Ranking The Top 24 Overall Players for Fantasy Football

The fantasy football season is right around the corner, and if you're watching this video, it is going to help you out a ton because we are ranking the top 24 overall players for fantasy football. You cannot afford to miss on your first or second-round pick.

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And let's start with my S tier, my top-tier players. And I just want to put these two players in here right away because all offseason, we're going to be debating which one should be first between Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs. Now, look, if you want to put Jahmyr Gibbs first, go for it. I'm fine with that. I don't really have a strong stance this year on who should be the number one overall player, but I personally am leaning towards Bijan Robinson. I mean, I don't know if people forget last year, he literally just put up nearly 2,300 total yards, like the quietest 2,300-yard season ever. He was pushing to be the NFL record holder for most yards in terms of your rushing and receiving in a season during the final couple of weeks of the year. This is a player who now, in back-to-back seasons, has averaged over 20 fantasy points per game. He's scoring touchdowns despite having Tyler Allgeier in his backfield, scored eight last year, and now Tyler Allgeier is no longer there. I mean, Bijan Robinson, it's hard to ignore the guy. 79 catches, 820 receiving yards. And for the most part, like, yeah, the quarterback situation isn't great. We'll see what happens. If it's Michael Penix, who Bijan had success with last year and the year before that to end the season, or if it's Tua, who's a checkdown monster, just ask De'Von Achane the past two seasons. Either way, I feel comfortable about Bijan Robinson's role, especially now because his backup is Brian Robinson. So, another solid, by the way, just be careful. Two B. Robinsons are on here from Atlanta. When you're making your draft pick, don't mess that one up. Specifically, if you're in an in-person draft where it just says the first abbreviation, make sure it's the BI and not the BR, right? Don't confuse these things. But Brian Robinson, I mean, basically like a one-for-one replacement for Tyler Allgeier. You could even argue that Tyler Allgeier is maybe a little bit more of a better goal-line back in terms of like stealing those touchdowns away from Bijan. So, Bijan's going to be my number one, but Jahmyr Gibbs is right there in tier two. 21 fantasy points in back-to-back seasons per game. The obvious big news for a guy who scored 18 and 20 touchdowns the past two seasons in the Lions offense. We saw him last year once Dan Campbell took over the play-calling for the rest of the season with Dan Campbell as his play-caller, Gibbs was averaging over 23 fantasy points per game. And then more importantly, with David Montgomery now gone, traded to the Houston Texans this offseason, without David Montgomery as a starter. These past couple of seasons when there's no Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs is out there, Gibbs has averaged 28.3 fantasy points per game. And I truly do think, like we saw last year down the stretch, that Gibbs is going to be the workhorse running back in this backfield. As you can see here, David Montgomery is now gone. The replacement has been Isiah Pacheco, who hasn't been able to stay healthy these last couple of seasons, who is nowhere near as reliable, I would say, as like a late-game runner, a red-zone runner as David Montgomery was at least these last two to three seasons with the Detroit Lions. So those are my only two players in tier one. I mean, you could argue maybe one or two other players should go in there. But my tier two will start it off. It's not complete, but we'll start it off with my number three overall player, Puka Nacua. Number four, Ja'Marr Chase, and number five, Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

A couple of wide receivers here. We'll start with Puka Nacua. Puka Nacua, who was the wide receiver one in fantasy last year. I mean, despite it seemed like dealing with injuries for like the last two seasons in games and playing through them. 23.4 fantasy points per game was just an absolute stud. 10 touchdowns last year despite Davante Adams going out there and scoring a massive amount of touchdowns, especially from the one-yard line. Puka every single year of his career: 17.6, 18.8, 23.4. As long as Sean McVay, as long as Matthew Stafford are out there, Puka is going to be extremely reliable. And again, he was able to do this last year despite having legitimate target competition. He did it in his rookie season with legit target competition in Cooper Kupp. He did it last year as well with Davante Adams coming out there and leading the NFL in receiving touchdowns, and even down the stretch, although Adams had a good year, Adams did get banged up down the stretch. In the playoffs, it was the Puka Nacua show. In the first round of the playoffs against a very close game with Carolina, 10 catches on a whopping 18 targets, 100 yards, and a touchdown. He also had a rushing touchdown in that game. Against the Bears, they actually held him in check, but 10 more targets. And then against Seattle when the Rams lost in the NFC Championship, 165 yards and a touchdown on 14 targets. I mean, Puka Nacua, if he's healthy, if Matthew Stafford is healthy, and Sean McVay is calling plays, he's basically a lock to be getting you minimum eight to nine targets, upside of these 18-target games.

Then there's Ja'Marr Chase, my number four overall player. I mean, he had a "quote-unquote" down season last year and still scored 19.6 fantasy points per game. Now, why was it a down season? Well, he was the number one overall pick in many drafts. He didn't finish as the number one or number two wide receiver because of the Puka Nacua season and JSN breakout. But let's be honest here. He did miss a game. Despite missing a game, he saw a career-high 185 targets. He caught 125 balls, just two less than the season before when he won the triple crown for receptions and 1,700 yards and 17 touchdowns. And if you remember, Jake Browning had to start a couple of games when Joe Burrow was hurt before they got Joe Flacco. And the offense was putrid until they traded for Joe Flacco. But once they acquired Joe Flacco and then Joe Burrow came back, those final 12 games of the season, there was arguably not a better wide receiver in fantasy football. Right up there with your Puka Nacuas and your JSNs was Ja'Marr Chase, averaging over 21 fantasy points per game, a whopping 12.5 targets per game, and 95 receiving yards per game. So yes, Ja'Marr Chase still in the prime of his career, still has Joe Burrow, at least as of right now. Both of those guys are healthy to start the season. Same exact target competition with Tee Higgins basically as last year. Run it back, top-five pick Ja'Marr Chase.

Then there's JSN, who maybe some people think should be higher. He's my fifth overall player. He, look, 21.2 fantasy points per game. The number two player overall in fantasy football at the wide receiver position last year. Had his true breakout season. I personally did not see this coming. I don't know how you could have seen it coming. 119 receptions. Not only that, his 1,793 receiving yards was a top-10 season of all time receiving yards wise. He was the receiving yard leader last year. So if you're trying to tell me like you thought he was a good pick last year, that's fine. And if you're trying to tell me you saw this breakout, a top-10 receiving season of all time, I'd probably call cap on that. But this was a team that, I mean, JSN put up that production despite this team last year ranking tied for third with the Baltimore Ravens in rush attempts per game. But now they lost Kenneth Walker. They lost their offensive coordinator in Clint Kubiak, as well, right? There's going to be no more Clint Kubiak in this offense. Zach Charbonnet is probably going to miss most likely the first three or so months of the season, if not the entire fantasy regular season. So the entire run game that was number three in rush attempts per game last year, number one in PFF rushing grade, like it should look completely different this year when your running backs from last year and your offensive coordinator who schemed that run game is now gone. So maybe they lean a little bit more pass-heavy. So even if the efficiency for JSN on those deep targets from Sam Darnold goes down, the volume should continue to be there. And if you're talking about like target competition, nobody's there. They brought in Noah Fant in free agency and a sixth-round wide receiver pick in Emanuel Henderson. Outside of that, they resigned Rashid Shaheed, who they traded for mid-season from the Saints last year. Tory Horton, the rookie from last year, will come back from injury. Cooper Kupp is still there, although probably in the final year of his career, most likely. So, like, not a lot of target competition for prime JSN.

Now, I will close out my second tier with my sixth and seventh overall players. They are both running backs. It is Christian McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor to close out this tier. Now, this is a very, very interesting tier. So, if we pull this up right here, I mean, how do you not like Christian McCaffrey based off what he did last year? Unbelievable season of over 2,100 total yards, 1,200 rushing on awful efficiency, by the way, but they just kept giving him the ball. 924 receiving yards, first amongst running backs, 102 receptions, was first. Oh yeah, just a measly 17 touchdowns as well. I mean, the guy was touching the ball non-stop. Usage was absolutely elite when you look at it. Was out there for 84% of the snaps despite having like that calf issue pop up before week one. Despite Kyle Shanahan always saying he's trying to take workload off of Christian McCaffrey, it never happens. An 81% target share. It's just too hard not to give Christian McCaffrey the ball, especially last year when George Kittle is hurt, when Brandon Aiyuk doesn't end up playing for the team, when there's no Deebo Samuel, where week in and week out, it seems like everybody's getting hurt. Brock Purdy, Ricky Perea, right? Jauan Jennings, everybody's hurt last year, so just keep loading up. The only guy who stayed healthy is Christian McCaffrey. Now, I do think he could take a step back this year. One, he's 30 years old, so the durability is a concern after a massive workload season last year. And George Kittle will be healthy, and Ricky Perea will be healthy at least to start the season. And they traded for Mike Evans. So maybe the role isn't as dependent on him having almost 1,000 receiving yards as a running back. But outside of that, like the backfield competition still isn't there. Elijah Mitchell is now gone. Jordan Mason, a rookie from last year, is there. Patrick Taylor is still there. Isaac Edwardo, I don't even know if all these guys make the roster. Caleb McCaffrey, they drafted in the third round as the 49ers always get some running back in the third or fourth round. And then Christian McCaffrey just still going to be the guy. So if you're concerned about durability, I get it. He just came off of a big season. He's now a 30-year-old running back. But this is still the most versatile, league-winning running back when he's healthy. Six might arguably be too low by the time the season comes.

And then there's Jonathan Taylor. I was thankfully able to have both McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor on my league-winning Flock League team last year for $10,000. That was great. 21.3 fantasy points per game last year. A whopping 20 touchdowns for Jonathan Taylor. And it almost seems like a letdown the way that the season ended, right? The guy rushes for nearly 1,600 yards. He's out there being highly efficient, 4.9 yards per carry. But obviously, Daniel Jones gets hurt in week 13, and from that point on, Jonathan Taylor barely averaged three yards per carry. The offense wasn't as good. They missed the playoffs. They kept losing games, right? If you were a Jonathan Taylor fantasy manager, you know this because with a healthy Daniel Jones and a healthy offense those first 12 games of the year, he was the number one player in fantasy football, averaging 24.8 fantasy points per game, over 100 yards on the ground alone, and then from that point on, just 13.3 fantasy points per game. Not terrible, but nowhere near the number one overall player in fantasy football, right? He was like a solid RB2 flex option for you during those weeks in the fantasy playoffs, which obviously wasn't the best. Now, the thing that should really be pointed out from last year with Jonathan Taylor is how much more of a three-down back he became. He became a legit pass-catching running back. Number three in routes run last year, number three in route participation. This was a running back that basically set career highs across the board in terms of how much he was used in the passing game. 46 receptions. Like, we're used to past seasons. If you pull up Jonathan Taylor here, we're not used to this. Look at this right here. 18 catches, 19 catches. He legitimately became a three-down back this past season. I expect that actually a four-down back. The way the NFL is going, I expect that to continue this year, which is why Jonathan Taylor is no longer like a touchdown-or-bust player. No, he's going out there and per week catching three to four balls. So, he is definitely in play no matter the game script. Has to be a top-10 pick.

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All right, now let's start the tier three of my rankings, the B tier. We're going to go with my number eight, nine, and 10 player to start this tier off. Amon-Ra St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, and James Cook. That rounds out my top 10. But let's break these guys down. We'll start with my number eight player, uh, Mr. Consistency himself, Amon-Ra St. Brown, a top-five fantasy receiver, a top-four to be exact, in three straight seasons. All this guy does is put up a thousand-plus yards, put up 100-plus catches, and all he does is score 10-plus touchdowns a season in this Lions offense. He was absolutely fantastic last year. Another 1,400-yard season, a career-high 172 targets. So, despite Ben Johnson not being there and people being concerned about Amon-Ra St. Brown, and I'll be honest, I was at points last year. Offensive line was getting shaky. New offensive coordinator, it didn't matter. The first game of the year stunk for the Lions last year. After that point, all their guys got there, especially Amon-Ra St. Brown. 72 targets. And oh, by the way, like if you want to just talk about the target competition head coming into town now for Amon-Ra St. Brown, uh, yeah, there's no new target competition. Who was added to this wide receiver room? Oh, free agent signing Greg Dortch. He'll be a depth guy. They lost Khalif Raymond. Greg Dortch, I think, is a neutral replacement out of the slot for Khalif Raymond whenever they want to put him on the field and maybe four wide receiver sets or if somebody gets injured. But for the most part, like they revamped the offensive line a little bit. Got Cole Mazzi at center, Larry Borum at right tackle, Jalen "Juice" Shrugs as well for center. We'll see what they do with those guys. And Blake Miller was their first-round pick who really just fits this offense, both him and Cole Mazzi, the Dan Campbell offense well. And like I mentioned earlier with Jahmyr Gibbs, when Dan Campbell took over play-calling for this offense, things changed completely for Amon-Ra St. Brown. From week 10 on, Amon-Ra St. Brown led the NFL in all wide receivers with a 30.7% target share under Dan Campbell. So, you're getting the most stable, arguably most stable wide receiver in all of football in the same offense with an offensive line upgrade, the same play-callers out there.

Then there's Justin Jefferson, though. It's the complete opposite. This guy wasn't Mr. Consistent last year. He had a career-worst season. 11.9 fantasy points per game, just two total touchdowns. All of these things were career lows. I mean, it was shocking that he was able to get to a thousand receiving yards when you factor in just all the different quarterbacks he was playing with. Still got 141 targets in a down season, still at top a thousand receiving yards, but he obviously didn't pay off like a borderline top-five draft pick like he was last year. However, we know like his five-year career or his five-year averages before this was 99 catches, almost 1,500 receiving yards. So, it's not a Justin Jefferson or a Kevin O'Connell problem. As much as the media wanted to like bash Kevin O'Connell, it was the quarterback situation. You had a bunch of random guys out there. Obviously, J.J. McCarthy, Carson Wentz, those guys both dealt with injuries. There was the whole Max Borner situation, right, where the offense just looked terrible. So, I don't blame J.J. McCarthy or anybody out there in terms of the pass catchers, but now they get a big upgrade. You might not like Kyler Murray, but he is definitely a big upgrade from what the situation was, arguably worst quarterback situation in the league last year. And Kyler Murray, the last time that we saw him start a full season in 2024, he did throw 541 times. That type of volume in a Kevin O'Connell offense will do wonders for Justin Jefferson. He did sustain T.J. Hockenson for over 1,100 yards as a tight end that year, throw for 3,800 passing yards. If you just get this 2024 version of Kyler Murray, which even then arguably wasn't like the best quarterback in terms of real-life play, but if you were to just get that, it's a massive upgrade over what the Vikings had last year where they ranked first in the NFL in interceptions and 29th in passing yards per game. And oh yeah, by the way, the offense in terms of target share, it's basically still the same main acts out there. Jordan Addison, as of this recording, Jauan Jennings has done some visits. Maybe he comes in as the wide receiver three with Jaylen Naylor gone. Kind of a neutral replacement at this point in Jauan Jennings' career. And T.J. Hockenson is still out there. So it's like the same target share. No new elite target earners have come in here.

Then there's my number 10 overall player, running back James Cook. Look, I'm ahead of the market right now on him because how can you not be outside of him just having a phenomenal season last year? Led the NFL in rushing with over 1,600 rushing yards, added almost 300 receiving yards. So like one of the quieter almost 1,900-yard seasons, 33 catches, right? The touchdowns were there once again from James Cook. All this is awesome, but normally when you get a bigger workload like Cook did last year with career-high usage, Cook for the first time in his career took on that workhorse usage. Over 300 carries was third in the NFL. He added 40 targets. So like a 350-touch or opportunity workload is massive for James Cook for like a barely 200-pound running back, at least when he came out from the NFL combine weigh-ins and all that. So usually when you see a guy jump up in his overall carries and opportunities, the efficiency goes down. But the crazy thing with James Cook is he saw a career-high last year in usage with 309 carries as a rusher. Obviously rushing yards, but also a career-high in yards per carry, 5.3 yards. So obviously he's probably due for some regression. He's not going to continue to average like over five yards per carry if he keeps getting these massive workloads at his size, especially as he gets older. But that's okay based on the offense that he's in. This is a Bills offense that ranked number one in rushing attempts and rushing yards per game last year. They're probably still going to operate that way based on this offseason. Like their biggest move was a big one. They added DJ Moore. They traded for him, signed him to a two-year, nearly $50 million extension. But if anything, that should just help sustain the offense, sustain drives, get more touches per game for James Cook, and potentially some more red-zone carries as he's always been, despite Josh Allen being there as a good red-zone and goal-line weapon, James Cook has always gotten his as well.

Back to the tier rankings here. We'll go now with my number 11 and 12 players. They will close out my tier three, and that is going to be CeeDee Lamb and Saquon Barkley. Both of these guys last year were like pretty consensus top-five overall picks. So, they have dropped a little, and we'll explain why. CeeDee Lamb specifically was going as like the number two overall pick, sometimes the number three overall pick last year in drafts, sometimes the number one overall pick, and he only finished with 14.4 fantasy points per game. Not an awful season, but not great based on where you took him in the first round. Career-low three receiving touchdowns. So, it was not a good year for CeeDee Lamb. But if you watched the season, you kind of know what happened here, right? Couple of things working against CeeDee Lamb. First off, he played a career-low 14 games. He got hurt early in the season, and that injury really lingered. Like it was one that he came back from relatively fast. If we scroll down here, he had the high ankle sprain, and he ended up only missing three games due to like the Cowboys having an early bye week, but a high ankle sprain for a wide receiver. Yeah, you might only miss like four weeks overall in terms of game action, but that thing's going to be lingering and affecting you for probably six to eight weeks. So, you suffer a high ankle sprain early in the season, most of your season is derailed like it was last year for Lamb. But then you factor in George Pickens obviously having his breakout season, and then that takes a lot more away from CeeDee Lamb. However, this was still a Cowboys offense last year that ranked second in the NFL, only behind the Rams, barely by like 30 passing yards in total overall passing yards. They threw the ball a whopping 624 times, third in the NFL, only behind the Cardinals, who were always playing from behind, and the Bengals, who also when Joe Burrow was out and for most of the season were in a lot of shootouts playing from behind because of their defense. So, if you're going to tell me you get a healthy Dak Prescott to start this year, which you should, still in the prime of his career at 32 years old, a healthy CeeDee Lamb, like the last time we saw that was 2023 when both these guys were fully healthy, right? Dak dealt with the 2024 injuries. Lamb dealt with the 2025. But in 2023, Dak was throwing 590 times, 4,500 passing yards. CeeDee Lamb was the number one wide receiver, um, and was like threatening for the triple crown in that year. So, if we can get back to that, both these guys staying healthy, I have all the confidence in the world in CeeDee Lamb rebounding.

Then there's Saquon Barkley, another guy who took a step back last year after going for number one RB in 2024 with over 22 fantasy points per game. He dropped down to just 14.5. The touchdowns dipped pretty significantly from 15 to 9. And overall, like it just wasn't the same year. You know that if you watched it, the explosive runs weren't there. The offensive line broke down. He goes from rushing for 2,000 yards to barely rushing for over 1,000. He goes from averaging 5.8 yards per carry thanks to a lot of explosive plays in 2024 to just 4.1 yards per carry last season. So what ended up happening? Well, the whole offense fell apart in 2025. They went from averaging 27.2 points per game in 2024 to 22.3 in 2025. And Saquon specifically, like we mentioned, went from averaging like a true yards per carry when you take out, um, like just kneel downs and bad offensive line play and like guys just getting through untouched. Went from like five yards per carry to 3.8 this past season. The goal for the Eagles is that they're just going to shift their whole offense. Now they have a new offensive coordinator in Sean Mannion. He's a first-time offensive coordinator, so I don't really know what to expect here from the former quarterback in the NFL, but based on what they've been doing this offseason, signing guys who dominate in the middle of the field, um, in terms of the D'Andre Swift, they traded for, right? Dominates in the middle of the field or somewhat loosely dominates, right? More so the NFL draft where they get Malachi Corley in round one, Eli Stewart in round two. Those are guys who are going to both work in similar parts of the field in the middle of the field. So maybe the offense is going to adjust a little bit. Uh, Jalen Hurts has been a great downfield thrower. He's also solid throwing to the middle of the field, just doesn't have to do it as much. Contrary to what some people on Twitter might say that he can't throw in the middle of the field, he can. So, Saquon has to be dropping, but the workload's just going to be there. There's not many guys, even if he's 29 years old, that have the type of profile and explosiveness as Saquon Barkley, right? He's been able to stay relatively healthy these past couple of seasons. And overall, there's just no competition for him. He's going to get loaded up. He has to be a borderline first-round pick because of that.

So, now we're going to start tier four off with my number 13, 14, and 15 players that are all running backs. It's De'Von Achane, Breece Hall, and Kenneth Walker in that order. Let's start with De'Von Achane. This was a player who had another great season last year. He was number one in explosive rating, number one in breakaway runs of 15-plus yards with 24 of them last year. It was just another good season for Achane, right? If we pull it up overall to his accounting stats last year. What did he do? Oh, he was once again extremely efficient, right? 67 catches, 5.7 yards per carry, over 1,300 rushing yards. You factor in the receiving yards of almost 500. Another massive season, another dozen touchdowns, and another top-10 finish. All this guy has done in his NFL career. Top five, number six, top-five season so far. Now, obviously, a lot of moving pieces this offseason. The Miami Dolphins are in full reboot, full active tank, whatever it might be. They fired their coach Mike McDaniel. So, new coaching coming in, more defensive-minded, run-game-minded, which should help Achane. But this entire team had an overhaul. This is the team changes tracker from the fantasy blueprint. You can check it out at jointheblueprint.com. This is just on offense. Look at all the moves the Dolphins have made this offseason. Whether it's additions via trades in free agency, obviously their big move was signing Will Levis, whether it's subtractions, they lost a lot of players. Uh, Tyreek Hill was released. They traded away Jaylen Waddle. Uh, their franchise quarterback the last couple years and Tua Tagovailoa is gone. The offensive line reshuffled. And then in the NFL draft, they had a ton of draft picks just by trading away guys like Jaylen Waddle and some other pieces. You could see here, uh, signing some wide receivers in round three, round five, Kevin Coleman. Or overall, like the running back situation, they didn't address it. It will be the exact same competition as it has been as recent as last year, uh, for the backfield with De'Von. And that competition is probably Jaylen Wright as your RB2, but he should have a camp battle with Ali Gordon, which basically means that you're not going to have a lot of competition here. Like, we'll see what the new coaching staff does, but by all accounts, you should have Will Levis going out there and being the QB1 with De'Von Achane being the obvious RB1. The one downside to that though with Will Levis, he is a mobile quarterback. Maybe that takes away some touchdown upside and some checkdown upside compared to like Tua last year who was just checking it down non-stop to Achane. So that's why I can't get Achane into round one for me.

Breece Hall, though, my number 14 overall player, I'm relatively high on him. And his rookie season, a lot of people will call it a disappointment. He came out of college as like this unbelievable prospect. Remember his college profile, his final season there at Boise State, carried them, uh, to a ranked re being a ranked college team, 2,600 rushing yards while having almost 400 carries and averaging seven yards per carry. Sure, against some weaker competition, but also faced some tough competition. And then people said, okay, you know, like his overall rookie season wasn't great. But when you break it down, like running back 15, I get it. You had to spend a borderline first or second-round pick, early second-round pick on him, so this doesn't pay it off. But based on what people would say, it was not a bad season considering the situation. You got 10 touchdowns between his rushing and receiving yards, you have like 1,300 total yards. So 1,300 total yards, 55 catches, 10 touchdowns. Yeah, it's not going to move the needle for fantasy if you're a first-round pick, but that's still very good production in the worst-case scenario. All the coaches were fired last year. The offense around him was absolutely atrocious. It should be better this year. You get Clint Kubiak, who, like we mentioned earlier, manufactured the number one graded rush offense last year, according to PFF, number three in rush attempts per game. So, Breece Hall now gets that guy dropped into his offense. That should only help. It should also only help the fact that you're also going to be getting, if we scroll through it in the team changes tracker here, uh, improved quarterback play, at least on paper, number one overall pick for Drake Maye, you're going to also get Kirk Cousins was signed. And the offensive line should be better, right? They're getting back Colton Miller from injury. They signed Tyler Linderbaum to a massive contract, probably overpaid, but it makes sense to get him for your rookie Drake Maye and second-year running back Breece Hall. So, I think Hall is full steam ahead to have a massive workload, should be relatively more efficient, and maybe that 10 touchdown number bumps up even more if the offense is actually sustaining drives.

Next up, we got to talk about Kenneth Walker. In terms of the playoffs last year, Super Bowl MVP, had a good playoff run, especially when Zach Charbonnet got hurt. All that was good, but in general, like the regular season wasn't great. Barely a thousand rushing yards. So, despite playing all 17 games, only five touchdowns, he lost his red zone role, and he was like a fourth or fifth-round pick in your drafts. Finished as the RB28. So, that's not great. You scroll down. What happened to Kenneth Walker? Well, he got a new offensive coordinator in Clint Kubiak, and Clint Kubiak did not make him a workhorse back. Instead, it was a split backfield. 51% of the opportunities to Walker on 48% of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet basically saw the rest of those opportunities. So, it was a split backfield. But now, this past offseason, Kenneth Walker signs the massive contract. It's nearly $30 million guaranteed to be the Chiefs RB1. And as of right now, if we pull up our latest depth chart, you can see Kenneth Walker, the clear RB1 here. After that, like his competition, Bashard Smith, a seventh-round rookie from last year who's like a hybrid wide receiver-running back during college. Emari Johnson, a fifth-round rookie from this year, and Amari Demarcado, who they signed. As of right now, Kareem Hunt is not on this team. Isiah Pacheco is gone and he's on the Lions. So if your biggest competition is a seventh-round pick from last year and a fifth-round rookie from this year, Kenneth Walker might get unleashed for a massive workload this year. Now, there are some questions around like Patrick Mahomes' health coming off of the torn ACL. Obviously, Kenneth Walker, like, will they use him in the passing game? These are some big questions. But the Chiefs, they spent the money on him. They want an explosive runner. I do think he's going to be out there for all the early-down usage. And then it's just bonus points if he's out there for the passing downs.

Let's finish up tier four with my number 16 and 17 overall players in this order. It is Drake London, the wide receiver for the Falcons. And number 17, Trey McBride, the tight end for the Arizona Cardinals. We'll start with Drake London here. I mean, it's hard not to like Drake London. Last season, uh, due to injury, he only played 12 games, but on a points-per-game basis, he was still able to average, uh, the seventh most fantasy points per game at the position. A lot of this just had to do with his massive overall target share, right? You're getting nine targets per game. Over a 30% target share, was top five in the NFL last year. 43% first-read target share, according to Player Profiler, was third in the NFL. Now, what is that stat? It means when your quarterback drops back and looks first at a pass catcher, 43% of the time, over 43% of the time, it was Drake London. He was the obvious number one option in this Zac Robinson offense, the offensive coordinator from last year, who's no longer there now, which is something to mention. That is important. It will be a different offense relatively this year, but it's hard not to trust Drake London. And also Drake London in the games last year when Drake London was actually healthy before Michael Penix went down with injury in those five games, 24.4 fantasy points per game. Although Michael Penix, like wasn't the most consistent quarterback, overall these guys were dominating together. He was the wide receiver one in fantasy points per game during this stretch. And in five out of these, or in all five of these games, he went for 100 receiving yards. He was just an absolute monster last year. We'll see who, who happens to be the starter this year between Tua and Michael Penix. But like Tua obviously gets a lot of slander. He sustained big seasons from Tyreek Hill in recent years. Same for Jaylen Waddle. So I think he'll be fine to sustain a season whether it's him or Michael Penix for a second-round pick for fantasy purposes in Drake London. And we should also point out that the target competition like Darnell Mooney is gone. He was replaced with Jalen Dodson. He was replaced with Mack Hollins from the Bears last year. Like none of these guys are target competition. Uh, you're still going to be getting tight end-wise like, uh, Kyle Pitts is still out there. But if you're telling me that Drake London doesn't have any target competition and actually went down with Darnell Mooney gone, like Bijan Robinson is his biggest target competition out of the backfield and Kyle Pitts. It's the same target competition as last year when he was the wide receiver one at times.

Then there's Trey McBride. You probably know everything about Trey McBride coming off of a historic tight end season. Number one in targets last year, averaging 10 per game, 27% target share. Like everything for Trey McBride, 11 touchdowns. Uh, everything was great. And then when you factor in like what he did when Kyler Murray got hurt and Jacoby Brissett took over from week six on. From week six on with Jacoby Brissett, McBride averaged 17.7 fantasy points per game, which would have been the wide receiver four in fantasy. And just for purposes of this video, my wide receiver four is currently Amon-Ra St. Brown this year. He's easily a first-round pick. So that's kind of where Trey McBride was last year. He set the record for most catches in a season by a tight end. It was like kind of relatively easy for him to do it. He might have done it with a game to spare. And he'll have the same target competition for the most part this year. Like the Cardinals signed Kendrick Bourne, but their top options are still going to be Marvin Harrison, Michael Wilson, and then Trey McBride. They did add Jeremiah Love out of the backfield, who was a great pass-catching running back. He is definitely an upgrade in that regard from like the backfield of Trey Benson and James Conner, at least to start the season last year. So maybe Love takes some of those McBride targets, but it should still be the Trey McBride show.

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We are now starting tier five off with my number 18, 19, and 20 overall players in this order. It is Chase Brown of the Bengals, Derrick Henry of the Ravens, and Rashee Rice of the Kansas City Chiefs. Let's start with Chase Brown. Chase Brown is a guy who once again last year quietly had a dominant season. Over a thousand rushing yards, over 400 receiving yards, so he had almost 1,500 total yards. Once again was top five in receptions, like the season before, with 69 receptions, and once again found the red zone often with 11 rushing touchdowns. So this is now back-to-back seasons of some workhorse usage for Chase Brown outside of the first couple of games of the season when Joe Burrow was struggling and then he got injured. Outside of those games, like the last year and a half, Chase Brown has been one of the best backs in fantasy, and he also helped people win their fantasy championship. If you turn it on right here, Chase Brown in the fantasy playoffs in the regular season, he was the RB16 because of that slow start. In the fantasy playoffs, RB3 averaging 26 fantasy points per game. And you could check out the splits once Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco took over last year and they ended the Jake Browning experiment. Those final 12 games of the season compared to the first five averaging just 9.9 fantasy points. Chase Brown took off, 19.4 fantasy points per game. Easily a top-10 running back during that stretch. And between his rushing and receiving yards, he was averaging almost 100 total yards per game. In terms of the backfield competition, he dodged everything this offseason. There was no running backs added in free agency. None in the draft. It's still Samaje Perine, who he beat out easily last year, and Taj Brooks, who probably looks like the RB2 on this team. Undrafted free agent Jamal Haynes. I don't think he's much of a factor, at least right now. So once again, it's a Chase Brown show in the exact same offense that has the exact same quarterback and should continue to put up a lot of points.

Then you're going to be getting Derrick Henry, the ageless one. Continues to take on these massive 300-yard season, uh, 300-touch attempt seasons where just like he has the past three seasons, didn't miss a single game. Had another five yards per carry and 1,600 rushing yards. Once again, despite like a slow start to the season when Lamar Jackson was banged up, you get Derrick Henry scoring 16 touchdowns, ranking as a top-10 running back. And once again, despite the age, and I know he's getting up there now, he's going to be 32 and a half years old when the season starts. Like, it's hard not to like Derrick Henry as a top-24 overall player because of what he's been doing. And just like past seasons, he just keeps getting better in the most important moments. In fantasy championship weeks, he won people their leagues. 36 carries, 216 yards, four touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers in week 17, just a massive season. You're gonna get him being in this Ravens offense because of Lamar Jackson, because of himself. It's going to easily be a run-first offense, even though they have a new head coach. Last year, the Ravens ranked second in rushing yards per game, even with Lamar banged up. And in 2024, they were first in total rushing yards per game. Now, the obvious downsides for Derrick Henry, especially when you're this older running back who's taking on a lot of carries, is that the offensive line probably going to be worse in the run game situation in general, probably going to be worse. You lose Tyler Linderbaum, one of the best centers in the NFL. You lose Charlie Kolar, a nice blocking tight end. You lose Patrick Ricard, a strong fullback, one of the best in the NFL. Like, they did do some good replacement stuff here, right? Uh, Roger Rosengarten in the first round out of Penn State, one of the best guards in the NFL draft. He should be taking over and be a difference-maker right away. They signed John Simpson, a veteran in free agency at the guard position. We'll see what they do at center. There's probably going to be a camp battle. So, the offensive line, it like should still be solid based on their first-round pick, but it's going to depend a lot on how Rosengarten plays and what they do to replace Linderbaum at center.

Now for my number 20 player, it is Rashee Rice, who only played in eight games last year and he was still a top-five fantasy player in points per game. He had five touchdowns. He averaged 18.8 fantasy points per game. Imagine if this guy did this in a full season. Even the year before that, unlimited action, 16.2 fantasy points per game despite only scoring two touchdowns. I mean, he only played in eight games because of his own suspension and being a little bit banged up last year. Only played in eight games. I mean, still put up massive numbers even with, even with Patrick Mahomes missing the second or the later part of the season with his torn ACL. But if you just look at what he did last year in those eight games and you take that over a full season, Rice's 17-game pace will be 113 catches, over 1,200 receiving yards, and 13 touchdowns. And he also led the NFL with a 46% red zone target share when he was on the field. Almost one out of two times, nearly 50% of the time Patrick Mahomes was throwing it to him. He was also, checks notes, 55% designed play rate. So, they were designing plays specifically for him, meaning you're probably the most important piece on this offense. He was that and he is.

Still going to be that because the Chiefs, despite like Rashi Rice's off-field issues, which he's not going to be suspended this year as of right now for his most recent off-field issue. Despite that, they don't seem concerned about him long term. Like, they didn't draft anybody earlier than the fifth round. They took Cyrus Allen in the fifth round. They didn't sign anybody major in free agency. It's still going to be Rashi Rice, Xavier Worthy, Travis Kelce. They're just going to run it back from last year. Even Maris Brown is no longer on this team. So, if Rashi Rice is healthy, if Mahomes can end up being healthy for week one, should be full steam ahead for Rice.

We continue on in tier five with my 21 and 22 overall players. 21 is Jeremiah Love, the rookie with the Cardinals, and 22 is Malik Neighbors, coming off of his torn ACL. Let's start with Jeremiah Love. He was absolutely sensational the last two years in college at Notre Dame. Last year was the big season, almost 1400 rushing yards while averaging seven yards per carry, 21 touchdowns. He's also a very strong pass catcher despite these totals not being massive because he was running the ball a lot. 28 and 27 receptions, 10% target share last year. Notre Dame didn't throw the ball that much or awfully a lot. He gets the third overall draft capital in the first round. He was a dulk winner, a Heisman finalist. Everything looks really good for him. The one concern maybe, at least as of right now, there is some legit competition on this team. They did sign Tyler Alier to like $6 million a year this off seasonason. They did or they were planning to restructure James Connor's deal. I assume Trey Benson is probably going to be cut, but he's still in his rookie deal, so he's cheap to just be on the team. So, we'll see what happens. If James Connor and Tyler Algier both remain on this roster week one, which I'm pretty sure Alier is a lock based on his contract this off seasonason, but if Connor isn't cut, he is a cut candidate. Now, you have kind of a messy backfield. Jeremiah Love third overall. He's obviously the future. He should be the clear workhorse back. But, it could get a little bit messy. Tyler Roger in the goal line. If James Connor is still there, get some carries. Could get a little bit messy is the only concern here.

Then there's Malik Neighbors who only played four games last year because he tore his ACL in that fourth game. Despite this, the dude was still seeing like massive targets. In just four games, he had 35 targets. He had games of 12 and 13 targets in seven before ended up getting injured in that fourth game. And if you remember his rookie season, he was a target hog. 170 targets despite missing two games as well in his rookie season. The big question will be, is he going to be healthy this year? He's coming off of a knee ACL injury. He tore his ACL and we don't have full extent on what the meniscus damage was. We don't know if it was a full tear or partial tear, but there also was some meniscus damage, which can sometimes and usually does make the recovery process a little bit longer. Now, for Neighbors, he is a younger player. He's like 22 years old, so he should be able to recover quicker than like a 29 or a 30-year-old wide receiver. Hopefully, he's ready week one. We don't have a current update on that, but he was seeing insane targets last year, and it should only get just as good this year because Wanda Robinson, who's seen 140 targets in back-to-back seasons, is now gone, replaced by Darnell Mooney and uh like Calvin Austin from the Steelers. Darius Sllayton's still there. They brought in a receiving pass catching tight end Isaiah likely. So they'll probably run more two tight end sets with Dio Johnson and Likely, but you're taking out 140 target earner the last two seasons in Juell. Only replace him with like Darnell Mooney for the most part and Calvin Austin. Yeah, Malik Neighbors is going to eat again.

And we'll finish up the top 24 rankings with my 23rd player, Brock Bowers, and my 24th player, which is going to be Amarian Hampton. For Brock Bowers, it's pretty simple. The best rookie tight end season we've ever seen. 14 53 targets, almost 1,200 receiving yards hampered by injury last year. Just 12 games played. But even in these 12 games played, at least two of those games with the knee injury, he was playing obviously hobbled. Maybe you could even argue out of those 12 games, like four to six of them, he wasn't 100%. So, it's kind of a chocked up season for Brock Bowers in the worst offensive situation last year. But now, he gets a big upgrade in Clink Kubak. We'll see what the quarterback situation ends up being between both Fernando Mendoza and Kirk Cousins, but the hope is that that's also an upgrade. So, if you're going to be getting all these things upgraded, the offensive line is upgraded, maybe Bowowers doesn't have to block as much. Bowowers is healthy to start the season. If Mandoza gives you anything in terms of like a floor in a ceiling once he starts to play, a lot of upside here for Bowowers to have a year three bounce back.

And then there's the secondear player, Marian Hampton, who like Bowers also dealt with injuries last year. Hampton did see 64% of the snaps, nearly 70% of the opportunities when he was actually out there and on the field, but this was a player who did deal with injuries. But if we look at his game logs, when Naji Harris tore his Achilles, and then there was three full games of Amarian Hampton taking over as the Chargers lead back their first round pick. Let's remember this is a first round talent. 129 yards and a touchdown, 25 fantasy points, 165 yards and a touchdown, 27 and a half fantasy points, and 70 yards for 13 fantasy points. Right? This was a guy who was going out there and averaging over 20 fantasy points per game before he ended up getting injured. He was having explosive plays. He was catching the ball. He was showing off what he did in college at UNCC. be not only an elite producer but a special athlete. And now he gets a pretty nice situation like Mike McDaniel who's been a great runame caller. If you just look the last couple of seasons in Miami, the last three seasons in Miami, Han, like we showed you earlier, top six running back all three of these seasons, including in 2023 when Raheem Oart was also there and he also finished as a top five running back that season, rushing for 20 touchdowns. You take it back to Mike McDaniel with the 49ers and all the success that their running backs have had. So, there's a lot of upside for Hampton this year. Like, the the fingerprints of this what will be Mike McDaniel offense this year are everywhere. Just look at it, right? They ended up signing uh a blocking tight end in Charlie Kohler, a fullback in Alec Engold, a speed running back in Katon Mitchell. They want to run the ball. Playoff play action with their alien quarterback in Justin Herbert. So, overall, like running back competition, Naji Harris is now gone. They bring in Katon Mitchell. I'm not too concerned about that. It's going to be what it was last year. It's mostly going to be Kamani Vidal who was solid at times. Had a couple of big games filling in. No doubt about it. Explosive runs here and there for Kamani Vidal filling in for Amarian Hampton. But Hampton overall more talented running back draft capital as a first round pick and just a player that I would definitely be betting on. I like these year two running backs this year. Ashen Genty and Amarian Hampton a lot. So there you have it. Those are our top 24 overall players for fantasy football as of this recording. I appreciate you all tuning in. If you want to see these seven wide receivers who could absolutely break fantasy this year, I made that video. It dropped last week. You can check it out right here. I think you'll enjoy it.