A good sleeper pick in your fantasy football
draft can give your team a huge advantage over your opponents. Needless
to say, selecting players in the mid-to-late rounds of your draft that yield
early round production can make for a long season for your league
mates. It is no secret that many championship teams can point to a
“surprise” pick or two during their draft that were real difference makers
for their team. With that in mind, the Docs provide a rundown of
10 players to target as “sleeper picks” in your
2007 fantasy football draft plans.
For more information on what is meant by a “sleeper” and “Average Draft Position”,
click here (or read the information located at the bottom of
this article).
Braylon Edwards, WR, Cleveland Browns - SLEEPER
Edwards is a difference-maker receiver that has the height (6’3”), size (212
lbs), skills (Biletnikoff Award winner; All-America 1st team), and speed
(4.45 sec. 40-yard dash) to become an elite receiver in the NFL. Coming
out of the University of Michigan with a high price tag, Cleveland ponied
up and made Edwards the #3 pick overall in the 2005 NFL draft. Edwards
promptly rewarded the Cleveland faithful with a 107 yard 1 TD performance
in his second NFL start. Unfortunately, this marked the high-point
for Edwards as nagging injuries hampered him the rest of the 2005 season.
In 2006 he got off to another fast start, pulling in 249 receiving yards
and a TD over his first three games (83 yards / game average). However,
his production slowed substantially the remainder of the season with exception
to an isolated 7 reception, 137 yard performance in week 11. Edwards’
finished the year playing in all 16 games (starting 15) with season end statistics
of 60 receptions for 879 yards and 6 TDs. Those numbers aren’t too
shabby for a second-year receiver, but they could be oh-so-much better with
a talent like Edwards. Entering 2007, Edwards has several pieces of
good news that play to his favor. First, he plays for a bad team with
a bad defense. Bad teams with bad defenses force teams to play from
behind, which in turn translates to abandoning the run early and resorting
to throwing often in an attempt to play catch-up. It also doesn’t hurt
that the primary RB in CLE is Jamal Lewis, who will have a tough time finding
success running behind the horrid CLE o-line. The second piece of good
news is that QB Charlie Frye was locked into Edwards last year, and newcomer
Brady Quinn has been giggling like a school girl thinking about the prospects
of tossing the rock deep to Edwards. The final bit of good news is
that Edwards is a “3 Year WR”, which is typically the time it takes for a
WR to transition to the complexity and speed of the NFL to start having success.
When he uses his size and speed, he can post week 11 type numbers.
If he can stay healthy, 2007 could be the year Edwards breaks out and becomes
a fantasy commodity.
WR Braylon Edwards is just one of sixteen key sleeper & bust picks the Docs have in store for the 2007 fantasy football season. The remaining 15 picks
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What is “Average Draft Position”?
Average Draft Position is an indicator of when a player should be selected
based on the average of hundreds of drafts completed by various fantasy football
leagues and mock drafts. For those that don’t know and are interested,
FootballDocs Average Draft Position provides links to free Average Draft Info (Position) for the
2007 fantasy football season.
