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Fantasy Football: One Wide Receiver to Target in Each Round of Your Draft

Austan Kas  —  @AustanKas Aug 23rd, 2017
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Round 4: Michael Crabtree, Oakland Raiders

Average Draft Position: 4.06 (WR20)

Michael Crabtree has been a really good fantasy producer since coming to the Oakland Raiders, finishing as the PPR WR12 in 2016 and WR16 in 2015, besting Amari Cooper, his more ballyhooed and higher-valued teammate, in each campaign.

Crabtree led Oakland in target market share last season with a 24.96% clip, and he saw at least 7 targets in 13 of 16 games. He turned that steady volume into consistent production, finishing with nine standard-league WR2 (top-24) weeks, which is exactly how many WR2 outings Mike Evans had.

Admittedly, Crabtree doesn't have a huge ceiling -- only three of those nine WR2 weeks were actually top-12 performances -- but he makes up for it with his stable weekly floor.

Our projections rank Crabtree as this season's WR15, and his safety becomes increasingly appealing as we get deeper into the draft.

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