Best Fantasy Football mid-round sleeper picks for 2023 season

The start of the 2023 NFL regular season is just around the corner and that means fantasy football drafts are ramping up!

Have you had your draft already? If so, hopefully you were able to snag one of these mid-round value picks. If you have yet to have your draft, these are the kinds of players who could be "league winners" based on the round that you take them in.

Here, I am going to be giving you the best mid-round option at each position for this coming season. These are players who will be selected in the fourth round or later of most drafts.

If you are unable to land some of the top players on your board, these are all tremendous fall-back options. Don't sell these players short this season, they could carry you to the championship.

Best Fantasy Football mid-round sleeper picks for 2023

Quarterback- Kirk Cousins, Minnesota Vikings

Kirk Cousins could be outside most top 10 lists at the quarterback position but he plays on an offense that could rely on the pass much more this season with Dalvin Cook no longer in the backfield.

Cousins passed for 4,547 yards last season, the second-most of his career, and 29 touchdowns. He could eclipse those numbers in a Vikings offense that features Justin Jefferson, T.J. Hockenson, K.J, Osborn and first-round pick Jordan Addison.

Fantasy owners are going to grab Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson ahead of Cousins. But if you're one of those owners that likes to wait on the quarterback position until the middle of the draft, you could do a lot worse.

Cousins does not have the fantasy upside that guys like Mahomes and Hurts do, but he is still quite capable of a big game. Plus, he is the one throwing to the best wide receiver in the league at the moment, so the chance of big plays due to that connection are up there too.

Best Fantasy Football mid-round sleeper picks for 2023

Running back- Breece Hall, New York Jets

It may come as a bit of a surprise to see Breece Hall here, as some fantasy owners may have him high on their list, but looking at the general consensus of rankings around the internet, he's not high on those.

There are so many running backs that players are going to select ahead of Hall, who is coming off a nasty season-ending injury that shut down his rookie season. The addition of Cook to the Jets backfield also clouds things.

Hall should be available in the third or even fourth round of drafts and if he is there, he is well worth the pick.

He is going to play in a high octane Jets offense led by Aaron Rodgers and if that offense gets clicking, he could be a massive weapon for your fantasy team. Think of what Rodgers did with Aaron Jones in Green Bay. He could easily duplicate that with Hall, who is a superior back to Jones in just about every way.

Check out the most up-to-date rankings put out by Fantasy Pros. Hall checks in as their No. 16 running back. I'd rather have Hall than AT LEAST five of the guys ahead of him on that list so he is a name you could really get some great value out of if you can get him in one of those later rounds.

Best Fantasy Football mid-round sleeper picks for 2023

Wide Receiver- D.J. Moore, Chicago Bears

I fully realize that it's dangerous to talk up a wide receiver on the Chicago Bears, but the connection between Justin Fields and his new wide receiver D.J. Moore already seems special.

The Bears acquired Moore in the trade that sent the No. 1 overall pick in the draft to the Carolina Panthers and Moore has quickly become a top asset in the Bears' offense. Check out this play from the team's preseason opener.

As a Bears fan, or a Moore owner, it's impossible not to get excited about that.

Moore was a productive receiver in a pedestrian Carolina offense. Entering fantasy drafts, there will be owners in your league that are skeptical about how he'll perform in Chicago, a place not known for having great wide receivers and the fact that he'll be playing with Fields, who many see as more of a running quarterback.

Don't be that guy.

Fields is going to have a big year fantasy wise and the guy who is going to benefit from that the most is going to be Moore.

Here's a bold prediction. In the history of the Bears' franchise, they have only had nine players have 90 catches or more in a season. This year, Moore will become the 10th guy to do that.

Best Fantasy Football mid-round sleeper picks for 2023

Tight End- Chigoziem Okonkwo, Tennessee Titans

The tight end position is a tough one to evaluate as a fantasy manager. It seems that the list of "elite" tight ends is probably five guys or less so after that, any of them could be considered a good value pick depending on where you get them.

I like Chigoziem Okonkwo from the Titans as a player to see a chance at good volume this season.

As a rookie, Okonkwo caught 32 passes for 450 yards and three touchdowns. With a year already in the team's system, he should be expected to produce at a bigger clip in year two.

Quarterback Ryan Tannehill is going to need some trusted targets. He has DeAndre Hopkins, but this will be their first year together. Treylon Burks is also just a second-year guy and behind that, Okonkwo could easily be the No. 3 option in the passing game.

If you aren't able to select someone like Travis Kelce, Mark Andrews, George Kittle or maybe Hockenson, a guy like Okonkwo would be a nice potential value pick with a lot of upside in the later rounds.