At the dawn of my fantasy-playing days (around 1998 as I recall, which betrays my age), I huddled with 15 or so work colleagues in a friend’s drafty garage, a few primitive stat-sheet printouts in hand, and stumbled my way through my first fantasy draft. I don’t recall having anything resembling a strategy, but I’m pretty sure that filling my wide receiver slots was little more than an afterthought. These were the days of Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith and Marshall Faulk, after all, with Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and Steve Young hot on their heels.
Of course, a crafty owner could have made hay with a strategic approach to the wide receiver position, as there were many value picks to exploit — among them, a rookie with a checkered past…
