As you know, the wide receiver position has been transformed by the movement away from a focus on the running game to a focus on the passing game, as well as the relaxed rules favoring the passing game. Since our last rankings, several players are coming off injury (Hakeem Nicks, Sidney Rice, Torrey Smith) and a couple of others are expected to be back from injury or their off-the-field issues by Week 1 (Dez Bryant, Miles Austin, Kenny Britt, and Mike Wallace). Other players are moving up the ranks, having impressed in the pre-season (Andre Johnson, Pierre Garcon, Anquan Boldin, Justin Blackmon, and Kendall Wright). Continue reading
Category Archives: Wide Receivers
Wide Receiver Rankings Updated – Fantasy Football 2012
Anyone else still going back and forth on who the top-twelve running backs are for fantasy football draft purposes? Anyone else thinking Maurice Jones-Drew will continue to holdout into the regular season? Is Chris Johnson going to really bounce back this season? What about Matt Forte? Is his value just crushed by Michael Bush? If you have been thinking about any of these things, or others too numerous to mention as it pertains to running backs, you are not alone. Continue reading
Wide Receiver Rankings – Fantasy Football 2012
Last but not least, it’s time to rank the all important wide receiver position in fantasy football. The wide receiver position which has also been transformed by the movement to more of a passing game in the NFL, as well as the relaxed rules favoring the passing game.
In days past, for the most part, you could have ranked the top fantasy football wide receivers by ranking the top wide receiver on each of the 32 NFL teams first, along with a little more than a handful of complimentary receivers, in the top-forty. Today, this is simply not the case. “Complimentary” receivers like Wes Welker, Victor Cruz, Jordy Nelson, and Antonio Brown, have made their mark in fantasy football so much so, that to rank both the “X” and the “Z” receiver high up on fantasy football draft boards comes as no surprise. Continue reading
Favorable Fantasy Football 2012 Schedules – By Position
Now that we have covered the ranking of teams with the least favorable schedules in fantasy football by position, it’s time to turn our attention to those team with favorable schedules. Below, you will find a ranking of those teams with FAVORABLE schedules for the 2012 season. This is purely a statistical analysis based on fantasy points allowed by position in 2011, through Weeks 16 and 17 (depending on the length of your fantasy football season). Continue reading
Unfavorable Fantasy Football 2012 Schedules – By Position
For those of you who followed The Fantasy Greek through the latter part of the 2010 season, and 2011 season, you may recall The Fantasy Greek provided in Weeks 11 and 13, as a planning tool for your rosters, a ranking of those teams with the best and worst schedules for Weeks 14 to 16 and Weeks 15 to 17, (the weeks of most fantasy football league playoffs), for each primary fantasy position: QB, RB, WR, TE, and DST. Even though the 2012 season is now almost two months away, we can still look ahead to team schedules and get a sense of where teams stand in terms of their strength of schedule, by position, for fantasy football purposes. Continue reading
Wide Receivers: Pre-Season Fantasy Football Rankings
Last but not least, it’s time to rank the all important wide receiver position in fantasy football which is a position which has also been transformed by the movement to NFL offenses built to pass the ball, and with the relaxed rules favoring the passing game. Continue reading
Updated Pre-Season 2012 Fantasy Football Rankings by Position
It’s been a little over a month since our first pre-season fantasy football rankings by position. Since that time, there has been some significant player movement in free agency. Peyton Manning had us holding our breath and speculating what team he would sign with before deciding to sign with the Broncos. Vincent Jackson is no longer a member of the Chargers, but now a member of the Buccaneers. Brandon Marshall has joined Jay Cutler on the Bears. Tim Tebow is now a Jet. Randy Moss a Forty-Niner. There are many more players on new teams. And, it’s not over. In roughly three weeks, the NFL Draft will determine the starting point of many young careers. Continue reading
Pre-Season 2012 Fantasy Football Rankings by Position
For those of you who have followed The Fantasy Greek for the past two seasons, we like to kick off the new football season with our pre-season 2012 fantasy football rankings by position. For many of you, you are wondering how your favorite team will be affected through free agency. With no lockout this season, we should know a bit about how rosters will start to shape-up in terms of your team’s key positional needs with free agency about to begin.
This was the most exciting fantasy football season we have seen yet. Continue reading
Ranking by Position – Wide Receiver – August 31st Update
| 1. Andre Johnson (25) | 31. Lee Evans (13) |
| 2. Roddy White (30) | 32. Mike Thomas (23) |
| 3. Calvin Johnson (26) | 33. Santana Moss (4) Continue reading |
Ranking by Position – Wide Receiver – August 27th Update
| 1. Andre Johnson (25) | 31. Lee Evans (13) |
| 2. Roddy White (30) | 32. Mike Thomas (23) |
| 3. Calvin Johnson (26) | 33. Santana Moss (4) Continue reading |
