The 2024 NFL season is rapidly approaching, so it’s time to prepare for your fantasy football draft. What better way to do that than to practice drafting with our free mock draft simulator! Beyond our tools, we’ll also have you covered throughout the draft prep season with our content.
To help you dominate your fantasy football draft, Andrew Erickson shares his 2024 fantasy football draft cheat sheet, rankings, advice, and more.
The 2024 NFL season is rapidly approaching, so it’s time to prepare for your fantasy football draft. What better way to do that than to practice drafting with our free mock draft simulator! Beyond our tools, we’ll also have you covered throughout the draft prep season with our content.
To help you dominate your fantasy football draft, Andrew Erickson shares his 2024 fantasy football draft cheat sheet, rankings, advice, and more.
Here is my approach to 2024 fantasy football drafts.
Andrew Erickson’s Overall 2024 Fantasy Football Strategy
For a more in-depth breakdown of my preferred draft strategy, check out the critically acclaimed Perfect Fantasy Football Draft Strategy, Advice & Targets (2024) article that precisely explains what to do round by round for the 2024 fantasy football season. It will be updated throughout the preseason (along with middle and late-round snake picks) to make sure you are equipped with everything you need come draft day.
Check out my video on my top targets for the first 16 Rounds of your fantasy football drafts.
But the TLDR version highlights are as follows:
Hero RB Strategy
Draft a top RB early and fill other RB spots with value picks later. Avoid over-drafting RBs (RB Dead Zone) and prioritize WRs if RBs are being picked aggressively.
TE Premium
Target Mark Andrews in rounds 4-5. If you missed out on a quality tight end in the early rounds, your new strategy is to chase quantity with multiple guys in the late rounds.
BPA Focus
Draft the best player available, emphasizing WRs with breakout potential in the middle rounds (5-9). Don’t overemphasize filling your roster spot.
Value in Middle Rounds
Target cheaper WR2s and potential breakout RBs. Wide receivers in the middle rounds tend to take massive leaps and vastly outperform their ADP ie. draft rookie WRs.
Late-Rounds
Take more shots on late-round RBs (especially in traditional redraft formats).
Follow a pseudo-late-round “elite” quarterback strategy
Value is what matters, which is why I stress a pseudo-late-round “elite” quarterback strategy – getting the last or second-to-last quarterback with top-tier upside to capitalize on value. This will change based on where QBs fall in ADP but rounds 4-6 are the appropriate range.
Traditional late-round QB
Among the late-round QBs, you must draft knowing what their schedule is to open the season. Because they are non-established studs, you need to know they have plus-matchups working in their favor to trust them in your starting lineup. There are so many options available with the late-round QB approach that it is my favorite strategy to implement in 2024.
Andrew Erickson’s 2024 Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet
Here is my fantasy football draft cheat sheet for sleepers, targets, busts, and more.
WRs: Malik Nabers, Rome Odunze, Xavier Worthy, Ladd McConkey, Brian Thomas Jr., Ja’Lynn Polk, Jalen McMillan, Javon Baker, Jermaine Burton, Luke McCaffrey, Malik Washington
