10 Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers the Experts Love: Wide Receivers (2023)

What makes a fantasy football sleeper? It’s a term that has been thrown around over the year. We’ve done our best to quantify the phrase fantasy football sleeper. To us, sleepers are players that have a strong chance to exceed expectations to become surprise difference-makers for fantasy managers. We’ve put together some ranking parameters for these sleepers and asked our experts to share their top draft values and potential difference-makers. You can find all of our fantasy football sleeper rankings here. Let’s take a look at our expert sleeper rankings.

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Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers the Experts Target

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Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Sleepers

Our WR sleepers are based on a poll of experts that selected their favorite WRs with high upside. Each WR has a consensus draft rank below #55.

Rank	Wide Receivers	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Skyy Moore	KC	10	18	46	50
2	Romeo Doubs	GB	6	13	60	55
3	Zay Jones	JAC	9	5	57	63
4	Michael Gallup	DAL	7	5	63	61
5	Marvin Mims Jr.	DEN	9	7	85	75
6	Van Jefferson	LAR	10	5	65	71
7	Darius Slayton	NYG	13	4	73	85
8	Odell Beckham Jr.	BAL	13	5	54	45
9	Isaiah Hodgins	NYG	13	5	75	78
10	Tyler Boyd	CIN	7	5	55	58

Skyy Moore (KC)

A lackluster rookie season has everybody writing off 2022 second-round WR Skyy Moore. But the young WR showed bright spots as the season progressed. After JuJu Smith-Schuster got hurt in Week 10, Moore went on to lead all Chiefs WRs in targets over the next two weeks (12 targets, 10 catches for 99 yards, 3.19 yards per route run) as the team’s primary slot receiver. Moore was hyper-targeted on 36% of his routes (25% snap share, 4 targets) in Week 17 vs. the Broncos when, again, he saw high usage from the inside. And in the conference championship game, Moore once again commanded 6 targets, while running 12 routes from the slot (second-most in 2022).

Many draft pundits and Chiefs beat writers are crowning Kadarius Toney as the heir to the KC WR1 chair (if and when he gets healthy) but Moore looks like the dark horse to earn starting slot duties that Smith-Schuster and Mecole Hardman left behind. Simply put, Moore saw 6 targets in the games where he ran at least 10 slot routes. He also had at least 2 receptions in five games where he ran at least 7 slot routes. Hardman and Smith-Schuster averaged 13.5 slot routes per game last season. Therefore, don’t count Moore out quite yet. Recall, Moore ranked second in college football in his final year in yards per route run from the slot.

-Andrew Erickson