Bears wide receiver Keenan Allen has been one of the most consistent fantasy football picks of the past decade and could rank highly in your fantasy football rankings for 2024. Allen has been selected to the Pro Bowl in six of the past seven years, with the only exception being a seven-game absence due to injury in 2022. Excluding that season, Allen has recorded at least 990 yards receiving and six touchdowns in every season since 2017. He missed the final four games with the Chargers last season due to injury but still recorded a career-high 108 receptions, 1,243 yards and seven scores.
Allen was traded from the Chargers to the Bears in the offseason. With Chicago having other talented receivers such as DJ Moore and Rome Odunze, Allen could be one of the fantasy football sleepers in 2024. Before you plan your 2024 fantasy football draft strategy, be sure to check out the 2024 fantasy football rankings & cheat sheet from SportsLine's proven computer model.
Last year, the model accurately predicted Jets running back Breece Hall would significantly outperform his sixth-round fantasy football ADP in 10-team PPR leagues. The results: Hall rushed 223 times for 994 yards and five scores and was also a dynamic receiver out of the backfield, catching 76 passes for 591 yards and four scores. He ultimately finished as the second-leading running back in CBS Sports PPR leagues behind Christian McCaffrey.
The same model has a proven track record of providing fantasy football tips, identifying AJ Brown as a sleeper in 2020 and accurately predicting Jonathan Taylor's phenomenal season in 2021. Additionally, they have also predicted past fantasy football sleepers such as Derrick Henry in 2019, Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara in 2018, and Davante Adams in 2017. Betting on these players has led to them winning league titles.
The model is run by the same people who create the projections for the three major fantasy sites, and it beat out human experts last season when there was a huge difference in rankings. Our 2024 Fantasy Football PPR Rankings and 2024 Fantasy Football Standard Rankings are updated multiple times each day, so you'll always get the best fantasy football advice.
Now, SportsLine has simulated the entire NFL season 10,000 times and released its latest fantasy football rankings for 2024, with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and basses: Visit SportsLine now to see the rankings.
Top Sleepers for Fantasy Football in 2024
One of the model's projected fantasy football sleepers for 2024 is Chiefs wide receiver Marquise Brown. The Chiefs acquired Brown in the offseason after an injury-plagued 2023 season with the Cardinals. He enters the mix as one of quarterback Patrick Mahomes' top targets, putting him in a strong position to break away from the rest of the pack.
Brown has been healthy since suffering a heel injury last year and could be a fantasy asset. He may not get the 146 targets he did with the Ravens in 2021, but he'll have the opportunity to make big plays every week alongside the league's best quarterback. SportsLine's model ranks Brown above wide receivers such as DJ Moore, Mike Evans and Deebo Samuel, but Brown is available later than all of them according to their 2024 fantasy football ADP.
Another sleeper that emerged in SportsLine's 2024 fantasy football rankings is Bears tight end Cole Kmet, who has quietly ranked among the top 10 tight ends the past two seasons despite playing in a run-heavy offense with quarterback Justin Fields, and the passing offense is expected to become much more potent with the Bears selecting Williams with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
Despite Chicago's offensive line having more players to feed off of (Keenan Allen, Rome Odunze and D'Andre Swift were added this offseason), Kmet would benefit from a pass-first approach. He's currently the 15th-best tight end on average, but the model projects him to finish as a TE5, above stars like George Kittle and Evan Engram. Find out which other sleepers to pick in fantasy football in 2024 here.
How to Find Proven Fantasy Football Rankings for 2024
SportsLine is also giving very high ratings to some surprising running backs you might not think of: According to our model, this running back is a shocking top-five selection, ahead of superstars like Jonathan Taylor and Derrick Henry Find out who these running backs are, and each player's 2024 fantasy football rankings, only at SportsLine.
So which sleepers should you target in fantasy football in 2024? And which running back will stun the NFL with a top-five performance? Visit SportsLine now to find out the answers by getting a cheat sheet for every fantasy football position in 2024, from the model that predicted Breece Hall's incredible season.
