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These players could sink your fantasy season if taken too early.
Ahead of the final draft weekend, it’s time to look at five players we don’t want on our fantasy rosters for 2024. As ever, all players have value. Those listed here are ones we see falling well short of delivering the production versus where you’d need to draft them in most instances.
Drafting these players could get you in deep trouble this season.
Overrated players achieve that dubious distinction because one fantasy football owner is willing to take a risk on a talented player with question marks or baggage of some kind. When a player is questionably tabbed to be a weekly fantasy starter, someone will make a case that they aren’t overrated and only figure it out after it’s too late.
These are five players who will be drafted to play significant roles on fantasy rosters but may struggle to live up to their draft slotting.
Know which player pitfalls to avoid in 2024 fantasy football drafts.
It’s rare that an otherwise consistently selected player should be entirely avoided in fantasy football drafts, because at the right price, risk is mitigated. However, some recognizable names just don’t warrant inclusion on 16-man rosters. Fantasy football gamers also need to be aware of players who are going much earlier than warranted.
“Bust” is a loaded term that isn’t entirely fair, nor is it an accurate reflection of a player’s risk. Furthermore, it’s tough to find a consensus definition. Can an injury create a bust? Is it only a bust situation if the player goes up in flames without an injury? Both? Are busts only early-round selections? You get the point. Regardless of how one defines it, the term is far from perfect.
This piece highlights some of the more commonly drafted players whose selections may cause headaches. Therefore, we’ll focus on “overvalued” and “bust potential” in this space. Just because a player appears in this list, it doesn’t automatically mean he will be a total flop, but the players in question certainly have elevated risk of failure. All players are ordered from least to most concern of failure.
The top risers and fallers heading into Week 15.
In most leagues, the fantasy football playoffs start this week. There are times when you bench players because they’ve let you down. Wrong decisions in the playoffs last for years in the dark memories of great seasons snuffed.
The players highlighted this week have earned their spots – for good reasons and bad. As those playing this week mull their first-round playoff matchups and which players are used or avoided, with each decision comes the implications of potential points left on the bench. Choose wisely.
Drafting these three players could sink your fantasy season.
There are always players that the fantasy football “experts” pump up. It’s kind of an individual version of the Dallas Cowboys – always a perennial Super Bowl favorite despite not making it past the divisional round in the last 28 seasons. These players are consistently touted prior to drafts and rarely live up to the hype.
This year’s fantasy ADP rankings have some players who are a consensus pick at where they’re ranked but have no legitimate rationale to be where they’re slotted. Here are the three players you should avoid until the point someone else takes them too early.
Five picks gamers are spending too much capital on in fantasy drafts.
Determining which players will over- and underperform their fantasy football draft station is annually one of the most important elements in putting together a winning roster. As the season inches closer it’s a good time to see where players are being drafted, and how their ADP (Average Draft Position) corresponds to what they might do in 2023.
With that in mind, here are five players that appear likely to underdeliver relative to their current draft slot.
