2024 Week 13 Fantasy Football Rankings: WR

Ja’Marr Chase aims to stay sizzling in a tough Steelers matchup, Courtland Sutton crashing the WR1 ranks for the Broncos, and Marvin Harrison Jr. looks to cash in a plus Vikings setup.

Other positions: Quarterback | Running back | Tight End/Kickers/Defense

Week 13 Recipients

WR Notes: If Justin Jefferson is still the clear WR1 overall, he’s had a fun way of showing it the last three weeks. 13 catches for 156 scoreless yards. The hope is that the Week 12 breakouts of Jordan Addison and TJ Hockenson start to make the cost of doubling Jefferson every snap too expensive for opposing defenses. … CeeDee Lamb is second to only Puka Nacua in targets since Cooper Rush took over at quarterback in Week 10. He has yet to increase a week in that span, but that’s inevitable with that kind of usage. The Giants don’t have the answer to slow down CeeDee. … Although right now he’s hitting the top 20 of the year, Courtland Sutton is it WR4 with average PPR points over the past five weeks. The Browns’ pass defense is still respectable enough, but it’s nowhere near the keep-away unit of yesteryear. In fact, only eight teams are giving up more receiver fantasy points. … I will continue to be bullish Jaxon Smith-Njigba placements. Each sign is suddenly WR1 flashes, and the Jets are a much better matchup than their season-long metrics would indicate. This simply hasn’t been a good defense since Robert Saleh’s firing.

Malik Nabers Going into “I don’t know, ask coach” mode after Sunday’s nasty Bucs loss, approximately three new Tommy DeVito injuries were created in three days. The meme man has given way to Drew Lock. That could lower Nabers’ compilation floor, but it also gives him an actual down-field ceiling against the Cowboys’ combustible defense. Nabers appears poised to snap its Thanksgiving slump. … Drake London entered the Falcons’ bye week in a prolonged slump. A lingering hip injury probably had something to do with it. Expect increased London goals and production as the Falcons go into wild mode to try to make the playoffs. … It’s time for the Chargers to get serious about stepping up Load McConkey‘s target share. Quentin Johnston is a strict MVS-like role player, while Josh Palmer’s air yards continue to equate to prayer yards. Ladd remains ridiculously efficient on his surprisingly modest goal totals. Turn him loose, Harbs. Hopefully he will have no choice after the failure of Johnston and Palmer on Monday night. … George Pickens continues to be a WR1. The momentum will never be against the Bengals, who can’t get stops and are extremely exploitable downfield.

Tyreek Hill no longer has a WR1 leg to stand on. He’s nowhere near full health, and the Dolphins have no incentive to change their mind-and-dunk, short-range approach. If there’s hope, it’s that Hill gets more involved in that part of the field. At least his target floor has remained solid. … We cannot mention Hill without highlighting Jaylen Waddle‘s long-awaited breakout in Week 12. The question is, what does a production game materially change? I guess Waddle at least has a ceiling again. The floor remains as a WR3. … Early post-trade conventional wisdom had Garrett Wilson location in front Davante Adams. One of the reasons, um, was that Wilson scored way more fantasy points. I think those days have come and gone with Aaron Rodgers in last stand mode. Unsurprisingly, Adams now commands far more goals. Wilson still has game-breaking upside, but it’s a place Rodgers fears to tread. I rank Adams higher for Week 13.

I wanted to rank Marvin Harrison Jr. so much lower, but this is a rare week that plays to the Cardinals’ strengths in the passing game. Although he has been mediocre, Kyler Murray has been one of the league’s better QBs under pressure. He should be able to navigate the Vikings’ ferocious blitz well enough to find MHJ down the lane against a defense that coughs up the second most fantasy points. … Juan Jennings will find himself in the top 30 if Brock Purdy (shoulder) plays. If not, I’ll probably have to drop him outside the top 36. … Zay flowers and Jayden Reed are two wide players who are both dangerous with the ball in their hands, who have long since lost the WR2 benefit of the doubt. The targets simply aren’t plentiful enough in run-first offenses. You can happily treat them as WR3s because of the YAC-based upside potential. … The same compilation formula each of DJ Moore, Keenan Allen and Rome Odunze red in week 12 is there for Thanksgiving Day. Massive road underdogs, the Bears will pass all afternoon against a stout Lions defense that is also shorthanded in the secondary and gives up plenty of raw receiving production. Chicago just has to hope Caleb Williams, who is short week, doesn’t get torpedoed by the pass rush.

Jerry Jewdy has been a PPR WR1 over the past five weeks. Cedric Tillman (concussion) remains sidelined in Week 13. Jeudy’s concern is Patrick Surtain’s lock-down coverage, but Jameis Winston takes so many different bites of the apple that Jeudy could still come home in the top 30. … It’s really hard to know what one has to do with the Bills’ receiving corps. Keon Coleman (wrist) looks set to make a comeback. Dalton Kincaid (knee) appears to be sitting. Amari Cooper will be healthier and more up to speed on the Bills’ playbook after the bye. That’s why I fade Khalil Shakir‘s recent WR2 production and the introduction of a sort of WR3/4 free-for-all amid Buffalo’s wideouts. … Tank Dell having a Tony Pollard style season. He simply doesn’t look like the same player less than a year on from his traumatic broken leg. The matchups don’t get any better than the Jags, but it might be “wait until next year” with the Texans’ talented young wideout. … Goodbye was well timed Brian Thomas Jr. (rib). The problems are that he will catch passes from a one-armed Trevor Lawrence against a strong overall Texans pass D. … Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine: Zero point floors, surprise WR2 upside down.