8 Fantasy Football Sleepers for Week 1

Tavon Austin, WR, Los Angeles Rams

Tavon Austin is a guy that has been completely overlooked in the admittedly uninspiring Los Angeles Rams offense.

The addition of Sammy Watkins (and to a far lesser extent, of Robert Woods) is obviously a concern, but there's still room in this offense for Austin, who saw a career-high 107 targets in 2016 despite Kenny Britt and Brian Quick (both of whom are gone this year) combining for 188 targets. The Rams brass has also said that Austin will be used in a similar way this year.

Austin had a highly inefficient 2016 campaign, but as 4for4's TJ Hernandez examined, efficiency numbers show a ton of variance from year-to-year when compared to volume stats. And honestly, it would be hard for him to be much less efficient than he was last year.

His matchup this week is also fairly promising, as the Rams have a 22.75-point implied total against an Indianapolis Colts team that ranked bottom-six in Adjusted Defensive Passing NEP per play in 2016.