Greg Auman
NFC South Reporter
How should the NFC South fit into your fantasy football plans for 2024, you ask?
Sparingly, most would say.
The division had the league’s worst combined record in 2023, with very limited individual offensive success stories. What’s more, the Bucs, Falcons, Saints and Panthers all have new offensive coordinators and relatively young ones at that, so there are natural question marks as to how quickly things will come together in new systems with novice playcallers.
But we’re here to answer the big questions about the NFC South and fantasy football, where some value might be found from those teams in later rounds and so on. There’s considerable optimism surrounding Falcons running back Bijan Robinson entering his second season, and he might be the only NFC South player taken in the first two rounds of some fantasy leagues.
Onto the questions:
Who should be taken first for each NFC South team?
Falcons: It’s definitely Robinson, whose ADP (average draft position) in Yahoo leagues is sixth overall, third among running backs behind only the 49ers’ Christian McCaffrey and the Jets’ Breece Hall. Robinson is going this high despite a somewhat disappointing rookie year against high expectations — he ranked 37th overall in fantasy scoring in PPR leagues. There’s optimism he’ll be used more in the red zone: Betonline AG has set his season over/unders at 1,000.5 rushing yards and 6.5 rushing touchdowns, with plenty of receptions coming as well. He really should be the only NFC South player you consider in the first round.
[AUMAN: The next Christian McCaffrey? Bijan Robinson eyes breakout with Falcons]
Saints: It starts with receiver Chris Olave, who enters his third NFL season going 21st overall in Yahoo drafts, despite having nine total touchdowns in his first two years in New Orleans. He’s the No. 11 receiver off the boards, and with mostly indifference to the rest of the Saints offense, that…
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Publish date : 2024-07-01 13:20:12
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