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24 Players the Experts Avoid Drafting (2023 Fantasy Football)

24 Players the Experts Avoid Drafting (2023 Fantasy Football)

As you prepare for your fantasy football draft, it’s important to have a sense of rankings and where players are being drafted. Of course, this will change league-to-league, but you can usually get a sense of where a player is likely to go in your draft with a little fantasy football research. To really zero in on a player’s average draft position (ADP), you can use our consensus ADP. This, combined with our Expert Consensus Ranking, will allow you to get a sense of players that are drafted earlier or later in general drafts versus where the experts would recommend you targeting them.

For example, if you have a player with an ADP of No. 12 overall, but our consensus of experts view them as a top-five player, that’s probably someone you want to consider targeting in the back-end of the first round. On the flip side, if a player has an average draft position of No. 5 overall but our experts view the player as outside of the top-10 overall in their rankings, you’re likely better off allowing one of your league mates to make that draft pick.

Now that you’re armed with how to use ADP and our Expert Consensus Rankings, let’s take a look at a few opportunities to capitalize based on current rankings.

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Fantasy Football Players the Experts Avoid Drafting

Using updated rankings from our most accurate fantasy football experts (based on 2022 fantasy football draft accuracy), here are players the experts have ranked well below their current ADP.

PLAYER NAME TEAM POS RANK EXPERT RANK ADP ECR VS. ADP BYE WEEK
De’Von Achane MIA RB47 135 99 -36 10
Evan Engram JAC TE10 116 88 -28 9
Dallas Goedert PHI TE7 91 69 -22 10
Michael Thomas NO WR55 123 102 -21 11
Darren Waller NYG TE6 88 70 -18 13
D’Andre Swift PHI RB29 76 61 -15 10
Dalton Schultz HOU TE13 134 119 -15 7
Cole Kmet CHI TE14 144 129 -15 13
George Kittle SF TE4 66 52 -14 9
David Njoku CLE TE9 112 98 -14 5
Dameon Pierce HOU RB22 57 44 -13 7
Dalvin Cook FA RB27 70 58 -12
Antonio Gibson WAS RB37 98 86 -12 14
Pat Freiermuth PIT TE8 104 92 -12 6
Kyle Pitts ATL TE5 72 62 -10 11
Alexander Mattison MIN RB23 64 55 -9 13
Javonte Williams DEN RB28 75 66 -9 9
Alvin Kamara NO RB34 86 77 -9 11
T.J. Hockenson MIN TE3 54 46 -8 13
Saquon Barkley NYG RB7 16 9 -7 13
Travis Etienne Jr. JAC RB16 38 31 -7 9
Jahmyr Gibbs DET RB17 41 34 -7 9
Austin Ekeler LAC RB4 8 4 -4 5
Tyreek Hill MIA WR4 11 7 -4 10

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