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Fantasy Football: One Wide Receiver to Target in Each Round of Your Draft
Which receivers make for quality selections in each of the first 10 rounds of your fantasy football draft?

Chris Hogan, New England Patriots

ADP: 5.05 (WR25)

For a while this summer, Chris Hogan was possibly the best wide receiver value going, so congrats to those of you who nabbed him in best-ball drafts in the early part of the spring.

Hogan's price has shot up since June, creeping into the early part of the fifth round -- a jump of more than two full rounds from where his ADP stood not too long ago.


Even with the price hike, Hogan is still a player we want to target. The reasoning is pretty simple: the Patriots are going to have a really good offense, and outside of Hogan, their receiver depth chart is pretty barren.

Rob Gronkowski will get his, and Julian Edelman will be back after a four-game ban. But that still leaves more than enough volume for Hogan. With Brandin Cooks (19.42% market share last year) and Danny Amendola (14.82%) out of the picture, the Pats have the fourth-most air yards (2,489) and the fourth-most targets (240) missing from last season's roster.

And while we don't want to weigh those first four non-Edelman games too heavily, Hogan was a monster last year sans Edelman, checking in as the PPR WR7 through the first eight weeks, a run which was curtailed by a shoulder injury.

Even though Hogan's price tag has finally climbed to where it should be, he still makes for a solid pick in this range. He checks a ton of boxes for 2018 and is one of the better wideout targets once the first couple tiers are gone.

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