4 Sleepers You NEED in Week 1 💎🎯 | Fantasy Football Sleepers 2024

Weekly Sleepers um but for our sleeper segment here just want to quickly explain how this works so we're going to give you a running back and wide receiver that are currently ranked outside the top 36 uh in the half PPR rankings on the fantasy pros expert consensus ranking or ECR that we think will finish inside the top 30 at their position this week and then we're going to do the exact same thing for quarterback and tight end but we're going to shorten that down to the top 18 at their position giving you guys that we think are going to finish within the top 12 I'm going to go head and start us off this week with our running back of choice so the running back that I think Weekly Sleepers | RB Ezekiel Elliot is ranked outside the top 36 but we'll finish inside the top 30 is none other than the dust man himself Ezekiel Elliott uh he's currently the ECR running back 38 for the week um Zeke is the projected starter in Dallas and that offense I still think is going to be really good I don't anticipate too much changing there um and with Zeke we know he's not the rusher that he once was but he still showed some prowess in the receiving game where he actually led the entire New England Patriots offense in receptions in 2023 Cleveland tough defense tough matchup I think we're all aware of that but I think Zeke is going to be the guy in this offense I don't think Rico dle has shown us much of anything in fact I looked and 20% of his yards last year came in one game which was week 18 where he wasn't even really playing against like a legitimate NFL team so for me it's going to be absolutely zero surprise to see Zeke leading this backfield and if he finds his way into the end zone which this offense is high powered enough for him to do I think he should have zero issues Weekly Sleepers | WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba being a top 30 back in week one but with that being said Tim why don't we roll over to the wide receiver my my wide receiver choice this week is jsn I'm going to be heavily heavily faithful this year in jsn I think uh he's still underrated um currently ECR wide receiver 43 now after the week five buy last last year in the 11 weeks um that he played six of those 11 weeks were over 12 points per game some of them were even into the high teens and wide receiver 30 which is the Mark we're looking to break into was 13 points per game on the season so I think that he's right there just at that underneath that 12 points per game where he wasn't even really the wasn't opened up completely which I think we're going to see a very different approach to jsn this year I also believe that with Lockett having his injury struggles and things of that nature that could be a very slow start in terms of dependency on locket things like that as well as um his yards per Target increased from uh the week five by where his highest in in the first four weeks was 5.67 yards per Target and there was only one game in the last 11 games where he fell below that number one time so I think that we've already seen a very big shift even in his rookie season now we're going to see The increased Target numbers yeah I like it and one thing that's important to note is just looking back the past couple of years if we're looking at like week one performance for wide receiver 30 2022 it was 11.3 points last year was just 10 points like they're really they don't have to have a spectacular game to hit that threshold and there's a a world where jsn you know really takes a step up in this offense so I think that's a really good call we're going to roll this right over to you for the quarterback of the week yeah I'm I'm not GNA have a ton of Weekly Sleepers | QB Justin Herbert explanation on this one it's Justin Herbert he's qb9 I think that we you roll with Justin Herbert he had four games last year in the the full games that he played under 14 points or 14 points or less I should say and the rest of them the rest of the eight games were 20 plus which 20 plus is really a great threshold that was kind of my measuring stick for a long time but we only had I want to say eight full-time starters and I think it was nine total quarterbacks last year that even hit that yard that points per game average so if you're breaking 20 points you're really in a in a pretty Elite group and for me Justin Herbert is just too talented of a player he's going to run more even if they have a running offense they're not going to completely take away the the passing game because you don't win games in the NFL if you do that as well as like I said there's opportunity for bootlegs things like that where he could be open rushing down the sideline or easily finding one-on-one um coverage because of the fact they were committed so heavily to the run I I like Justin Herbert as long as he's not out with the foot and he's playing I have no no doubts he should be playing in in in most lineups yeah I really like the call there as well I think the rushing upside of Justin Herbert is not being stated Enough by people um just for our last sleeper of the week looking at the uh tight ends out here again should really be no surprise to anybody if you followed me on Twitter which is should I'm funny sometimes um it's going to be Weekly Sleepers | TE Jonnu Smith jonu Smith currently the ECR tight end 23 on the week both waddle and Tyreek have missed times during Camp uh with injuries at various points you know supposedly they're both good to go no setbacks yada y yada regardless it wouldn't see me or it wouldn't surprise me to see Johnny take a pretty big role in this offense um amongst all tight ends with at least 30 targets last year there was one tight end that was able to match jnu's production after the catch which was George KD What offense does Miami run a variation of the Shanahan offense so the the yak game is very important in this offense being able to get open and produce after the catch is really really important in this offense and I think they targeted Janu Smith basically because he can do that and Durham SMI is like a bucket with legs like just wholly unathletic good blocker doesn't get used much elsewhere um I shouldn't say that he actually got a decent amount of targets last year but if you extrapolate jnu's efficiency to durm smice targets from last year we're talking like tight of nine on the year like this guy could be really really productive in this offense I'm even going to look at the matchup here Jacksonville in my mind projects to be one of the weaker teams against tight ends in 2024 uh in 2023 they allowed the seventh most points per week to tight ends and I don't think their off their defense improved quite as much as their offense did this year um so I don't think I think Janu can be a high volume guy in this offense High yardage guy in this the offense and I think because of the skill set of this offense end Zone's definitely in play as well for him so and as we know if you score a touchdown at tight end you're probably a top 12 tight end on the week so why not have fun and uh start some jnu Smith here and there I want to just add one point not even to jnu just in general especially when it comes to defenses so earlier so early in the season it shouldn't be so much of a determination to sit guys I don't have an issue if you think that a defense is weak but don't overestimate how strong a defense is that doesn't mean they're going to forsure first turn turnovers or anything of that nature so if you have faith in a guy or you have a strong belief in a guy you should definitely start them yeah and I think we can look at Coach's historical usage too so when we've seen an offense like this one like we can take that into account but when teams are you know potentially new coordinators new players new scheme you know there's so many things that can go into it trying to play matchups too early can get a little tricky I just love Janu and Jacksonville is bad against tight ends over the last couple years so figured it was a fun point to throw in there