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ESPN Senior Writer- Fantasy football, NFL analyst for ESPN
- Member of Pro Football Writers of America
- Founding director of Pro Football Focus Fantasy
- 2013 FSTA award winner for most accurate preseason rankings
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ESPN Insider- Field Yates is a fantasy football expert and NFL draft analyst for ESPN. You can find him on Fantasy Football Now on Sunday mornings and regularly on NFL Live throughout the week, as well as the Fantasy Focus and First Draft podcasts. A graduate of Wesleyan University (CT) and native of Weston, Mass., Yates has previous experience interning with the New England Patriots on both their coaching and scouting staffs.
The air is starting to smell and breathe just a bit different.
Almost every notable free agent has a home, and the NFL draft is behind us. That means fantasy football season is getting closer.
It's about to be a busy few months of content before we're traveling at full speed for the 18 weeks of the season, as we'll dive into a ton here on ESPN.com to get you ready for drafts.
So, let's dig into a handful of fantasy football breakout candidates for the 2024 season.
Field Yates: The term breakout can be taken a lot of different ways but generally applies to players due for a huge leap forward in production relative to last season or however many years they've been in the league. This isn't just out-of-nowhere diamonds in the rough, as you might already know a lot about many of the players on this list. For the purposes of this piece, we'll stick to non-rookies.
Because I'm feeling gentlemanly today, I'll go first and start with ...