Top 5 Wide Receivers To Avoid In Your Fantasy Football Drafts

“Five Wide Receivers To Avoid Drafting According To Sr. NFL Analyst Justin Mark”

The draft is over, and rookie drafts have already started! However, you may have a couple start start-ups starting soon. Is it too early? Absolutely not! Regardless of whether you have a draft this month or in three months, you have to start prepping now. This is my list of five fantasy football wide receivers you must avoid in your draft at their ADP!

I’m not saying avoid them completely. However, I think they’ll underperform their current ADP. Let’s not be silly. I’m not throwing guys like Olamide Zaccheaus on here. That’s too obvious! We’re going with some guys that you might be on the fence about whether to draft or not. These are the guys that fall on my do-not-draft list.

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1. Drake London – Atlanta Falcons

The first player on my list of fantasy football wide receivers to avoid in your draft is Drake London. Drafting London finally paid off last year as he was going off as the WR11 and finished as WR5. This year, he’s going as the ninth wide receiver off the board in best ball drafts.

Despite finishing as the fifth wide receiver last year, London only had three top-12 finishes. His numbers were skewed after a 30.7-point showout in Week 18 against the Panthers. I realize that was with quarterback Michael Penix, who will likely be throwing to him this year. However, the other top-12 finishes were with Kirk Cousins.

London always feels like a player that goes too early, in my opinion. In 2023, he finished as the 39th wide receiver. He was 26th in 2022. Entering his third year, I’m just not certain he’s going to be consistent enough to be drafted as a top-10 wide receiver.

His price feels like it should fall more in the wide receiver 16 range. If you grabbed him somewhere between wide receiver 13 and 18, I’d feel more comfortable. However, because I don’t feel he’ll hit his ADP as a top-10 wide receiver, he falls on my list of receivers to avoid in your fantasy football drafts.

2. Amon-Ra St. Brown – Detroit Lions

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, and I know that. However, at wide receiver six, Amon-Ra St. Brown is on my list of fantasy football wide receivers to avoid. Listen, I don’t expect him to have a bad season. He may even finish in the top 10. However, I have him graded closer to the nine or ten range.

That means when you’re on the clock and wanting to draft a wide receiver and the top five are gone, I’m skipping St. Brown and going to ADP number seven (Nico Collins). Amon-Ra has been great in his career for the Detroit Lions. He comes back to the same quarterback, the same offense, and relatively the same weapons.

However, what he doesn’t have is Ben Johnson’s brilliant play-calling. Former Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson did a great job getting Amon-Ra St. Brown in good looks that he could turn into big plays. Johnson is now the head coach of the Chicago Bears. (Luther Burden sleeper? We’ll talk more about that in another article.

I don’t think Amon-Ra falls far, however, I do think he falls under his ADP of six. Therefore, with the price you’re paying, I’m avoiding him this year. If this is the hill I die on, so be it.

3. Tyreek Hill – Miami Dolphins

If I told you that last year’s top drafted wide receiver, Tyreek Hill, would finish as WR21, you’d likely assume he was injured. He wasn’t. He played a full slate of games and still finished WR21. Does some of that have to do with Tua’s health? Absolutely.

However, Tua only missed six games. Hill only had two top-12 finishes. In fact, he only had four top-20 finishes. Not what you need out of a guy you’re taking as the 13th wide receiver off the board. That’s his price this year, and it just feels too high.

Let’s take Tua Tagovailoa‘s health out of the equation. He has had trouble staying healthy, but it’s hard to gauge a guy by guessing if somebody else will get hurt or not. This is about Tyreek himself. He’s still a talented wide receiver. He’s still fast. However, he just doesn’t seem quite as fast.

There was no point last year outside of Week 1 that Hill felt like the game changer he used to be. He averaged 4.5 catches a game, 60 yards a game, and didn’t even crack 1000 yards on the season. He also only scored six touchdowns all season long.

Hill has been a fantasy beast in the past. However, those days feel like they’re behind him. At an ADP of 13, he’s on my list of fantasy football wide receivers to avoid this year. Perhaps it’s because I drafted him with my first pick in a league last year, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. However, I feel like I’m right on this one.

4. Tee Higgins – Cincinnati Bengals

Tee Higgins got paid this offseason. That doesn’t mean you need to pay a premium to draft him, however. One of the things that scares me off of Tee Higgins is that he hasn’t played a full season since 2020. He’s had really bad injury luck, and I don’t think that’s going to change (another reason I felt he was overpaid).

Maybe it’s a personal vendetta for me with Higgins, as I’ve been burned by him too many times in the past. However, a guy with an injury history and injury pattern shouldn’t be going in the top 12 of wide receivers.

Last year, Higgins finished as WR17 overall. He missed games, which may skew his stats down, but he also had three games over 20 fantasy points, which skews his fantasy football standings up. His average finishing position on a week-to-week basis was WR25.

While I don’t think he should be drafted as low as wide receiver 25 in your fantasy football drafts, I’m avoiding him at wide receiver 12.

5. Marvin Harrison – Arizona Cardinals (WR16)

After all the hype I heard from others about Marvin Harrison last year and seeing him get drafted as the ninth wide receiver off the board in his rookie year, it was somewhat satisfying to see him finish as WR29. It’s nothing personal against Harrison, I just thought he was an overhyped candidate who wouldn’t live up to the fantasy football hype.

It’s not all on Harrison. Kyler Murray has been inconsistent in passing for a while now. He’s also inconsistent in supporting fantasy football players unless they’re at the tight end position. Therefore, just like last year, Harrison is on my list of fantasy football wide receivers to avoid.

I was right on him last year. I think I’m right on him this year. The team didn’t do too much to change the offensive side of the ball. This should be relatively the same cast and potentially the same result from Harrison. I can’t trust him at WR16 after he finished WR29 and the only thing that has changed is that he’s entering his second year rather than his rookie year.

I’d draft him starting around WR21. No sooner.

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