Best Track & Field Picks For Your Fantasy Football Draft


David Njoku after winning the New Balance Outdoor Nationals High Jump in 2014.

Round 9 - Rome Odunze (WR, Chicago Bears)

Bears star Rookie Wide Receiver Rome Odonze was a NIAA 4 State Champion as a senior in 2019 for Bishop Gorman HS.  He'd run 21.25 (+0.8) to win the 200m and placed 4th in the 100m running 10.67 (+1.0) as well as ran on Bishop Gorman's winning 4x100m with a mark of 41.36.  Both marks were high High School personal bests after a breakout senior track season in both events before going to play football at the University of Washington.

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Xavier Worthy (WR, Kansas City Chiefs)


Round 10 - David Njoku (TE, Cleveland Browns)

David Njoku certainly stood out amongst a field of high school high jumpers at 6-4 230 pounds out of Cedar Grove HS (NJ).  Though he was the 2013 and 2014 New Jersey Meet of Champions High Jump State Champion and the 2014 New Balance Outdoor Nationals High Jump Champion, you could tell he would be a star on the football field.  He'd compete in both Football and Track & Field at the University of Miami collegiately before becoming a First Round NFL Draft Pick in 2017.  He cleared 7-1 at the NJISAA Group Championship to set his overall Personal Best and won New Balance Outdoor Nationals with a jump of 6-11.  Over the 2013 and 2014 season only lost one high jump competition.

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Keon Coleman (WR, Buffalo Bills)

Jordan Addison (WR, Minnesota Vikings)


Round 11 - Jerome Ford (RB, Cleveland Browns) 

Jerome Ford was a FHSAA Outdoor State Finalist as a sophomore in 2016 where he took 3rd in the 100m Dash running 11.04 (-3.5) while running 10.98 (-3.0) in the Prelims.  He held a 200m personal best from that year of 21.97 where he won the FHSAA 3A District 9 title.  Overall he'd finish off his high career running 10.50 in March of 2018 which would be the final race of his career. 

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Tyjae Spears (RB, Tennessee Tians)

Jayden Daniels (QB, Washington Commanders)


Round 12 - Jameson Williams (WR, Detroit Lions)

Before heading to the University of Alabama, Jameson Williams was a Missouri State Champion on the track completing the Class 3 double his junior year in the 400m running 48.68 and 300mH running 37.47.  He was also the runner-up in the 100m and 200m running 10.88 (+0.1) and 21.53 (+2.6) leading Cardinal Ritter HS to a team title scoring 36 of their 72 points.  He won the MSHSAA Class 3 300m Hurdles as a sophomore as well where he set his PR of 37.28.  Williams would go on to set his 400m personal best at the USATF Junior Outdoor Championships that season running 47.18 taking 10th in the Prelims.  He held personal bests of 10.54 in the 100m and 21.23 in the 200m.