Week 17 fantasy sleepers: 8 high-upside lineup picks for championship week

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And so we’ve made it to the end.

Way back in the summer, you started studying. Making lists. Ranking players and reading as many camp reports as you could. You did countless mock drafts in preparation for the real thing. But you knew the job wasn’t finished.

Waiver wires. Adds, drops, trades. Roster reconstructions were the weekly norm. Keeping up with injury reports while making breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Devouring podcasts, watching NFL Fantasy Live , and scrolling social media reports. And of course, you kept coming back to the Sleepers column.

All of it just to help you get here.

You stand on the precipice of a championship. Just one more week and one more opponent stand between you and fake football glory. One more week of trying to find alternative solutions to unforeseen fantasy football problems.

One more time to set lineups until next season.

So, thank you, sincerely for hanging out with me this year. Go get yourself a title.

Here are some names.

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The expectations for Ewers were low in his first NFL start. Having that start come against the Bengals’ porous defense was the biggest reason for hope. The result was about as expected. The rookie threw for 260 yards in a negative game script. He didn’t throw a touchdown while tossing two picks. That may have been enough to earn him the starting job for the rest of the season.

Next up are the free-falling Buccaneers. Tampa has lost six of its last eight games and has been shredded through the air.  Bryce Young  ’s 17.64 points in Week 16 marked the first time since Week 7 that a quarterback failed to reach 18 points against the Bucs. Seventeen might be a high bar for Ewers, but he should still be a worthy QB2 or an interesting DFS contrarian play.

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