Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers: Geno Smith & Trevor Lawrence (2024)

Welcome to our 2024 Fantasy Football Sleepers series! Savvy managers and players are searching for underrated players who can have huge impacts as the new season approaches. In this piece we will explore some hidden gems that could be the difference in your fantasy team. From unnoticed first-year players to veterans ready to break out, we provide expert insights that can help you make the best choices when it comes to finding sleepers for your league. Are you ready to find the young talents of tomorrow and increase your chances of dominating your fantasy football league? We’ll start with the quarterback sleepers to target.

Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers: Quarterbacks

Geno Smith (QB – SEA)

After a triumphant 2022 season in which he threw for 4,282 yards and 30 touchdowns, completing an NFL-high 69.8% of his passes, Geno Smith floated back down to earth in 2023. Despite working with the WR trio of D.K. Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Smith finished QB25 in fantasy scoring last year, averaging 15.3 fantasy points per game.

So … will the real Geno Smith please stand up? With Seattle’s ample pass-catching weaponry, a return to the heights of 2022 is certainly possible for Smith. But the 33-year-old Smith has only had one good NFL season, so it’s not inconceivable that he could play his way out of a starting job.

Trevor Lawrence (QB – JAC)

Fantasy managers were hoping to see Trevor Lawrence take a major step forward in 2023 after a promising 2022 season. Much of Lawrence’s third NFL season was a disappointment in that regard, but a strong finish raises hopes for 2024. Over the first 10 weeks of the 2023 season, Lawrence was QB19 in fantasy points per game among quarterbacks with at least four starts, averaging 235.6 passing yards and 1.0 TD passes per game.

From Week 11 on, Lawrence was QB7 in fantasy points per game, averaging 270.9 passing yards and 1.7 TD passes a game. The former No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft was able to ramp up his production late in the year despite losing WR Christian Kirk to a core injury that kept him out of the last five games of the season. Lawrence has a fabulous toolkit that includes abundant arm talent and above-average rushing ability. Consistency is the missing ingredient, and maybe we’ll finally get it from Lawrence in his fourth year in the league.