out of shape and was failed his conditioning test, adding a further layer on intrigue to who will fill the position.
Shawn Siegele of Rotoviz and Pro Football Focus has a pretty genius way of evaluating how good running backs are at moving with the ball; he deemed the statistic ‘vision yards’. The stat is simply a players total yards per carry, subtracting their yards per rush after contact. The premise is simple: the longer it takes for a running back to actually get hit, the more laterally agile and explosive they are.