2024 NFL free agency: Fantasy football winners and losers

WINNERS

Derrick Henry, Baltimore Ravens

From an age and workload standpoint, there’s plenty of negative history to reference on running backs who reach this point of Derrick Henry’s career. However, the term “built different” quite literally applies to Henry. Essentially, no running back in NFL history has been constructed like the hulking back, so we can’t be shocked if this outlier remains an outlier.

Henry can be the icing on the cake for a run game that was already a top-three unit last season. Henry ranked fifth in yards after contact per rush (3.06) among backs with 200 carries last season despite having the eighth-highest stuff rate (48.6%, per Fantasy Points Data). It doesn’t look like he’s lost a step yet and will now be in a far superior ecosystem. There’s a chance he could have been an avoid had he gone somewhere else. In Baltimore, I think he’s a draft target.

Also, if you aren’t jacked up to watch Henry and Lamar Jackson team up in this Ravens’ run game, do you even like the sport? I’d vote no, you do not.

Drake London and Kyle Pitts, Atlanta Falcons

The Falcons suffered through uniquely poor quarterback play last season. Desmond Ridder ranked 15th in passing success rate, so there was some level of stability down-to-down but he was 25th in EPA per dropback. Sacks, turnovers and woeful inaccuracy were debilitating issues for the Falcons’ passing game. It was not a stable environment to get development from wide receivers or tight ends.

5. Drake London

Kirk Cousins is a Falcon. He was Top-10 in accuracy & efficiency last year.

London has averaged 113 targets per season to start his career, but 25% of these have been deemed not catchable.

That’s 57 wasted targets.

Expect more accurate targets in 2024…

— SAL VETRI (@SalVetriDFS) March 12, 2024

Enter Kirk Cousins.

While he isn’t a risk-free option at this stage of his career coming off an Achilles injury, he presents excellent odds of upgrading the position. Cousins has played in this…

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Publish date : 2024-03-19 20:50:49

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