These are Fantasy Sleepers Week 14! Which players should you be adding to your fantasy football rosters in preparation for the fantasy playoffs?
Fantasy Football Sleepers: Lesser-rostered players that can make an impact this week or later in the season. Whether you’re looking for a player to beat your league to on the waiver wire or someone to insert into your lineup this week, I’ve got you covered.
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(NOTE: ALL PLAYERS ARE AVAILABLE IN AT LEAST 70% OF LEAGUES)
Quarterbacks
Will Levis – Tennessee Titans (19%)
Levis has passed for two TDs in three of his last four games. The Titans face Jacksonville and Cleveland over the next two weeks—both defenses rank in the bottom five in the league at defending the quarterback position. Levis is a solid streaming option this week.
Drake Maye – New England Patriots (14%)
Maye heads into his bye week with positive momentum. He delivered one of his best fantasy performances of the season, including 59 rushing yards, earning a QB10 finish for the week. While Maye has thrown too many interceptions, he remains an exciting talent with upside.
Bryce Young – Carolina Panthers (7%)
Young has been playing the best and most consistent football of his career, and it’s reflected in his fantasy production. He has finished as the QB17, QB14, and QB8 in his last three games. On Sunday, Young totaled 298 passing yards and scored two TDs.
A questionable incompletion call on an Adam Thielen TD catch late in the first half cost him a third. While the Eagles present a tough matchup this week, Young faces more favorable opponents in Dallas (Week 15) and Tampa Bay (Week 17).
Aidan O’Connell – Las Vegas Raiders (6%)
AOC is a viable Superflex starter and a DFS/streaming consideration. He passed for 340 yards and two TDs in Vegas’ loss to Kansas City. This week, he faces Tampa Bay, and their bottom-three pass defense.
Running Backs
Tyler Allgeier – Atlanta Falcons (30%)
The backup to one of fantasy’s best, Bijan Robinson. Stash him.
Ray Davis – Buffalo Bills (22%)
Davis is one of the best handcuffs in football and has enough juice to be used this week if you’re in bye-week hell and need a desperation flex option. He has scored four TDs this season and has three double-digit scoring weeks over his last six games.
Trey Benson – Arizona Cardinals (21%)
If James Conner misses a game, it would be wheels up for Benson. Stash him.
Blake Corum – LA Rams (16%)
Corum ran for a season-high 42 yards last week. If Kyren Williams were to miss time, Corum would be a mid-range RB2 or better.
Cam Akers – Minnesota Vikings (16%)
Akers is nothing more than a handcuff with just seven touches over his previous two games combined.
Sincere McCormick – Las Vegas Raiders (10%)
A lightly used running back gets a major opportunity and runs with it in an Antonio Pierce-led Raiders backfield. We’ve seen this story play out before with Zamir White last season. Could history repeat itself with McCormick?
Regardless of Alexander Mattison‘s health (questionable), McCormick may have earned a role moving forward. Just how valuable that role is remains to be seen, but he ran well against a strong run defense last week, finishing with 64 yards. McCormick was a highly productive running back at UT-San Antonio, rushing for nearly 3,000 yards in college.
Ameer Abdullah – Las Vegas Raiders (16%)
Abdullah did most of his damage as a return specialist last week but still impacted the game. He scored 15 PPR points in Week 12.
Travis Homer – Chicago Bears (3%)
Homer could see an outsized role this week. Roschon Johnson has been ruled out, and D’Andre Swift is questionable with a quad injury. Homer has skills as a pass-catcher and could have low-end flex value if Swift misses time.
Kendre Miller – New Orleans Saints (4%)
Miller is questionable for this Sunday but should be stashed. Head coach Darren Rizzi has praised Miller’s talent—a stark contrast from former head coach Dennis Allen, who seemed to keep Miller in the doghouse. The Saints need bodies, and any skill-position player with some juice may have touch value down the stretch.
Kimani Vidal – LA Chargers (13%)
The backup behind an uninspiring Gus Edwards. Vidal only had four touches in Week 13.
Wide Receivers
Xavier Legette – Carolina Panthers (27%)
Adam Thielen—who has been mentioned in this article and my waiver wire article for multiple weeks—took a huge step forward in the target pecking order. Legette played second fiddle but was still targeted eight times, catching four passes for 53 yards. Carolina has a Week 17 matchup against Tampa Bay.
Elijah Moore – Cleveland Browns (20%)
Moore played terrific in Monday night’s loss to Denver. He finished with eight catches for 111 yards on 14 targets. Moore has been targeted eight or more times in four of his last five games. He can be used in the flex this week, even in a tough matchup against Pittsburgh.
Demarcus Robinson – LA Rams (19%)
Robinson is a touchdown-or-bust, gut-shot desperation flex play in a game that could tilt over. He has six TDs in his last six games and ranks top 10 overall in end-zone targets.
Ray-Ray McCloud – Atlanta Falcons (16%)
McCloud finished last week’s game with 95 receiving yards—a season high.
Most of his yardage came from a big 60-yard catch and run. Atlanta has a tough road game in Minnesota. McCloud has been targeted six times in back-to-back games.
Tre Tucker – Las Vegas Raiders (7%)
Tucker had seven catches for 82 yards in Week 12 and scored a 58-yard TD in Week 13 on his lone target. He’s a desperation flex option with six teams on bye.
Parker Washington – Jacksonville Jaguars (4%)
Washington was targeted 12 times last week, finishing with six catches for 103 yards and a TD. He is still widely available. While 12 targets may not happen again, Washington is worth stashing to see if he can maintain a high level of volume heading into the fantasy playoffs.
Darius Slayton – New York Giants (7%)
Malik Nabers is dealing with a hip injury that required an MRI on Friday. His status for Week 14 and beyond is up in the air. Earlier in the season, when Nabers missed time, Slayton stepped right into the lineup with similar role and usage. He had 22 targets combined in Weeks 5 and 6.
David Moore – Carolina Panthers (3%)
Jalen Coker will miss another game. Moore has been targeted 19 times over the past two games. He should be rostered in deep formats—especially WR-heavy ones.
Tight Ends
Noah Gray – Kansas City Chiefs (20%)
Gray scored two TDs in back-to-back games in Weeks 11 and 12 and added another 4 catches for 58 yards in Week 13 on a season-high six targets.
He is becoming a weekly threat in the Chiefs’ offense, even while sharing TE targets with Travis Kelce. If you are in bad shape at TE, consider Gray. He has a great matchup in Week 15 against Cleveland.
Mike Gesicki – Cincinnati Bengals (15%)
Gesicki caught five passes for 53 yards last week—his best performance with Tee Higgins in the lineup this season.
Juwan Johnson – New Orleans Saints (8%)
I had Johnson inside my top 10 overall waiver wire adds this week. Taysom Hill‘s injury, combined with multiple wide receiver injuries in New Orleans, has created an opportunity for Johnson to see an outsized number of targets. He was targeted seven times last week, finishing with five catches.
Dawson Knox – Buffalo Bills (7%)
Knox will be a streaming option again if Dalton Kincaid misses another game. The Rams have been very generous to opposing tight ends this season.
Grant Calcaterra – Philadelphia Eagles (3%)
Calcaterra steps into a larger role with Dallas Goedert set to miss time. He will play a high number of snaps against a defense that has struggled to defend opposing tight ends this season.
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