Welcome everyone to the PFF Fantasy Podcast, I'm John Macri and we are two weeks away from our first

pre-season game of the 2024 NFL season. So naturally we are going to continue getting you ready for this year's fantasy football

campaign by diving into some rankings and rationale for you wonderful lovely degenerates who are wise enough to include IDPs in their fantasy leagues.

So today we are covering the top 24 defensive backs to target for this year. Oh, All right. We covered defensive linemen a couple of weeks ago.

Today, the focus is on the defensive back.

So that's going to include safeties and cornerbacks.

Although naturally, we're talking more safeties than corners

within this top 24, because that's just how things typically work for I.

And then next week we'll cover our top 24 linebackers as well. So with all that said I always

like to kind of provide some information about the position that I'll be covering within these rankings episodes and while the rationale for the dynasty episode on defensive backs had a lot to do with kind of the long-term viability combined with consistency at an inconsistent position.

It's a little different for redraft. It's obviously going to be different first off because we don't care whether or not these guys are going to be starters in 2025 or beyond or even how old they are.

Instead, we still want to look at consistency,

but because it's just a focus on one year,

we can have a better idea of what,

we do have a better idea of kind of what types of alignments these players might get in their current defensive system for

2024, which for defensive backs plays a huge part in their baseline for success and I.

D.P. production potential specifically tackles obviously.

So big plays like interceptions for example are often what kind of propels DBs to the top

scores on any given week or by seasons end if they were lucky enough to compile a lot of those plays

but they're also more unstable and unreliable to

bank on week to week and especially year to year so we're kind of throwing those

out the window as far as trying to predict who is going to get the most

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