12 Second-Year Running Backs & Wide Receivers to Target

Jul 14, 2021

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Sophomore Slump is a term that’s become part of our vernacular for many things such as albums, movies, television series and what it actually originated from, collegiate studying. I’m baffled by its roots since most freshmen party too hard their first year and make an attempt to get it together by the time sophomore year comes around, but maybe at some point, it was reversed.

In the sports world and for our fantasy football purposes, this term refers to players who come into the league hot and maybe fizzle out a bit and regress in Year 2. This article is not about those guys however and will focus on the second-year running backs and receivers who we should be targeting in our 2021 drafts. Thanks to a tremendously talented 2020 draft class there is a plethora to choose from.