Episode 228: 2021 WR Strategy, Sleepers & Busts
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This is the third part of a four-part series. Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, and Mike Leone discuss how to attack the wide receiver position in fantasy football drafts this season.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Macro WR themes
- How high is too high for the top-3 WRs?
- Is WR actually deep this year?
- How many WRs should we have by Round 10
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Timestamps:
The 2021 approach to Wide Receivers (2:43) | Was 2020 an outlier? (7:08) | Can you stack WR in Rounds 1 & 2? (10:11) | Mid-Round receiver targets and avoids (14:35) | Julio Jones - Boom or Bust? (21:23) | Is Wide Receiver as deep as it seems? (25:12) | 2021 WR Sleepers (28:22) | Players to avoid (35:53) | #1 Fantasy receiver projection (38:13)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 228 of the official established and run dot com podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Adam Levitan as always joined by Evan Silva and we are joined by director |
| 0:28.0 | van elitics michael leone for the third part of this epic historic four part series leone has |
| 0:35.9 | gone today it's going well i got a five k race tonight so i'm going to get outside no son |
| 0:41.7 | because it's rainy and gloomy and buffalo but i would be outside beautiful i need to get on |
| 0:49.1 | these prop bets that you get it on love the ten yeah that's the only way i can exercise if i |
| 0:53.5 | if there's money involved i really have a lot of problems my therapist would tell you |
| 0:56.8 | herself uh when you said five k i thought you were talking about money i got excited for a second |
| 1:00.9 | then i realized you were talking about distance and not as excited Evan has it going today it's |
| 1:06.2 | going real well it's going real we just signed up for a alive main event draft on Monday night |
| 1:12.6 | that all three of us are going to do together i'm going to be really interested to see how leone |
| 1:17.4 | does you know in in in in high pressure situations like what is something you know new some news |
| 1:23.3 | breaks while we're on the clock the spread sheets don't align how is it going to be able to adjust |
| 1:29.0 | and make changes on the fly um i can't wait to draft for leone yeah whatever is for whatever |
| 1:36.3 | whatever yeah it's going to be great whatever is referring to eighteen i think it's eighteen one |
| 1:39.5 | eighteen hundred and fifty dollar uh season hundred eighteen hundred dollars season long tournament |
| 1:44.2 | that we just registered four that all three of us are going to try to draft and manage together |
| 1:48.8 | without killing each other first so that should be a fun time well live stream it |
| 1:52.9 | monday night stay tuned for details on that all right on today's show we're going to break down all |
| 1:59.5 | things wide receiver for the twenty twenty one pennies football season tiers optimal strategy |
| 2:04.6 | guys we like guys we don't etc i hope you've checked out the first two parts of this series where |
| 2:09.1 | we discussed quarterback and then running back that's just a taste of what you will find in our |
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