We’re meandering our way through the 2024 fantasy football draft season, and I understand why managers are chasing for upside. I understand why buzzy players climb the ADP boards regularly. I know we want needle-movers and the rarest of unicorns, the league-winning pick. I want those guys, too.
But there’s something to be said for a few steady, floor-driven, value-fetching players on your roster, too. That’s today’s assignment, to present a few boring but useful veteran players who make sense at their current market prices.
Nobody ever went broke making money.
The Browns rolled out five quarterbacks last year, a motley crew, and none of them held Cooper down. He posted a snappy WR14 17-week season, on the heels of his WR9 17-week campaign the previous year. So why is the Yahoo market giving you Cooper at a friendly WR22 sticker this year? Because he’s become a boring-value vet as he enters his 10th NFL season.
Maybe Cooper won’t smash his ADP given the limitations of Deshaun Watson these days, but I trust Kevin Stefanski to get the ball to his best outside playmaker. And Cooper was probably a little unlucky with touchdowns last year; that likely regresses back to his career mean. Cooper is a preferred value punch for me all summer.
Singletary has made a career out of providing sneaky value. He didn’t go to a big-name school (Florida Atlantic) or command a heavy draft price (Round 3, pick 74). The Texans brought him in last year as a backup, essentially as insurance — but he shoved Dameon Pearce out of the way in the second half of the season. From Weeks 9 through 17 last year, Singletary was the RB9 in half-point PPR leagues. That’s the consistency you can hang your hat on.
The challenge will be steeper this year, running behind a makeshift New York offensive line. But Singletary has very little competition for the ball on his new team, and Giants head coach Brian Daboll trusts Singletary, given their time together in Buffalo. Singletary currently is drafted as the…
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Publish date : 2024-08-09 16:25:25
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