10 Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers the Experts Love: Tight Ends (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

Here are how experts rank 2023 fantasy football sleeper targets.

Fantasy Football Tight End Sleepers

Our TE sleepers are based on a poll of experts that selected their favorite TEs with high upside. Each TE has a consensus draft rank below #15.

Rank	Tight Ends	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Dalton Kincaid	BUF	13	28	14	11
2	Gerald Everett	LAC	5	19	17	22
3	Sam LaPorta	DET	9	21	18	17
4	Irv Smith Jr.	CIN	7	8	20	23
5	Juwan Johnson	NO	11	8	19	18
6	Trey McBride	ARI	14	12	24	41
7	Mike Gesicki	NE	11	7	25	30
8	Taysom Hill	NO	11	5	26	20
9	Hayden Hurst	CAR	7	5	21	26
10	Jake Ferguson	DAL	7	5	34	29