USC head coach Lincoln Riley is known as a quarterback guru, and his latest pupil to join the NFL is Caleb Williams. Riley also molded Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray and Jalen Hurts, with all four QBs being selected in the top 150 per their 2024 Fantasy football ADPs. Williams is being pegged as a Fantasy football breakout as a rookie, while Murray is being thought of as a 2024 Fantasy football sleeper, just as Mayfield was last season. Meanwhile, Hurts took a step back last season, and further regression could have him ending up as a Fantasy football bust.
Which of these Riley products will provide the most value to your Fantasy football 2024 lineups? While one may view Hurts as superior to Mayfield, would the latter provide a better ROI as a late-round pick than Hurts as a first-rounder? Answering questions like these is just one part of building a winning 2024 Fantasy football strategy. Before crafting your 2024 Fantasy football draft strategy, be sure to check out the 2024 Fantasy football rankings and cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Last year, the model accurately predicted that Jets running back Breece Hall would significantly outperform his sixth-round Fantasy football ADP in 10-team PPR leagues. The result: Hall rushed 223 times for 994 yards and five scores and was also a dynamic receiver out of the backfield, catching 76 passes for 591 yards and four more scores. He’d wind up finishing as the No. 2 running back in CBS Sports PPR leagues behind only Christian McCaffrey.
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 rankings 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 sleepers
One of the 2024 Fantasy football sleepers the model is predicting: Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert. He missed four games last year due to injury, but still managed to put up respectable numbers (3,134 passing yards with 20 touchdowns and seven interceptions). It was statistically the worst season of his NFL career, but had he played a full schedule, his production likely would have put him in the upper echelon of NFL quarterbacks.
The Chargers’ offense won’t have Keenan Allen or Mike Williams in 2024, but the team invested early round picks on wide receivers in back-to-back years (Quentin Johnston in the first round 2023 and Ladd McConkey in the second round in 2024). The team has also made a concerted effort to beef up its offensive line, investing three first-round picks on offensive linemen since 2021 (Rashawn Slater, Zion Johnson, and Joe Alt). Moreover, new head coach Jim Harbaugh should help Herbert take the next step in his development as a high-end NFL quarterback.
Another sleeper that SportsLine’s Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Bengals running back Zack Moss. The former Bills RB was a part-time starter with the Colts last season with Jonathan Taylor injured to start the year, and Moss responded with his best season. He set new career-highs across the board with 986 scrimmage yards and seven total touchdowns. He’s since moved to Cincinnati where he and Chase Brown are battling to replace the departed Joe Mixon, who ranked fourth in the NFL in touches in 2023.
The second-year Brown has never had more than 12 touches in a game, while Moss averaged 91.7 total yards when he received 12-plus touches a year ago. Cincinnati wasn’t that efficient when running the ball last year, but it upgraded its offensive line by adding first-round rookie Amarius Mims and former Pro Bowler Trent Brown. The model likes Moss as a 2024 Fantasy football sleeper and ranks him higher than Aaron Jones and Rhamondre Stevenson, despite those two being drafted earlier on average. See which other Fantasy football sleepers 2024 to pick here.
How to find proven 2024 Fantasy football football rankings
SportsLine is also extremely high on a surprising running back you aren’t even thinking about. The model says this running back is a shocking top-five option ahead of superstars like Jonathan Taylor and Derrick Henry. You can only see who it is, and the 2024 Fantasy football rankings for every player, at SportsLine.
So which 2024 Fantasy Football sleepers should you target? And which running back shocks the NFL with a top-five performance? Visit SportsLine now to get 2024 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that called Breece Hall’s huge season, and find out.
