The 2024 NFL season kicks off September 5, meaning the time has come for owners to put the finishing touches on their 2024 fantasy football draft prep. Proven veterans like Christian McCaffrey, Patrick Mahomes, and Tyreek Hill all headline the 2024 fantasy football rankings, but the key to fantasy success remains finding 2024 fantasy football sleepers and 2024 fantasy football rookies who outperform their ADP. In 2023, a pair of Los Angeles Rams, wide receiver Puka Nacua and running back Kyren Williams, were among the top fantasy football breakouts.
Nacua and Williams are now proven commodities and have high 2024 fantasy football projections. Should you target either player or will they be one of the 2024 fantasy football busts? 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: Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco. The 25-year-old is entering his third NFL season and going off the board in the third round on average (28.33 2024 fantasy football ADP). Pacheco is the No. 1 running back in Kansas City's high-octane offense and has rushed for 1,765 yards and 12 touchdowns and caught 57 passes for 374 yards and two touchdowns in his two NFL seasons.
Pacheco is being taken ahead of players like Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, and James Cook. The former Rutgers standout has to compete for red zone touches with Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Rashee Rice, and others. Moreover, Pacheco has totaled 432 touches during the regular season during the last two years and his physical running style makes him an injury risk.
Another bust that SportsLine's Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Vikings running back Aaron Jones. Due to hamstring and knee injuries, Jones missed six games last year, leading to his worst numbers since his rookie year in 2017. Jones had 889 total yards and three touchdowns after averaging 1,431 yards and 12 TDs over the previous four seasons. Green Bay released him in the offseason, and Jones signed with the division rival Vikings.
However, Jones is downgrading in terms of offensive lines. The Vikings have ranked among the bottom eight NFL teams in both rushing yards and yards per carry in each of the last two seasons, despite having Dalvin Cook for one of those. Additionally, not only is Jones coming off an injury-plagued season, but his 4.6 yards per carry in 2023 matched a career-low and he will turn 30 years old this season. There are just too many red flags with Jones as the model has him outside its top 20 running backs in its 2024 Fantasy football rankings.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.
