Fantasy Football Rankings 2024: Busts from top-rate NFL model that nailed Jaylen Waddle's down season

The Chicago Bears have failed to produce many high-end options in the Fantasy football rankings in recent years. However, wide receiver D.J. Moore changed that narrative last season after finishing the year with 96 receptions for 1,364 yards and eight touchdowns. Will Moore be able to duplicate that success in his second season in Chicago, or will he be among the top 2024 Fantasy football busts? The Bears will have rookie quarterback Caleb Williams under center and also added veteran wide receiver Keenan Allen, which could eat into Moore's 2024 Fantasy football projections.

Where should those players slot in your 2024 Fantasy football rankings? Sorting through the preseason hype and separating fact from fiction is essential before going on the clock in any Fantasy football 2024 drafts. As you begin your 2024 Fantasy football draft prep, be sure to check out the 2024 Fantasy football cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Last year, the model accurately predicted that Dolphins wide receiver Jaylen Waddle would fail to live up to his Fantasy football ADP. Waddle's 2023 Fantasy football ADP was 34.86 overall and he was the 11th receiver off the board on average. He'd go on to notch a 1,000-yard season but only had 72 receptions with four touchdowns and he'd finish as the No. 34 Fantasy football wide receiver in CBS Sports PPR leagues.

The same model has a proven track record providing Fantasy football tips, identifying A.J. Brown as a sleeper in 2020 and nailing Jonathan Taylor's monstrous season in 2021. Additionally, it's called past Fantasy football sleepers like Derrick Henry in 2019, Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara in 2018, and Davante Adams in 2017. Anybody who banked on players like those made a run at their league title.

The model is powered by the same people who generated projections for all three major Fantasy sites, and it beat human experts last season when there was a big difference in ranking. The 2024 Fantasy football PPR rankings and 2024 Fantasy football standard projections update multiple times daily, so you're always getting the best Fantasy football advice.

Now, SportsLine has simulated the entire NFL season 10,000 times and released its latest Fantasy football rankings 2024, along with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and busts. Head to SportsLine now to see them .

Top 2024 Fantasy football busts

One of the 2024 Fantasy football busts the model is predicting: Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins. It's easy to point to Joe Burrow's injury and Jake Browning's struggles for the downturn Higgin's production took last season. However, his Fantasy football output was already declining, which suggests 2024 will be another lukewarm campaign.

Higgins finished 2023 with 42 receptions for 656 yards and five touchdowns, recording a career-low 11.5 fantasy points per game on the season. Since that number has dipped steadily over the last couple of seasons, he leaves a lot to be desired at his current ADP. Even if Burrow plays a full season healthy, there are other options at receiver that can eclipse Higgins' output.

Another bust that SportsLine's Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Tagovailoa had a remarkable season in 2023. He led the league in passing yards with 4,624 and finished with 29 passing touchdowns. However, Tagovailoa struggled down the stretch late last season when Fantasy managers needed production the most.

He was QB4 through the first eight weeks of the 2023 season and QB10 through Week 13. From that point forward, Tagovailoa had just one game with more than 240 yards passing and only one game with multiple touchdown passes. The model has Tagovailoa ranked outside the top 15 Fantasy football quarterbacks in its 2024 Fantasy football rankings, making him one of the top Fantasy football busts to avoid on draft day. See which other Fantasy football busts 2024 to avoid here .

How to find proven 2024 Fantasy football rankings

SportsLine is also low on a wide receiver who is being drafted as a top-15 player at his position. The model ranks him outside its top 20 wide receivers for 2024 and expects him to see major regression. You can only see who it is, and the 2024 Fantasy football rankings for every player, at SportsLine .

So which 2024 Fantasy Football busts should you avoid, and which receiver will fail to live up to expectations? Visit SportsLine now to get 2024 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that told you to avoid Jaylen Waddle in 2023 , and find out.