Fantasy football draft season is in full swing! To help you prepare for one of the most important parts of the fantasy season, we’ve gathered all of our excellent analysis and advice here, in one place, to help you build those eventual championship-winning teams.
The 2024 Yahoo Fantasy Football Draft Kit is being updated daily and we’ll continue to add new content here all the way up until the season kicks off. So, whether you’re playing fantasy football for the first time or a seasoned pro looking to add another title to your trophy case, our draft kit will provide all the rankings, sleepers, fades, position previews and more expert analysis you need to win.
Don’t forget to listen and subscribe to the “Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast” for advice five times a week. Be sure to also sign up for our new fantasy football newsletter, Get to the Points!
Want a quick way to prep before making your picks? Try a mock draft — practice makes perfect!
Ultimately, the only way you’ll miss out is if you don’t play. And we’re giving you another reason to get excited about this fantasy football season…
Yahoo Sports and NBC Sports have teamed up for a first-of-its-kind $1 million fantasy football sweepstakes to make the start of the NFL and fantasy season even more thrilling.
By playing in a private Yahoo Fantasy football league, users can enter for a chance to win $1 million. Users can earn additional entries if players on their fantasy team score a touchdown in a Week 1 game broadcast on NBC and/or Peacock, which features three primetime matchups. One lucky Yahoo Fantasy user will take home the whopping $1 million prize. We’ll have some tips on which players could help earn you additional entries soon, but for now you can learn more about the sweepstakes here.
So be sure to join or create a league if you haven’t already and let the fun begin. Now, let’s get you ready to draft!
Draft-Day Blueprint
This is it: click the image below for your guide to building a successful fantasy football team, courtesy of Matt Harmon!
Draft Rankings
Once again, Christian McCaffrey is the consensus No. 1-ranked player for fantasy drafts this season. But the No. 2 pick and beyond isn’t so clear-cut. Our expert rankings can help you make the best decision when you’re on the clock.
Draft rankings (.5 PPR)
PPR rankings
Downloadable cheatsheets
2024 salary cap rankings tiers
The hardest players to rank in 2024
6 players ranked way too high on Yahoo
2024 Rookie fantasy rankings
Mock Drafts
The Yahoo Fantasy team is conducting mock drafts, with varying formats, to learn where their player convictions are the strongest and to help provide big-picture takeaways you can take into your drafts.
🧐 Draft Strategy
Whether you decide to go with a Hero RB strategy, wait on QB, go WR-heavy early or just wing it, our analysts have content available for every approach.
🤿 Deeper dives
🗣️ Draft debates
📈 ADP Analysis 📉
Average draft position — and movement therein — is one of the primary resources available to fantasy drafters. Knowing how to use it optimally is a whole other can of worms — but we’re here to help with that.
😴 😳 Sleeper Picks
There are few better feelings in fantasy than when that non-star draft pick erupts — when the sleeper awakens. Check out some of our favorite sleeper picks for 2024.
🚀 Breakout Picks
It’s hard to win a fantasy football championship without drafting a breakout player or two. Just look at Raheem Mostert and what he did last year!
As always, we’re here to help you identify those breakouts before they happen.
Quarterback Advice
QB is deeper than ever — but does that mean you should wait to grab one late, or should you prioritize a superstar dual-threat early?
Running Back Advice
While the RB position isn’t exactly the end-all, be-all like it used to be in fantasy, there has been an intriguing infusion of young talent as well as old faces in new places for 2024.
Wide Receiver Advice
The deepest position in the game, getting a strong WR corps has been a winning strategy the past couple of years. 2024 is no different.
Tight End Advice
For many seasons, it was Travis Kelce or bust at the TE position. Not so in 2024 — we’ve got some exciting toys to play with this season!
🏈 NFL Context Breakdown
Fantasy football might be a supremely player-based exercise, but knowing and interpreting the context around those players is important as well — like their team, division, schedules and the like.
The ‘easy-button’ offenses to target in fantasy drafts
Fantasy depth chart for every NFL team
🛒 Matt Harmon’s Take-Shopping Series:
📸 Scott Pianowski’s Divisional Snapshots:
What to know ahead of preseason | Week 1 preseason news / Takeaways | Training camp news ahead of Week 2 preseason | Week 2 takeaways
NFL schedule analysis
Draft targets who could go off while seeking a new contract
🎓 Fantasy University
Before getting into all the amazing content we have to offer this draft season, perhaps you’ll be wanting a refresher on fantasy football as a whole. Or maybe you’re playing the game for the first time and want an in-depth breakdown of the fundamentals. We have you covered: welcome to the one higher-learning institution anyone can get into — Fantasy University!
🎧 Yahoo Fantasy Forecast
What’s better than one podcast a week? How about five? Matt Harmon is joined by the experts from Yahoo Fantasy and all around the fantasy football community to keep you up to date on the latest fantasy football news, rankings, sleepers, draft strategy and more every weekday from now until the end of the regular season.
Listen to or watch the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast platform:
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How to make your leagues better
The heat of the fantasy football draft season is here. Keep it locked here as we continue to bolster our fantasy draft kit with more analysis, predictions, sleepers and breakout picks!
Your one-stop shop for all things fantasy drafts is just opening its doors — you won’t want to miss it!
