Picking a safe, dependable player with a high floor on whom you can count as a weekly contributor to your fantasy team is certainly one way you can go in your fantasy drafts.
But sometimes you want to swing for the fences and go for those league winners who are more volatile but who have high ceilings and who might put up huge numbers any given week.
Here are 3 wide receivers with high ceilings for the 2024 fantasy football season.
Garrett Wilson, WR/New York Jets
I don’t think the fantasy world quite yet understands what Wilson truly can be. Through talent alone, he has Top 5 wide receiver upside. His biggest problem through two seasons has been working with putrid quarterback play. The guy moves and glides on the field like a gazelle, a la Justin Jefferson. He’s got soft hands and an impressive catch radius and is a dangerous weapon after the catch — if only he had a quarterback who placed the ball well. This is why I’m convinced that if Aaron Rodgers stays healthy and puts up even “above average” quarterback production, Wilson could be headed to a Top 10 finish in 2024.
Jaylen Waddle, WR/Miami Dolphins
Waddle’s ceiling is, essentially, capped by Tyreek Hill’s presence. His speed and explosive playmaking with the ball in his hands leaves him with WR1 weekly upside. No, he’s not likely ever to be Top 5 for a season while Hill is still around. And if these minor injuries he keeps sustaining turn into bigger, chronic ones, that’s going to cap his production as well. But for now, he has that ability to be a second Dolphins WR1 as he was in 2022, and that’s enticing production to have out of your team’s WR2.
Malik Nabers, WR/New York Giants
The gap between Nabers and fellow rookie Marvin Harrison Jr. is not high-end WR3 and low-end WR1, which is where a lot of projections have these two guys slotted, respectively. A lot of fantasy owners are scared of Giants quarterback Daniel Jones, which is the biggest cause for the discrepancy between the two young receivers. However, through sheer volume alone, Nabers could be in for a big season. He has the explosiveness to put up huge spike weeks and if he strings together enough of them over the course of the season, his ceiling will look sky high.
