Defense (DST) Fantasy Football Sleepers Experts Love to Draft

When preparing for your fantasy football drafts, knowing which players to target and others to avoid is important. The amount of information available can be overwhelming, so a great way to condense the data and determine players to draft and others to leave for your leaguemates is to use our expert consensus fantasy football rankings compared to fantasy football average draft position (ADP). In this way, you can identify players the experts are willing to reach for at ADP and others they are not drafting until much later than average. Let’s dive into a few notable fantasy football sleepers below. And check out all of the fantasy football draft sleepers experts love in our consensus sleeper rankings.

2024 Fantasy Football Defense Sleepers

Here are fantasy football draft sleepers the experts love to target.

Fantasy Football Defense Sleepers

Rank	Team DST	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Chicago (CHI)	7	10	12	11
2	Detroit (DET)	5	6	14	15
3	Green Bay (GB)	10	6	17	23
4	Miami (MIA)	6	3	13	10
5	New Orleans (NO)	12	2	11	16
6	Atlanta (ATL)	12	1	28	28
7	Indianapolis (IND)	14	1	15	22
8	Minnesota (MIN)	6	1	19	25
9	New England (NE)	14	1	22	21
10	New York (NYG)	11	1	25	19

Fantasy Football Draft Outlook: Sleepers

Per the FantasyPros projections, the Lions DST leads all teams in projected interceptions.
Per the FantasyPros projections, the Colts DST leads all teams in projected sacks.
The streaming DST de jour might be the Seattle Seahawks. Weeks 1-2 they will face the Broncos/Patriots. Doesn’t get much easier than that from a matchup perspective.
The LAC DST also looks like an intriguing option late in fantasy drafts given the ease of the schedule to open the year against LV, CAR and PIT. They also boast a top-4 schedule overall per the FP SOS tool.

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