Five wide receivers going outside the top 120 in home leagues that Ian Hartitz is willing to make an exception for. For each one: where Sleeper, ESPN and Yahoo are drafting him, where Ian has him ranked, and why the gap exists.
Five wide receivers going outside the top 120 in home leagues that Ian Hartitz is willing to make an exception for. For each one: where Sleeper, ESPN and Yahoo are drafting him, where Ian has him ranked, and why the gap exists.
KC Concepcion is the headliner. A great preseason debut, lightning in a bottle as an all-purpose weapon, and Todd Monken's new Zay Flowers. The market has him between WR50 and WR63; Ian has him WR46 at pick 99, inside his top 100 and well ahead of all three sites. The one catch is that it would be a lot cooler if this team had a quarterback.
Matthew Golden is the favorite to work alongside Christian Watson in two-receiver sets, and Ian's WR44 ahead of Makai Lemon, Xavier Worthy and Alec Pierce. 361 receiving yards as a rookie is light, but he had competition and a shoulder issue, and if we trust Love and LaFleur we should probably like the cheapest clear-cut starter too.
Rashid Shaheed got three years and $51 million to be New Orleans' No. 2, and Darnold and Goff are the only quarterbacks over 4,000 yards in each of the last two seasons. Ian's WR53, though he thinks the price sits closer to Shaheed's floor than his ceiling.
Tre' Harris is the value: WR74 on Sleeper and undrafted on both ESPN and Yahoo. Per ESPN's camp reporting the Chargers are not planning to add a veteran receiver, he rested alongside Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston, and in eight games at Ole Miss in 2024 he put up 1,000 yards and seven scores. Ian's WR58.
And Travis Hunter, where the answer depends entirely on the price. The No. 2 pick from last year's draft is often free, everything out of Jacksonville says he stays involved, and if there was ever a high-end receiver handcuff to keep on your bench this is it. But at the Sleeper price he's fine and inside the top 120 Ian is out.
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0:00 Sleepers outside the top 120
0:42 KC Concepcion
4:07 RotoWire, code IAN35
4:49 Matthew Golden
9:42 Rashid Shaheed
13:53 Tre' Harris
20:02 Splash Survivor
21:22 Travis Hunter