Solving Your WR Issue by Adding RB’s & TE’s

          If you’re not content with your WR corps, then the simple answer is to add free agent WR’s to your bench and hope that one of them hits. But, there’s another way to go about it – a better way, especially if you’re in a league with willing traders.

          In competitive and active leagues, particularly with 12 teams or more, it can make more sense to add high-upside RB’s & TE’s to your bench to try and solve your WR issue. WR’s are more durable than RB’s and TE’s because they touch the ball less than RB’s and are involved in less heavy contact than TE’s, which means you’re more likely to “hit” on a backup RB or TE than you are to “hit” on a backup WR.

          Plus, a RB or TE that hits is a far more valuable trade asset than a WR that hits – if you pick up a WR and they hit, they aren’t likely to be as good as a WR that you could trade for with a RB or TE that hits.

          Obviously, if there’s a WR available who has the potential to become a stable set-it-and-forget-it WR2, or is just one injury away, it makes sense to add him to your roster. But, if you look at the free agent WR’s, and none of them are just one injury away from set-it-and-forget-it status, why not add a high-upside backup RB or TE who is one injury away from becoming valuable enough to trade for a set-it-and-forget-it WR2? Wouldn’t that make more sense?