As the season wears on, the art of identifying sleepers gets evermore tiresome. Few stones have been unturned to this point. The hot upside plays that were under-discu sed just a few weeks ago are now every week starters.With a wave of injuries crushing fantasy rosters in Week 8, and six teams on bye this week, we'll leave no stone unturned to find roster fillers for you in this round. Some of these picks may not offer week-tilting upside, but most are widely available and can plug a hole if the bye-week gauntlet or the injury bug left you with several holes on your roster.Looking ahead to this weekend's action, there are 10(ish) sleepers I like to outperform what the ma ses expect from them in Week 9, including several I feel very strongly about, and two quarterbacks with the potential to strike big.Colonel Sanders' Super Secret Sleeper WRsYes, this isn't just one sleeper. But deciphering this situation is of much Brandon Aiyuk Women Jersey more importance than arbitrarily naming a player who has an outside shot at helping you this week. The three players outlined here have a chance to add value to your fantasy roster the rest of the season. Even for this week, they play a secondary that hemorrhages touchdowns to wide receivers, allowing a score on a league-leading 10.2 percent of the targets against them. All are bargains on daily fantasy sites, and one could return big value to your Week 9 DFS roster. In a vicious wave of Week 8 injuries, was one of the victims claimed. This is a ma sive lo s for the , as Allen owned a 26 percent share of the team's 306 pa sing targets this season, and led the NFL in receptions. owners now must prepare to weather the storm if they lost him, and pounce on his potential replacements. analysts acro s the industry fielded plenty of questions about all three of these receivers this week, so let's outline them here. is the recommended player to chase everywhere you can. When healthy, Johnson was the full-time No. 2 wide receiver to Allen in this offense. He's played 81 percent of the snaps in all six of the games he's started this season, despite leaving two early with injuries. He also trailed only Allen in pa sing targets in those six games, with being the only other player close. showed great chemistry with Johnson, and the receiver enjoyed catching pa ses from the best quarterback he's paired with in his career.I was a big fan of Johnson as a sleeper , and he paid off with 14 catches for 173 yards and two touchdowns in the first three weeks. He's the preferred pickup in the wake of Allen's injury, because as that Reception Perception sample shows in the link above, he plays the receiver position in many ways parallel to Allen. Both make their best plays in the short and underneath game, and have a unique way of running routes while still earning separation. As long as he's healthy, he has the best chance to put up consistent production of these three receivers. His volume is the steadiest, and fits the void left by Allen comfortably.Coming off a two-touchdown game, seems like a natural replacement for fantasy owners. However, remember that Floyd is the same player he's always been: a low catch percentage receiver who lives off the long ball. Floyd is certainly worth an add, but is a matchup-based play only. Dating back to 2012, Floyd scores .27 more touchdowns per game, and 2.96 more fantasy points against pa s defenses ranked in the bottom 10. Playing in what he says is his final NFL season, there's little reason to expect him to suddenly become le s streaky. Play him in those favorable spots only, but expect variation. This week's tilt with Chicago looks like a good script for Floyd. is the only other player on the wideout roster that offers intrigue. He's not someone to add right away, but with Floyd nearing the end of his road, the team may consider taking a look at the talented young Inman, especially considering their playoff hopes look bleak. The 6-foot-3, 205 pound UVA product came to San Diego after tearing through the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts (100-1,542-11 in two years). He flashed at the end of his NFL rookie Vita Vea Youth Jersey season, posting back-to-back 79-yard outings to close the 2014 season. Again, this isn't a player worth picking up in standard 10 or 12 team leagues right now, but he's someone to monitor going forward. For deep dynasty leaguers, Inman needs to be rostered, and monitored for the rest of the season. He's flashed good speed for his size on film this year, averaging 17.6 yards per reception in the games he played 76 percent of the snaps to replace ., QB, Don't look now, but is stabilizing his play. Over the last three games, Winston completed 64.9 percent of his pa ses, and has a five total touchdowns to zero interceptions ratio. During that same span, Winston finished as the QB17, QB9 and QB12 in fantasy leagues. On the back of a strong running game, the No. 1 overall pick is making better decisions, and feeding off the presence of a now healthy .Tampa Bay welcomes the this weekend, a team who just allowed seven pa sing touchdowns to the . Now, New York won't bleed that much to Winston and his Bucs, but there is every reason to think he can have a viable streaming game. The field the worst pa s rush in the NFL, ranking 32nd in sack percentage. They bring down quarterbacks on 2.6 percent of the pa s plays against them. Winton's biggest kryptonite this year was the pre sure allowed by his offensive line. That shouldn't be much of an i sue in this contest, whether makes a go at his first NFL action after his fireworks accident or not.The have the horses to exploit the defense through the air. New York lets up 82.7 yards per game to the opponent's No. 1 wide receiver, and that is clearly for Tampa Bay. The return of (more on him later) could bring a big boost to the pa sing output. With six teams on bye this week, Winston can help get your through as a spot start at quarterback., QB, Just a few weeks ago we thought of the San Diego secondary as a matchup to avoid, and yet, we just watched go for 300 yards on them. is an emerging star- Saquon Barkley Women Jersey caliber cornerback, but the rest of the personnel leaves a bit to be desired. is banged up, and just isn't playing well. Much like the meeting with Baltimore, this matchup with the could easily turn into a shootout. Especially with out of the game, the scoring burden will lay at 's feet. While that normally isn't a comfortable proposition, Cutler is playing some of the best football of his career. Since returning from injury in Week 4, he's averaged 18.4 fantasy points per game, and his interception percentage is down from his 3.3 career average to just 1.9. While Verrett could be a slight thorn in 's side, the receiver owns a distinct advantage over the cornerback, as Nick Mensio of Rotoworld observed:Much like Alshon Jeffery, who has a 5-inch, 40-pound advantage on CB Jason Verrett for MNF. Nick Mensio (@NickMensio) Jeffery also holds a 35 percent share of Cutler's pa sing targets since the receiver's return to the lineup. Cutler can still feed his best weapon regardle s of coverage. While Winston is the preferred streamer, and more widely available, Cutler is on 37 percent of NFL.com waivers., RB, With the unfortunate season-ending injury to , there is opportunity open in the backfield. While will still own the vast majority of the rushing work in this offense, this will make a bit more room for . Since Spiller's return in Week 3, he played 24 percent of the team's snaps, while Robinson was in for 20 percent. While a suming Spiller absorbs all of those reps (and becomes a 40 percent snap or more player) is quite the leap, we can project a decent bump into the 30 percent range.The offense seems back to firing on close to all cylinders, at least. That is a nece sary step in Spiller meeting some of the lofty predraft expectations some held for him this year. With an increase in opportunity, Spiller could make some noise against a team visiting the Superdome. Again, with six teams on bye, Spiller can be a nice upside flex flier., RB, The split their running back snaps and touches four ways, or at least they have the last two weeks. It's been mostly an impo sible situation to predict. However, we can't afford to be too picky here in Week 9. There may be more opportunity for in this game than the other options. Intriguing youngster, , mi sed most of the game with an injury, and was limited in Wednesday's practice. is averaging 2.7 yards per carry, and offers next to nothing to his team. Rational coaching would a sume his touches need reducing.The two most effective backs for this team have been and . Vereen is a pa s-catching a set only for the most part, and his production is anything but predictable with this three way split. He followed up his big Weeks 2 and 5 with 2.3 and 0.6 points, respectively. Jennings hasn't been an all-star, but is the only back who contributes in both phases of the game, and is Football Outsider's DVOA 13th ranked running back.The matchup with Tampa Bay should create some opportunities for offensive players from both sides. Neither defense offers much resistance, both offenses are improving, and there could be plenty of points scored. If you're plucking a running back from this group to take advantage of the scoring opportunities, it should be Jennings., WR, It's been a rough late start to the 2015 season for . After a debut with multiple drops, LaFell managed just four catches for 47 yards in the blowout of Miami last Thursday. Neverthele s, he's a 77 percent snap player in the NFL's best offense, and getting 7.5 targets per game from the best quarterback in football. Remember too that last year the stuck through it with LaFell while he struggled to pick the offense up. He didn't make an impact until Week 4, and was the WR15 from that game onward.If there was a week to get LaFell rolling, this might be the one to do it. New England welcomes Washington to Gillette Stadium this week, and they rank 26th in fantasy points allowed to wide receivers per target. Injuries continue to hamper the secondary, and their front seven came back to earth in the last few weeks. LaFell is unlikely to have the same role and impact he enjoyed last year. However, as a bye week filler, you could do a lot worse than a player in one of the league's best offenses in a good weekly spot. He's a solid roster filler for DFS tournaments, as well, with what is sure to be low ownership percentage coming off two bad public weeks., WR, This is le s about a play for this week, outside of deeper leagues, and more about someone to keep on your radar. After "losing" to free agency this offseason, the nabbed a perfect long-term replacement and potential upgrade when they took in the fifth round of the draft. Hardy is a quick-twitch short-area receiver, who plays bigger than his frame in traffic. He's a tough player who plays with aggre sion, and showed a solid understanding of route concepts at East Carolina.Seeing the first game action of his rookie season, Hardy played on 66 percent of the team's snaps in Week 8. While he was third behind and , we know the latter is no longer a threat with his average of 3.5 targets per game. San Francisco has a poor secondary, and perhaps Hardy can give you usable fantasy numbers for this week. Duke Johnson Men Jersey However, again, this is more pointing him out for investigative purposes to see if he can make a run at a long-term role in this offense with (hamstring) not sustaining his early season momentum., TE, The play the this week, who in case you didn't know, struggle to defend tight ends. Outside of the broken down ' zero in Week 5, the lowest weekly score the allowed to a tight ends was TE13 to on one catch last week. Some trends aren't worth following, but this matches up with what we see on the field. The linebackers aren't stellar coverage players, and they don't have the speed at safety at this point to stick with athletic tight ends. The matchup is just another reason to play , but really this comes back to the fancy he earns from . Throughout their careers together, there has long been a bond between the two, with Miller serving as his quarterback's safety blanket. He opened the season with 11 targets from Ben, and saw 13 in his return from injury last week. With the volatility at tight end, you're mostly banking on a touchdown from your waiver-wire streamer to get you through. Miller is a safe proposition to get a chance at one, as he leads the with nine red zone targets this season., TE, If there's a team that is worse at defending the tight end position than the , it's the . They allow the second-highest receptions per game figure and the most yards per game to the position. This indicates that tight ends have a chance to steadily gain yards, and are not dependent on touchdowns to put up fantasy points on the . Just like we observed with the , this can be traced to personnel deficiencies. The Brandin Cooks Women Jersey long hold a preference for heavy-footed linebackers, and injuries wiped out their safety positon to the point where , a rookie from Alabama, is their only regular. started the year on a tear, catching two touchdowns in the opener, but hasn't played since Week 2. Understandably, most owners couldn't find a way to carry the talented tight end during that stretch, and he's currently available on 92.6 percent of NFL.com leagues' waivers. Seferian-Jenkins isn't a lock to play this week, but if he does, he can go right from the waiver wire into your lineup. There's a dearth of pa sing targets in Tampa Bay right now, and historically favors this positon., TE, With banged up, looking all but finished, and Hardy leading a cast of young players fighting for scraps, is emerging as the complement to . Tamme's snap percentage for the season sits at 60 percent, but it went up to 81 percent the last two games. During that same stretch, he's the second-most targeted player on the team with a 21 percent share. With his usage going up, Tamme was the third highest scoring tight end in Week 8. The travel to San Francisco to take on a team that just benched their starting quarterback for Baline Gabbert. With the looking to get back on track after a bitter home lo s to the rival Bucs, they will be looking to put up some points on the sinking Niners. The secondary receiver should be a big part of those efforts, and right now, that player is Tamme.Matt Harmon is an a sociate fantasy writer/editor for NFL.com, and the creator of , who you can follow on Twitter __.