2023 was the poster boy for how nailing your late-round picks can change your fantasy football fortunes with Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua, Sam LaPorta, CJ Stroud and Brock Purdy among those who shone brightly after being drafted late in drafts.
As the 2024 fantasy football season approaches quickly, now is the time to consider who might be the best late-round draft targets in PPR leagues. Average draft position (ADP) is based upon our consensus ADP and players are selected from pick 140 onwards.
2023 was the poster boy for how nailing your late-round picks can change your fantasy football fortunes with Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua, Sam LaPorta, CJ Stroud and Brock Purdy among those who shone brightly after being drafted late in drafts.
As the 2024 fantasy football season approaches quickly, now is the time to consider who might be the best late-round draft targets in PPR leagues. Average draft position (ADP) is based upon our consensus ADP and players are selected from pick 140 onwards.
Many of us have been burned by Rashod Bateman during his time in the NFL, but John Harbaugh has spoken glowingly of Bateman unprompted at several opportunities in recent weeks, mentioning how often Bateman had gotten open as the 2023 season progressed. Things just didn’t break his way. All being well, Bateman will have his first properly healthy offseason of his NFL career, a year further removed from the Lisfranc injury that often takes two years to fully recover from. The Ravens didn’t bring back Odell Beckham Jr. and extended Bateman when they had the chance to, showing us they still believe in him. At this cost, on an electric offense, it’s worth the gamble.
#Ravens HC John Harbaugh on which player he expects to make a leap in 2024:
“I think Rashod Bateman’s gonna take a big step… The ball’s gonna get to him a lot more next year.”
Harbaugh sports an 85% reliability rating on usage/workload coachspeak
As we get deeper and deeper down the draftboard the plays become thinner and thinner but Braelon Allen deserves some attention. The Jets didn’t necessarily need to make two additions to their running back room in the NFL draft, but they did with Allen and Isaiah Davis being added to a room that included Breece Hall and Israel Abanikanda already. All the reports around the Jets suggest Allen is a clear favorite for the RB2 job and would get the first crack at starter duties if anything should happen to Hall. Allen isn’t as strong of a threat in the passing game as Hall is, but he averaged over 5.4 yards per attempt each year at Wisconsin. He has the size and weight at 6-foot-1 and 235 pounds to do damage in the rushing game.
In previous years, Noah Fant’s route to relevancy was blocked by the Seahawks’ committee approach to the tight end position, but now Will Dissly is with the Chargers and Colby Parkinson is with the Rams, leaving this tight end room firmly in Fant’s control for the first time. Fant has caught over 75% of his targets in each of the last three seasons and simply needs more volume and snaps to be relevant. With Ryan Grubb installed as offensive coordinator, fresh off designing one of the most interesting college offenses in 2023, there’s plenty of reason to hope the Seahawks bounce back offensively and Fant can be a big part of it.
