Fantasy Football Outlook: Keon Coleman, Gus Edwards, Curtis Samuel, J.K. Dobbins

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

Which training camp battle do you find most compelling? Pick a team and a position group. What are the stakes for fantasy?

Bills WRs

Mike Maher: I’m not sure I agree with or understand Buffalo’s approach at WR. Moving on from Stefon Diggs is one thing. Letting Gabe Davis walk? Sure. But replacing them with journeymen like Curtis Samuel, Mack Hollins, Chase Claypool, Marquez Valdes-Scantling and the eighth WR off the board in the 2024 NFL Draft you snagged at the top of the second round (Keon Coleman)? On a roster that is otherwise ready to compete for a Super Bowl? That’s a head-scratcher.

That WR room is, at least on paper, so underwhelming many think TE Dalton Kincaid could lead the team in targets. And they might not be wrong. But this WR battle will be an interesting one to watch. Could Samuel see a ton of touches as a Swiss Army Knife? Can Coleman break out as a rookie and be a league winner you get late in fantasy drafts? Does Khalil Shakir, the lone returning WR, have a leg up on the competition because of his familiarity with the offense and Josh Allen? Or is this whole situation just a mess that will have a different leading receiver each week? We should start to get a clearer picture throughout training camp and the preseason. And if one of these WRs actually can separate from the pack, they could be a huge value.

Chargers RBs

Andrew Erickson: The market is throwing their hands up at this backfield between former Ravens RBs Gus Edwards and J.K. Dobbins. Edwards got paid this offseason, but he’s never been “the” guy. Dobbins is by far the most talented but has been held back due to injuries. Then there’s Kimani Vidal, who has created little buzz since being drafted in the sixth round of this year’s draft.

We don’t know who will emerge as the featured runner on this team, but we do know a Jim Harbaugh-Greg Roman offense is going to want to run the ball a lot. There’s immense upside at little risk for a Chargers RB to have a major impact in 2024.

NFL Stefon Diggs Gabe Davis Curtis Samuel Mack Hollins Chase Claypool Marquez Valdes-Scantling Keon Coleman Dalton Kincaid Khalil Shakir Josh Allen Gus Edwards J.K. Dobbins Kimani Vidal