Fantasy Football Today: Player outlooks for every fifth-round draft pick by consensus PPR rankings

The 2024 Fantasy Football season is on the way and the Fantasy Football Today team has drafted their initial player outlooks for the entire player pool heading into training camp. Things will change on the injury front, in free agency, and possibly on the trade market, but the Fantasy Football team led by Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, and Dan Schneier have created player outlooks based on 2024 projection, June ADP (average draft position) and where these players have come off the board in our mock (and real) drafts through May and June. We’ll use the FFT consensus PPR rankings (Jamey, Dave, and Heath’s rankings) to go player-by-player for the fifth round (12-team leagues) of your drafts.

*These consensus rankings are updated through June 10th.*

Round 5

5.1: Christian Kirk, WR, Jaguars

“Kirk has an opportunity to run away with the Jaguars’ WR1 role in 2024 after playing second fiddle to Calvin Ridley at times in 2023. Before his injury, Kirk was the WR19 in Fantasy points per game and that number should rise with an increase in target share. He’ll have to compete with Bills castoff Gabe Davis and rookie Brian Thomas for targets, but Kirk is the only receiver of the three with a built-in rapport with QB Trevor Lawrence. Kirk also occupies the coveted slot role in Doug Pederson’s offense. Kirk makes for an excellent target in the Rounds 5-6 range of your drafts.” – Dan Schneier

5.2: Ken Walker, RB, Seahawks

“Walker is an easy RB to want in Fantasy because he’s young and explosive, but an underwhelming 2023 and cloudy 2024 drags down his potential. In the 10 games in which he had at least 15 touches last season, he averaged 16 PPR points per game. In the other five? 7.8 PPR points per game, though that includes a matchup he left early (9.2 if you take it out). The same thing happened in 2022 — in 10 games with at least 15 touches he averaged 17.1 PPR points per game and did…

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Author : Dan Schneier

Publish date : 2024-06-11 19:48:27

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