2013 Fantasy Football Rankings: WRs Hakeem Nicks & Victor Cruz Still in Top 15

One of the bigger stories of the offseason is the potential holdouts of the Giants' star receivers Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz. Both are looking for new contracts and the Giants can only use the franchise tag on one of them next offseason, should they choose to go in that direction.

As mandatory OTAs rolled around in June, Nicks returned to practice and told the press the reason for his absence in May wasn’t related to his contract situation. If that’s true, it’s a huge relief for dynasty owners (I happen to be one of them) who were a little concerned he would come into another season not in peak condition.

As for Cruz, we didn’t see him during the teams OTAs but he did sign his RFA tender in June so hopefully we will see him in camp sometimes in July or at the latest by the third week of August.

It will be a wait-and-see approach on both receivers until they officially report to training camp, but assuming they get back before the third pre-season game, I have little doubts they both produce at low-end WR1 or WR2 value. New York will likely try to run the football a little more this season, but it remains to be seen if David Wilson can hold up to the pounding he will take as a starting tailback for a full 16-game schedule.

Andre Brown proved he could get the job done when Ahmad Bradshaw was out with foot and neck injuries. He also showed us he can’t stay healthy, as has been the problem with Brown over his short career.

Then you have a defense that struggled last season. The loss of Osi Umenyiora to the Atlanta Falcons and Jason Pierre-Paul rehabbing from back surgery won’t help their cause to play shutdown defense.

Add it up and it sure looks like the game scripts will tilt towards the team leaning on Eli Manning and his Pro Bowl receivers to help the team come from behind and win games in an offense-friendly NFC Eastern Division.

If you can land one of these two receivers as your WR2, consider that terrific value in any fantasy scoring format.

1	Calvin Johnson, DET
2	A.J. Green, CIN
3	Brandon Marshall, CHI
4	Dez Bryant, DAL
5	Julio Jones, ATL
6	Demaryius Thomas, DEN
7	Larry Fitzgerald, ARZ
8	Andre Johnson, HOU
9	Roddy White, ATL
10	Vincent Jackson, TB
11	Victor Cruz, NYG
12	Jordy Nelson, GB
13	Percy Harvin, SEA
14	Randall Cobb, GB
15	Hakeem Nicks, NYG
16	Mike Wallace, MIA
17	Marques Colston, NO
18	Reggie Wayne, IND
19	Dwayne Bowe, KC
20	Steve Smith, CAR
21	Eric Decker, DEN
22	Antonio Brown, PIT
23	Torrey Smith, BAL
24	Danny Amendola, NE
25	Wes Welker, DEN
26	Miles Austin, DAL
27	Cecil Shorts, JAX
28	Lance Moore, NO
29	Tavon Austin, STL
30	James Jones, GB
31	Vincent Brown, SD
32	Pierre Garcon, WAS
33	Stevie Johnson, BUF
34	DeSean Jackson, PHI
35	Greg Jennings, MIN
36	Mike Williams, TB
37	Anquan Boldin, SF
38	Kenny Britt, TEN
39	Josh Gordon, CLE (S)
40	Denarius Moore, OAK
41	Danario Alexander, SD
42	Kendall Wright, TEN
43	T.Y. Hilton, IND
44	Michael Floyd, ARZ
45	Jeremy Maclin, PHI
46	Sidney Rice, SEA
47	Greg Little, CLE
48	Alshon Jeffery, CHI
49	Justin Blackmon, JAX (S)
50	Emmanuel Sanders, PIT
51	DeAndre Hopkins, HOU
52	Darrius Heyward-Bey, IND
53	Cordarrelle Patterson, MIN
54	Chris Givens, STL
55	Nate Burleson, DET
56	Rueben Randle, NYG
57	Robert Woods, BUF
58	Santonio Holmes, NYJ (I)
59	Golden Tate, SEA
60	Ryan Broyles, DET (I)
61	Stedman Bailey, STL
62	Aaron Dobson, NE
63	Markus Wheaton, PIT
64	Brian Hartline, MIA
65	Brandon Lloyd, FA
66	A.J. Jenkins, SF
67	Marvin Jones, CIN
68	Brian Quick, STL
69	Mohamed Sanu, CIN
70	Keenan Allen, SD
71	Malcom Floyd, SD
72	Jeremy Kerley, NYJ
73	Justin Hunter, TEN
74	Donald Jones, NE
75	Quinton Patton, SF

2013 Fantasy Rankings: QB | RB | TE | K | D/ST