Even after the 2024 NFL Draft ended, plenty of undrafted players remained who will have real and fantasy football value this season and beyond. Thor Nystrom shares his UDFA rankings and player comps for the best of the rest dynasty fantasy football rookies now that the dust of the 2024 NFL Draft settled.

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UDFA Signings, Rankings & Player Comps

Here are the signings of undrafted free agents along with their rankings and player comps for each position of rookies.

Cody Schrader (RB – Missouri)

5084/202 | RAS: 3.19
Player Comparison: Tyler Badie

Broke out in 2023 in a zone-heavy scheme that accentuated his strengths — vision and one-cut oomph. Nice tempo to his style. Patient to allow blocks to develop, urgent when the opportunity arises. Athletically-limited never-say-die grinder. Not going to hit any home runs in the NFL. Runs low to the ground and keeps his leg churning. Doesn’t have a ton of natural power and isn’t a bulldoze but breaks arm tackles and off-angle attempts. Agility is mediocre overall outside of the one-cut path changes. Cody Schrader’s receiving skill opened eyes at the Senior Bowl. Schrader could improve his odds of staying on the field if he brought the same junkyard dog attitude he does to running the ball into pass-pro. That aspect of his game needs work.

 Michael Wiley (RB – Arizona)

5104/210 | RAS: 7.28
Player Comparison: Tashard Choice

Holds some intrigue as a back around threshold size with proven receiving utility who can break tackles. Michael Wiley was oft-injured in college and has a medical red flag on draft boards around the NFL. He’ll also have to answer why Arizona began slashing his touches during its breakout 2023 season.

 Brevyn Spann-Ford (TE – Minnesota)

6065/260 | RAS: 6.78
Player comparison: Charlie Kolar

Spann-Ford is a big, hulking inline tight end who is a true extension of the run game. He played in a run-intensive system at Minneota where his job, first and foremost, was to move the man in front of him. He’s really good at that. He looks like a mini-OT both latching and driving in the run game, and sitting back and anchoring in pass-pro. The value he offers to the NFL initially comes here.

Unfortunately, Spann-Ford also looked like a mini-OT in the receiving game last year at Minnesota, with a 0th-percentile PFF receiving grade. That was the case again at the Senior Bowl – he was a big lumberer who appeared to have zero feel for what he was doing.

On one particularly bizarre rep in Mobile, Spann-Ford was – apparently? – asked to subtly pick a defensive back on a crossing concept. Instead, Spann-Ford went straight at him – as though he had been asked to block him in space on a running play – and made harsh contact with the unsuspecting cover-man. This drew an immediate flag (a rarity in all-star exhibitions) along with genuinely perturbed jawing from multiple members of the defense.

Last season, Spann-Ford dropped nine balls while catching only 25 – for a stupefying 26.5% drop rate – with a mere two of those catches coming 10-or-more yards beyond the line of scrimmage.

For these reasons, I imagine not many other folks in the industry will join me in ranking BSF in the top-10 TEs. Totally get that. On the 2023 tape alone, Spann-Ford should be looking for another vocation right now.

But I’m not willing to give up on him just yet. For three (and possibly even four) reasons: 1) He’s a legitimately awesome blocker, 2) So much so that he could potentially even attempt to add more weight to actually become an OL (he has the length for it), 3) Last year’s receiving production was totally out of line from the season before.

Spann-Ford actually led the Gopher team with a 42-497-2 receiving line in 2022 – and only two drops (6.7% drop rate) – with 12 catches 10-plus yards downfield. People were excited about him as a receiver back then. And why wouldn’t they have been? In high school, Spann-Ford was a finalist for state player of the year as a two-way star… as a wide receiver, and an EDGE.

Entering last fall, Spann-Ford was considered one of the premier two-way tight ends in the country. This is a guy who lit up Minnesota prep football for nearly 3,000 receiving yards, and who had showed clear progress up until last fall’s one-season faceplant.

There is a home for Spann-Ford in the NFL. At minimum, that will be as a third-OT blocking TE. You also have a few developmental bullets in your holster if his receiving utility has indeed mysteriously vanished into the cold Minnesota night like Chuck Knoblauch’s ability to throw to first base. You could attempt to bulk Spann-Ford into an actual offensive linemen, or you could try shifting him back to EDGE.’

Dallin Holker (TE – Colorado State)

6033/241 | RAS: 6.07
Player comparison: Bo Scaife

Holker is headed for an H-Back role at the next level. He absolutely has the skill to excel at that. The question becomes… does he have the physical ability? Holker lacks speed (4.78), and he needs space to build up to that meager gear (24th-percentile 10-yard split). Additionally, as one of the classes’ oldest players, there’s a glass ceiling on his potential within that usage-specific role.

That said, Holker is a hands-catcher with real ball skills, a rarity amongst this class. He tracks the ball well in congested quarters. Holker’s 10 contested catches last year were two more than any TE in this draft class.

Holker has one genetic quirk that decidedly works in his favor in this area: Holker is tied with the 6’7/260 Brevyn Spann-Ford for the longest arms of my top-15 TE. This gives Holker a deceivingly large catch radius that he uses to great effect, extending those long levers out to greet the rock at its earliest point every time.

During pre-draft testing, Holker showed-out in only one area of athletic testing, agility. He posted a sublime 94th-percentile 3-cone and an 83rd-percentile short shuttle. Holker’s change-of-direction fluidness is most evident after the catch, where he was a veritable broken-tackle machine in the Mountain West, finishing No. 2 in this class with 15 last year.

One area to work on at the next level to play up his natural agility and win more separation is footwork efficiency during the route-break process. But, overall, what his routes lack in snap and pizazz, Holker augments with tempo changes and a fun grab bag of upper-body deeks.

You will never ask Holker to play inline, as he would get ragdolled by NFL power. In some ways, Holker is Barner’s counterpoint in this class – his ceiling is likewise capped, but he brings to the NFL a skillset that is immediately playable in a very specific role. In Holker’s case, an H-Back in the Bo Scaife mold who chips in 40-50 catches a year while moving around the formation.

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