San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey topped the fantasy football rankings a year ago, and the reigning NFL Offensive Player of the Year is widely considered to be No. 1 in almost all 2024 fantasy football RB rankings. McCaffrey headlines a group of fantasy football running backs that is relatively unproven, and is sure to be full of 2024 fantasy football breakouts and 2024 fantasy football sleepers. Should the 28-year-old be the top target in your 2024 fantasy football strategy? Other highly-regarded players in the 2024 fantasy football running back tiers include Breece Hall, Saquon Barkley, and Bijan Robinson. Where should each of them fall in your 2024 fantasy football cheat sheets? 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: Bills wide running back James Cook. The former Georgia standout had a breakout season in 2023, but is being slightly overlooked from a fantasy perspective heading into the 2024 season. In 2023, his second NFL season, Cook rushed for 1,122 yards and two touchdowns, and he caught 44 passes for 445 yards and four touchdowns.
With Stefon Diggs no longer in Buffalo, there will be more opportunities for the 24-year-old to rack up touches this fall. Cook currently has an ADP of 18.9 and is going off the board in the second round on averages in CBS Sports fantasy drafts. He is being drafted after guys like Derrick Henry, Kyren Williams, and Jahmyr Gibbs, who are all projected by the model to finish behind him in the fantasy running back rankings.
Another sleeper that SportsLine’s Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Cowboys wide receiver Brandin Cooks. The well-traveled Cooks’ Dallas tenure got off to a rocky start when he hurt his knee in Week 1, missed Week 2 and then needed a few games to find his footing and role in the Cowboys offense. However, once he did just that starting in Week 6, he was one of the most productive receivers in the league. From Weeks 6 thru 18, Cooks ranked 14th amongst wideouts in Fantasy points, which is in line with his career rankings as was a top 20 Fantasy wide receiver six times over his previous eight seasons.
With CeeDee Lamb on the other side, Cooks will never see a double team, and he plays in an offense that ranked first in points, first in passing touchdowns and third in passing yards last year. With Dallas losing No. 3 receiver Michael Gallup, and no proven options to replace him, Dak Prescott may rely even more on players like Cooks and Lamb this season. SportsLine’s model has Cooks on par with Minnesota’s Jordan Addison, despite the latter having an earlier 2024 Fantasy football ADP. 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.
