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2024 fantasy football breakouts: Eight players to watch this season

Will the head coach and quarterback changes in Atlanta be the impetus for the highly anticipated breakout for Drake London? Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images

The air is starting to smell and breathe just a bit different.

Almost every notable free agent has a home, and the NFL draft is behind us. That means fantasy football season is getting closer.

It's about to be a busy few months of content before we're traveling at full speed for the 18 weeks of the season, as we'll dive into a ton here on ESPN.com to get you ready for drafts.

So, let's dig into a handful of fantasy football breakout candidates for the 2024 season.


Field Yates: The term breakout can be taken a lot of different ways but generally applies to players due for a huge leap forward in production relative to last season or however many years they've been in the league. This isn't just out-of-nowhere diamonds in the rough, as you might already know a lot about many of the players on this list. For the purposes of this piece, we'll stick to non-rookies.

Because I'm feeling gentlemanly today, I'll go first and start with ...