Fantasy Football Rankings: 6 players who should have higher marks in draft season

The Yahoo! consensus player rankings are excellent. I’m not just saying that; I would feel comfortable recommending anyone use the lists provided as a guide for their draft. But when I created my projections for the 2024 season — which is an exercise I have completed for more than 25 years — there were a few players who stood out to me as undervalued in comparison to the team’s consensus rankings. Here are the players who I would target if drafting against the Yahoo! rankings.

Quarterback

Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys

Yahoo Consensus: QB10 Fred: QB5

I’ll let the numbers do the talking. Working backward from 2023, here are Prescott’s passing yardage totals, extrapolated to 17 games, from the past five seasons: 4,516, 4,052, 4,727, 6,310, 4,902. And here are his passing touchdown totals, extrapolated to 17 games, over the past five seasons: 36, 33, 37, 31, 32. With their current RB room, the Cowboys have no option but to remain a pass-heavy team, and as we can see from the past five years of data, reasonable expectations for Prescott are 4,500 yards and 33 TDs.

Do you know how many players reached both of those benchmarks last season? One — Dak.

He guided the Cowboys to an NFL-leading 509 points last year, and with all due respect to Tony Pollard, Prescott hasn’t lost his key weapons (assuming that CeeDee Lamb soon signs a long-term contract). Prescott is a great combination of a high floor and a high ceiling.

Running Backs

Jaylen Warren, Pittsburgh Steelers

Yahoo Consensus: RB26 Fred: RB18

Warren is an effective rusher (career 5.1 yards per carry), who is also an essential part of the Steelers’ passing attack. Although Najee Harris should lead the team in carries, Warren can match last year’s total of 149 in Arthur Smith’s run-heavy offense. And he can match his 2023 total of 61 catches in an offense that currently has only George Pickens (more on him later) as a dominant target.

Equalling his 2023 production feels like Warren’s floor, and there is a…

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Publish date : 2024-08-15 15:00:13

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