Fantasy Sleeper Profile: WR Brian Hartline (Miami Dolphins)

As your draft enters its last rounds, all the big names will be long gone. All the medium names will be long gone. For the last couple rounds you’ll be looking at guys who likely won’t evening be starting barring injury to the true starter, guys like Knile Davis (workout warrior and backup running back to Jamaal Charles in Kansas City) and Andre Williams (rookie running back currently behind Rashad Jennings on the Giants depth chart).

There is one exception, a player who will actually play a majority of offensive snaps for his team and is actually available in the bottom of your draft: wide receiver Brian Hartline of the Miami Dolphins.

It’s absurd that Hartline is so unheralded that in many leagues he is going undrafted entirely. What does the man have to do? Put together back-to-back 1,000 yard seasons? Yeah, he did that, with 1,083 yards in 2012 and 1,016 yards in 2013. That sort of consistency is a feat receivers available in the mid-rounds of your fantasy draft, let alone the later rounds, rarely achieve.

There is a reason Hartline is available so late in your draft. He has never been a particularly explosive player, notching just two 100-yard games in 2013 and three in 2012. While he does not exactly provide starter-quality fantasy production, he has reliable hands and sees enough targets to get you a handful of points during one of your starting wide receiver’s bye weeks, which is more that can be said of any other player selected in the very last round.

 

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