2024 Fantasy Football WR Sleepers: Why you should target Packers' Christian Watson and 5 others

We all want to have some fantasy sleepers in our back pocket when we enter the draft room. Finding value at wide receiver in fantasy football drafts doesn’t have to be hard. You need to know what to look for. I’ve got a list of potential breakout players who are all being drafted more than 75 picks into fantasy drafts. Take advantage of owners being asleep at the wheel and snag yourself these upside players with league-winning talent.

2024 Fantasy Football Sleepers: WR edition

1] Christian Watson | ADP 76

Last year, he played in just 9 games thanks to a nagging hamstring injury. This offseason, he worked with specialists to strengthen his legs and even out what they said was a difference in mass between both legs. On the field, he’s the most talented WR that Green Bay has, in my opinion. He can command the football. In Weeks 12 and 13 last season, he caught a combined 12 balls for 165 yards and 3 TDs. The talent is undeniable, the issue hampering fantasy players is if he can stay on the field, that’s why we’re getting this massive discount on a kid who just two years ago was the 2nd pick of round two in the draft.

2] Jameson Williams | ADP 84

This kid might be the second most electric WR with the ball in his hands behind Tyreek Hill. That said, we’re still waiting for Williams to be on the field every week so we can feel good about him as a fantasy asset. Last year, he played in just 12 regular season games and amassed 42 targets. What gets our juices flowing is what we saw in the NFC title game, where he scored on a 42-yard run and also caught a receiving touchdown. His ADP in best ball places him behind guys like Rome Odunze and Keon Coleman. I’m buying him as an upset play with league-winning potential.

3] Khalil Shakir | ADP 108

Khalil Shakir is stepping into a starting role on an offense that is wide-open in Buffalo. Gone are Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis, and rookie Keon Coleman and journeyman Curtis Samuel are in. Shakir shined in the postseason; he caught 10 of his 12 targets and scored twice. Last year, per Fantasy Points Data, he ran 78% of his routes from the slot. We’ll see how that all shakes out because we’re going to see Dalton Kincaid patrolling the middle of the field, Curtis Samuel ran out of the slot on 68% of his routes last year, and Coleman played a lot of slot at Florida State. I think Shakir has massive breakout ability, and in the 9th or 10th round, that’s easy money for a weekly PPR flex.

4] Joshua Palmer | ADP 105

Someone has to be the top target earner for the Chargers. Palmer is someone who, when pressed into action, has given us good fantasy performances. Go back two seasons ago, and he gave us 9 or more PPR points in 10 games. Now he’s locked in as a starter for Justin Herbert and now there’s this narrative that the Chargers simply won’t attempt a forward pass this season, we know that’s not true. Palmer has the opportunity to be a really productive playmaker at a hell of a discount.

5] Michael Wilson | ADP 175

I really like this second-year wideout in Arizona. He’s largely forgotten about because we’re all talking up Marvin Harrison Jr. and Trey McBride, but Wilson provides deep league upside in an offense that, once Kyler Murray returned, looked like an actual NFL attack. In the final two weeks of the season, he caught 10 of 12 targets for 150 yards and two scores. Even with awful QB play most of the year, he turned in 7 weeks with 8 or more PPR points.

6] Marvin Mims | ADP 179

Another guy with a lot to prove and a fluid situation around him. He has a new quarterback after the arrival of Bo Nix. Jerry Jeudy is gone. This offense should look a lot different in year two of Sean Payton. Mims is an overlooked man in drafts, he left many drafters last year holding the bag as he only caught 22 balls all season. Now, he’s likely stepping into a full-time role opposite Courtland Sutton and will run a more diverse route tree. Last season, he was relegated to mostly “9 routes,” which equated to wind sprints up and down the field. His healthy 17.14 yards per target show that he’s a big play waiting to happen. This late in the draft, you can take a shot at that kind of speed and talent.