Fantasy Football Week 4 Wide Receiver Preview: Waiver adds, starts, sits, stashes, and more

The top five wide receivers in full PPR scoring this season are Malik Nabers, Rashee Rice, Chris Godwin, Jauan Jennings, and Justin Jefferson. It's been that kind of season. Those five, plus Nico Collins, are the only wide receivers averaging more than 19 Fantasy points per game that aren't currently hurt. A.J. Brown and Cooper Kupp join them. Obviously missing are first-round picks Tyreek Hill, Ja'Marr Chase, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and CeeDee Lamb. There is a case to be made to buy low on all four of these guys, though that may be difficult after Chase's monster Monday night.

The riskiest of the group has to be Tyreek Hill, and that has nothing to do with Hill. I'm no longer sure he can be a top-12 wide receiver with either Skylar Thompson or Tim Boyle at quarterback. And no one can be certain that Tua Tagovailoa will return any time soon. Even if he does, it's worth remembering that the Dolphins have been hot starters, but they really struggled down the stretch last year, particularly in cold weather. They don't have a lot of potential cold games, but they do play at Green Bay in a night game on November 28th, and they are at Cleveland in the Fantasy Championships for a night game on December 29th. In other words, if I'm buying Hill, I am buying lower than I am with the other wide receivers I drafted in Round 1. 

The one I'm really not concerned about at all is CeeDee Lamb, and I would be willing to pay almost full price for him at this point. Lamb has had a weird start to the year, but I don't see anything that suggests it will continue. 

Here is the rest of the Week 4 WR Preview:

Week 4 WR Preview

The following players are not being projected to play Week 4 at this time. Here's what it means:

• 37.8% -- Malik Nabers leads the NFL with a 37.8% target share. Rashee Rice, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Chris Godwin are the only other players above 30%.
• 3.77 -- Jauan Jennings' 3.77 yards per route run is tied with Justin Jefferson, just .02 behind Rice.
• 122 -- Diontae Johnson produced 122 yards in his first game with Andy Dalton. He produced 34 in two games combined with Bryce Young.
• 6.0 -- Brandon Aiyuk is averaging just six yards per target this season. Last year, he averaged 12.9, and his career mark is 9.7. Expect regression.
• 76% -- 76% of Jaxon Smith-Njigba's targets came in Week 2 against the Patriots. He looks like the definition of a boom/bust flex.
• 50 -- Garrett Wilson is averaging 50 yards per game this season. He averaged 61.3 in 2023 and 64.9 in 2022.
• 6 -- Courtland Sutton has seen six red zone targets. That is tied with Diontae Johnson and Drake London for most among wide receivers.

My full set of Week 4 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 4. Projected stats for all starting wide receivers are available, so be sure to check out the full set of projections at SportsLine.