With that in mind, here’s how we suggest organizing your cheat sheets, rankings and WR tiers so you can dominate your fantasy league, regardless of how you plan to approach fantasy’s new “it” position.

2016 fantasy football rankings: Quarterbacks | Running backs | Receivers | Tight Ends | Defenses | Kickers

Yes, as much as fantasy football has been an annual hunt for the top running backs and scoring has been led by quarterbacks, it’s a wide receiver’s game now. This year’s drafts will feature more of the sleek pass catchers being selected in Round 1 than ever. Fantasy owners just cannot get enough of the divas.

Who are the best fantasy football picks at wide receiver?

WR draft strategy No. 1: Go big, or go home.

We already delved in-depth into the nuances of PPR draft strategies last week, but standard fantasy leagues are going to favor the elite wideouts in Round 1, too.

Running backs carry more than the ground game – they carry inherent fantasy risk nowadays. Quarterbacks and non-Rob Gronkowski tight ends can be had many rounds later because all of fantasy is trained to wait on them, as we wrote in late July.

The run on receivers could start at No. 1 overall and might not let up until you have “broken the seal” at your draft party.

It’s never a good strategy to follow the fantasy sheep, but picking anything other than the next best wide receiver on your cheat sheet in Round 1 might be as bad of a strategy as being the first in your league to pick a kicker because “at least you’ll have a good one.”

Just give in early and get one of these 100-1,400-12 threats.

Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh Steelers Julio Jones, Atlanta Falcons Odell Beckham Jr., New York Giants DeAndre Hopkins, Houston Texans A.J. Green, Cincinnati Bengals

These five receivers are the consistently excellent ones projected to dominate their team’s targets. Daily Fantasy Café has a great list of data on that, which hammers down to catch percentage.

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2016 fantasy football WR rankings: Who’s in Tier 2?

WR strategy No. 2: Strength in numbers.

The list above suggests more than half of your 10-team league is going wideout first. It won’t end there.

It’s equally likely those who pick a running back, Gronk or – gasp – a quarterback will be following up that pick with a wideout in Round 2. Again, it’s as competitive for receiver real estate in our fantasy world as Pokemon Go.

Not going wide receiver early is going to cost you a steady performer at the fantasy position that also makes up the largest majority of your roster. Most formats start three receivers, if not five, with one potentially in a flex spot.

So, if you fail to get one of those top six, then you will want to attack the position by getting at least two of the next dozen. Seriously, you will have to draft two of the following wideouts with your top three picks to stay ahead of the diva-loving curve.

Allen Robinson, Jacksonville Jaguars Jordy Nelson, Green Bay Packers Dez Bryant, Dallas Cowboys Alshon Jeffery, Chicago Bears Mike Evans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sammy Watkins, Buffalo Bills Brandon Marshall, New York Jets Demaryius Thomas, Denver Broncos Keenan Allen, San Diego Chargers Brandin Cooks, New Orleans Saints T.Y. Hilton, Indianapolis Colts Amari Cooper, Oakland Raiders Kelvin Benjamin, Carolina Panthers

Your saving grace using this strategy is the possibility you end up with a pair of 100-1,200-10 candidates when the dust settles. It isn’t that the elite receivers have gotten that much greater than years past; it’s that there are more potentially great receivers all around.

We point squarely at Allen Robinson, who almost flipped right past this group and into the elite top tier.

SLEEPERS: One from each team | 14 RBs | 7 QBs | 12 WRs | 9 TEs 

WR strategy No. 3: Odds or evens.

OK, as we have written in past weeks, even the best strategies might not be employable if everyone is working off the same marching orders. You might need to be notably different from the crowd to wind up atop the crowd.

Here is what yours truly might strategically resort to doing in his drafts this summer: Picking a wide receiver every other round through my first backup wideout.

So, if I don’t get a stud WR in Round 1, I’ll pick a wide receiver in Rounds 2, 4, 6 and 8. This suggests peppering in the following: Round 1 running back, Round 3 running back, Round 5 quarterback, Round 7 running back and Round 9 tight end.

If you’re going this route, you will need to be squarely on the path of waiting on quarterbacks and tight ends; otherwise, your running back depth chart is going to be more frustrating than one of Mike Shanahan’s from fantasy yesteryear.

Here’s the next tier of receivers to target in the early-middle rounds:

Michael Floyd, Arizona Cardinals Julian Edelman, New England Patriots Randall Cobb, Green Bay Packers Golden Tate, Detroit Lions Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals Michael Crabtree, Oakland Raiders Allen Hurns, Jacksonville Jaguars Jeremy Maclin, Kansas Chiefs Doug Baldwin, Seattle Seahawks Jarvis Landry, Miami Dolphins Eric Decker, New York Jets Emmanuel Sanders, Denver Broncos

A co-host with me on the Fantasy Fatcast, David Gonos, makes the case the true beauty of the receiver position lies with this annually expanding group of sturdy fantasy picks. The aforementioned Robinson came out this group last year, and those top six above all once started here, too.

MORE DRAFT STRATEGY AND TIERS:Quarterbacks | Running backs | Wide receivers | Tight ends | D/STs | PPR leagues

2016 fantasy football sleepers: Wide receivers

WR strategy No. 4: Scatter shooting.

You cannot punt the wide receiver position, but you can attack it with quantity if you miss out on all of the quality.

Let’s say you’re a fantasy dinosaur and go running back-running back, maybe pick up a receiver in Round 3, and then make mistakes by going with a quarterback, tight end and another running back in the next three rounds – all because you just don’t “love the value” of the next wideouts on your cheat sheet through the early rounds.

Here is where you might be able to make up ground: Load up on fliers and give yourself a lot of throws at the wide receiver dart board. You will be able to hit on a few breakouts and sleepers in this ever-expanding fourth and final tier of draft-worthy WRs.

We’re talking about getting five or six of these guys, playing the matchups, and hoping some of them work their way into the top 25 of fantasy’s divas.

Who are the draft-worthy wide receivers?

Donte Moncrief, Indianapolis Colts Tavon Austin, Los Angeles Rams Jordan Matthews, Philadelphia Eagles DeSean Jackson, Washington Redskins John Brown, Arizona Cardinals Tyler Lockett, Seattle Seahawks Markus Wheaton, Pittsburgh Steelers Travis Benjamin, San Diego Chargers DeVante Parker, Miami Dolphins Torrey Smith, San Francisco 49ers Marvin Jones, Detroit Lions Kevin White, Chicago Bears Vincent Jackson, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Willie Snead, New Orleans Saints Sterling Shepard, New York Giants Breshad Perriman, Baltimore Ravens Mohamed Sanu, Atlanta Falcons Stefon Diggs, Minnesota Vikings Terrance Williams, Dallas Cowboys Josh Gordon, Cleveland Browns Dorial Green-Beckham, Philadelphia Eagles Michael Thomas, New Orleans Saints Sammie Coates, Pittsburgh Steelers Devin Funchess, Carolina Panthers Steve Smith Sr., Baltimore Ravens Pierre Garcon, Washington Redskins Corey Coleman, Cleveland Browns Laquon Treadwell, Minnesota Vikings Phillip Dorsett, Indianapolis Colts Kamar Aiken, Baltimore Ravens Tyler Boyd, Cincinnati Bengals Josh Doctson, Washington Redskins Ted Ginn Jr., Carolina Panthers Rishard Matthews, Tennessee Titans Tajae Sharpe, Tennessee Titans Will Fuller, Houston Texans Justin Hardy, Atlanta Falcons Danny Amendola, New England Patriots Nelson Agholor, Philadelphia Eagles Brandon LaFell, Cincinnati Bengals Chris Hogan, New England Patriots Eli Rogers, Pittsburgh Steelers Jaelen Strong, Houston Texans Anquan Boldin, Detroit Lions Mike Wallace, Baltimore Ravens

If you’re in this last-resort kind of jam on draft day, do yourself a favor: Look at the top quarterbacks just picked in your league and draft the next wide receiver on their team’s depth chart.

WR strategy No. 5: Hone in on the red zone.

Wide receivers and quarterbacks have stolen the fantasy thunder of the running backs because offensive systems need to pass in the red zone more than ever. It used to be that teams would just try to impose their wills on the ground, giving fantasy running backs a boat-load of touchdowns and points.

If you cannot get the heavily targeted receivers, get the ones teams use most in the red zone. Daily Fantasy Café goes even further with a list that shows splits inside the 20 and inside the 10 (referenced often in Sporting News Fantasy’s WR rankings breakdown).

It can be an invaluable resource when you’re trying to choose between two receivers.

Other potential WR tiebreakers on draft-day:

Who is the quarterback? Where was he drafted? Who is around the WR? Is he a one-man show, or does he have to compete with another elite WR on a weekly basis? How much does the team use the tight end, especially in the red zone? Schemes that throw frequently to the tight end can free up single coverage downfield. Does he have a history of hamstring, knee, ankle or foot issues? Those tend to be especially problematic for the route runners who rely on quality treads to make sudden movements.