Late-Round Wide Receiver Targets in FFPC Fantasy Football Leagues

When I’m picking wide receivers late in fantasy football drafts, I want players who could have week-to-week upside and the potential to be a weekly starter on my fantasy teams. Last year in this column we honed in on Nico Collins as one of our top late-round targets in FFPC leagues. He was being drafted as the WR54 and outside the top 100 picks. He finished as the WR12 overall in PPR leagues and was a great weekly starter. He was the rock of multiple teams for us in the FFPC Main event contest, a high-stakes fantasy football league.

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I already wrote a similar article about my favorite late-round tight ends and running backs!

Late-Round Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Targets

Romeo Doubs (116th overall,WR52)

The Packers receiving room looks a bit messy with Jayden Reed, Christian Watson, Doubs, and Dontayvion Wicks all slated to play a role.

With that being said, Romeo Doubs will likely run the most routes. After running 80% of the routes last year, he looks set to do the same again. In their team scrimmage with the starters, Doubs led the team in snaps. In the 3 snaps the starters played in the preseason, Doubs played on all 3 as well.

He finished as the WR36 last year in PPR leagues and has furthered his rapport with Jordan Love. Love put Romeo Doubs as a part of his “unstoppable play” alongside Kelce, Tyreek, and Davante Adams.

When asked to draw up an unstoppable play, Jordan Love chose Davante, Kelce, Tyreek, and his guy Romeo Doubs “cause that’s one of my favorite fade targets, whenever I throw it up to him he’s gonna come down w/ the ball 100% I know that”



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With Jordan Love ascending late last season, expectations are sky-high entering his second year as the starter. Doubs looks to be the Packers' locked-in X receiver and is in a great spot to build on last season’s WR3 performance for fantasy. Getting him at WR52 is a massive steal.

Courtland Sutton (101st overall, WR47)

Courtland Sutton might be the most boring value of the entire draft. With Jerry Jeudy shipped out to Cleveland. Sutton is the clear top wideout in Sean Payton’s offense. Rookie Troy Franklin and second-year wideout Marvin Mims are both buried on the depth chart right now, leaving his primary target competition as Tim Patrick and Josh Reynolds. Sutton ran a route on 19-of-20 dropbacks in their last preseason game with the starters and looks like the top wideout.

Bo Nix has looked the part in preseason but that isn’t baked into Sutton’s cost at all. Sutton is priced as if Nix will be a bottom-tier quarterback this season. If Nix can play anything like he has in the preseason, Sutton has a legitimate chance to be a low-end WR2/high-end WR3 in fantasy football this season despite being picked at WR47 and outside the top 100 overall.

Andrei Iosivas (275th overall, WR80)

You are going to have to scroll for a while on most platforms to find Iosovas’ name but he can usually be drafted as one of your last picks, even in deep leagues.

The second-year player didn’t have much of a role until later in the year but in Weeks 16 & 18 he earned eight and seven targets, including a 5-36-2 game to end the year.

Iosovas is a former big-time producer at Princeton who averaged 70 and 94 yards per game in his two final seasons. He also tested extremely well with a 4.43 40-yard dash at 6’3, 205 lbs.

Early reports from training camp are that Iosovas will start in 3 WR sets with he and Chase likely splitting time in the slot. Rookie Jermaine Burton still seems to be working his way up the depth chart at this point. With Joe Burrow back, the offense will likely be significantly more efficient than what we saw last season. In Burrow’s two healthy seasons, he threw for 4,475 and 4,611 yards along with 34 and 35 touchdowns.

In those seasons, the third option in that offense (Tyler Boyd) produced season stat lines of 58-762-5 (2022) and 67-828-5 (2023), good for WR34 and WR31 finishes. So there is a pretty reasonable baseline here for Iosovas to be a back-end WR3 with some upside if something were to happen to either Tee Higgins or Chase.

Ja’Marr Chase will almost certainly play but is yet to report to camp while Tee Higgins is playing on the franchise tag and seemingly not happy about it, being the subject of multiple trade rumors. Will that matter this year? Probably not but it leaves another out for upside even without an injury.

Honorable mention if injury clears up: Rashid Shaheed

Shaheed ripped off 719 yards and 5 touchdowns last season on a wildly bland offense and now figures to play a much more prominent role with OC Klint Kubiak likely enhancing motion rates and pace. His primary target competition is Chris Olave but beyond that, the Saints depth chart gets really thin.

Shaheed is probably a “better in best ball” type of target given his high ADOT and accompanying volatility but he has the upside to be a massive contributor in regular leagues as an occasional flex option too.