Bruno Boys Fantasy Football

These aren’t your ordinary sleepers. These are the guys you will have to dig through the back pages of rankings’ lists to find, the names that would never jump out at you unless you have done the research and memorized the depth charts. Did anyone know who Miles Austin and Jamaal Charles were at the beginning of last year? They’re now regarded as low-level fantasy football number ones at their respective positions.

Ninety percent of them won’t work out like those two did, but every year we get a couple of guys that seemingly come out of nowhere and end up carrying fantasy teams to championships. The reason they are considered so deep is because they all have at least one obstacle keeping them from playing time, and in many cases, two. That can be said about a lot of guys, for sure, however for the deep sleepers that we’ll be talking about in this article,  the obstacles are the old, brittle, or inexperienced, making the road to fantasy football relevance much clearer than it appears to be.

Here are 12 fantasy football running backs to stash on your roster that could, with a bit of luck, end up being fantasy monsters down the stretch.

Kareem Huggins, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers – The most recent back to garner attention from the fantasy community, Kareem Huggins will enter his second season with two kick returns as the only stat to his professional credit. Yet after some strong preseason play and the release of overpaid backup Derrick Ward, Huggins is suddenly in line for some change of pace work with the possibility of a full-blown starting gig should oft-injured starter Cadillac Williams have some engine trouble. 2009 was the Caddy’s first full season in his five years as a pro. He only played ten games in the two previous seasons combined, making Huggins one (quite likely) awkward fall away from being the lone back for a Tampa Bay team that cannot rely solely on their young quarterback Josh Freeman to shoulder the offensive load. He needs to be owned in deep formats.