Shawn Siegele provides his 24 priority targets for the 2024 redraft season and works through how to attack upcoming fantasy football drafts.
The Priority Targets list works best in companion with my 2024 draft plan, The Upside Mega-Tiers Use Optimism and Humility to Help You Crush Your League. That workshop allows you to envision the entire 2024 draft landscape as a dynamic organism that can be defeated by working back-to-front and exploiting the tensions between different positions.
The 2023 Priority Targets and Redraft Game Plan included . . .
- Amon-Ra St. Brown
- CeeDee Lamb
- Jahmyr Gibbs
- Keenan Allen
- Breece Hall
- Brandon Aiyuk
- Sam LaPorta
- Rashee Rice
- De’Von Achane
As is the case every year, these are the players we’re drafting in real leagues. The targets helped push 2023 FFPC Main Events with both Ben Gretch and Colm Kelly into the money in last year’s headlining contest. We definitely won’t be right on everything, but it’s crucial to be in on enough big hits to create a shot at league victories and tournament titles.
Although the Priority names are the most fun, 200-plus players will be given a category.
The Grades
- Priority: This is the group I want to create the most exposure to. They offer broken ADPs, asymmetric upside, and tournament-winning potential.
- Target: These players are relatively straightforward picks, and should be vacuumed up when they’re available around ADP.
- When Falls: This is the borderline group. They’re not players I’m aggressively drafting, but these players aren’t overvalued to the extent that you should avoid them entirely. They’re often good fits when still available at a discount to ADP.
- If Flat: This is usually a QB designation indicating a potential selection if you don’t like the value at other positions and don’t want to elevate your next non-QB target.
- Occasional: This label mostly applies to players later in the draft where grabbing fallers is less of an issue. These are soft targets where you may prefer to stash players or take wild swings.
- Wild Swing: I don’t expect these players to necessarily hit, but in deeper leagues they’re often a better use of resources than the safe play. Why draft a player you’ll never start instead of using that late-round pick on upside?
- Stash: These are players I don’t expect to have value in the first couple of weeks. As the season progresses, they could eventually become key cogs. In deeper leagues, you may want to stash them. In shallower leagues, put them on your Watch List.
- In Emergency/Positional Pressure: These players will land on a few teams, but almost exclusively in a situation where you get caught out at QB or TE.
- No Grade: I’m not drafting the players left without a designation. It’s inevitable that a few of these players will hit, but I’m avoiding them because their risk/reward profiles will hurt you badly over time. These tend to be players who are being drafted due to workload projections that aren’t backed up by corresponding talent. In a few cases, the players do have the talent — for example the lone first-round fade — but sport a risk/reward profile that doesn’t work in the current ADP environment.
After the full look at 200-plus players, I’ll provide further context for how to play individual positions and formats. Those notes will also link you to specific player research that may be relevant as you put together your final board. Other questions may be answered by our signature series.
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Blair Andrews’ Breakout WR Series has been generating raves.
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Dave Caban’s Auction Strategy Guide is a reader favorite and among our most-viewed articles every year.
- The 2024 RotoViz Auction Strategy Guide Part 1: Auctions and Team Construction
- The 2024 RotoViz Auction Strategy Guide Part 2: Dynamics of Player Pricing and In-Auction Navigation
- The 2024 RotoViz Auction Strategy Guide Part 3: Common Mistakes and How to Overcome Them
- The 2024 RotoViz Auction Strategy Guide Part 4: Exploiting the Tiers and ESPN Opportunities
- The 2024 RotoViz Auction Strategy Guide Part 5: Expert Auctions and How to Pivot Live
The League Winners: 24 Priority Targets for Redraft Leagues in 2024
Want to beat your ESPN league? Blair Andrews highlights the 12 best values. Want to beat your Yahoo! league? Mat Irby locates the best middle round WRs.
Today’s exercise focuses specifically on the choices you have while on the clock. The targets are organized by ADP, in this case a more useful tool than rankings. We’ll use FFPC redraft ADP, in part because we know those leagues are being taken hotly contested and in part because just seeing the combined wisdom of serious drafters gives you an advantage.
I’m using ADP from the last week, but you can use our FFPC Redraft ADP tool to create a color-coded draft grid from just the previous day. It’s one of 30-plus tools available in your RotoViz subscription.
