7 Sleepers to Target in NFL.com Fantasy Football Leagues

At least for one more year (following their acquisition by ESPN), NFL Fantasy remains one of the most popular platforms for fantasy football, with default leagues set to 10 teams and PPR scoring. Each roster includes one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one FLEX, one defense/special teams, one kicker, and six bench spots.

For the purposes of this article, we’ll focus on those default settings and identify sleepers based on NFL Fantasy's average draft position (ADP) data. Any player going outside the top 150 picks is eligible. Using that cutoff, here are seven late-round targets who could give your fantasy roster a sneaky boost.

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Jake Ferguson, TE - Cowboys (NFL ADP: TE18, 154 overall)

Jake Ferguson has recently become my favorite late-round tight end target, and a guy I'm absolutely sprinting to draft if I missed on one of the elite three, T.J. Hockenson, or Evan Engram. But after he finished as the TE30 in 2024, you might wonder why. I hear you. While his season totals look pretty awful, take a gander at his production when Dak Prescott was healthy through the first nine weeks: 7.4 targets/game (fourth among TEs), 5.4 receptions/game (fifth), 47.7 receiving yards/game (seventh). Yes, he scored a grand total of zero touchdowns and was therefore only the TE14 with Prescott, but touchdowns are fluky, Ferguson is a major threat to positively regress in 2025, and TE14 is still better than Ferguson's TE18 ADP on NFL.com.

The arrival of George Pickens is good for the Dallas offense without heavily threatening Ferguson's target share — Pickens has never seen 110+ targets in a season — and that Dallas offense is going to throw a ton this year. Ferguson is my TE8 in PPR, so he's an astronomical value on NFL.com and perhaps the best sleeper in this whole group.

Emeka Egbuka, WR - Buccaneers (NFL ADP: WR51, 155 overall)

This ADP might be subject to change in the coming weeks, as rookie receiver Emeka Egbuka has been gaining hype in the fantasy community, and rookies often take extra time to climb the ADP ladder (especially on NFL.com). With Chris Godwin still rehabbing from ankle surgery, and Egbuka freshly selected with Tampa Bay's 19th overall pick in April, the 22-year-old has every opportunity to establish himself as a starter and earn legitimate volume alongside Mike Evans. He has far more talent than guys like Keon Coleman or Hollywood Brown, while also working his way towards a higher target floor than guys like Jayden Reed or Brandon Aiyuk ... all of whom are going ahead of him on NFL.com.

Egbuka's floor should be similar to former Ohio State teammate Jaxon Smith-Njigba's as a rookie (WR48 in 2023), and his ceiling might be somewhat similar to Ladd McConkey's last year (WR12). That range makes him a smash pick at WR51 in NFL.com.

Michael Pittman Jr., WR - Colts (NFL ADP: WR56, 169 overall)

This one is downright baffling — and stretches the meaning of the term "sleeper" — but Michael Pittman Jr. fits the cutoff for this column. He's going at pick 111 in our multi-site ADP, as high as 94th overall on Underdog, and no lower than 125th on any of the other major sites. But on NFL.com, the Colts' likely leading receiver is coming off the board in the 14th round. In an atrocious 2024 season, when Pittman posted his worst numbers since his 2020 rookie year, he still saw 111 targets and finished as the WR41 in PPR. Now, he's arguably in line for a quarterback upgrade with Daniel Jones, and while Indy added TE Tyler Warren in the first round, they still don't have anyone to compete with Pittman for significant targets outside of 5-foot-9, 170-pound Josh Downs. I'm not a particularly big Pittman fan in fantasy, but getting a team's number one target this late in drafts — and a 27-year-old with 365 receptions over the last four years to boot — is patently absurd. Pick up Pittman as your WR5 or WR6 without hesitation.

Trevor Lawrence, QB - Jaguars (NFL ADP: QB22, 178 overall)

I've been quietly rising on Trevor Lawrence the past month or two, and it appears NFL.com users could not disagree more. Obviously, last year wasn't great. Lawrence was the QB11 through Week 9, and then injury derailed his season, and he didn't get to participate in the Brian Thomas Jr. breakout (which mostly happened under Mac Jones). But let's just pause there. Lawrence was the QB11 for the first two months of the season. In 2023, he was the QB12. In 2022, he was the QB7. Even in his awful rookie year, he was the QB23.

So now, with the addition of head coach and play-caller Liam Coen — who just facilitated Baker Mayfield's breakout fantasy season — and dynamic second-overall pick Travis Hunter, how on earth is Trevor Lawrence the QB22? In what is lining up to be possibly his best year, he is being drafted at or below his absolute floor. If you're a fan of "waiting on QB," Lawrence might be the pick on NFL.com, and I would not be surprised to see him finally live up to the pre-draft hype and finish as a legitimate QB1 (again) in fantasy.

Tank Bigsby, RB - Jaguars (NFL ADP: RB52, 208 overall)

Speaking of massively underrated Jaguars players ... can I interest you in Coen and Lawrence's (possible) RB1, Tank Bigsby? That's right, even though Travis Etienne is going several rounds ahead of Bigsby at RB35 on NFL.com, and carries most of the name recognition in the fantasy community, there are legitimate questions as to who will be the primary back in Duval. This shouldn't really be a surprise, after Bigsby was the primary back for most of last season, outcarrying Etienne 168 to 150, outrushing him 766 yards to 558 (4.6 per carry to 3.7), and outscoring him seven to two in the touchdown department. And while Etienne saw all the first-team work in their first preseason game, the Jacksonville beat has suggested it will be a multi-back committee all season.

This has all the shades of Bucky Irving and Rachaad White last year, when Irving took over the backfield to finish as the RB13 ... under OC Liam Coen. Since you can get the cheaper piece (in Bigsby) this much cheaper on NFL.com, it's a particularly easy decision: tuck him into the last spot on your bench, drop him if he's not involved by October, or ride him to a championship if he takes the Irving breakout path.

Ray Davis, RB - Bills (NFL ADP: RB54, 219 overall)

As a rookie, Ray Davis saw just 132 opportunities, but put together 631 yards and six touchdowns on those opportunities. In the three games he saw double-digit carries, Davis scored 13.7, 14.5, and 18.2 fantasy points. Obviously, he was a distant second-fiddle to James Cook, who was the RB8 in fantasy ... but Cook is currently mired in a contract dispute and has been holding out of practice for weeks. There are several ways this can go for Buffalo and their Pro Bowl running back, but most of them look very good for Ray Davis in fantasy, especially at this price.

If Cook ends up being traded, or continues his holdout into the season, Davis would become the clear-cut RB1 of one of the league's best offenses and would have immediate RB1 potential in fantasy. If Cooks holds out long enough that he's out of shape and an increased injury risk on his eventual return, Davis might end up in that role anyway. And even if Cooks starts practicing soon and signs a contract before September, Davis will rank among the game's best handcuffs and be a screaming value at his NFL.com draft price.

Braelon Allen, RB - Jets (NFL ADP: RB55, 225 overall)

The third in our trio of sleeper running backs to close out this list, Braelon Allen is going nearly 100 spots later on NFL.com than he is on Underdog, and a solid 70 spots later than his multi-site ADP average. He's been garnering a bit of hype in the last couple of weeks, thanks to his prototypical size — 6-foot-1, 235 pounds — and camp rumblings that suggest the Jets might go running-back-by-committee in 2025. I'm not all that convinced, as I think Breece Hall is one of the best backs in the league and is likely to dominate touches as he did last year (266 touches to Allen's 111). However. With the completely new regime in New York, a new starting quarterback in Justin Fields, and the general shift towards RBBCs across the NFL as a whole, there are enough moving parts here that Allen's upside cannot be ignored.

He's completely free on NFL.com, but could quickly become a weekly FLEX play or better with Hall healthy ... and a legitimate fantasy star if Hall got hurt. Like Davis (and arguably Bigsby, depending on the depth chart), Allen is one of the must-have handcuffs of 2025, and a major sleeper depending on how the Jets offense shakes out this year.