Fantasy Football Rookie Running Backs in the Best Situations - Jonathon Brooks, Trey Benson, Blake Corum, and More

Now a month removed from this year's NFL Draft, we have started to receive some clarity about where rookies reside on their teams' depth charts. With OTAs and mandatory minicamps underway, these first-year players are pushing for opportunities. Every year, many rookie running backs make names for themselves during the season, with several greatly outperforming […]

Overvalued, Undervalued Fantasy Football Rookies in 2024 Best Ball Drafts

Rookie fever is in full force. Although fantasy football drafts still have a few months to go, best ball is well on its way.  Two things are common this time of year. Rookies are undervalued, as less information is known about key players who have yet to step on the field. Fantasy players are skeptical […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Ray Davis

The Buffalo Bills selected Kentucky running back Ray Davis with the 128th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. He became the eighth RB taken off the board behind Texas' Jonathon Brooks, Florida State’s Trey Benson, Michigan’s Blake Corum, USC’s MarShawn Lloyd, Tennessee’s Jaylen Wright, Oregon’s Bucky Irving, and Clemson’s Will Shipley. During the predraft […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Ja'Lynn Polk

The 2024 NFL Draft was widely regarded as one of the deepest wide-receiver classes in recent memory. Of course, the class has its potential superstars (Marvin Harrison Jr., Malik Nabers, and Rome Odunze), but drafting a player like Ja'Lynn Polk in the second round shows just how deep it really was. Polk was selected in the second round of […]

2024 Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Rankings For Superflex Leagues: 10-1

Now that we’re coming off our rookie fever, it’s time to see where the newest NFL players stack up against the veterans. That’s right, we’re talking rookies and dynasty rankings. My name is Ellis Johnson and this is my sixth year writing NFL content with RotoBaller. In this article, I am going to list my […]

Rookie Values? 2024 Fantasy Football Sleepers

With the 2024 NFL Draft in the rearview mirror and the 2024 NFL season fast approaching, fantasy football drafts will be here before we know it. NFL rookies make an impact in fantasy football every season. Some are expected, but it is the unexpected rookie contributors that are of most interest in fantasy. There is […]

Dynasty Fantasy Football - Five 2024 NFL Draft Losers To Buy Low On

Will Levis was supposed to be a top-three quarterback last season, but he spent the whole first day of the draft watching uncomfortably as he was passed over. Now, he is a starting quarterback for the Titans who holds potential value in Superflex and dynasty leagues. Draft capital is the best predictor of NFL production, […]

Projecting First Start Dates For 2024 Rookie QBs - Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye, and more

The 2024 NFL Draft was full of surprises. A record number of six quarterbacks were drafted within the first 12 picks, and teams are excited for the future with their rookie quarterbacks. Everyone was left perplexed when the Atlanta Falcons drafted Michael Penix Jr. with the eighth overall pick. While Penix Jr. will not play […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Frank Gore Jr.

If you're the son of an NFL legend who holds the record for the most games played by a player at your position, the expectations for you will be sky-high. While Frank Gore Jr. failed to get selected in the 2024 NFL Draft, he still has the potential to have a solid pro career. Most […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: MarShawn Lloyd

The Green Bay Packers selected USC running back MarShawn Lloyd with the 88th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Lloyd was the fourth running back taken off the board behind Texas’ Jonathon Brooks, Florida State’s Trey Benson, and Michigan's Blake Corum. While there was no clear-cut first-round back in this draft class, it was […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Jordan Travis

In his final season at Florida State, Jordan Travis had the Seminoles undefeated before suffering a season-ending leg injury. It was a sad end to the college career of a player who'd gotten better year after year. Travis wasn't one of the more hyped quarterback prospects in this season's draft class, but he showed enough […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receivers You Must Draft in 2024 - Part V

This will be the series' final entry, and we’ll focus on four receivers this time, although two are on the same team. With this particular edition, we must get comfortable with the unknown. Three of these players are rookies, and one played sparingly last season in his rookie year. However, the unknown isn’t necessarily a […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receivers You Must Draft in 2024 - Part IV

This series continues to move on, and we're now getting into the middle rounds of our fantasy drafts, so the options are getting slimmer and slimmer. Not only that, but fantasy managers may need to be just a wee bit more optimistic with some of these players than they've had to be with the previous […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receivers You Must Draft in 2024 - Part III

This series continues moving on with our third edition, which looks at three new receivers that fantasy managers must draft this season. We've already identified six incredibly attractive receivers at their current ADPs. We're starting to move down the wide receiver ranks, which will have us focusing on several rookie receivers. Selling rookie receivers can […]

Which Rookie QB Can Turn Their Franchise Around? (2024)

A record-tying six quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, and we all know how great the last draft that had six QBs in the first round turned out to be. The 1983 NFL Draft is still regarded as one of the greatest drafts of all time, having produced three […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receivers You Must Draft in 2024 - Part II

In 2024, fantasy football managers are all about wide receivers, but we’re also about value. With prices skyrocketing everywhere else, we don’t want to pay above market value for a player. We also don’t want to pay for a player at the cost of their 90th-percentile outcome. We need the potential to get a positive […]

2024 Dynasty Rookie Rankings For Superflex Leagues: 20-11

Now that we’re coming off our rookie fever, it’s time to see where the newest NFL players stack up against the veterans. That’s right, we’re talking rookies and dynasty rankings. My name is Ellis Johnson and this is my sixth year writing NFL content with RotoBaller. In this article, I am going to list my […]

2025 NFL Draft - Early Running Back Prospect Rankings

The 2024 NFL Draft featured a pretty clear weakness at running back. There's maybe one or two players from the 2024 class who project to be a real No. 1 running back in the league. Luckily, the 2025 running back class is one of the best in years, with multiple legitimate NFL RB1s in the class […]

2024 Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Rankings For Superflex Leagues: 30-21

Now that we’re coming off our rookie fever, it’s time to see where the newest NFL players stack up against the veterans. That’s right, we’re talking rookies and dynasty rankings. My name is Ellis Johnson and this is my sixth year writing NFL content with RotoBaller. I also contribute to FantasyPros Expert Consensus Rankings and […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Jermaine Burton

With the 80th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals selected Alabama wide receiver Jermaine Burton. The surplus of receivers drafted early created a demand for the position, and the Bengals got their guy in Round 3. Burton was the 13th wide receiver taken off the board -- drafted ahead of guys […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Jamari Thrash

Draft capital matters for fantasy football players, but more so early in drafts with a 0.576 correlation for top-10 picks and fantasy points per game for wide receivers over the past five seasons. For context, the correlation plummets to 0.004 for picks 11-32, with a slightly better correlation (0.131) to PPR/G for Rounds 5-7 at […]

2024 NFL Outlook - Top Offensive Rookie of the Year Candidates

Now that the 2024 NFL Draft is behind us, everyone has had an opportunity to get excited about their favorite team's new players and we start anticipating their rookie seasons. The draft was quite heavy with offensive players at the top -- 25 of the first 34 picks play on the offensive side of the […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Bucky Irving

There were questions about where Oregon running back Bucky Irving would go in the 2024 NFL Draft. He was a smaller back -- sitting 5-foot-10, 190 pounds -- but he was a player who put up big numbers in his final two seasons with the Ducks. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers eventually took a chance on Irving in the fourth […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Spotlight: Audric Estimé

We've heard the phrase running backs don't matter before. That's evident in the real-life NFL Draft, with only 12 running backs going in the first round since 2014. That list includes Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Josh Jacobs, Melvin Gordon, Todd Gurley, Saquon Barkley, Sony Michel, Leonard Fournette, Christian McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott, Najee Harris, Bijan Robinson, and Jahmyr […]

Fantasy Football Dynasty League Rookie/Free-Agent Draft Review: FFPC Deeper Targets

In the offseason and preseason, as soon as the NFL Draft is over, I eagerly jump into slow fantasy football drafts. I am a big fan of the slow draft format. It extends the fun over many days and always gives me something to look forward to throughout the day. Waking up to find out […]

2024 Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Mock Draft: 10-Team Superflex Round 3

Hello everyone! I am so excited to be back here cooking up some hot football analysis with the freshest ingredients in the NFL. That’s right, we’re talking rookies just in time for your rookie drafts. Today, we have the third round of our 10-team half-PPR Superflex mock draft. I have assigned pick ranges to these […]

Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Mock Draft For Non-Superflex Leagues

Traditionally, quarterbacks are devalued in non-Superflex fantasy football formats. However, we saw a major change in that philosophy last year. After decades of agreement between analysts and fans alike, the consensus in 2023 became skewed. Suddenly, drafting players like Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in the first 15 picks of a non-Superflex draft wasn’t just […]

Fantasy Football Rookie Quarterbacks You Must Have In 2024

It's already the middle of May, and aside from Justin Timberlake memes flooding your "for you feed," that could only mean one thing -- it's fantasy football draft season! It is an excellent time of the year to get in some best ball drafts or conduct a dynasty startup. You may even be amid some […]

2024 Fantasy Football Rookie Drafts - Second-Round Sleepers and Avoids

We are smack in the middle of rookie draft season. It’s an important time as fantasy football dynasty managers are trying to find the right players to add to their teams. Much like redraft leagues, there are sleepers you want to target and players you want to avoid. The second round of dynasty rookie drafts […]