If you’re reading this article, you probably already know about fantasy football stacks. Stacking is a fantasy football draft strategy that has exploded in popularity over recent years. If you haven’t heard of it, stacking involves pairing two players from the same NFL team, normally a quarterback and one of his top receivers, on your fantasy roster. Stacking is most at home in formats like DFS and best ball, but it can be helpful in traditional redraft or dynasty leagues as well. After all, if Daniel Jones explodes for 35 passing touchdowns this year, it’s a safe bet that a fair few of them are going to Malik Nabers — that kind of positive correlation can win a fantasy championship.
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Multiple factors go into finding the perfect stack. While stacking a quarterback with any of his pass-catchers can be helpful, it is most effective with a quarterback’s top weapon or, at the very least, a player projected to see a high target share. And, given that the whole point of a stack is to have correlated upside, it’s important that both players in a stack come with high-ceiling outcomes. Finally, as always, the most important factor to consider when targeting a stack is cost. We don’t play fantasy football in a vacuum, so every decision must always be evaluated through a lens of draft capital and opportunity cost. With all that in mind, here are my top 10 stacks for the 2024 season:
Top 10 Fantasy Football Stacks In 2024 Drafts
All ADPs reflect Underdog Best Ball drafts.
10. Kirk Cousins (ADP: 145.0; QB18) and Kyle Pitts (ADP: 60.5; TE6)
Captain Kirk is a great low-cost upside pick in his first season in Atlanta. Prior to missing half of last season with an Achilles injury, he had been a top-12 quarterback in each of the last three years, including a QB6 finish in 2022. We know he has the 30-TD upside we want in a stacking quarterback. As for his stacking partner, the more obvious pick to pair with Cousins is Drake London, but I prefer Pitts. Pitts and London are in a similar situation.
Both are elite draft prospects who haven’t yet quite lived up to the hype. But Pitts has a much lower draft price at the end of the fifth round, while London is going at the top of the second. If I’m betting on Kirk unlocking this young Atlanta offense’s potential, I want to do it with Pitts.
9. Matthew Stafford (ADP: 148.9; QB19) and Cooper Kupp (ADP: 24.5; WR16)
This is another stack missing the obvious name. Puka Nacua is the first Rams WR off the board and understandably so coming off his record-setting rookie season. But the presence of Nacua is what makes this Stafford/Kupp stack so appealing. Kupp still averaged a 28-percent target share in his 12 healthy games in 2023, playoffs included. And Stafford has proven he has not just 30, but 40-touchdown upside in this Sean McVay offense. Betting on aging stars is risky, which is why this duo doesn’t rank higher, but it’s also why they’re relatively cheap. A vintage Stafford/Kupp season is a realistic outcome that could easily win leagues.
8. Daniel Jones (ADP: 188.8; QB26) and Malik Nabers (ADP: 25.8; WR19)
Malik Nabers has been getting an absurd amount of hype recently, and his ADP has skyrocketed as a result. But for him to live up to his top-20 WR draft price, someone has to throw him the ball, and that someone is Daniel Jones.
Danny Dimes obviously has his flaws, but he does have a top-10 fantasy season under his belt. Drafting this stack is a bet on Nabers, an elite prospect by any measure, doing enough to elevate Jones’ production while Jones chips in enough himself on the ground to provide decent numbers.
7. Will Levis (ADP: 174.2; QB24) and DeAndre Hopkins (ADP: 81.4; WR46)
Will Levis was obscenely aggressive in his nine starts as a rookie, with his 10.4 air yards per attempt ranking over a yard ahead of the next quarterback (C.J. Stroud at 9.0). While his overall efficiency numbers left something to be desired, he did back up his aggressiveness with the second-highest deep ball catchable rate in the league. And his favorite deep ball target was Hopkins, who averaged an absurd 147 air yards per contest in games with Levis under center.
Yes, Calvin Ridley is now in town, but Hopkins should still pace the Titans in targets. If Levis takes a step forward in the rest of his game as a sophomore, D-Hop stands to benefit hugely, and this duo could massively outperform expectations.
6. Geno Smith (ADP: 169.5; QB23) and DK Metcalf (ADP: 28.4; WR21)
This is a bet on Geno, who has performed like a top-15 quarterback since arriving in Seattle but was held back in 2022 by atrocious offensive line play. This becomes clear when you look at the numbers. Smith ranked No. 10 in Production Premium in 2023. Additionally, he ranked top 10 in both deep ball completion percentage and pressured completion percentage. However, his 79.8-percent Protection Rate ranked No. 33 in a league that only has 32 teams. If Geno gets better protection in 2024, he should be able to bounce back and provide top-15 fantasy numbers. In turn, Metcalf, his top target, should outperform his WR21 price tag, returning to his days of top-20 or even top-10 finishes.
5. Bryce Young (ADP: 193.4; QB27) and Diontae Johnson (ADP: 68.6; WR40)
There’s no two ways about it: Bryce Young‘s rookie season was terrible. But it’s hard to put all the blame on the first overall pick, who ranked No. 63 among quarterbacks with a truly miserable 1.90 average target receiver separation. Enter Johnson, who ESPN’s receiver metrics have ranked as by far the best separator in the NFL since he entered the league in 2019. This stack might not have the same league-winning upside as most of the pairings on this list, but their dirt-cheap prices mean even a small step forward from Young could make them profitable selections.
4. Justin Herbert (ADP: 140.0; QB17) and Ladd McConkey (ADP: 73.5; WR42)
Everyone is expecting Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman to destroy Justin Herbert‘s fantasy value with a run-heavy offense, but what if they don’t? If Harbaugh adjusts his tendencies to feature his elite young quarterback, or Roman utilizes Herbert as a running threat, the fantasy community could find itself wondering how Justin Herbert, who finished as the overall QB2 just three years ago, fell all the way to QB17 in drafts.
If Herbert does have a big season, he will drag rookie Ladd McConkey along with him. McConkey is an interesting prospect, having put up elite per-route numbers but never played a full complement of snaps at Georgia. Given that the Chargers liked him enough to select him No. 34 overall, he has a good shot to eventually emerge as Herbert’s top target from a weak WR room.
3. Jordan Love (ADP: 96.9; QB10) and Christian Watson (ADP: 68.6; WR41)
Fantasy managers seem to have forgotten just how hot Jordan Love finished last season. Love was the QB2 overall over the last half of the 2023 season, with top-10 finishes in five of eight weeks.
Christian Watson Advanced Stats & Metrics Profile
Meanwhile, despite constantly struggling to stay healthy, Watson was the Packers’ top receiver whenever he was on the field. And did I mention that this guy was an absurd prospect, with a 90th percentile College Dominator Rating and 4.3 speed at 6-4?
2. Anthony Richardson (ADP: 56.7; QB5) and Michael Pittman Jr. (ADP: 34.5; WR24)
Richardson is an unconventional pick to stack as so much of his fantasy appeal comes from his legs. But for Richardson to truly break fantasy football, as he certainly can, he’ll need to rack up some passing stats as well. That’s where Pittman, who ranked No. 5 among WRs with a 28.1-percent target share in 2023, comes in. Shane Steichen’s RPO-heavy offense tends to funnel targets to one receiver, so a breakout from Richardson is almost certain to come with a big year from Pittman.
1. Lamar Jackson (ADP: 47.6; QB4) and Mark Andrews (ADP: 48.7; TE4)
For all my talk about value, the top stack on my list is probably the most expensive. But the other most important factor is upside, and this duo has that in spades. Despite going off the board outside the top three at their respective positions, no one would be surprised if Jackson or Andrews (or both) finished on top of scoring leaderboards at the end of the season.
They’ve both done it before, and Andrews actually averaged the most points per full game of any TE in the league just last year. Also last year, Baltimore ranked No. 4 in the league with 49-percent of their 53 touchdowns coming on the ground — that included 12 goal-line touchdowns from Gus Edwards alone. If a handful of those touchdowns are instead Jackson-Andrews connections, watch out.
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