What makes a fantasy football sleeper? It’s a term that has been thrown around over the year. We’ve done our best to quantify the phrase fantasy football sleeper. To us, sleepers are players that have a strong chance to exceed expectations to become surprise difference-makers for fantasy managers. We’ve put together some ranking parameters for these sleepers and asked our experts to share their top draft values and potential difference-makers. You can find all of our fantasy football sleeper rankings here. Let’s take a look at our expert sleeper rankings.
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Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers the Experts Target
Here are how experts rank 2023 fantasy football sleeper targets.
Fantasy Football Running Back Sleepers
Our RB sleepers are based on a poll of experts that selected their favorite RBs with high upside. Each RB has a consensus draft rank below #45.
| Rank | Running Backs | Team | Bye | Num Experts | ECR | ADP |
| 1 | Tank Bigsby | JAC | 9 | 19 | 49 | 47 |
| 2 | Jaylen Warren | PIT | 6 | 18 | 43 | 51 |
| 3 | De’Von Achane | MIA | 10 | 14 | 45 | 41 |
| 4 | Roschon Johnson | CHI | 13 | 15 | 52 | 54 |
| 5 | Kenneth Gainwell | PHI | 10 | 10 | 48 | 48 |
| 6 | Ezekiel Elliott | NE | 11 | 9 | 50 | 44 |
| 7 | Raheem Mostert | MIA | 10 | 4 | 47 | 45 |
| 8 | Kendre Miller | NO | 11 | 5 | 54 | 53 |
| 9 | Clyde Edwards-Helaire | KC | 10 | 5 | 58 | 58 |
| 10 | Jerome Ford | CLE | 5 | 4 | 57 | 65 |
I remain bullish on Tank Bigsby‘s ability to eat into Travis Etienne‘s workload in 2023. Bigsby has looked fantastic at every opportunity. Among 69 running backs with at least 10 preseason rushing attempts, Bigsby ranks 12th in breakaway run rate (per PFF). I’ll continue hammering him in the later rounds of drafts as a weekly flex play with massive upside if Etienne were to miss time with injury.
-Derek Brown
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