Fantasy Football Week 3 Wide Receiver Preview: Waiver adds, starts, sits, stashes, and more

For the vast majority of players in Fantasy Football we should still be leaning into their 2024 expectations while slowly factoring in their 2024 production. This process will continue until we get to Week 5 when their production in this current year will finally be more productive than past years and ADP. But with rookies, we don't have any prior production to fall back on, only ADP. So the needle can move quickly in terms of perception. That's made even more interesting by the wild swings we've seen in production.

In Week 1 Marvin Harrison was an enormous disappointment, Malik Nabers was a WR3, Xavier Worthy scored two touchdowns, and Ladd McConkey looked like the Chargers. In Week 2 McConkey was outplayed by Quentin Johnston, Worthy scored 3.7 Fantasy points, while Nabers and Harrison looked like WR1s. This makes their Week 3 rankings all the more difficult, and their production all the more interesting.

My most interesting watch this week will be Nabers. He goes from the easiest matchup in the league to Browns defense that could cause all kinds of problems for Daniel Jones. If Nabers performs in this spot then he may be ranked in the top 12 all season long. This defense held CeeDee Lamb to 61 yards and Christian Kirk to negative-one yard. They're tied for the third-most sacks and rank top-10 in pressure rate and knockdown rate. 

As of now it's easy to paint Nabers as a boom/bust rookie who will take advantage of the best matchups. It will be very difficult to make that argument if he succeeds in Cleveland.

As always, you can find my full projections -- position by position -- over at Sportsline.

Here is the rest of the Week 3 WR Preview:

Week 3 WR Preview

The following players are not being projected to play Week 3 at this time. Here's what it means:

• 16.5 -- Marvin Harrison Jr. has an aDOT of 16.5. That type of profile has huge peaks but a very low floor. 
• 4.83 -- Rashid Shaheed leads all receivers at 4.83 yards per route run. This entire Saints offense is a lot of fun.
• 64.7% -- Chris Godwins' slot rate is up to 64.7% and he is dominating in that role. 
• 51 -- The Washington Commanders are giving up 51 PPR FPPG to opposing receivers. 
• 12.3 -- Brandon Aiyuk is averaging 12.3 yards per target since the start of 2023, best in the NFL. His target volume should explode with Deebo Samuel out.
• 20.7% -- Britain Covey had a 20.7% target share in Week 2. It does not appear than Jahan Dotson saw one target.
• 226.5 -- Andy Dalton has averaged 226.5 yards passing per game in his career. That's a huge upgrade for Diontae Johnson, don't drop him yet.

My full set of Week 3 Fantasy football projections for every position are now available on SportsLine. Find out which of my favorite plays are projected to score higher than consensus rankings and which don't live up to their draft hype, at least in Week 3. Projected stats for all starting wide receivers are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.

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