{"id":18885,"date":"2020-04-06T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/?p=18885"},"modified":"2021-11-02T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T03:39:07","slug":"dynasty-fantasy-football-top-5-2020-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-player-comps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharpfootballanalysis.com\/fantasy\/dynasty-fantasy-football-top-5-2020-nfl-draft-wide-receiver-player-comps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynasty Fantasy Football: Top-5 2020 NFL Draft Wide Receiver Player Comps"},"content":{"rendered":"

When watching and analyzing prospects entering the NFL, it\u2019s not uncommon to see subjective comparisons made to current players in the league. Whether it\u2019s a specific trait or the package of a prospect, we\u2019re all guilty of doing it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe route running of Antonio Brown\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe body control of DeAndre Hopkins\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe explosiveness of DeSean Jackson\u201d for an undersized receiver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s Wes Welker\u201d for every Caucasian slot receiver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, projecting players transitioning to the league for real football and our fantasy game is a sobering process. The reason our comparisons go to high-level players is because they stick out at the pantheon of rare achievement. Often they are comparisons being made to established players and not entirely when those players were prospects themselves. Check your favorite draft guru\u2019s comparisons. It\u2019s not often you see a wideout compared to Charles Rogers. Or Troy Williamson. Or David Terrell and so on down the line even though subjectively those players were also once viewed to share elite traits and comparisons to players of their time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I steamroll into another direction, let me say that there\u2019s nothing wrong with subjective player comps. I do it, too. But the angle we want to take here is to generate objective comparisons for the top prospects on the board. The goal here isn\u2019t to directly say \u201cthis is what the player will become\u201d but provide further clarity on the objective archetype of player and where similar prospects were valued by the league objectively based on declare status, age, size, final season, and career production adjusted for age, and physical profile adjusted for size.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kicking things off, we\u2019re starting with <\/span>the top-5 wide receivers that I have in pre-draft rookie rankings<\/span><\/a> at the position and generating their top-5 objective comparisons from the previous 10 drafts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One last piece of housekeeping. The comps are generated through Z-scores from the model used in that piece. The production and physical scores are listed in where those players rank in terms of percentile in each.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma<\/h2>\n