Fantasy Football Sleepers | Running Backs To Draft or Fade (Ep. 1657)
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Emerging Running Back Sleepers and Draft Strategies
This chapter explores the fantasy football potential of running backs Ollie Gordon and Basial Tootin as deep sleepers. The hosts analyze their offseason progress and athleticism, suggesting that both players could play significant roles early in the season.
Join Chris Welsh, Pat Fitzmaurice, and Jake Ciely as they highlight 10 sleeper running backs that you should be targeting in your 2025 fantasy football drafts, and two others RBs who may be fades disguised as sleepers!
Timestamps: (May be off due to ads)
Intro - 0:00:00
Value Sleepers - 0:02:41
Javonte Williams - 0:03:07
Tony Pollard - 0:09:32
DraftKings BestBall - 0:16:03
Travis Etienne - 0:18:02
Zach Charbonnet - 0:25:21
Deep Sleepers - 0:30:05
Austin Ekeler - 0:30:35
Jacorey Croskey-Merritt - 0:32:31
DJ Giddens - 0:40:22
Braelon Allen - 0:43:35
Ollie Gordon - 0:48:45
Bhayshul Tuten - 0:51:52
FantasyPros Draft Assistant - 0:53:31
Fades Disguised As Sleepers - 0:54:18
Bhayshul Tuten - 0:54:31
Brian Robinson - 0:57:50
Outro - 0:59:35
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