Draft Archives - FantasySharks.com (2024)

NFL Rookie Projections for redraft and dynasty leagues. A few quarterbacks and one wide receiver with a famous NFL father top our lists. Offense and IDP (Individual Defensive Players) for all positions.

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Baker suffered from poor quarterback play all year and had a lot of heavily contested targets. He showed the ability to run routes and get open except this was against the poor Big-12 competition. However, the Senior Bowl showed his ability to run normal routes and get open against better opponents.

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Coleman started his career at Michigan State and was a starting contributor by his sophom*ore year. His best season was in 2022 with 58 receptions for 798 yards. After his transfer to Florida State, he had to share the targets with three other future NFL players, so his numbers dipped to 658 yards in 2023.

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Franklin heavily benefited from playing with the most accurate quarterback in college football statistically. Bo Nix was able to fit the ball into tight windows but also targeted Franklin at a high rate because he was open so much. The main question he will have to answer to teams is: will the 6-foot-2, 176-pound frame be a problem in the NFL?

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Adonai Mitchell blew up the combine and started consideration for first-round potential in the media. The ideal 6-f0ot-2, 205-pound build ran a 4.34 40-yard dash and posted one of the best broad jumps for a receiver ever at 11-feet-4-inches. Mitchell is the receiver with the widest range of outcomes.

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Quinn Ewers provided passable quarterback play for him but often missed him on wide open throws so his production could have been a lot higher. Despite his speed, he only had a charted 234 deep-yards and caught just four out of 17 deep targets.

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Washington went from being an unknown senior at Northwestern to being second in all of college football with 1,384 yards and leading the Power-5 by 20 catches with 111 receptions. His 80 percent catch rate is the highest for any receiver with over 100 targets this season.

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Wilson had an excellent Senior Bowl where he created clear separation on every route. The questions about his ability to run sharp routes were quickly answered. His body mass index and 40-yard dash time were very ideal at the NFL Combine.

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Xavier Legette ran a relatively diverse route tree that was better than DK Metcalf coming out. Slants are the one area you do not see him perform in, but his athleticism should allow him to be similar to how Metcalf progressed in this area.

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Brian Thomas set the NFL combine on fire by measuring 6’3’’ and 209 pounds while posting a 4.33 40-yard dash. Questions were asked at the combine who was the fastest between Nabers, Thomas, and Daniels and the clear answer on film is Thomas.

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Ricky Pearsall is a versatile wide receiver who spent about half of his snaps from the slot and half outside. In his last year, he had an excellent 31.2 percent of his team’s yards in games he played which is just below Rome Odunze and right ahead of Brian Thomas Jr.

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Malachi Corley has been crowned the “yards after the catch king” and the film matches that every bit. The 5-foot-11 215-pound monster of a man has the ability to run over anyone in his way but also has the speed to outrun defenders.

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McConkey started receiving first-round buzz after cooking every cornerback at the Senior Bowl, but these are the same skills he displayed all year on All-22 film. There is no major weaknesses to his game besides less-than-ideal size. He is a fluid mover for every route type but has not shown the ability to win on deep-balls just yet.

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Rome Odunze is an elite prospect who is probably the best we have seen since Ja’Marr Chase in 2021, CeeDee Lamb in 2020, and Amari Cooper in 2015. In terms of rankings between them, he would fit right behind Chase and is in the same tier as Lamb and Cooper.

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Malik Nabers is a blue-chip prospect who should be a routine Pro Bowler in the right situation. He seemingly came out of almost nowhere as he went from 726 yards last year to 1,545 yards this year while posting the highest-ranked Pro Football Focus receiving grade of 93.5.

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Marvin Harrison Jr. is the long-awaited wide receiver prospect with no real weaknesses to his game. He consistently has a high number of contested catches (30 each year), but this is mostly due to scheme rather than his inability to separate. The contested rate percentage caught was down this year but if you watch the games, quarterback play is clearly to blame for this.

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Our 2024 fantasy football rankings and projections, as well as our cheatsheets are now available. Accessible from the main menu across the top of the site.

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Dobbins has not been given this kind of workload yet, but he is another year removed from his ACL tear which is important. Magically, he had 5.7 yards per carry last year with a long run of just 44 yards. He was on pace for over 1,000 yards if he was healthy the full season.

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This isn’t some subjective assessment made by an admitted Cleveland Browns fan clinging desperately to any sort of positivity regarding that soul-sucking vortex of a football team. There is no shortage of stats that back up Chubb’s status as one of the league’s truly elite backs.

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The downside to Adams is a mix of the predicted decline due to age curve, quarterback change and offensive competition. Similar to how running backs have increased injury after large workload seasons, we have seen it with wide receivers over 180 targets.

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Between hitting the Year 8 wall described above and having the team add a third round draft complement to him, it is unlikely that Henry will pay off at his RB6 ADP. It also does not help that Henry has PFF’s worst graded offensive line. The efficiency metrics have slowly been falling off as well.

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Fantasy managers go into draft day wanting to do lots of things. Some go into it determined to draft “their guys” — whether it’s a player for their favorite team or someone they expect to explode in the upcoming season. ...

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If you want to educate yourself on all that 2023 has in store, or if you just want to win your league, this is a great place to start. Please take a look at our membership packages, this report is ...

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The Summer of 2023 was another Summer of the “staycation” and rain. So…I want to go on the record and say that the transition from La Nina to El Nino is a pain in the tookus!

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Yes, quarterback Brock Purdy is recovering from offseason elbow surgery. But Purdy’s recovery appears on track, and it’s not like he’s going to suddenly forget that Aiyuk is on the team.

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The annual Fantasy Sharks Staff Analysis Draft has completed! This year we've included one member from our Shark Tank forum as well. We hope you enjoy the draft and the analysis.

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The 49ers, as we know, spent a significant amount of draft capital on Trey Lance, and have not moved him. Any signs of slippage from what we saw from Purdy last year can lead to Lance getting another chance to jump back into a spot where he can provide significant fantasy upside.

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Here are the complete auction draft results from the recent FanEx Auction Draft, a league comprised of various fantasy football industry veterans. To no ones surprise, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jeffereson attracted the highest bid of $45. This was ...

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The FanEx FAD (Fantasy Analysis Draft) is underway and we will be posting the picks and the analysis here at Fantasy Sharks. It's a 20-round draft from the very first expert's league ever created. We hope you enjoy the analysis.

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After four seasons backing up Dalvin Cook in Minnesota, the Vikings backfield belongs to Alexander Mattison now, after the team released Cook in the offseason and re-upped Mattison on a two-year, $7 million contract.

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Travis Kelce affords fantasy managers the closest thing to a guaranteed edge that exists in the game. He’s all but certainly going to be the highest-scoring player at his position. He’ll quite possibly be so by a wide margin. His fantasy floor is most players’ ceilings.

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The draft is still a ways off but we've run our annual draft position analysis and wanted to share an overview of where the best position is to be this year in a standard 16-round/12-team snake-draft.

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Jared Goff quietly put up almost 4,500 yards and just missed the 30-touchdown mark last season. He’ll have Amon-Ra St. Brown back fully healthy, a new best friend in Jahmyr Gibbs, old reliable in Marvin Jones, and eventually he’ll have Jameson Williams at his disposal.

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Like it or not, Adams is getting older. He doesn’t appear pleased with the direction of the franchise he just joined a year ago. From a fantasy perspective, he’s undergoing a downgrade at quarterback in 2023 — and that’s if Garoppolo can stay healthy. And there’s another wide receiver in Vegas now who could clip 10-15 percent off even Adams’ target share — easily.

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With a new offensive coordinator in Baltimore in Todd Monken, there’s optimism that a healthy J.K. Dobbins could finally turn in the breakout season some were hoping for a couple of years ago.

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Factor in that Travis Kelce is the highest I’ve ever seen a tight end ranked and we’re suddenly positioned around the 10th pick. This is the range where the decision to go Amon-Ra St. Brown over CeeDee Lamb happens.

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If he’s half the player so many pundits and the Colts believe he is, then Anthony Richardson could be a season-defining player in fantasy in 2023.

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If you’re a believer in Tyjae Spears and the comparisons to players like Tony Pollard, Austin Ekeler and Aaron Jones, then he’s going to be available at a position of value in rookie drafts. And it’s well within the realm of possibility that Spears could follow a similar trajectory as that trio of backs.

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While Zach Charbonnet may not be the generational talent that Bijan Robinson is regarded as, he’s a gifted prospect in his own right with a well-rounded skill-set who could easily make a fantasy dent as a rookie in the right landing spot.

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Depending on where Jahmyr Gibbs’ career gets its beginning, his explosiveness and pass-catching chops could boost him into high-end RB2 territory in redraft formats. In dynasty startups, he might even climb into low-end RB1 territory.

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