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2007 Sleeper Picks
Diamonds in the Rough

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.

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What is a fantasy football “sleeper”?
A “sleeper” is a player that significantly outperforms their average draft position.  In short, if you are fortunate enough to select a good “sleeper” pick, you were able to grab a player that yielded much higher production than otherwise anticipated prior to the NFL season (ref: Antonio Gates in 2004; Carson Palmer in 2005;
Frank Gore in 2006).  Consequently, you want to select your “sleeper picks” a round or two earlier than you anticipate them being taken by your league mates.  However, you do not want to select your “sleeper pick” too early as this gives you the opportunity to use those earlier picks on more reliable players.

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.




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