Must-Have Wide Receivers (2021 Fantasy Football) | FantasyPros

Let’s make no mistake here: Denver didn’t have their burgeoning stud wide receiver who was ready for a famed “third-year WR breakout” after a five-game stretch to end 2019 where Sutton was on the receiving end of 25.6% of the team’s targets from Drew Lock.Whether the 2021 quarterback in Denver is Lock, a rookie, or a veteran signal-caller, Sutton should be the top target on a team as an alpha ready to try the breakout again after a lost season. With all of the talk about rookie wide receivers centering on names like CeeDee Lamb, Jalen Reagor, Justin Jefferson, and even some athletic profiles like Chase Claypool and Laviska Shenault Jr., Aiyuk was seemingly forgotten about in many circles heading into the draft season and the 2020 NFL regular season.It’s clear after 2020 that people will not forget about Aiyuk any longer after he led the 49ers in every significant receiving category, including target share (24%) across three different quarterbacks. While still a mid-range WR2 according to FantasyPros’ ECR, Woods tends to fall back a bit while sexier names at the position are placed over him, like Diontae Johnson, D.J. Moore, and even his own teammate Cooper Kupp.In 2020, Woods was still 15th amongst wide receivers in target share at 21.9%, tied a career-high in touchdowns with 6, saw an increased red-zone usage from 2019, and finished with a second-straight 90 catch season. In the 2019 offseason, Curtis Samuel was one of the hottest sleeper picks at wide receiver for that season, garnering praise for his success against multiple coverages, including a 94th percentile man coverage success rate per Matt Harmon’s “Reception Perception.” With all of the fanfare (and 105 targets), Samuel did not fully live up to fantasy expectations for 2019, as the quarterback situation for the Carolina Panthers was a quagmire once Cam Newton went down.Fast forward to 2020, where Samuel was lying in the weeds, being drafted as WR63 on average heading into the season.