The 2024 Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings: Pre-Draft Top 50

Shawn Siegele
April 25, 2024

Shawn Siegele ranks his top-50 rookie prospects as we reach Day 1 of the NFL.

This exercise helps provide a bit of a baseline before all of the festivities over the next three days. If you liked the write-ups in the 2024 Rookie Guide, I’m going to build them out the next step today, diving deeper into the SIS stats and adding insight from the Box Score Scout, the Workout Explorer, and the Prospect Labs.

The other reason for this project is to create a document I can use in my live rankings updates during the draft tonight. Blair Andrews and I will be providing live takeaways on Day 1, and as we go through the weekend, we’ll keep you updated on how NFL draft developments translate into actionable takeaways for upcoming fantasy drafts.

If you haven’t had a chance, check out the Rookie 1.01 Series as well as our 2024 Draft Landscape articles.

THE ROOKIE 1.01 SERIES

THE 2024 NFL PROSPECT LANDSCAPE

Evaluating the QBs With Principle Component Analysis – By Dave Caban
2024 Rookie Rankings: How to Evaluate the Top Rookies in Trades – By Curtis Patrick
A Surprisingly Deep Class? The 2024 RB Dominator Ratings – By Blair Andrews
The 2024 Running Back Breakaway Scores – By Dave Caban
5 Sleepers Rise – The 2024 RB Freak Scores – By Blair Andrews
Bucky Irving, Dylan Laube and the 2024 Pass-Catching RBs – by Mat Irby
Using Regression Trees to Make Sense of the 204 WR Class – By Dave Caban
Records Are Broken – The 2024 WR Freak Scores – By Blair Andrews
Our 2024 Flag Plant Prospects – By Neil Dutton

The 2024 Pre-NFL Draft Rookie Top 50

I’ll begin with the six prospects from the Rookie 1.01 Series yesterday with two separate rankings: overall and trade-value agnostic. We need to understand trade value in working through how we make our moves in startups, rookie drafts, and trades, but the trade-value agnostic rankings allow me to provide my real rankings.

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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