With the arrival of April, it’s almost time for Best Ball Season to get well and truly underway when the draft has wrapped up. Until then, we can make do with the early contests that are still open. It’s an excellent time to dive in for your first drafts or check your exposures and see what adjustments you want to make before the contests close. Here are players to target in fantasy football best ball drafts.
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Drake London (WR – ATL) (ADP 23.2)
No player has gotten more of an upgrade to their circumstances this offseason than London, who goes from Desmond Ridder completing 16 passes per game in a run-first Arthur Smith offense to Kirk Cousins, who completed 27.0 passes per game in 2023, 1.9 more than any other quarterback. Cousins has also been the fourth most accurate quarterback over the last decade and has continuously been a strong option for his wide receivers, helping Stefon Diggs, Adam Thielen & Justin Jefferson all be reliable fantasy assets.
The Falcons’ defense also looks potentially set for a backward step with a lack of top-end talent at most positions outside of Jessie Bates & A.J. Terrell. A bad defense can be great news for fantasy football, as it’ll push the offense into more pass-heavy scripts and keep the ball heading toward London, who could see double as many as the 4.27 receptions per game he’s averaged since joining the Falcons.
The time to buy Drake London is NOW, according to @NFL_TStrack ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/sYR6Ur35o5
— FantasyPros (@FantasyPros) March 28, 2024
Josh Jacobs (RB – GB) (36.2)
Jacobs may never get back to the outlier numbers of 2022, where he ran for 1653 yards and 12 touchdowns, but if he’s ever going to, it might just be in 2024. The Packers jettisoned Aaron Jones in favor of the younger Jacobs and brought back AJ Dillon on the type of contract that might not guarantee him a roster spot in September.
Jacobs is a stat compiler rather than an elite talent, often churning in the kinds of weeks where you struggle to find highlights, but the boxscores do plenty for your fantasy team as he gets there on volume and by not coming off the field. Jacobs has avoided any significant injuries in his career (*touches wood*) and, having recently turned 26, should still have enough left in the tank to be fantasy-relevant as a near-every-down workhorse running back.
The Packers are an ascending offense and when draft lobbies get busier in June and July, don’t be surprised if Jacobs’ ADP is pushed into the second round. Until then, he’s a firm target.
Rhamondre Stevenson (RB – NE) (77.5)
It’s possible that the Patriots end up drafting Jayden Daniels at the 1.03 in this month’s draft and Stevenson’s pass-catching upside is limited going forward, but it’s also possible that the Patriots choose Drake Maye or J.J. McCarthy, or even decide to roll with Jacoby Brissett and push the rebuild a further year down the line.
Either way, Stevenson’s fortunes don’t currently look overly capped. The Patriots opted not to bring Ezekiel Elliott back after he set career-lows in success rate in 2023 (451%) and failed to break a single rush longer than 17 yards on 184 attempts. Antonio Gibson was brought in during free agency, but Gibson hasn’t looked explosive or impressive in any area of the game for several years now.
Stevenson was slow to get going in 2023, dropping from 61 rushing yards per game in 2022 to 51 in the Patriots’ anemic offense and seeing his receptions per game drop from 4.1 to 3.1. However, it seemed he was just getting going when he got injured after finishing as the RB2, RB20, and RB7 before missing the rest of the season. Stevenson could be the victim of a lousy offense again in 2024, but the seventh round is too low for that kind of concern.
Excited to see Rhamondre Stevenson on the field again ☺️ pic.twitter.com/p4D01c5FiP
— Boston Cream ? (@itsbostoncream) March 28, 2024
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