Preseason football has few charms, but one of those is the emergence of late-round fantasy targets who can turn a significant profit for their owners. Most of these players start the summer on a watch list, and develop over a month’s worth of training camp and preseason games. The following 11 players have turned themselves into deep sleepers this season.
To set the field, we first drew a line after the first 12 rounds of a typical draft. Anyone above that line could not qualify as a deep sleeper. There are 144 picks through the 12th round of a 12-team league, so anyone with an average draft position of 144 or higher was immediately ruled out.