Rickie Fowler will attempt to become the first player to win back-to-back Rocket Mortgage Classics when he tees off in the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic beginning on Thursday at Detroit Golf Club in Michigan. Last year, Fowler defeated Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin in a playoff to end a four-year winless drought. This year, Fowler enters the Rocket Mortgage Classic as a +5000 longshot to repeat. 

Meanwhile, Tom Kim is the favorite in the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic odds at +1200. Cameron Young is the +1600 second choice in the Rocket Mortgage 2024 field. Round 1 tees off on Thursday at 6:45 a.m. ET. 

Before locking in any 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic picks, make sure you see the PGA Tour predictions and best bets from golf betting and fantasy expert Sia Nejad.

Nejad specializes in betting and DFS in golf, among other sports. He's had incredible success in the outright and first-round leader markets and in betting head-to-head matchups. He also has been strong with his head-to-head matchups since last year's Charles Schwab Challenge, going 50-32-5 and returning 15.22 units over that span.

Nejad also nailed 75-1 longshot Wyndham Clark as the outright winner at the Wells Fargo Championship in 2023. The same year, SportsLine debuted The Early Wedge, and in the first three months of the show, he hit two first-round leaders and three outright winners. Anyone who has followed him is up big.

Now, Nejad has been digging into the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic field to find the best value and just locked in his best bets and favorites to avoid.

One surprise: Nejad is low on the chances of Cameron Young, the second choice in the odds at +1600. Another curveball: Nejad is high on Taylor Pendrith, a +3000 longshot. "Pendrith is coming in with great form and can bomb it off the tee and get red-hot with the putter," Nejad told SportsLine.

Nejad is also jumping on a longshot who's priced at more than +3500. This player "fits Detroit Golf Club very well" and could surprise. You ABSOLUTELY need to see who it is before locking in any 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic picks of your own.

So which 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic players should you target or avoid, and which player could bring a huge payday of more than 35-1? ... Join SportsLine right now to see Sia Nejad's top picks for the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic, all from the expert who is 50-32-5 on his last 87 head-to-head picks.