The fantasy football season has come to an end, but that doesn’t mean the NFL stops. It’s time to start getting excited for the 2024 NFL Draft. Dynasty fantasy football managers and redraft players alike can dive into the upcoming class of fantasy football rookies to prepare for the 2024 NFL season. We’ll take a look at players to know from the 2024 NFL Draft class.
- 2024 Dynasty Fantasy Football Draft Kit
- Fitz’s 2024 Dynasty Superflex Rookie Rankings
- How to Prepare for Your Dynasty Rookie Draft
- 2024 NFL Draft Guide
Dynasty Rookie Draft Prospects
Brock Bowers (Georgia )
Stats:
- 2023 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 2nd
- PFF receiving grade: 6th
- 2022 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 3rd
- PFF receiving grade: 3rd
- 2021 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 3rd
- PFF receiving grade: 3rd
Scouting report:
- Bowers is an agile steamroller. He’s incredibly hard to bring down. Georgia utilized him in motion with screens a ton, and for good reason. It was free yards essentially each play as the first defender usually tasked with bringing down Bowers failed at their assignment. He was second among all tight ends in missed tackles forced in 2023. He sheds defenders with ease in the open field with a combination of strong legs and upper body strength.
- Bowers was utilized all over the formation. Out wide (running go routes). In-line or in the slot where he was too quick for linebackers to hang with him and too physical for nickels to have a chance at shutting him down. In motion, he mauled opponents with screen targets. Bowers flashes good body control with solid adjustments to back-shoulder throws and targets outside of his frame.
- He has exceptional change of direction and bend. He can beat zone coverage sitting down in between defenders or excel against man coverage. Since 2021, among all tight ends with at least 25 man coverage targets, he ranks 12th in Yards per route run, immediately ahead of Michael Mayer. His hands are as good as they come, with only a 4.4% drop rate in college (eight drops across three seasons).
- As a blocker, Bowers is able to hold his patch of grass in pass protection. His functional play strength translates. He has a good initial punch with strong hands. He wasn’t tasked with being isolated on blitzing linebackers, corners, or edges. On many plays, Bowers was asked to help seal the edge. He is a tenacious run blocker that can clear a path. He’s not an elite blocker, but he should be able to play every down in the NFL with the ability to become one of the best blockers in the league if it all gels.
Player Comp: George Kittle
Ja’Tavion Sanders (Texas)
Stats:
- 2023 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 17th
- PFF receiving grade: 13th
- YAC/reception: 14th
- 2022 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 22nd
- PFF receiving grade: 18th
- YAC/reception: 70th
Scouting report:
- Immediate and easy speed. He can stretch the field and get deep down the seam. Sanders isn’t an elite route runner. He was tasked with screens and straight-line shots down the seam on many plays, but he has the athleticism and fluid hips to evolve in the NFL.
- Sanders is an upright runner and not an overwhelming tackle-breaker. He forced only 11 missed tackles over the last two years, but with his speed, he can still generate YAC.
- His play strength shows up during his routes at the catch point. Sanders plays through contact well in his routes. He has the upper body strength to deal with physical corners or linebackers in coverage. Sanders is a beast at the catch point. There are plenty of bang-bang plays in his film where he makes a catch in traffic and immediately gets popped and holds onto the ball. Sanders finished his collegiate career with a strong 53.6% contested catch rate and zero drops in his final season.
- Sanders has a decent initial punch but needs to work on his anchor when blocking. He will hit defenders initially and disengage. When he locks a defender up, he has some reps where he will blow them off the line and drive them back. With better technique and more consistency, Sanders could easily become an average to above-average blocker.
Player Comp: Charles Clay
Erick All (Iowa)
Stats:
- 2023 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 3rd
- PFF receiving grade: 16th
(*2022 limited to only three games played*)
- 2021 (minimum 20 targets)
- Yards per route run: 10th
- PFF receiving grade: 30th
Scouting report:
- All comes with a decent injury history with an ACL tear in 2023 and a season-ending back injury in 2022. Before being sidelined in 2023, he was seventh in receiving yards and 11th in missed tackles forced among tight ends. All was headed for a big breakout campaign. Overall his statistical output jumps off the page in metrics that I care about. Last year among all tight ends with at least ten man coverage targets, he ranked first in Yards per route run and eighth in PFF receiving grade against man coverage.
- All is a fluid mover. He is a friendly underneath target with impressive start/stop ability. He ran some whip routes at Iowa that will open your eyes. He has smooth change of direction and quickly turns from receiver to rusher once the ball is in his hands.
- He has a good understanding of manipulating defenders and leverage. He moves like a big wide receiver in his routes with suddenness in and out of his route breaks.
- Yes, he had a 13.8% drop rate in college, but many of these drops were the concentration variety. I’m not overly concerned about his drops because he also makes plenty of catches in tight spaces with defenders bearing down on him.
- All will cash his NFL paychecks because of his receiving talent and not his blocking prowess. He only managed 26 pass blocking snaps over the last five years of his collegiate career.
- While All was unable to athletically test, there are plenty of instances on film that suggest he has an easy 4.5 (4.6 40-yard dash at worst) speed. In 2021 against Penn State, he snags a pass, puts his foot down on the accelerator, beats Kalen King to the corner (4.61 high school 40 times), and begins to pull away from him down the boundary.
Player Comp: Noah Fant
More Dynasty Rookie Draft Advice
- DBro’s Dynasty Rookie Draft Primers
- DBro’s Top 50 Rankings & Player Notes
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