Kansas City Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill bounced back from an injury-addled 2019 season to post his third top-five fantasy wide receiver finish in the last four years in 2020. Below, we look at Tyreek Hill‘s 2021 fantasy football average draft position (ADP) and where you should draft him.
Hill finished 2020 with a career-high 17 touchdowns in 15 games and ranked behind only Green Bay Packers WR Davante Adams in both standard-scoring and point-per-reception formats at the position.
Tyreek Hill’s ADP: 15.72
(ADP data courtesy of MyFantasyLeague.com)
Unlike the quarterback uncertainty in Green Bay, there are no such QB questions in K.C., and so Hill checks in six spots ahead of Adams to top the early-summer wide receiver ADP ranks.
Hill is the only wideout in the ADP top 20. He ranks above all but the top seven running backs, top three QBs and top two tight ends, including Chiefs teammates QB Patrick Mahomes and TE Travis Kelce.
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Tyreek Hill’s 2020 stats (15 games)
Targets: 135
Receptions: 87
Yards: 1,276
Rushing: 13 attempts, 123 yards
Touchdowns: 17 (15 receiving, 2 rushing)
Fumbles: 1
Total fantasy points: 241.9 (Huddle standard scoring) / 328.9 (Huddle PPR)
Where should you take Tyreek Hill in your fantasy football draft?
Hill isn’t just an elite wide receiver, he’s an elite offensive weapon and fantasy force, period.
In 2020 PPR scoring, only New Orleans Saints RB Alvin Kamara (377.8 points), Adams (358.4), Minnesota Vikings RB Dalvin Cook (337.8) and Tennessee Titans RB Derrick Henry (333.1) totaled more fantasy points among position players than Hill’s 328.9.
It’s the road-runner speed that sets Hill apart as he can take a short pass in the flat or a simple end-around the distance for a 70-yard TD in a matter of seconds. To that point, Hill had at least 13 rushing attempts in four of his five seasons and only two other true wideouts (Curtis Samuel and Robert Woods) finished with more rushing yards than Hill’s 123 last season.
On the flip side, there is some touchdown regression to worry about with Hill as only Kamara (21) and Adams (18) found their way into the end zone more often in 2020. It was the second time Hill totaled more than 9 TDs in a season — he had 13 in 2018 — and 9 was precisely his average over his first four seasons.
Still, you’re wisely investing draft capital in Hill’s unicorn speed and his WR1A role in the Chiefs’ points-aplenty offense. He’s an ideal fantasy snake-draft target right around the 1-2 turn as the first wide receiver off the board.
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