Finding those late-round players that outperform their draft-day value is vital to winning your fantasy football league. Seasons are often won in the middle and late rounds of a draft; after all, those early picks should give everyone a chance at a solid scoring floor. For example, those who keyed in on Amon-Ra St. Brown in their drafts last season — with average draft position (ADP) of WR25 — had a significant advantage when the sophomore receiver finished as the WR8.
Here are five sleepers and late-round picks with a pathway to be a top target on their respective teams.
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The NASCAR Cup Series embarks up on a 36-race schedule in 2023, with a pair of exhibition events, which begins in February at the Daytona 500 and concludes in November with the championship race in Phoenix.
The Celtics showed they were all in on winning an NBA title when they traded Marcus Smart for Kristaps Porziņģis in June, and team owner Wyc Grousbeck explained the decision to add the veteran big man.
“The general tone was, how do we take this energy we’re feeling right now that was built up over having two good seasons but then didn’t get all the way? The whole point is, how do we get to Banner 18? If we’d all agreed we should keep things the same, that would have been fine,” he told The Boston Globe.
Pirates prospect Jase Bowen went 0-for-4 in the Greensboro Grasshoppers’ game against the Asheville Tourists on Saturday, but he more than made up for it in the field.
Greensboro carried a 5–3 lead into the ninth inning and called on reliever Eddy Yean to close it out. After giving up two singles, there were two runners on with two out as Jacob Melton, the top prospect in the Astros’ system, came to the plate.
This offseason, the Celtics made a crucial decision for their future, signing Jaylen Brown to a five-year, $304 million extension for the richest deal in NBA history. Boston has fully committed to Brown and Jayson Tatum, who has three years left on his five-year max contract.
While some fans questioned whether the team was right in extending Brown, Boston’s ownership seemed to have no doubt that it was the right move. Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck told The Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach that Tatum and Brown are the perfect duo to lead the team.
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Arkansas did not find itself ranked in the Top 25 of the 2023 college football coaches poll. The Razorbacks received votes, but didn’t make the cut.
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However, there is a real opportunity for the Hogs to make some noise this fall. Sam Pittman is in his fourth year as head coach and returns a vicious 1-2 punch in the backfield.
Arkansas’ starting quarterback and running back are both tall and combine to weigh nearly 500 pounds.
Georgia is favored to become the first college football team to win three consecutive national championships since Minnesota in 1934, ’35 and ’36, according to the USA TODAY Coaches preseason poll released on Monday afternoon.
The Bulldogs received 61 of a possible 66 first-place votes in the poll of college football coaches. Georgia finished the 2022-23 season at 15-0 with a 65-7 win over TCU in the College Football Playoff national championship game Jan. 9.
Georgia lost much of its 2022 team, but then again, it lost a lot of its 2021 team after it won that national championship.
Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe helped lead the USWNT to back-to-back Women’s World Cups, but the past is the past, and today’s American squad suffered its earliest World Cup exit in team history after its Round of 16 loss to Sweden.
Bill Simmons believes that living in the past may have ultimately cost the team this time around, which is a tough point to argue against when even looking at the most simple of numbers.
One of the most interesting storylines in college football this fall revolves around Bobby Petrino and Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M. The sixth-year head coach and his new offensive coordinator are both big personalities who want to be in control.
Fisher hired Petrino in January after the Aggies offense floundered for much of the 2022 season. The 62-year-old most recently served as the head coach at Missouri State after stints at Louisville, Western Kentucky and Arkansas, in addition to a year with the Falcons.