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7 Deep Fantasy Football Sleepers for Week 1

Dale Redman  —  @DTRedman Sep 7th, 2018
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Ricky Seals-Jones, TE, Arizona Cardinals

Yahoo! Ownership: 31%

Ricky Seals-Jones didn't play much in his rookie season. When he did find his way onto the field, he was stuck relying on some of the NFL's worst quarterbacks -- Drew Stanton & Blaine Gabbert -- to throw him the ball. In 2018, that all changes.

This offseason, the Arizona Cardinals made QB a point and brought in a tight end's best friend, Sam Bradford. In each of the last two full seasons he played, Bradford targeted his starting tight end well over 100 times -- 112 to Zach Ertz in 2015 and 132 to Kyle Rudolph in 2016. Seals-Jones has also moved to the top of the Cardinals' depth chart, ahead of Jermaine Gresham. He will get to start building his connection with Bradford with a favorable matchup in Week 1 too as Washington comes to town.

With Josh Norman parolling the secondary, opponents threw to their wide receiver 271 times, the third-lowest mark in the NFL. Opposing tight ends picked up the slack seeing 127 targets against Washington, the fourth-most. Naturally, tight ends found a bit of fantasy success against them, averaging the sixth-most fantasy points per game.

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