Jets WRs Fantasy Outlooks: Should You Draft Garrett Wilson, Mike Williams or Malachi Corley?

After a false start last season, Aaron Rodgers’ tenure as the New York Jets quarterback is set to get rolling in 2024. With the arrival of Rodgers, the fantasy football expectations are high for Garrett Wilson, while there is some quiet optimism around both Mike Williams and Malachi Corley. Let’s examine their fantasy outlooks and see if any of the group is worth their current draft day value.

Garrett Wilson’s Fantasy Outlook and Projections

• PPR Fantasy Points: 110.4 (71.7 non-PPR)
• Receptions: 38.8
• Receiving Yards: 578.6
• Receiving TDs: 2.6

Wilson is going around the Round 1-2 turn in most leagues, nearly identical to where he checked in at this time last year, which makes sense. Realistically, why would we pivot from our Rodgers-based excitement around him after having not seen it?

If I’m getting into the Wilson business this season, I’d want to insulate my roster with some safety. Wilson carries enough upside to afford you the luxury to do so, so I’d be looking to pair him with seemingly “safe” players like Jonathan Taylor, Kyren Williams, or Puka Nacua in the first two rounds.

Every draft is different, but these are players with locked-in roles who provide a solid foundation for pursuing the Rodgers/Wilson tandem. I also wouldn’t be against pushing all of your chips in and drafting Rodgers late as a draft-two-for-one-spot play at the quarterback position.

If you’re drafting Wilson as the key member of your championship team, you’re already betting on Rodgers, so why not fully embrace it?

– Kyle Soppe, Fantasy Football Analyst

Mike Williams’ Fantasy Outlook and Projections

• PPR Fantasy Points: 110.4 (71.7 non-PPR)
• Receptions: 38.8
• Receiving Yards: 578.6
• Receiving TDs: 2.6

After looking like a bust early in his career, Williams was able to overcome a dreadful rookie season to become a very respectable NFL WR2. In fantasy, he didn’t really make a meaningful impact until his fifth season, when he averaged 15.4 fantasy points per game.

Williams followed that up with a solid 13.6 points per game in 2022 but missed four games due to injury. That was the start of Williams’ struggles to stay on the field.

Last season, Williams was off to a scorching start before his season was cut short after just three games. He posted outings of 8.5, 16.6, and 25.1 fantasy points before tearing his ACL in Week 3.

If it feels like Williams was just getting started as a strong fantasy asset, that’s because he’s only been one for three years.

The best part about him is his price. He’s going off the board as the WR54, No. 137 overall. At that spot in the WR ranks, we want to take shots on younger players with upside.

Williams feels out of place among a bunch of young, unproven players. But I don’t hate the idea of gambling on him rebounding. He was very good in his three games last season.

While we can’t expect his upside to be the same with Rodgers as it was with Justin Herbert, merely returning WR3 value would be a massively positive return on investment.

I have Williams ranked as my WR54, which is right in line with the consensus. We are certainly getting an injury discount with him. If you want to capitalize, I won’t get in your way.

– Jason Katz, Fantasy Football Analyst

Malachi Corley’s Fantasy Outlook and Projections

• PPR Fantasy Points: 110.4 (71.7 non-PPR)
• Receptions: 38.8
• Receiving Yards: 578.6
• Receiving TDs: 2.6

The third-round pick hauled in over 70 catches in each of his final three seasons at Western Kentucky, and you have to think that Aaron Rodgers co-signed this pick.

Williams is coming off of a torn ACL, and all talk coming out of New York is that he will be eased back into a full-time role. That gives Corley as good a shot as any receiver on this roster to hold the WR2 label to open the season, and that is worth stashing in all formats.

Rodgers favorite Allen Lazard looms, and Xavier Gipson is currently listed ahead of Corley, making this a cloudy situation at best. You’re drafting Corley as a long-term asset with the hope that the cream rises. The other New York team has an unclear ranking when it comes to their receiver room, but they don’t have a quarterback who has proven the ability to support fantasy options.

That isn’t the case for the Jets and Corley, in my opinion, is the best way to bet cheap on Rodgers’ return to action.

– Soppe