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Fantasy football power rankings: Teams 24-21

KANSAS CITY, MO - December 26: Wide receiver's Demaryius Thomas #88 and Emmanuel Sanders #10 of the Denver Broncos watch the last offensive drive at Arrowhead Stadium on the sidelines, The Broncos lost 33-10. December 26, 2016 Kansas City, MO. (Photo By Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

We’re one-quarter of the way through our fantasy football team power rankings for the 2017 season, and this next wave of teams is notably better than the preceding eight (for fantasy purposes) — but still well below league average. Today’s rankings reveal teams Nos. 24-21.

A reminder: The power rankings rank the overall value each team brings to the fantasy table. It’s not a ranking of how good each team is on the real football field.

The rankings are based on our own 2017 player projections. The series assumes a 12-team standard league with a starting lineup of one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, and one flex position. Kickers and D/STs are not accounted for.

32-29 28-25
No. 32 Los Angeles Rams No. 28 Minnesota Vikings
No. 31 Baltimore Ravens No. 27 Cleveland Browns
No. 30 New York Jets No. 26 Kansas City Chiefs
No. 29 San Francisco 49ers No. 25 Houston Texans

No. 24: Denver Broncos

The Broncos offer fantasy owners 65.9 percent as much value as the average NFL team. Emmanuel Sanders, Demaryius Thomas, Jamaal Charles, and C.J. Anderson are the noteworthy fantasy names in Denver.

Despite the subpar quarterback play last year, both Thomas and Sanders turned in decent performances — but still well below what we expected of them when Peyton Manning was under center. They both topped 1,000 yards, however, which is a noteworthy feat. (Not that they individually topped 1,000 yards, but that they did it as teammates with a bad quarterback.)

Both players scored five touchdowns, but Sanders (four) actually had more top-12 performances than Thomas (three) last season. We have both Sanders and Thomas projected to have similar stat lines again in 2017. Both should hover around a 90-1,000-5 line, which would make them borderline WR2s.

The running back situation is the wild card in Denver. Anderson will likely be the lead back, but with Charles in town, it could be a backfield-by-committee. Unless a true workhorse emerges, it’s hard to see either player being much more than a flex option, or tail-end RB2 at best.

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