Running Back Sleepers Experts Love to Draft (2024 Fantasy Football)

When preparing for your fantasy football drafts, knowing which players to target and others to avoid is important. The amount of information available can be overwhelming, so a great way to condense the data and determine players to draft and others to leave for your leaguemates is to use our expert consensus fantasy football rankings compared to fantasy football average draft position (ADP). In this way, you can identify players the experts are willing to reach for at ADP and others they are not drafting until much later than average. Let’s dive into a few notable fantasy football sleepers below. And check out all of the fantasy football draft sleepers experts love in our consensus sleeper rankings.

2024 Fantasy Football Running Back Sleepers

Here are fantasy football draft sleepers the experts love to target.

Fantasy Football Running Back Sleepers

Who are Fantasy Football Sleepers?
Sleepers are players that have a strong chance to exceed expectations to become surprise difference-makers for fantasy managers. Our RB sleepers are based on a poll of experts who selected their favorite RBs with high upside. Each RB has a consensus draft rank below #45.

Rank	Running Backs	Team	Bye	Num Experts	ECR	ADP
1	Rico Dowdle	DAL	7	29	42	42
2	Jaleel McLaughlin	DEN	14	21	45	48
3	J.K. Dobbins	LAC	5	17	48	43
4	Ray Davis	BUF	12	17	52	58
5	Jaylen Wright	MIA	6	13	51	46
6	Tyler Allgeier	ATL	12	9	47	50
7	Khalil Herbert	CHI	7	5	50	53
8	Bucky Irving	TB	11	6	56	61
9	MarShawn Lloyd	GB	10	5	53	51
10	Braelon Allen	NYJ	12	5	57	59
11	Kimani Vidal	LAC	5	6	66	52
12	Tyrone Tracy Jr.	NYG	11	7	63	57
13	Audric Estime	DEN	14	3	62	64
14	Roschon Johnson	CHI	7	5	55	63
15	Justice Hill	BAL	14	2	69	70

Fantasy Football Draft Outlook: Sleepers

Rico Dowdle (DAL)

Dowdle will fight Ezekiel Elliott for work in Dallas this season. Dowdle has long been a fav player of mine. Last year, among 53 qualifying backs, he ranked 16th in yards after contact per attempt while also having the 23rd lowest stuff rate (per Fantasy Points Data). Could Dowdle be the next Alexander Mattison? It’s possible, but I’m willing to make the bet that he surprises people in 2024. He’s an RB3/4 who could easily post RB2 numbers if he runs away from Elliott with the job.

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