With the 2024 NFL regular season quickly approaching, it’s time for owners to start putting the final touches on their 2024 fantasy football draft strategy. History has proven that every year there will be multiple 2024 fantasy football sleepers and 2024 fantasy football breakout players who come out of nowhere and finish the season atop the 2024 fantasy football rankings. In 2023, players like Pukla Nacua, Sam LaPorta, and Kyren Williams went from late-round picks, or undrafted in many leagues, to being fantasy football stalwarts. Now, all three players enter the 2024 season sitting near the top of the 2024 fantasy football rankings.
On the flip side, there are also players who enter the season with high expectations, but end up being labeled 2024 fantasy football busts. In 2023, players like Austin Ekeler, Dameon Pierce, and Cooper Kupp fit this description. As you begin your 2024 Fantasy football draft prep, be sure to check out the 2024 Fantasy football cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Last year, the model accurately predicted that Dolphins wide receiver Jaylen Waddle would fail to live up to his Fantasy football ADP. Waddle’s 2023 Fantasy football ADP was 34.86 overall and he was the 11th receiver off the board on average. He’d go on to notch a 1,000-yard season but only had 72 receptions with four touchdowns and he’d finish as the No. 34 Fantasy football wide receiver in CBS Sports PPR leagues.
The same model has a proven track record providing Fantasy football tips, identifying A.J. Brown as a sleeper in 2020 and nailing Jonathan Taylor’s monstrous season in 2021. Additionally, it’s called past Fantasy football sleepers like Derrick Henry in 2019, Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara in 2018, and Davante Adams in 2017. Anybody who banked on players like those made a run at their league title.
The model is powered by the same people who generated projections for all three major Fantasy sites, and it beat human experts last season when there was a big difference in ranking. The 2024 Fantasy football PPR rankings and 2024 Fantasy football standard projections update multiple times daily, so you’re always getting the best Fantasy football advice.
Now, SportsLine has simulated the entire NFL season 10,000 times and released its latest Fantasy football rankings 2024, along with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and busts. Head to SportsLine now to see them.
Top 2024 Fantasy football busts
One of the 2024 Fantasy football busts the model is predicting: 49ers tight end George Kittle. The 30-year-old tight end has a current ADP of 54.4 and is coming off the board in the fifth round on average in CBS Sports fantasy football drafts. Kittle posted his third career 1,000-yard receiving season in 2023, but SportsLine’s model is predicting he won’t live up to his fantasy draft status in 2024.
Kittle is being drafted ahead of players like Evan Engram, David Njoku, Trey McBride, and Dalton Kincaid, who are all projected to finish ahead of him in the fantasy football tight end rankings. While the former Iowa standout remains one of the top all-around tight ends in the NFL, he plays in an offense where he will be competing for targets with the likes of Deebo Samuel, Christian McCaffrey, and Brandon Aiyuk. Moreover, Kittle is entering his eighth NFL season and will turn 31 in October.
Another bust that SportsLine’s Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams. Despite the fact that the former first-round pick has 25 catches for 395 yards and three touchdowns over 18 games in his career, there’s been a lot of optimism about Williams. He’s being drafted in the 11th round of 2024 Fantasy football drafts on average and that’s largely because of the speed he brings to a high-powered offense.
However, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Sam LaPorta are going to receiver the bulk of the work in the Detroit passing game and both Jahmyr Gibbs and Kalif Raymond could be targeted more frequently too. So while the 11th round is a reasonable spot to start thinking about high-upside opportunities, the model just isn’t convinced this is the right spot for Williams. It ranks him behind receivers like Brandin Cooks and Josh Palmer, who are available 25 picks later on average. See which other Fantasy football busts 2024 to avoid here.
How to find proven 2024 Fantasy football rankings
SportsLine is also low on a wide receiver who is being drafted as a top-15 player at his position. The model ranks him outside its top 20 wide receivers for 2024 and expects him to see major regression. You can only see who it is, and the 2024 Fantasy football rankings for every player, at SportsLine.
So which 2024 Fantasy Football busts should you avoid, and which receiver will fail to live up to expectations? Visit SportsLine now to get 2024 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that told you to avoid Jaylen Waddle in 2023, and find out.
