• Brian Thomas Jr. significantly exceeded his 12 months 1 expectations: The Jacksonville Jaguars rookie broad receiver posted dominant numbers in 2024, which led to a superb fantasy season.
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Estimated Studying Time: 7 minutes
Each NFL season is stuffed with surprises, each good and dangerous, and 2024 was no exception. Loads of fantasy belongings emerged seemingly out of nowhere to grow to be high quality beginning choices, and others allow us to down, both because of harm, poor play and inefficiency or getting benched.
On this article, we’ll have a look at a few of the nice surprises and shock disappointments at broad receiver from 2024, leaving out gamers who missed vital chunks of time because of harm.
NOTE: Fantasy factors/rankings are from Weeks 1-17
Nice Shock: Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville Jaguars
End: WR5
ADP: WR45
In a yr dominated by nice rookie receivers, Thomas was arguably the most effective of the bunch, which wasn’t a possible situation heading into the yr — contemplating the opposite choices and their ADPs. Thomas was the fourth broad receiver chosen within the 2024 NFL Draft and the seventh-ranked fantasy rookie broad receiver by Sleeper ADP this offseason. He outscored all of them, finally ending the yr because the PPR WR5.
