100 Facts for the 2024 Fantasy Football Season

August is the biggest fantasy football draft month of the year. Some fantasy football managers are months into their preparation. Others are just starting to get back into the managerial mindset. If you haven’t started your fantasy football research for the 2024 season yet, let these 100 facts jump-start the work ahead.

Yes, the “100 facts” format of content has been done before. These 100 facts are a collection that I’ve looked into, continue to invest in, however slight, and present to you for your own interpretation. There are far more than just 100 facts out there to apply to your fantasy football drafts, but these 100 facts I think every fantasy football manager should know.

100 Facts to Consider for the 2024 Fantasy Football Season

1. Patrick Mahomes was the QB13 on a points-per-game basis last season.
2. His 18.4 fantasy points per game in 2023 is the lowest average of his career since becoming the starter in 2018.
3. Prior to last season, Patrick Mahomes had never averaged less than 21.0 fantasy points per game in a single season since 2018.
4. He has averaged more than 25.0 fantasy points per game three times since 2018.
5. Patrick Mahomes has led all quarterbacks in passing yards after the catch in every season since 2020.
6. The Kansas City Chiefs signed WR Marquise Brown and drafted WR Xavier Worthy this past off-season.
7. Brown ran a 4.27 40-yard dash at Oklahoma’s 2019 Pro Day.
8. Worthy ran an NFL Combine record 4.21 40-yard dash at the 2024 NFL Combine.
9. DK Metcalf reached the fastest ball-carrier speed (22.23 mph via Next Gen Stats) in Week 13 of the 2023 season.
10. Since his rookie season in 2019, Metcalf has finished as WR48, WR6, WR24, WR23, WR20
11. The Seattle Seahawks have their first new head coach, Mike McDonald, since 2010.
12. McDonald is one of eight new NFL head coaches.
13. Jim Harbaugh is another new head coach, assuming the role for the Los Angeles Chargers.
14. Jim Harbaugh was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2014.
15. During his tenure in San Francisco, the 49ers never finished higher than 29th in total pass attempts per season.
16. The Los Angeles Chargers’ top three running backs on their current depth chart are Gus Edwards, J.K. Dobbins, and sixth-round rookie, Kimani Vidal.
17. Gus Edwards has never rushed more than 198 times in a single season.
18. J.K. Dobbins tore multiple ligaments in his right knee in August of 2019 and tore his Achilles in Week 1 of the 2023 season.
19. Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles in Week 1 of the 2023 season, as well.
20. Aaron Rodgers is the 40-year-old starting quarterback of the New York Jets.
21. Jets star wide receiver, Garrett Wilson, has caught a pass from five different starting quarterbacks in his first two NFL seasons.
22. Wilson has yet to catch a regular season pass from Aaron Rodgers.
23. Garrett Wilson has at least 83 receptions and 1,042 yards in each of his first two seasons.
24. 10 different quarterbacks have started for the Washington Commanders since Terry McLaurin’s rookie season in 2019.
25. Terry McLaurin has 1,000 or more yards in each of the last four seasons.
26. The New York Giants haven’t had a 1,000-yard wide receiver since 2018.
27. Justin Jefferson has 1,000 or more yards in each of the last four seasons.
28. He logged 1,074 yards in just 10 games last season.
29. Justin Jefferson caught 32 of 47 targets for 585 yards and 2 touchdowns in 5 games without Kirk Cousins last season.
30. Jefferson’s teammate, tight end T.J. Hockenson, logged a career-high 95 receptions and 960 yards in 2023.
31. T.J. Hockenson tore his ACL in Week 16.
32. He did not have surgery to repair his ACL until January 29th, 2024.
33. Sam LaPorta set a career-high receptions for a rookie tight end last season with 86.
34. His 10 receiving touchdowns are tied for fourth among *all* players.
35. Sam LaPorta (20.9%) is one of five tight ends to register 20.0% or more of their team’s targets in 2023.
36. The others are Travis Kelce (20.2%), David Njoku (20.6%), T.J. Hockenson (21.0%), and Evan Engram (23.6%).
37. 28 wide receivers registered more than 20% of their team’s target share in 2023.
38. That includes 4 pairs of teammates: A.J. Brown/DeVonta Smith, Mike Evans/Chris Godwin, DK Metcalf/Tyler Lockett, and Davante Adams/Jakobi Meyers.
39. Davante Adams (33.0%) leads all players in team target share from last season.
40. He is one of three players to register 30.0% or more of their team’s targets.
41. The other two are Tyreek Hill (31.1%) and A.J. Brown (30.1%).
42. Tyreek Hill was 166 receiving yards shy of setting the all-time record for most receiving yards in a single season.
43. Hill eclipsed 100 receiving yards in 8 of 16 games played last season.
44. He eclipsed 100 receiving yards in 8 of his first *12* games played last season before a Week 14 leg injury.
45. Courtland Sutton did not have a single 100-yard game in 2023.
46. Courtland Sutton scored 10 receiving touchdowns, tied for fourth-most by a pass catcher in 2023.
47. Sutton finished as WR35 averaging 12.6 fantasy points per game.
48. Christian Kirk finished as WR36 averaging 12.5 fantasy points per game.
49. Kirk had just five red zone targets in 12 games last season.
50. Kirk was the WR22 with 22 red zone targets in 2022.
51. His teammate, Calvin Ridley, had 26 red zone targets last season, the third-most in the league.
52. Calvin Ridley is now on the Tennessee Titans.
53. Calvin Ridley ranks seventh in total air yards last season with 1,797.
54. DeAndre Hopkins ranks first with 1,928 air yards in 2023.
55. Will Levis’ 4.8 air yards per attempt ranks third amongst quarterbacks who played 8 games or more last season.
56. That’s behind only Brock Purdy (5.5) and Tua Tagovailoa (5.1).
57. Tua Tagovailoa set career-highs in passing yards (4,624) and passing touchdowns (29) in 2023.
58. He finished as the QB18 with 17.2 points per game.
59. The Miami Dolphins running backs rushed for nine total touchdowns in 2022.
60. The Miami Dolphins running backs rushed for 27 total touchdowns in 2023.
61. Raheem Mostert rushed for 18 of them last season.
62. He scored 11 of his 18 rushing touchdowns from inside the 5-yard line.
63. De’Von Achane had 15 or more total touches in just 3 of 11 games played last season.
64. He scored 56% of his total fantasy points in those 3 games.
65. Achane is one of six players with at least 100 carries in 2023 to average 5.0 or more yards per carry.
66. The other five are Christian McCaffrey Kyren Williams, Jahmyr Gibbs, Jaylen Warren, and James Conner.
67. James Conner has never played a full regular season during his seven-year career.
68. He’s played in exactly 13 games in each of the last two seasons in Arizona.
69. The Cardinals drafted running back Trey Benson with a third-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.
70. Anthony Richardson rushed 25 times in four games played as a rookie, two of which he left early due to injury.
71. That’s a 17-game pace of 106 rush attempts.
72. Quarterbacks (12) that have rushed 100 times or more in a season, over the last 3 seasons, have never finished lower than QB10 on a fantasy point-per-game basis.
73. C.J. Stroud rushed 39 times for 167 yards in 2023.
74. He rushed for 136 *total* yards in 27 games over three seasons at Ohio State.
75. Kyler Murray is the QB10 from last season on a fantasy point-per-game basis.
76. He rushed 44 times in 8 games played after returning from a 2022 season-ending ACL tear.
77. Murray had at least 5 rush attempts in 7 of 8 games played.
78. Tight end Trey McBride averaged 4.4 targets per game in the nine games prior to Murray’s return.
79. McBride averaged 8.25 targets per game with Kyler Murray as his quarterback.
80. Only T.J. Hockenson, Evan Engram, and Travis Kelce averaged over eight targets per game amongst tight ends in 2023.
81. All three of them finished inside the top five on a fantasy point-per-game basis.
82. Chris Olave (138) was the 12th-most targeted wide receiver in 2023.
83. He finished as the WR21 on a fantasy point-per-game basis.
84. In Week 7, Chris Olave had more targets (15) than *PPR* fantasy points (12.7).
85. Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis account for 46.8% of the 2023 Buffalo Bills’ regular-season targets.
86. Neither Diggs or Davis are on the 2024 Bills roster.
87. Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, and Austin Ekeler account for 40.7% of the 2023 Los Angeles Chargers’ regular-season targets.
88. They missed a combined 22 regular season games last year.
89. Neither Allen, Williams, or Ekeler are on the 2024 Chargers roster.
90. Lamar Jackson has been the Baltimore Ravens’ leading rusher in every season since 2019.
91. The Ravens haven’t had a running back rush for 1,000+ yards since Mark Ingram in 2019.
92. Derrick Henry is now a Baltimore Raven.
93. Derrick Henry is 30 years old with 2,186 career rush attempts.
94. Ezekiel Elliott is 29 years old with 2,168 career rush attempts.
95. Rico Dowdle is 26 years old with 98 career rush attempts.
96. Aaron Jones had five straight games of 100+ rush yards in his final five games with the Green Bay Packers.
97. Christian McCaffrey’s 417 total touches in 2023, including the playoffs, is the most of his career.
98. His former career-high of 403 total touches, in the 2019 regular season alone, yielded an RB1 finish with 2,392 scrimmage yards and 19 total touchdowns.
99. Christian McCaffrey missed 13 games the following season due to various injuries.
100. Not a single tight end averaged 15.0 or more fantasy points per game in 2023.