Tucked into bed, belly full of warm milk, fuzzy teddy bear in hand. Tired of running through my dreams all night are the players we all know and love, SLEEPERS. These low risk high reward athletes can take your team from mediocre to the championship. Low risk in that if they don’t pan out, they get dropped in the first week or two. In the fantasy football community, we don’t enjoy talking about the studs nearly as much as we like talking about the sleepers. For example, if you talk to me about my sleepers from last year, you would not be able to shut my mouth up about Mark Andrews and Devante Parker. Obviously not every sleeper pick pans out **cough Kalen Ballage cough**. We don’t talk about the losses, we celebrate the wins. This year, the Degenerates are back to help you win your league with these Sleeper picks of ours.
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Antonio Gibson
My ride or die. I will forever sit on top of this mountain of a take. Antonio Gibson is currently the best all around running back in this backfield. Obviously, you have the GOAT in AP, The Walking ACL tear in Derrius Guice, and Mid Round bust Bryce Love. Gibson is already ahead of Love on the depth chart, and will be ahead of Guice after a typical week 1 injury. Ron Rivera compared Gibson to CMC and his ability to play all over the field. He can play out wide as well as in the backfield. Gibson is extremely versatile, has good hands, and runs a 4.39 40 yard dash. That is a lot of things I like in my young running backs.
Justin Jackson
When Justin Jackson was playing in that Melvin Gordon role last year, he was extremely efficient with the very limited touches he was given. He has averaged 5.1 yards per carry in his very limited career (79 attempts). The Chargers will not roll Ekeler out for every snap, so those snaps have to go somewhere. With no preseason this year, I think it will be hard for Joshua Kelly to see the field especially early on in the year. This is a long stretch because of how good Ekeler is, but if anything were to happen to Ekeler (god forbid since I own him) he will become a RB1 immediately. At best he could be a solid contributor to a fantasy team, at worst he is a handcuff for Ekeler owners.
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Gardner Minshew
Gardner Minshew is the only player in the NFL that can pull off the jean shorts look. No RV or pretty cousin is safe from this man. The same goes for opposing defenses. I love when a player is proving himself for a future job, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Minshew is playing for a job somewhere next year and that could make him take more chances than he would have last year. Jacksonville doesn’t have the same defense they did last year, let alone a few years ago. Minshew Mania ran for 344 yards last year on 5.1 yards per attempt in 12 games. In those 12 games, he had 3,200 passing yards and 21 touchdowns. Minshew is currently going as the QB27.
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Diontae Johnson
Diontae Johnson is currently being drafted in the 11th round of your fantasy draft, if you play with idiots he's going even later in your draft. Don’t let that idiot be you. In 2019, Johnson recorded 59 receptions for 680 yards and 5 touchdowns. WITH SCRUBS THROWING HIM THE BALL. Flash forward to 2020, you have Big Ben (true health uncertain) who says he is 100%, beard shaven and all, throwing him the rock. This offense will be much better in 2020 than it was last year. More passing attempts farther than 2 yards, a QB that knows the playbook like it's the only thing he reads, and a young stud in JuJu across from him to take off pressure from the safeties. Love this guy as a sleeper in 2020.
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Henry Ruggs
Losing money isn’t the only fast thing in Vegas anymore, Henry Ruggs has burners. For some reason, however, he is miles down on most of the rankings on the internet. He has the speed to take a slant to the house on any play. He has Derek Carr throwing him the ball, who was extremely efficient last year especially on short throws. I love Ruggs for a massive upside, and you will see me reaching for him in most of my drafts.
Mike's Sleeper Pick: Jonnu Smith
I love this pick as well. I owned him most of last year and produced well. Personally, I don’t consider him a sleeper because of where I have him in my rankings. Smith will be the #2 option in the receiving game for the Titans this year.
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Sean's Sleeper Pick: Anthony Miller
He likes players that have bad QBs and bad coaches, in a run heavy offense. Makes sense. Miller has been on every experts radar for sleeper pick of the year yet still has not broken out.
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Jared's Sleeper Pick: Noah Fant
Came into the league last year with an insane hype train but a bad offense ruined that. Year two of Drew Locke will either make Fant a star or turn him into a Kyle Rudolph. I’m a fan of the player, not sure of the value.
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