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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

1013: Week 1 Sleepers

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After making an announcement about a format change to the sleepers episode, JJ looks at a handful of quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends who may be sitting on your waiver wire despite strong Week 1 matchups.

 

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0:00.0

This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.

0:11.6

What's up, everyone? It's J.J. Zacharisen.

0:14.2

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0:20.7

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1:13.3

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1:15.7

Through the years, there's been one consistent piece of feedback with this sleeper show.

1:20.1

I talk about way too many deep sleepers.

1:23.3

In the past, I've looked at players rostering in 10 to 50% of Yahoo Leagues, and then I've looked at another bucket of players under the 10% mark.

1:31.1

And that's too low of a threshold.

1:33.3

So this season, I'm changing it up.

1:36.0

I'm going to looking at players rostered in 50 to 80% of Yahoo Leagues as one bucket,

1:41.1

talking through some guys that I generally like more than the market that week.

1:45.0

Then I'll dig into players that are rostered in that 20% to 50% range. And then from there,

1:50.1

I'll find players who are rostered in fewer than 20% of leagues who you may want to consider

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