Despite the explosion of growth in the Fantasy football, there will be 2023 Fantasy football breakouts that experts don’t see coming. Not many experts pegged players such as Tony Pollard, Rhamondre Stevenson, Geno Smith, Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown or Pat Freiermuth as top-10 Fantasy players at their position in 2022, but that’s where they landed. Now, the hunt is on for the top 2023 Fantasy football breakouts who aren’t atop the 2023 Fantasy football rankings. Could 2023 Fantasy football rookies like Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Quentin Johnston or Devon Achane, all being picked outside the top 100 in the latest 2023 Fantasy football ADP, be this year’s Fantasy football breakouts 2023?
Before crafting your 2023 Fantasy football draft strategy, be sure to check out the 2023 Fantasy football rankings and 2023 Fantasy football cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
Last year, the model accurately predicted that Texans running back Dameon Pierce would carry significantly more value than expected during his rookie season. The result: Pierce went on to rush for 939 yards and four touchdowns despite missing four games and also had 165 receiving yards and a score. The model predicted Pierce would provide RB2 value and he did exactly that prior to the injury that cost him the final four games of the year.
The same model has a proven track record providing Fantasy football tips, calling Tony Pollard a sleeper last year and also identifying A.J. Brown as a sleeper in 2020, along with players like Julio Jones and JuJu Smith-Schuster as Fantasy football busts last season. Additionally, it’s called past Fantasy football sleepers like Derrick Henry in 2019, Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara in 2018, and Davante Adams in 2017. Anybody who banked on players like those made a run at their league title.
The model is powered by the same people who generated projections for all three major Fantasy sites, and it beat human experts last season when there was a big difference in ranking. The projections update multiple times daily, so you’re always getting the best Fantasy football advice.
Now, SportsLine has simulated the entire NFL season 10,000 times and released its latest Fantasy football rankings 2023, along with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and busts. Head to SportsLine now to see them.
Top 2023 Fantasy football breakouts
One of the 2023 Fantasy football breakouts the model is predicting: Steelers running back Jaylen Warren. Pittsburgh spent a first-round pick on Najee Harris in the 2021 NFL Draft and given the former Alabama star nearly 700 touches over his first two seasons. However, diminishing returns in Harris’ second season have opened the door for the Steelers to incorporate Warren more significantly in 2023.
The undrafted free agent out of Oklahoma State made Pittsburgh’s roster out of training camp last season and backed up Harris, rushing 77 times for 379 yards and a touchdown while also catching 28 passes for 214 yards. He’s followed that up by generating buzz during Steelers training camp. The model predicts Warren will outperform running backs like Jamaal Williams and Elijah Mitchell, who are being drafted at least 15 picks earlier on average.
Another breakout that SportsLine’s Fantasy football rankings 2023 have identified: Giants wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins. After bouncing between the practice squad and active roster in Buffalo from 2020 to 2022, Hodgins was claimed off waivers by the Giants in the middle of the 2022 season and quickly became a full-time player who scored a touchdown in five of his final seven games.
New York has no clear-cut top receiver, so Hodgins has a chance to be the No. 1 option for Daniel Jones. He’s going off the board in the 14th round according to the latest 2023 Fantasy football ADP, but SportsLine’s model projects that he’ll be more productive than 12th-rounders Adam Thielen and Elijah Moore as well as 11th-rounders Odell Beckham Jr. and Kadarius Toney. See which other Fantasy football breakouts 2023 to pick here.
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SportsLine is also extremely high on a surprising running back you aren’t even thinking about being taken in the middle rounds of 2023 Fantasy football drafts. This running back is listed as a shocking top-10 option ahead of superstars like Jonathan Taylor and Joe Mixon. You can only see who it is, and the 2023 Fantasy football rankings for every player, at SportsLine.
So which 2023 Fantasy Football breakouts should you target? And which RB shocks the NFL with a top-10 performance? Visit SportsLine now to get 2023 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that called Dameon Pierce’s breakout season, and find out.
