The Seattle Seahawks have three capable wide receivers at different stages of their careers, which drastically changes how you may place them in the 2024 Fantasy football rankings. DK Metcalf is the 26-year-old stud who led Seattle with 1,114 yards. He has had at least 900 yards in his five NFL seasons. Tyler Lockett is the 31-year-old veteran who finished below 1,000 yards for the first time in the last five years. Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the former first-round pick entering his second NFL season and could be one of the 2024 Fantasy football sleepers.
The likelihood of all three of these receivers finishing as top-30 Fantasy football wide receivers are slim, so who are the ones you want to target and which could become 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: 49ers tight end George Kittle. The 30-year-old led all tight ends in receiving yards last season (1,020) as he has the potential to break a huge play any time the ball is in his hands. However, with the bevy of playmakers in the San Francisco offense, he doesn't receive as many opportunities as some of the other standout tight ends as his 65 receptions ranked 10th among tight ends as he fell to TE5 on the season.
Kittle played in each of San Francisco's first 16 games but only had more than four receptions in five contests. Kittle is one of the best all-around tight ends in the NFL, but that hinders his Fantasy football value as the 49ers will use him to block for Christian McCaffrey and set up big plays down the field for wide receivers like Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk. Kittle is going in the top six tight ends in ADP and he's going more than a full round higher than multiple tight ends the model has ranked higher in its 2024 Fantasy football rankings.
Another bust that SportsLine's Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Packers running back Josh Jacobs. He makes his Packers debut this season after spending his first five seasons with the Raiders and transferring in a new running back isn't always a seamless process. Jacobs has to learn a new system, new offensive line, new coaches and he joins a team that may be pass-heavy with the emergence of Jordan Love last season.
After leading the NFL in rushing (1,653 yards) in 2022, Jacobs rushed for just 805 yards in 13 games last season. His yards per game plummeted from 97.2 to 61.9 last year. The 26-year-old isn't quite in the "old" territory, but a lot of his production with the Raiders came due to high usage. Jacobs averaged at least 17.5 carries in four of his five seasons. Meanwhile, Aaron Jones never averaged more than 15 carries per game over his seven seasons in Green Bay, in large part due to coach Matt Lafleur liking to use multiple running backs. Jacobs' limited usage could hold him back from his current ADP, making him a potential 2024 Fantasy football bust.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.
