Adam Schefter's fantasy football cheat sheet - Value picks and sleepers to target - ESPN

Each year, we try to quench your thirst for fantasy football sleepers and cheat sheets to get you ready for your drafts. For the past several years, we have given you direct access to Adam Schefter's personal list of early-, mid- and late-round targets. Before being published by ESPN Fantasy, this list was one he would share only with friends and family. Now it has become an annual tradition exclusively for ESPN+ subscribers — because any friend of fantasy is a friend of Adam's.

Below are some players I feel pretty strongly about this season. Obviously, these aren't the only ones I think will excel in 2023, but I believe these players have a real chance to outperform their current draft value. If given a choice at certain junctures in the draft, or in a tiebreaker situation, these are players who will receive strong consideration.

I am in one 12-team league, in which some of these players will not need to be drafted, and one 16-team league, in which some of them might be more valuable. But again, these are players I believe hold strong value relative to their ADPs (as of Aug. 27) and are poised to have productive seasons.

I hope this list proves helpful. Good luck this season!

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Early rounds

Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs (14.1 ADP, QB1)
Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills (20.8, QB2)
Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles (22.8, QB3)

Middle rounds

Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens (32.7, QB4)
Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers (46.6, QB6)
Justin Fields, Chicago Bears (50.3, QB7)
Deshaun Watson, Cleveland Browns (77.6, QB9)
Dak Prescott,