SportsLine’s 2024 Fantasy football draft guide includes Fantasy football auction values, draft advice, and mock drafts
By CBS Sports Staff
Aug 22, 2024 at 10:42 am ET • 4 min read
Fantasy football draft prep is officially here, and it is important for owners to determine which second-year players will be among the 2024 Fantasy football breakouts. It can be easy to revolve your 2024 Fantasy football draft strategy around hyped-up 2024 Fantasy football rookies like Jayden Daniels or well-known veterans like Josh Allen. However, determining whether a rookie from 2023 will play a breakout role in 2024 is important to keep in mind when you make your 2024 Fantasy football picks. Which second-year players will be Fantasy football breakouts 2024, and who could end up being among the 2024 Fantasy football busts?
Whether you’re hunting for a 2024 Fantasy football top 150 you can trust or position-specific 2024 Fantasy football rankings that can help you identify potential 2024 Fantasy football breakouts, sleepers, and busts, be sure to see what the 2024 Fantasy Football Draft Bible at SportsLine has to say.
Prepared by Fantasy experts Jacob Gibbs, Scott Engel, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, Megan Shoup, Brandon Howard, Dan Schneier and R.J. White, the Bible is a must-have for any serious Fantasy football player. Gibbs, who powers the Fantasy Football Today newsletter, uses a data-driven approach that has helped him be one of the nation’s most accurate Fantasy rankers in recent years. Engel is an inaugural member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association’s Hall of Fame and has been a premier analyst and Fantasy personality for 25 years.
Eisenberg is a senior Fantasy analyst at CBS Sports who appears regularly on CBS Sports HQ and the Fantasy Football Today podcast. Cummings is a senior Fantasy writer at CBS Sports who hosts the Fantasy Football Today Dynasty podcast. Shoup was a 2022 finalist in Best Ball Mania 3 on Underdog Fantasy, one of the biggest Best Ball competitions in the world, and has a very good advance rate to the playoffs historically, reaching Best Ball’s postseason with more than 25% of her entries.
Howard is an experienced Fantasy analyst whose work has appeared at CBS Sports and The Athletic. Schneier is the senior Fantasy editor at CBS Sports and appears regularly with Gibbs on the Beyond the Box Score editions of the Fantasy Football Today podcast. White is SportsLine’s No. 1 NFL expert since 2017 who got his start in the Fantasy industry, with his work appearing at AOL Fanhouse, Fantasy Café and other sites prior to joining CBS Sports, where he is the current managing editor of Fantasy and betting content. This team brings decades of Fantasy experience and can give you a huge edge in your league.
The 2024 Fantasy football primer not only ranks the top 150 players in standard and PPR leagues, it also reveals must-see sleepers, breakouts and busts; breaks down the top rookie QBs, RBs and WRs; tells you which coaching moves will translate to massive Fantasy success and gives you updated mock drafts that can guide your selections. The Fantasy Football Draft Bible also offers detailed strategy tips for whichever league you play in: snake draft, auction or best ball. Head to SportsLine now to see the 2024 Fantasy football draft bible.
Top 2024 Fantasy football picks
The Fantasy football draft bible features 2024 Fantasy football breakouts, including:
Zay Flowers, WR, Baltimore Ravens: Flowers has been elevated to WR1 in Baltimore’s receiving arsenal, which is good news for Fantasy managers. The second-year wideout averaged 12.8 PPR points per game last season and he progressed as the season went on, catching four touchdowns over the last five games of his rookie campaign.
“The Ravens don’t have a receiver capable of threatening him for alpha targets, and the hope is that the presence of Derrick Henry will open things up in the passing game and lead to a breakout season for Flowers,” White said.
Dalton Kincaid, TE, Buffalo Bills: The Utah product had an impressive rookie season, but was overshadowed by Stefon Diggs in the receiving corps. With Diggs now part of the Houston Texans this season, the door has opened for Kincaid to get more targets from Josh Allen. He caught 73 passes for 673 yards and two touchdowns last year, so the expanded workload could turn him into the breakout tight end nobody saw coming.
“Kincaid is likely going to fall on a lot of breakout lists as he seems primed to assume the lead role in the Bills passing game this year, which gives him the potential to deliver a season similar to that of Mark Andrews or maybe even Travis Kelce. The reason we have him ranked so low is that we need him to finish as a top-two tight end to be a successful breakout pick, as most of his upside is baked into his draft price already. But when you look at where Kelce and Andrews are drafted in comparison, there is still some profit potential at his Round 5 price,” White told SportsLine. Get the full Fantasy football draft guide over at SportsLine.
How to find proven 2024 Fantasy football rankings
SportsLine’s Fantasy football 2024 draft guide has also identified three potential busts to avoid in the first round. This player has massively inflated numbers and could completely sink your playoff hopes if over-drafted. You can only see who it is here.
So what is the value of every single player in the 2024 Fantasy football rankings? And which huge busts can sink your season? Visit SportsLine now to see the complete 2024 Fantasy football draft bible, all from a team of proven Fantasy analysts who can give you a huge edge in your league.