Quarterbacks Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson were among the most-rostered players on Fantasy football championship teams last season, but they are all top-40 picks in 2024 Fantasy football drafts. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the other signal caller going off the board in the first 40 picks of most drafts, so owners will be looking elsewhere for 2024 Fantasy football sleepers. Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is a former Fantasy QB1 who has been a Fantasy football bust due to injury in recent years. He is healthy heading into the 2024 NFL season, and he has a new weapon to work with in the passing game.
Arizona drafted wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who is a popular pick to land among the 2024 Fantasy football breakouts. Is that a Fantasy football stack you should be targeting with your 2024 Fantasy football lineups? As you finalize 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: Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf. He posted a top-10 Fantasy WR finish during his rookie season, but he has not cracked the top 10 in three seasons since then. Metcalf was the WR16 last season, catching 66 passes for 1,114 yards and eight touchdowns.
He has plenty of competition for targets in Seattle’s offense, including veteran Tyler Lockett and second-year wideout Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Many experts believe Smith-Njigba will take a step forward this season following a somewhat disappointing rookie campaign, which means Metcalf could see his target share reduced. SportsLine’s model has Metcalf ranked outside the top 20 at his position, but he is the 14th wide receiver drafted in average Fantasy leagues.
Another bust that SportsLine’s Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The future Hall of Fame quarterback is undoubtedly one of the best QBs in NFL history, but he turns 41 in December and is coming off a torn Achilles that cost him the entire 2023 NFL season. He was the talk of New York and the NFL last season after being traded to the Jets and starring in HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” but his name appeal and how he’s being sold as the Jets’ savior is sending him off 2024 Fantasy football draft boards too high.
Rodgers was QB13 in Fantasy football in 2022 in his final year with the Packers and assuming health, when he walks off the field after Week 1, it will be his first completed NFL game in more than 20 months. There’s no guarantee Rodgers will still have the ability that made him an elite quarterback throughout his career and the Jets haven’t produced a viable Fantasy football quarterback in decades. Rodgers is going inside the top 20 QBs in ADP, which is higher than the model projects him entering 2024 Fantasy football drafts. 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.
