2025 Fantasy Football Sleepers 2.0: 15 players early drafters are sleeping on

The first sleeper list I put together for 2025, I lamented the fact that we really didn’t have reliable ADP yet, so I used our consensus rankings and highlighted late-round guys I was higher on. As we head into July, the ADP still isn’t set by any means, but it is getting better, and thanks to Dave Richard’s Fans Only mock project, we do have CBS PPR ADP that is much better, much earlier than normal. With that in mind, for Sleepers 2.0, I am highlighting players currently ranked outside the top 100 in our ADP that I have ranked at least a round higher than they are being drafted.

It is becoming more and more evident that any sleepers list I put together this summer is going to talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars backfield. Bhayshul Tuten (108), Travis Etienne (112), and Tank Bigsby (138) are all being drafted after Round 8. Any of them could qualify as sleepers, though I have a hard time making the case for a 23-year-old rookie who was drafted in Round 4, who is already being drafted as the RB1 on his own team. So I will make the case for the veterans instead.

The easiest case to make is for Etienne, the likely Week 1 starter, the only back on the team who doesn’t have a problem catching the ball and holding on to it. Etienne is a former first-round pick, has been teammates with quarterback Trevor Lawrence since the pair won a National Championship in 2018 with the Clemson Tigers, and he is still just 26 years old. While his rushing efficiency hasn’t been good since his rookie year, he has caught 97 passes in his last 32 games, and Liam Coen’s Buccaneers threw 121 passes to their backs in 2024. In full PPR, Etienne should be the first Jaguars back drafted, and he should go at least three rounds earlier than his current Round 10 ADP.

Making the case for Bigsby isn’t quite as easy in full PPR; he’s only seen 16 targets in two seasons and turned those into a paltry eight catches for 60 yards. But he was legitimately good as a rusher last year, borderline great. Bigsby led the entire league in yards per contact after rush (3.30) and the percentage of his rush yards that came after contact (72.3%). He was also top-five in yards per carry against a stacked box. The fact that he is going 30 picks after Tuten does not make any sense at all to me, but you should take advantage of it. 

From my perspective, the Jaguars already have a very good pass-catching back and a very good rushing back. Which is why I have a really hard time getting excited about Tuten, who the team didn’t draft until Day 3. The argument I have most commonly heard is that Coen drafted Tuten; he merely inherited Etienne and Bigsby. That argument could end up winning out, but it would carry more weight with me if Coen had drafted a running back earlier in the draft. For now, I rank them Etienne, Bigsby, and Tuten in full PPR, and only the first two are good values according to my rankings. 

Here are eight more sleepers with an ADP currently outside the top 100 in early CBS drafts:

Five more Deep Sleepers:

Austin Ekeler, RB, Commanders
Heath: 88
ADP: 149

Romeo Doubs. WR, Packers
Heath: 115
ADP: 177

Zach Ertz, TE, Commanders
Heath: 129
ADP: 162

Dallas Goedert, TE, Eagles
Heath: 131
ADP: 167

Quentin Johnston, WR, Chargers
Heath: 154
ADP: 187