Fantasy Football Sleepers Experts Love to Draft (2025)

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 sleepers experts love in our consensus sleeper rankings.

Fantasy Football Sleepers Experts Draft

Here are fantasy football sleepers the experts love to target in drafts.

Who are Fantasy Football Sleepers?

Fantasy football sleepers are players who have a strong chance to exceed expectations and become surprise difference-makers for fantasy managers.

Fantasy Football Sleepers: Running Backs

Rank	Running Backs	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Braelon Allen	NYJ	9	14	39	40
2	Jacory Croskey-Merritt	WAS	12	14	33	33
3	J.K. Dobbins	DEN	12	10	34	35
4	Bhayshul Tuten	JAC	8	10	47	49
5	Jaydon Blue	DAL	10	6	49	46
6	Nick Chubb	HOU	6	5	44	44
7	Ollie Gordon II	MIA	12	5	56	47
8	Austin Ekeler	WAS	12	5	38	42
9	Kyle Monangai	CHI	5	3	62	62
10	Jerome Ford	CLE	9	2	52	50

Fantasy Football Sleepers: Wide Receivers

Rank	Wide Receivers	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Jayden Higgins	HOU	6	13	59	53
2	Marvin Mims Jr.	DEN	12	11	55	55
3	Keenan Allen	LAC	12	8	56	51
4	DeMario Douglas	NE	14	7	66	70
5	Kyle Williams	NE	14	7	62	65
6	Cedric Tillman	CLE	9	4	57	66
7	Marquise Brown	KC	10	4	63	60
8	Rashod Bateman	BAL	7	4	60	64
9	Joshua Palmer	BUF	7	5	67	62
10	Wan’Dale Robinson	NYG	14	2	65	71

Fantasy Football Sleepers: Quarterbacks

Rank	Quarterbacks	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Dak Prescott	DAL	10	16	9	11
2	Drake Maye	NE	14	13	13	16
3	J.J. McCarthy	MIN	6	5	20	19
4	Trevor Lawrence	JAC	8	3	19	20
5	C.J. Stroud	HOU	6	3	18	18

Fantasy Football Sleepers: Tight Ends

Rank	Tight Ends	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Tyler Warren	IND	11	15	11	9
2	Brenton Strange	JAC	8	8	18	21
3	Kyle Pitts Sr.	ATL	5	7	15	15
4	Zach Ertz	WAS	12	3	20	19
5	Mason Taylor	NYJ	9	3	24	25