Fantasy Football Busts to Avoid: Marquise Brown, Tee Higgins, CeeDee Lamb (2023)

Every team will have a player that fails to meet their fantasy potential. Whether it’s sky-high expectations or an unforeseen decline, here is a complete list of players that have bust potential on every team along with their current FantasyPros Draft Rankings. Below we’ll take a look at a few of these 2023 fantasy football bust candidates.

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Fantasy Football Busts

Marquise Brown (WR – ARI)

FP Rank: WR33

Coming off his first 1,000-yard season in 2021, Brown was reunited with quarterback Kyler Murray in 2022 to recreate the rapport they developed at Oklahoma where both lit it up and ended up as first-round picks. But that plan, along with the rest of the Cardinals’ season, was a disaster. The team finished 4-13, Murray tore his ACL towards the end of the season and Brown had his worst statistical season since his rookie season.

With Murray out, which he will be for a good chunk of this season, never topped 61 yards receiving and failed to score. Granted, not many Cardinals are worth drafting this year but Brown may be the biggest question mark of all.

Tee Higgins (WR – CIN)

FP Rank: WR12

Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase are elite options for the Bengals and your fantasy team. But there’s another Bengal that is being drafted right up there. Despite being valued as a low-end WR1, Higgins isn’t even a WR1 on his team nor has he finished as a WR1 in his brief career. He’s been good – not great – averaging a little over 1,000 yards and six touchdowns in each of his three seasons in the league. Higgins certainly profiles as a very good WR2 on your fantasy team but top-12 is asking a lot. For this reason, Higgins, at his price point, profiles as a potential bust.

CeeDee Lamb (WR – DAL)

FP Rank: WR6

Coming off a career year, you would not expect Lamb to be on this list. But if there’s anyone that stands to be affected by the Cowboys’ off-season changes, it’s him. We’ll start with the change in offensive coordinator. Kellen Moore had been calling the plays in Dallas since 2019 which covered Lamb’s entire career. Moore oversaw Lamb’s steady climb to elite status when it comes to fantasy scoring capped by the 2022 season.

Lamb topped 1,300 yards and scored nine times last season. But, for some reason, Head Coach Mike McCarthy made a change to run-happy Brian Schottenheimer while calling the plays himself. McCarthy’s been on record for wanting the run the ball more which isn’t great for Lamb’s fantasy outlook. On a smaller scale, the Cowboys also added receiver Brandin Cooks who topped 1,000 yards as recently as two seasons ago. In short, Lamb has a lot going against him this year.