16 Dynasty Breakouts for 2020 AFC

Hello Heat Seekers, welcome to episode 78 of Sully’s 2 Cents Dynasty Fantasy Football podcast. I am your host Rob Sullivan. A couple of seasons ago I wrote a weekly 32 fantasy thoughts article that touched on each NFL team’s previous week.  Those articles were quite enjoyable to put together and also rather time consuming.  Since adding this podcast to my portfolio and increasing my content in general for the website, 32 thoughts articles fell by the wayside. 

Last week I brought you the 16 Dynasty Breakouts for 2020 – NFC, and today, I give you the 16 Dynasty Breakouts for 2020, from the AFC.   

Since my last podcast, RotoHeat’s own Brad Menendez dropped the RotoHeat consensus top 10 Breakout RB’s over on YouTube.  As usual Brad did a stellar job, and the debate on whether a rookie can be a breakout was born.  So if you listened to episode 77, you would know that I do believe that rookies can be breakouts. 

Michael Thomas rookie season 2016; 92 catches 1137 yards and 9 TD’S, WR9 finish. He finished as the WR8 in ’17 and ’18 and was the WR1 overall in 2019.  Where is his breakout? Does wide receiver need to finish in the top 8 to be considered a breakout?

Russell Wilson was QB11 in his rookie year.  He has been a QB1 in all 8 seasons of his career his lowest finish was his QB11 finish in his rookie year.

Saquon Barkley in his 2018 rookie season ran for 1307 yards added 721 more thru the air and scored 15 touchdowns.  He had over 1400 total yards and 8 scores in year 2 on basically one leg more a good portion of it.  Are we still waiting on Saquon to break out or was his sophomore season in which his total yardage decreased by 587 and his TD total declined by 7 from his rookie season his breakout year.

Its not the norm, but a rookie season can be and has been a breakout season.  So with that in mind you’ll find some rookies here.  I’m cool if y’all don’t agree. After all, not agreeing is one of the greatest single components of fantasy football. 

Baltimore Ravens – RB J.K. Dobbins

Selecting my dynasty breakout for the Ravens was tough, there are lots of potentials, Marquise Brown, Miles Boykin, Devin Duvernay and even Nick Boyle who almost got the nod here.

In the end I went with Ohio State rookie JK Dobbins. Now I fully expect this to not look that great in the early going, I do however feel that my mid-season the backfield in Baltimore is going to be his.  This offense will morph itself into whatever type of offense OC Greg Roman feels it needs to in order to win.  We saw it with Roman in Sf and Colin Kaepernick, last season with Lamar Jackson and we will see it this year with JK Dobbins. 

Mark Ingram isn’t going to fall off a cliff here and he will still be heavily involved especially early in the season.  I see Dobbins in the lower end RB2 conversation at seasons end and into 2021 and beyond he’s a top 12 talent.

Buffalo Bills – TE Dawson Knox

Knox was a 3rd round selection 96th overall in 2019.  He played 18 games at Ole Miss and had 39 grabs for 605 yards.  Interestingly enough he never scored a college touchdown.  In his rookie season a year ago Knox saw 50 targets hauled in 28 of them for 388 yards and 2 TD’s. 

He finished 2019 as TE33 with 79.7 PPR points in 15 games.

Knox isn’t a TE that I project exploding in 2020, but I do see his numbers increasing.