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2008 Breakout Wide Receivers

The third year breakout wide receiver theory has become one of the most known theories by fantasy football managers because of a few wide receivers who became dominant during their third season. Unfortunately, this theory is so well-known that most fantasy sites usually rank all third year wide receivers higher than they really should so if you want one of them you will have to draft them early and there are quite a few that do not breakout. In this article I decided to look at all wide receivers in years two to five and find out if there are actually more third year wide receivers that breakout. Moreover I looked at the WRs that did breakout and tried to find criterions that differentiate WRs that do breakout from the ones that don't.

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