The 2024 NFL season is still months away but planning for your Fantasy Football teams starts now. At Fantasy Football Today, we’ve already been drafting a lot in the last few months with even more mock drafts taking place since the conclusion of the 2024 NFL Draft. We’ve hit all different formats from Superflex to half-PPR and through it all I’ve seen a lot of different trends in ADP (average draft position) unfold. So when I was asked to join FFT this past Monday, I knew it was time to discuss my “most wanted” list for the 2024 season. These are the five players I am drafting everywhere based on their current ADP:
Travis Kelce, TE, Chiefs
Drafting Kelce felt like stealing in all formats for a stretch of several seasons leading up to 2023 Fantasy drafts. In 2021 and 2022, you could grab Kelce sometimes as late as the back-end of Round 2 or even Round 3 and he would give you a weekly positional advantage at TE. Finally, Fantasy managers caught up and Kelce came off the board in the middle to late first round of drafts last summer. Of course, he responded by returning his least productive season in the last four years, but let’s unpack that a little. First of all, Kelce played through an injury and played fewer snaps. After finishing with the fourth-most snaps played in 2022, he finished with just the 14th-most in 2023 — 150 fewer snaps. Despite this, he finished with the second-most Fantasy points per game at tight end behind Sam LaPorta. He also scored just five touchdowns, averaging 10.7 touchdowns per season over his last three. Nothing is more due for regression in Fantasy Football than touchdowns scored. Despite playing 200+ snaps fewer than LaPorta, Kelce led the NFL in first-down receptions. He remains the go-to target for Patrick Mahomes on third downs and in the red zone where his touchdowns are likely to rise. I grabbed Kelce with the final pick of the third round in our pick-by-pick FFT draft that you’ll be able to read in this summer’s FFT Magazine. That felt like stealing.
Garrett Wilson, WR, Jets
Wilson is the last of the wide receivers I believe can return first-round value and therefore he is one of my priority picks at the Round 1/2 turn. He benefits from playing in a Nathaniel Hackett offensive system…
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