2024 Fantasy Football Rankings Breakdown: Wide Receivers

May 23, 2024
2024 Fantasy Football Rankings Breakdown: Wide Receivers

Our 2024 projections have been released, so it’s time to go position-by-position and briefly explain what I’m seeing as the draft season starts to take shape. This is the fourth of a four-part series providing an early look at our early 2024 projections.


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Top-Heavy and Deep?

Looking at the projections, I noticed something interesting. I have three players–CeeDee Lamb, Tyreek Hill, and Amon-Ra St. Brown–projected for 250-300 half-PPR fantasy points. I have three more–Justin Jefferson, Ja'Marr Chase, and A.J. Brown–projected for 200-250 fantasy points. Then, there are 35 receivers in the 200-250 range. So we have several high-end WR1 types, and then a large swath of talented receivers who are likely to produce starter-level numbers or better.

One of my favorite strategies is to target real-world WR1-types in the middle/late rounds. Here are several players who fit the bill this season:

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