With fantasy football reaching massive popularity in a golden era for information, true sleepers rarely exist.
This is a new world where everyone collectively freaks out after Ameer Abdullah's eye-opening preseason display. Sorry to say, but the Detroit Lions rookie is far from a hidden gem. Instead, he'll vault into a top-25, perhaps top-20 running back by the end of the month.
Grantland's Bill Barnwell debunked the sleeper label, pointing out the lack of uncovered talent when everyone in the league is also digging:
It’s going to be awful hard to come up with that one player in 100 whom nobody else is considering.