In our annual 32-part Summer Sleeper series, DLF scribes identify a lightly-touted player on each NFL roster who may be worthy of your consideration. Our subjects all have varying levels of “sleeperness,” but each merits a bit of in-depth discussion here in the Premium Content section.
To help everybody along, we are going to be categorizing our sleepers under one of three headings:
Super Deep Sleepers – Players who aren’t roster-worthy in 12-team leagues, but are still worth keeping an eye on.
Deep Sleepers – An end of the roster player who is more often than not on the waiver wire in 12-team leagues.
Sleeper – A likely rostered player who makes for a good trade target. Their startup ADP puts them out of the top-175 or so.
Because we aren’t going to give you the likes of mainstream sleepers, most of these players will undoubtedly fizzle. All we are asking is for you to keep an open mind and perhaps be willing to make room for one of these players on your bench. You never know when the next Adam Thielen is going to spring up. Feel free to add your own thoughts about our choice for the designated sleeper, or nominate one of your own in the comments below.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have one of the more unsettled offenses in the league heading into the 2020 season. While head coach Doug Marrone remains in place for now, Jay Gruden has come down south to command the offense.
After shipping off “prized” 2019 free-agent quarterback acquisition Nick Foles, dynasty owners are excited to see continued development from second-year quarterback Gardner Minshew. The coaching staff and front office “mustache” themselves whether Minshew can be their franchise quarterback moving forward with the looming possibility of securing one of the top signal-callers in the 2021 draft.
Coming off a breakout campaign, third-year wide receiver DJ Chark will again be a focal point of the passing game with fluidity amongst the rest of the wide receiver depth chart. Such depth includes Dede Westbrook, Chris Conley, Keelan Cole, and exciting rookie Laviska Shenault. The tight end position has cheap, dart-throw options with Tyler Eifert reuniting with his previous Cincinnati OC (Gruden) ahead of the athletic Josh Oliver entering his second year.
That leaves the running back position, which is currently led by former fourth overall selection (yikes) Leonard Fournette. With Fournette’s unsettled relationship with the team, there may be some significant opportunity in the backfield sooner rather than later. That’s where we find the player we’ll discuss today, who could be a very inexpensive Fournette replacement.
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I really enjoy reading these ‘sleeper’ articles – well done.
Jeremy, do you envision the Jaguars drafting a RB in 2021 or holding the current talent? I assume they have needs across the offence and defence and may have second thoughts investing early capital into RB.
Thanks for reading, Aaron!
I think based on spending such high draft capital on LF, they’d be likely to not do so again.
My expectation for how early they would invest in the 2021 draft (if at all) will be determined by how early the move on from LF this season. What I mean is that if he is moved early in the season due to an injury, they have a better opportunity in seeing what they have in the rest of the depth chart. If Armstead or Robinson have a few nice games to close out the season, I think they pass on investing significant capital. If they hang on to LF through the season, they may take a guy in the 2nd-4th. I still think they are set on how they achieved success before (through defensive draft picks). Wouldn’t be surprised if Minshew, Chark, O-line perform well enough that they spend their top few rounds defensively again.
They do appear to have quite a bit of cap room for next year, so I’d be somewhat wary of a free agent add with some good talent available. But again, will likely depend on how the rest of the RB depth chart performs this year if given the opportunity. And my money is on Robinson if that happens.
Hope that helps!
