Fantasy Football Outlook: DeAndre Hopkins, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, A.J. Brown, Brian Robinson

NFL training camps have opened, and the heart of fantasy football draft season is just ahead. FantasyPros analysts Derek Brown, Andrew Erickson, Pat Fitzmaurice and Mike Maher begin a series of preseason roundtables by discussing the most compelling training camp battles, rookies with uncertain 2024 outlooks, play-callers in new places and more. Here is this week’s full fantasy football roundtable. Below we dive into a few notable fantasy football players and their outlook for 2024.

Fantasy Football Roundtable

Several teams have new offensive play-callers. Which of the offenses with new play-callers are most intriguing? Which player(s) from that offense will you be closely monitoring during training camp and the preseason?

Seattle Seahawks

Andrew Erickson: Ryan Grubb is in as the OC to overhaul an offense that grew stale during Shane Waldron’s last season in Seattle. This team is filled with talent at the WR, RB and TE positions. If that talent is deployed correctly during training camp and the preseason, fantasy gamers could see massive returns on players such as Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Zach Charbonnet and Noah Fant.

Tennessee Titans

Pat Fitzmaurice: There are a lot of interesting pieces in this offense: Calvin Ridley, DeAndre Hopkins, Tony Pollard, Tyjae Spears. The fantasy value of those players hinges on how effectively second-year QB Will Levis can run new head coach Brian Callahan’s system. Tennessee could be an underrated source of fantasy goodness, or it could be a toxic waste dump.

It will be particularly interesting to see how Callahan deploys his RBs. During most of his four-year run as the Bengals’ offensive coordinator, Joe Mixon was the clear lead back. But Callahan has already said he views Pollard and Spears as interchangeable co-starters.

Philadelphia Eagles

Mike Maher: We all saw the Eagles’ epic collapse last season. It was partly due to an absolute mess on defense, but it was also caused by an offense that got stale and predictable. Philly opted to keep head coach Nick Sirianni around, but they brought in OC Kellen Moore to overhaul the offense. The Eagles were at the bottom of the league in pre-snap motion rate the last couple of seasons, while Moore likes to use it to get his best players in space and force opposing defenses to reveal coverages.

WRs A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith put up monster seasons despite the aforementioned offensive woes. The Eagles also haven’t targeted RBs in the passing game much under Sirianni and QB Jalen Hurts, but that should increase, as well. That combined with playing behind a good offensive line for the first time in his career should benefit RB Saquon Barkley.

If all goes according to plan (and everyone stays healthy), we could see many of the Eagles’ offensive weapons unlock new levels of production in 2024.

Washington Commanders

Derek Brown: We know Kliff Kingsbury will run an offense that pushes the play volume envelope and utilizes one rusher at the goal line. With the uncertainty around the target tree and rookie roles, Ben Sinnott and Luke McCaffrey are wonderful late-round picks. Brian Robinson is also one of my draft-season man crushes. In 2019-2022, Kingsbury offenses ranked second in neutral pace with the 13th-most passing plays per 60 minutes. If Jahan Dotson continues to underwhelm and Zach Ertz is only a part-time contributor, so talented rookies McCaffrey and Sinnott could surprise people in 2024.

In 2020, Kenyan Drake ranked third in rushing attempts inside the 5-yard line, while James Conner was second in the same statistical category the following season. There’s plenty of value in this offense and reason to believe it will massively outperform expectations.

NFL Jaxon Smith-Njigba Zach Charbonnet Noah Fant Calvin Ridley DeAndre Hopkins Tony Pollard Tyjae Spears Will Levis Joe Mixon A.J. Brown DeVonta Smith Jalen Hurts Saquon Barkley Ben Sinnott Luke McCaffrey Brian Robinson Jahan Dotson Zach Ertz Kenyan Drake James Conner