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These are 2016's eight most likely breakout fantasy football stars

Who are the top fantasy football lottery tickets in 2016? Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images

We see it every year: players making a quantum leap in production. Sometimes that production is sustained for a full season, other times it's for merely a stretch of the 16-game marathon.

The ability to identify the players bound to see a spike in stats is a useful tool leading up to your fantasy drafts. Here's my look at several players who could break out with their best production yet in 2016.