Fantasy Football: 9 Sleeper Wide Receivers to Target in 2018

John Brown, WR, Baltimore Ravens

Hype has been ramping up a bit for John Brown lately, but he's still going as only the 60th wideout off the board.

Brown has been a "standout" at Baltimore Ravens training camp, per reports, and his presence means that it might be a little too early to dub Michael Crabtree the definitive number-one wideout in Maryland.

Relative to their teammates, Brown and Crabtree have had very similar marks in fantasy points per target since Brown came into the league in 2014, and (again relative to their teammates), the two stack up almost identically in Reception Net Expected Points (NEP) per target. (You can read more about NEP in our glossary.)

With both being such similarly efficient weapons, the top receiver role becomes muddied, and Brown's cost doesn't at all factor in the fact that he could come close to or even surpass Crabtree in volume this year.

Even if Brown does fall to that number-two role, Joe Flacco has attempted at least 500 passes in four of the last five seasons (averaging 560.4 per year in that span), and there should be no shortage of volume to go around.

There are few things more important than volume, and Brown offers both a great floor and big ceiling on that front. - Jason Schandl