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2025 Fantasy Football sleeper rankings: Two Broncos crack top five of 20 value players to target in drafts

What is a sleeper? We set some parameters and then swing for the fences in preparation for your 2025 Fantasy Football drafts

By@rjwhite1Published: Aug 08, 2025 11:59AM UTC . 2 min read

For the last few years, we've turned the concept of Fantasy football sleepers into specific criteria on who should qualify and then ranked our favorites. In our first year of the ranks, Nico Collins was the biggest hit as our No. 4 sleeper, as he was ranked outside of the top 60 at receiver but finished in the top 12 at the position in 2023. Last year, Jayden Daniels was the final name on our list as the No. 11 QB by average draft position and he went on to finish in the top five, while we had Chase Brown and Tyrone Tracy featured in the middle of our list.

Here's how we figure out who can qualify as a Fantasy football sleeper: We take consensus ADP from FantasyPros and throw out the first 96 players, or the first eight rounds of a 12-team league (those players will be featured in our look at the top 10 breakout candidates). Then, we pull out the players we feel have the best chance of finishing twice as high at their position in Fantasy points scored than their ADP, rounded up. For Brown last year, his ADP of RB37 meant he had to finish in the top 18, and he was a successful sleeper pick by finishing ninth.

We won't be too hard on ourselves if late-round picks exceed expectations but don't quite meet that level of overperformance, and we have to be cognizant that there are only so many slots near the top of the rankings that all these players are competing against each other to win. Below, you can find my top 20 sleepers for 2025 Fantasy football drafts. Consider it a target list after you've built the core of your Fantasy squad in the first eight rounds of your draft.

So who gets the top spot as the best Fantasy sleeper of 2025? And which running backs and receivers have the best chance to provide incredible value for their Fantasy teams? ... Join SportsLine here to see R.J. White's sleeper rankings for 2025 Fantasy football leagues!

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