Deep fantasy football sleepers - Terrace Marshall Jr. among players to watch - ESPN

Each preseason, I present my list of fantasy football «deep sleepers,» players who by all accounts will not — and in many cases should not — be drafted in a standard 10-team ESPN league, but who have decent odds of contributing at some point during the upcoming season. Many can help you round out a roster in deeper league formats.

Tuck these names away and track them throughout the preseason. In the right situation, any of them could become the linchpin to your fantasy team's championship hopes. For example, last year's column might have brought Isiah Pacheco and/or Romeo Doubs to your attention.

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Be forewarned, this is a deep sleepers column, rather than a space for more commonly cited sleepers such as Kenny Pickett, Kendre Miller, Kadarius Toney or Chigoziem Okonkwo, as much as I do like all four of those players for 2023. Additionally, this list generally excludes prominent rookies, those selected in the first three rounds of the most recent NFL draft.

This list's purpose is to extend the sleeper-seeking exercise, familiarize you with some names you might (and probably will) want to know, and deliver some possible late-round picks to those of you in deeper leagues.

Terrace Marshall Jr., WR, Carolina Panthers: A 2021 second-rounder who completely flopped during his rookie campaign, Marshall began to show signs of his big-play potential in limited action as a sophomore. He had the game's greatest percentage of his catches going for 20-plus yards (39%, 11 of 28) and caught 64% of his vertical targets in 2022, accentuating his expansive