2024 Fantasy football draft strategy: Tiers, cheat sheets, breakout players, deep sleepers from top NFL expert

Standard scoring leagues are most popular, but you can find many 2024 Fantasy football PPR leagues that award points per receptions. Being aware of your league’s scoring system can help you notice discrepancies in players’ 2024 Fantasy football projections. For example, Michael Pittman Jr. was the WR25 last season in standard leagues, but leapt to the WR13 in PPR leagues. Others like Garrett Wilson, Adam Thielen and Alvin Kamara all had differences of at least 10 spots in the Fantasy football WR rankings and Fantasy football RB rankings in standard leagues versus PPR leagues.
The 2024 Fantasy football advice you need for one league may not be as helpful for the other, especially when it comes to slotting players into 2024 Fantasy football tiers. Before locking in your 2024 Fantasy football draft strategy, be sure to check out the 2024 Fantasy football PPR rankings with deep sleepers, breakouts and best values from SportsLine Fantasy football analyst Jacob Gibbs.
A Fantasy Football Today newsletter writer and Beyond the Boxscore podcast contributor, Gibbs uses a data-driven approach that has helped him consistently provide accurate rankings at every position. He has proven to be one of the nation’s most accurate Fantasy rankers in recent years, posting the eighth-most accurate results over the past few seasons, according to Fantasy Pros.
Now, Gibbs has projected every Fantasy-relevant player’s stats and shared his exclusive PPR rankings for the 2024 season, along with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and busts. Head to SportsLine now to see them.
Top 2024 Fantasy football deep sleepers and breakouts
One of the 2024 Fantasy football breakouts Gibbs is predicting: Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy. The rookie is coming off an exceptional college career at Texas, finishing with more than 1,000 receiving yards and five touchdowns last year. His elite speed and playmaking ability will allow him to slot into Fantasy football lineups as a key contributor at the beginning of his career.
Worthy enters a fantastic situation in Kansas City, which needed another high-level target for quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown are the only wide receivers ahead of Worthy on the depth chart, and Brown could miss the beginning of the season due to a shoulder injury. Worthy has a chance to perform much better than his current ADP, especially if Brown misses games to open the season.
Another 2024 Fantasy football deep sleeper Gibbs has identified in his 2024 Top 150 PPR rankings: Bills running back Ray Davis. After a three-team college career that culminated with leading the SEC with 21 touchdowns while at Kentucky last year, Davis was a fourth-round pick by Buffalo. The Bills have James Cook as a starter, but didn’t bring back veterans Latavius Murray or Damien Harris, as Davis is No. 2 on the depth chart.
There is value with that role considering how much Buffalo leaned on the run once Joe Brady became the team’s offensive coordinator midway through last year. Under former coordinator Ken Dorsey, the Bills ran the ball 25.4 times per game through their first 10 games, but over the last seven games with Brady calling plays, the team averaged 36.9. Davis should benefit from that, and he also will help in passing downs as his seven receiving TDs last year were most amongst SEC running backs. See which other Fantasy football breakouts 2024 to pick here.
How to find proven 2024 Fantasy football football rankings
Gibbs is also extremely high on a rookie wide receiver whom he ranks as a top 20 player overall in his 2024 Fantasy football rankings. This youngster is shockingly listed ahead of established veteran wide receivers like Davante Adams and Deebo Samuel. You can only see who it is, and the 2024 Fantasy football rankings for the top 150 Fantasy-relevant players, at SportsLine.
So which 2024 Fantasy Football breakouts and deep sleepers should you target? And which rookie WR shocks the NFL with a top-20 performance? Visit SportsLine now to get 2024 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from one of the most accurate experts in the world, and find out.