With the regular season just nine days away, it is time to dive into our bold predictions for the 2019 fantasy football season.
Bold predictions are one of the most thought provoking exercises of the fantasy football prep season. All bold predictions are meant to be grounded in reality and serve to highlight potential projections if a player hits their fantasy ceiling (or floor). We have put together 22 predictions of varying degrees of boldness. Ready for a bonus? Jakobi Meyers finishes with more fantasy points than any rookie receiver. Let’s dive in.
- Kalen Ballage rushes for over 1,000 yards
- JJ Arcega-Whitside outscores Nelson Aglohor
- Terry McLaurin leads Washington in receiving yards
- Randall Cobb emerges with WR3 value in redraft leagues
- Despite missing four weeks of action, Golden Tate outscores Sterling Shepard
- Alvin Kamara finally joins the 1k/1k club
- Jordan Scarlett scores 10 combined touchdowns
- Anthony Johnson emerges as the Bucs number three receiver
- Rashaad Penny rushes for over 1,000 yards
- Jalen Hurd scores five touchdowns through the air, and five on the ground
- KeeSean Johnson is in the 2020 WR2 discussion by the end of the season
- Todd Gurley is a top-5 running back and Darrell Henderson emerges with standalone value
- David Montgomery finishes as a top-12 fantasy back
- Dexter Williams becomes the number two back in Green Bay and scores eight touchdowns
- Preston Williams emerges as the Dolphins number one receiver
- Miles Boykin and Marquise Brown both push for WR2 numbers
- Rodney Anderson overtakes Giovani Bernard as the Bengals preferred pass catching back
- James Conner finishes outside the top-15 fantasy running backs
- Karan Higdon flirts with RB2 value over the second half of the season
- Both Royce Freeman and Phillip Lindsay finish as RB2’s
- Darwin Thompson outscores Damien Williams
