At the end of every fantasy football season, several players seem to be on every championship roster. Some of those players are the usual suspects you see getting selected in the first few rounds of every draft. But there are usually at least a handful of players who were afterthoughts during draft season and were selected late or not at all in most standard formats.
Those players are what we like to call “League Winners.” League Winners are those low-cost players who produce more for fantasy managers than what their cost suggested during drafts. These can be household names like Cooper Kupp or Deebo Samuel who exploded onto the scene with breakout seasons, or they can be players like Cordarrelle Patterson who weren’t even being drafted.
Being able to identify these players can, well, put you in a position to win your league. Our own Andrew Erickson recently took a look at 10 potential League Winners for the 2022 Fantasy Football season.
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Marquise Brown (WR – ARI)
Marquise Brown seems slated for a massive target share in the Arizona Cardinals’ pass-heavy offense, especially with DeAndre Hopkins sidelined for the first six weeks of the season.
Brown has already shown the ability to command targets at a high rate after posting a top-12, 23% target share last year with Baltimore. The speedy wideout also commanded a whopping 27% target share back in 2018 at Oklahoma – the last time he played with quarterback Kyler Murray.
He’s the perfect fit with his old college QB, who finished last season as PFF’s highest-graded passer on 20-plus air yard throws. Brown desperately needed a more accurate downfield passer after catching just 5-of-30 deep balls last season (16.7%).
– Andrew Erickson
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