Fantasy Football Rankings 2024: Busts from the NFL model that called Jaylen Waddle's slow year

After months of uncertainty, Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins signed his franchise tag and will be on the field this season. This gives the Bengals arguably the best wide receiver duo in the league, moving Higgins, Ja'Marr Chase, Joe Burrow and company up the 2024 Fantasy football rankings. Higgins had back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons before falling shy of 1,000 yards after playing in 12 games last year. But with a healthy Higgins and Burrow at quarterback, where should you target the Bengals during your 2024 Fantasy football draft prep?

Burrow played in 10 games last season and missed the end of the year with a thumb injury. Can owners feel confident about having the 27-year-old quarterback as your "set and forget" quarterback, or will he once again be the victim of 2024 Fantasy football injuries? 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: Giants running back Devin Singletary. The 26-year-old has produced between 959 and 1,099 scrimmage yards in each of his first five seasons in the NFL and is coming off a career-high 898 rushing yards with the Texans.

Now, he has joined the Giants and is No. 1 on the depth chart after Saquon Barkley left in free agency. However, quarterback Daniel Jones is a running threat who could usurp valuable red-zone carries from Singletary. He's the 31st running back off the board on average in early 2024 Fantasy football ADP, but the model ranks him well outside the top 35 running backs.

Another bust that SportsLine's Fantasy football rankings 2024 have identified: Falcons wide receiver Drake London. The Falcons should have a significantly improved offense this season with Kirk Cousins taking over at quarterback. But London is being selected as a top-10 wide receiver in ADP, ahead of proven stars like Davante Adams, Mike Evans and Brandon Aiyuk.

This season will also be an adjustment for Cousins, who had the luxury of throwing passes to Justin Jefferson, who became the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history this season. Cousins had three straight seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards before his injury last year, but can he replicate that without a one-of-a-kind athlete and receiver like Jefferson? Cousins is also coming off a torn Achilles, so there's no guarantee he'll be at top form this season. 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.