Zamir White 2024 Fantasy Football Outlook
A strong finish to a previous season doesn’t always guarantee production the following year. I’m looking at you, Cam Akers.
While that is certainly something to consider, I don’t know if we should have the same fear when trying to project Zamir White’s 2024 fantasy football value.
He looks like a good pick, but I am sure you need more than me just telling you he looks solid. Here are three reasons he feels like a guy worth drafting in 2024 fantasy leagues.
His 2023 Finish is Promising
It’s not about how you start, it’s how you finish. If it was the former, we’d be too caught up in Josh Jacobs dominating touches for the Raiders.
However, Jacobs is now gone, and while he was out to close the 2023 season, Zamir White racked up 23.75 touches per game and generated 15 fantasy points per game.
That average – albeit a tiny sample size – would have been good for a top 5 finish among fantasy backs a season ago.
It is impossible to know if we can actually depend on that average, but there’s a lot that is leading to White being one of the best 2024 fantasy football breakouts.
Antonio Pierce Was Retained
In any other year, we might be worried about coaching turnover and/or a change in scheme. But we know already that Antonio Pierce is staying in town.
This is comforting, seeing as the Raiders went 5-4 under Pierce, were highly competitive, and also fed Zamir White like crazy.
Pierce has been vocal in his support for White, while the off-season moves Las Vegas has made (or haven’t made) suggest they’re fully backing their new starting running back.
White Has No Competition
White looked good to close out last year and the guy who kept giving him the rock is still here. Check those two boxes in terms of feeling good about his situation.
Even better? Zamir White has nobody but himself to blame if he doesn’t dominate the Raiders’ backfield in 2024.
The team felt good enough about White’s potential to let Josh Jacobs walk, and the only “competition” they brought in was Alexander Mattison.
Mattison couldn’t even fend off Ty Chandler in Minnesota, so White’s prospects are looking good. It’s still possible they add depth in the draft, but as things stand, he’s very much the RB1 in this offense.
Should You Draft Zamir White in 2024?
Is it as simple as dropping a GIF in the summary? I think it might be.
If you look at everything, there’s little reason not to get excited about Zamir White. The guy has basically no competition for touches, he got major volume down the stretch last year, and his coach believes in him.
White was also fairly productive when he got those opportunities, too. If he can actually punch in some touchdowns, he could turn high volume into monster numbers.
Is he a top 10 lock? No, but you’re also not paying for him to be. White feels like a nice grab (at the right price) in dynasty fantasy football leagues, and I think he is a sound value pick in redraft formats.
He’s not the only underrated running back we could invest in, of course. Take a look at J.K. Dobbins’ 2024 fantasy football outlook to see if he’s worth rostering this year.
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