Fantasy Football ADP watch: Buy the dip on Terry McLaurin?

Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin is one of just eight players with over 1,000 receiving yards in each of the last three seasons. He's also the only one of that group to have less than six touchdowns in such a season, and he's done it in all three.

In standard fantasy scoring, McLaurin has been a top-24 fantasy receiver in all four seasons of his career. In PPR formats he's been knocked down a few pegs by lackluster quarterback play, but he was a top-14 receiver across scoring formats last year.

McLaurin is easy to overlook in fantasy drafts, and he's got another quarterback question mark this year in Sam Howell. In the Commanders' second preseason game, he suffered a turf toe injury that may cost him Week 1 (or beyond). It stands to reason he'll be somewhat limited for the first few weeks of the season.

In a 10-team ESPN PPR league draft the night after his injury, I took McLaurin with the 75th overall pick (eighth round). Give or take a couple I may have missed, but a close proximity in any case, he was the 32nd wide receiver taken.

Fantasy Football ADP: Buy the dip on Terry McLaurin

It's been about a day since Adam Levitan of Establish The Run posted it, but look beyond the Jahan Dotson buzz at the fall in McLaurin's ADP in DraftKings' best ball tournament.

That ADP drop is as expected, given the nature of McLaurin's injury, questions that linger about Howell and the breakout buzz around Dotson. Other ADP trends aren't quite that dramatic. Fantasy Football Calculator only has McLaurin's ADP falling one spot overall over the past week in 12-team PPR (WR26). He's still WR21in 0.5-point PPR ADP (Yahoo! scoring) according to Fantasy Pros.

Being able to draft McLaurin as your WR3 (as I did, after CeeDee Lamb and Chris Olave) helps mitigate the risk he misses Week 1, or he's less than full strength for the first few weeks. Taking him as your WR2, but taking another receiver (or two?) quickly after, is another strategy to reduce the risk of a possible slow start.

Every draft is different, and ADP is only a general guideline to make note of. But if there's a dip to buy on McLaurin, there's no reason not be in on it right now.