Draft Guide: Wide Receivers — and why all targets are not created equal

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Matt Harmon is joined by fantasy analyst Rich Hribar of SharpFootballAnalysis.com to talk wide receivers and much more on the latest episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast!Here’s the plan for this week: Every day, we’re dedicating an episode on draft strategy for the big four positions in fantasy football: Quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, and tight ends. We already KOed the QBs and we took down the RBs. Now, Matt and Rick tackle one of the deepest positions in drafts this year, the wide receivers!Our analysts get into their big-picture strategies for the position in 2020, a rundown of all the premium wideouts in Tier 1 (guys like Michael Thomas, Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, and more) who cost a high pick, potential busts at the position (sorry Amari Cooper), some sleepers to target late, and finally, they reveal their personal gameplans for drafting wide receivers this season.Remember to stay tuned to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, which will now have FIVE new episodes per week!Follow Matt: @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Rich: @LordReebsCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, nailed it two weeks in a row now with the name change.
0:06.6	I'm Matt Harmon and I'm joined by Rich Revar today of Sharp Football Analysis.
0:11.0	We're going to talk all things wide receivers.
0:13.8	So you know I'm excited and I'm hoping that Rich is excited.
0:16.2	But anyways, before we get into all that, Rich, how the hell are you doing, man?
0:20.4	Doing real good.
0:21.4	I'm glad you reached out.
0:22.9	We haven't done a podcast in quite a few years together.
0:25.5	And, you know, just if you have you heard, you know, me and Chad Scott are back
0:28.5	together podcasting again.
0:30.6	And I know, you know, on our show, pre-snat motion.
0:32.2	Look, I already worked in an early plug, too. But, you know, we used to talk with you with you about wide receivers on there.
0:38.1	It was always our yearly thing talking about prospects. And that's when kind of you and I became
0:41.8	familiar with each other and kind of became like industry friends in a sense when it came to
0:46.1	talking wide receivers. So when you reached out, I was real excited as kind of restoking some of
0:49.9	those flames for me. Honestly, it's kind of a bummer that Chad is here. I mean, Chad is not here.
0:55.8	No, let me rephrase that. It's honestly kind of a bummer that Chad is not here. I don't know how
1:00.3	we're going to get like three Devin Funches plugs into today's show. Probably won't be any since he's,
1:06.6	how is he doing, by the way, now that Funches has opted out of the season? I mean, he feels good.
1:11.7	He feels good.
1:12.4	It was just kind of like, you know, he didn't have to surrender this year.
1:16.1	Funches removed himself from the board, so Chad didn't have to be involved.
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