When you get late into a fantasy football draft, drafters throw a lot of Hail Marys.
One player Jesse Reeves over at Pro Football Focus says you should keep an eye on in the late rounds of your fantasy football draft is Vikings rookie wide receiver Justin Jefferson.
Jefferson, one of the team’s two first-round picks this season, will get plenty of opportunities with Stefon Diggs now in Buffalo.
Here’s a bit of what Reeves wrote about Jefferson:
This may seem bold on the surface, but Jefferson is absolutely a guy you want to target late in your draft, even in redraft format. Don’t sleep on the impact of a rookie wide receiver — Jefferson is walking into Minnesota coming off a prolific season that saw him rank No. 3 in receiving yards, No. 9 in targets and No. 2 in touchdowns among all NCAA wide receivers.
Jefferson is especially attractive in a redraft league, but he’s very much a player who could see a big amount of targets in Minnesota as the team’s No. 2 wide receiver behind Adam Thielen. The fact that there are so many highly-touted rookie receivers might have Jefferson falling to a point in the draft where you have no choice but to take a flier on him.
You can check out Reeves’ full list of late-round receivers to watch here.
