When making fantasy football rankings, every player has to be ahead of the guy after him. Sometimes, you may not feel like there’s any difference between two, three, or even more players ranked next to each other.

To help you decide when to draft what position, here are our WR tiers, named after the greatest real life WRs of all time.

Which Wide Receivers Fall Into Which Tiers for Fantasy Football in 2024?

Tier 1: The Jerry Rice Tier

The order is up to you, but these are the two best wide receivers entering the 2024 fantasy season.

Tier 2: The Calvin Johnson Tier

Yes, Calvin Johnson is my No. 2-ranked WR of all time. If you miss out on the top two, these three receivers are fantastic options to anchor your team in the first round.

Tier 3: The Randy Moss Tier

Randy do what Randy do. And these three WRs can do wonders for your fantasy team. If you pick at the back end of the first round, make sure you grab one of these guys.

Tier 4: The Terrell Owens Tier

Getcha popcorn ready. This next group of WRs is rather large, which makes choosing one in the second round quite the challenge.

Tier 5: The Antonio Brown Tier

Had he not gone off the deep end, I believe AB could’ve played at a high level into his late 30s. These WRs can all play at a high level now.

Tier 6: The Marvin Harrison Tier

Sadly, Marvin Harrison Jr. did not end up in the Marvin Harrison tier. But these players are the last wide receivers you can really trust before the position become much more speculative.

Tier 7: The Michael Irvin Tier

This is a large group of receivers that typically go in the Round 6-8 range. All of them have relatively wide ranges of outcomes, but there are several I am very interested in drafting.

Tier 8: The Larry Fitzgerald Tier

Here we have some more upside guys. This is the last group of wide receivers I would feel comfortable having to start in two-Flex leagues. You want at least five WRs by the end of this tier.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle Seahawks
George Pickens, Pittsburgh Steelers
Jayden Reed, Green Bay Packers
Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville Jaguars
Rome Odunze, Chicago Bears
Ladd McConkey, Los Angeles Chargers
Hollywood Brown, Kansas City Chiefs
DeAndre Hopkins, Tennessee Titans
Jordan Addison, Minnesota Vikings

Tier 9: The Tyreek Hill Tier

Imagine thinking Tyreek Hill isn’t already a top-10 WR all time. These WRs are more like rookie-year Hill. There are a lot of unknowns, but plenty of upside.

Keon Coleman, Buffalo Bills
Courtland Sutton, Denver Broncos
Christian Watson, Green Bay Packers
Joshua Palmer, Los Angeles Chargers
Josh Downs, Indianapolis Colts
Jakobi Meyers, Las Vegas Raiders
Mike Williams, New York Jets
Khalil Shakir, Buffalo Bills
Rashid Shaheed, New Orleans Saints
Tyler Lockett, Seattle Seahawks
Romeo Doubs, Green Bay Packers

Tier 10: The Julio Jones Tier

Julio Jones spent the entirety of the 2010s at the top of his craft. These WRs are more likely to be like post-Falcons Julio.

Brandin Cooks, Dallas Cowboys
Gabe Davis, Jacksonville Jaguars
Dontayvion Wicks, Green Bay Packers
Adonai Mitchell, Indianapolis Colts
Curtis Samuel, Buffalo Bills
Jerry Jeudy, Cleveland Browns
Jameson Williams, Detroit Lions
DeMario Douglas, New England Patriots
Xavier Legette, Carolina Panthers
Greg Dortch, Arizona Cardinals
Andrei Iosivas, Cincinnati Bengals
Ja’Lynn Polk, New England Patriots
Adam Thielen, Carolina Panthers
Ricky Pearsall, San Francisco 49ers
Jahan Dotson, Philadelphia Eagles

What Are Tiers in Fantasy Football?

Tiers are a means of grouping similarly valued players together. Rather than a linear list that suggests one guy is better than the next, each tier is viewed as a notch above the one below it.

How To Use Tiers in Fantasy Football

Tiers are especially useful in helping fantasy managers value players across positions. When doing a linear set of rankings, it’s difficult to figure out if a running back is definitively better than a wide receiver.

In general, overall rankings aren’t particularly helpful to fantasy managers because they don’t offer any guidance as to when to take what positions. Tiers do.

When you have tiers, you can see when there is about to be a step down in caliber of player at a particular position. You can use tiers to determine whether it is optimal to take the best overall player available.

Conversely, with tiers you can take the best player from a specific position, knowing there are several others available from another position all in the same tier and you’re likely to get one of them with your next pick.

How To Create Your Own Fantasy Tiers

For better or worse, you have to start with a linear set of rankings. List every player in the order in which you would draft him.

Once this is complete, separate them into groups of players you view as similar in value. There is no hard-and-fast rule regarding how big or small a tier must be. Sometimes, a tier can literally be one player. Other times, particularly as you get farther down the player list, tiers can be quite large.

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