Each year during your fantasy football draft, finding the right fantasy football sleeper picks during the middle and later rounds of the draft is a big key to how successful your fantasy football team will be.
In addition to our typical fantasy football sleeper and fantasy football undervalued reports, each of KFFL.com's editors provide you with their top five fantasy football sleeper picks for the season along with a down and dirty reason why they are targeting those players late in their fantasy football drafts.
In line to return to full strength in another year after knee surgery.
Derrick Ward isn't a huge threat for touches.
Caddy will rev often. No. 3 back with No. 2 potential.
Anquan Boldin, Cam
Cameron will make passing game bolder. 3rd-yr Flacco already has a gun;
he'll be allowed to fire more. If you're waiting on a QB, here's a target.
YPR didn't show it, but Knox has breakaway speed. Mike
Martz drooling. Will Devin Aromashodu
fit the system? Jay Cutler didn't exactly
ignore Hard Knox, either.
Darren McFadden isn't an everydown back.
The Raiders will still run often, and Bush can
go between the tackles and catch out of the backfield. He has the better
feature back mold.
Responded well in 1st season as starter. Now he has Brandon
Marshall to amplify WRs, along with RBs that often act like WR. A fantasy
backup w/ notable upside.
Strides in the passing game, more explosion, a new power-blocking scheme
- all of it should help make the '09 first-round pick a top No. 1, if healthy.
Has the weapons around him, the experience, showed improvement in Year 2 and an OC who is not afraid to throw the ball around. Midrange No. 1 fantasy QB for the cost of a backup.
Arizona's offense, sans Kurt Warner, is
built for the power-running game. Wells came to life late last year and
should be a workhorse in 2010, at least for clear running downs.
I think Chris Johnson gets hurt this year,
which isn't a stretch after 408 touches in '09. Ringer is a priority handcuff
whom fantasy owners have largely ignored.
THIS is the back the Raiduhs should build their attack around,
not that glorified slasher in a wideout's body. Bush mixes swiftness and deftness
with imposing size.
Steve Slaton (neck) recovered pretty quickly, but he's still a liability. Heavy-duty Foster won't squander opportunity; he's best built to handle the role.
With Joe Flacco being tabbed as a sleeper in nearly every FF site, I have to throw one thought out there. Ray Rice and perhaps a NFL top 3 stable of backups COULD dominate this offense. Opposing D's will be game planning for Rice comming out of the backfield as a receiver seeing he performed as a top-tier WR in '09. I see the aquisition of Boldin as a tool to open the running game, something I'm sure Harbaugh loves. I believe the dump offs will decrease, replaced by more runs and I don't expect Flacco to overperform the early rankings I see.
