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Is Tyreek Hill a Fantasy Football Wide Receiver to Avoid Drafting This Season? (2025)
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill has made a career out of dazzling NFL viewers with his incredible combination of acceleration and long speed. For years, defenses have had little in the way of answers for Hill's generational athleticism. That was, until last season. The Dolphins offense as a whole was much worse than it […]
John Johnson
4 League-Losing Fantasy Football Draft Picks: Early Round Bust Candidates to Avoid (2025)
Nothing's worse than picking a player in the early rounds of fantasy football drafts, only for them to become duds. Injuries aren't even the worst outcomes for these players -- when they produce much worse than expected, they're stuck on your roster. Players whom you don't think you can bench and who most aren't willing […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Tight End Player Outlooks: Projecting All 32 NFL Week 1 Starters (2025)
For many teams, it's pretty obvious who their starting tight end will be in Week 1. No one's losing sleep at night, waking up in cold sweats, and panicking over who will be the Las Vegas Raiders starting TE when Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season rolls around. That will clearly be Brock Bowers, […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Superflex Rookie Mock Draft: Round 3 Picks and Players to Target (2025)
The third round of rookie drafts in dynasty fantasy football leagues, despite generally being stripped of a lot of talent, still manages to have a few players who vastly outperform their ADP every season. Of course, in Superflex leagues, it's generally unlikely to get a good quarterback in these rounds. But players of other positions, […]
John Johnson
4 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Breakouts - Players Set to Take Over WR1 Roles (2025)
Who will earn and keep the coveted WR1 roles for each of the 32 teams in the NFL is a question that's not always easy to answer. But the eventual truth is important for fantasy managers to uncover, especially in dynasty fantasy football leagues. Being early on players like Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Sleepers and Draft Targets: 4 Undervalued Players for 2025
In the early rounds of fantasy football drafts, you're mostly looking for either elite players or players everyone knows are good, but you might think have a chance of taking the next step and becoming a top-10 performer at their position. Generally, we at least expect most of these players to be very good. But […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Preseason Schedule: Team Matchups, Game Dates, Start Times
NFL teams have already begun their organized team activities, so the vast majority of the NFL's players are back in action on the practice field. It's not long until the 2025 NFL season starts, but before the regular season, there are always preseason games. There are only three now, as opposed to four before, but […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Rookie Quarterback Outlook: Will Jaxson Dart Start For The New York Giants? (2025)
The New York Giants have a completely different quarterback room set for 2025 than they did in 2024. With Daniel Jones having departed the team last season, the team signed QBs Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston and drafted former Ole Miss signal-caller Jaxson Dart in the 2025 NFL Draft. The team likely thought highly of Dart, […]
John Johnson
Is Ashton Jeanty a First-Round Fantasy Football Draft Pick? First-Year Player Outlook and Analysis (2025)
Las Vegas Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty was selected by his new team with the sixth overall pick in this year's NFL Draft. The hype surrounding the Boise State product has reached a fever pitch at this point, and his ADP has soared in all league formats in fantasy football. Granted that we've never seen […]
John Johnson
Day 3 NFL Rookie Running Backs Who Could Start: 4 Fantasy Football Sleepers to Draft (2025)
The ever-coveted RB1 roles can lead to hugely productive fantasy seasons for running backs. There isn't much to explain here -- volume is nearly everything at the RB position. That's how unathletic players like Rams running back Kyren Williams can put up massive numbers -- they have huge, huge roles in their offenses. Obviously, the […]
John Johnson
4 Fantasy Football Wide Receivers to Avoid in Drafts: Injury-Prone Bust Candidates (2025)
Sometimes, star players suffer serious injuries that sideline them for extended periods. They then return to play, and after getting re-acclimated to NFL competition and shaking off some rust, they go right back to their winning ways and make us all feel stupid about writing them off for fantasy football that season. It would be […]
John Johnson
John Johnson's Top 5 Fantasy Football Bold Predictions: Player Outlooks and Analysis (2025)
NFL seasons are always full of surprises. In fantasy football, there are shockers pretty much every season. Yet, many fantasy football managers enter the year not willing to act on any bold predictions, instead just sticking with consensus, and in fact swearing by it, no matter how often it's wrong. Luckily for us, we thus […]
John Johnson
6 Third-Year Fantasy Football Sleepers: Breakout Candidates to Target in Drafts (2025)
If a player hasn't broken out in his first two years in the league, it's usually not a great sign. This is truer for some positions than others, though -- for example, it's generally expected (and observed) that running backs tend to break out earlier in their careers than do tight ends and quarterbacks. Still, […]
John Johnson
Key Backup Running Back Position Battles for Fantasy Football: Running Back Sleepers to Monitor
In dynasty fantasy football, it's important to evaluate every position group that you have on your roster by evaluating every positional battle on each NFL team. That can be a chore, but luckily for us, a lot of the hierarchies are pretty well set. We're not super interested in teams like the Philadelphia Eagles when […]
John Johnson
Kaleb Johnson, Tetairoa McMillan, Matthew Golden - Dynasty Fantasy Football Rookie Draft Busts
Perhaps the worst feeling you can get as a dynasty fantasy football manager that doesn't relate directly to losing matchups is when you invest a premium pick in a rookie draft in a player that ends up being a bust. Much of your offseason research should be dedicated to really scrutinizing players and their situations. Of […]
John Johnson
Chase Brown, Breece Hall, James Cook - Who Should I Draft in 2025 Fantasy Football?
The running back position is great, isn't it? It can be extremely difficult to predict the seasons that many backs will have. It's a mercurial position, with a lot of players breaking out early in their careers and without much forewarning, only for them to lose their jobs quickly. It's also a brutal position to […]
John Johnson
Tyreek Hill, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Marvin Harrison Jr. - Who Should I Draft in 2025 Fantasy Football?
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. are three WRs that are regularly being drafted in the second and third rounds of PPR redraft leagues. They're also not without significant risks, as are many players drafted in that range. It's not as […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Start-Up Draft Busts: 5 Overvalued Fantasy Football Picks for 2025
The startup draft for dynasty fantasy football leagues is unequivocally the most important single event in any league for fantasy managers. So obviously, busting on your picks can be pretty catastrophic. However, with ADP largely dictating who players draft, many unwittingly fall into traps. There are landmines in every year's drafts, yet many fantasy managers […]
John Johnson
4 Dynasty Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers and Busts: 2nd Round Draft Targets or Avoids (2025)
The second round of rookie dynasty fantasy football drafts is historically filled with good talent. Of course, they weren't everyone's first preferences, but that doesn't matter. NFL evaluations of prospects are never perfect, and plenty of players slip through the cracks, if not just a little bit. In addition, there are often heavy biases against […]
John Johnson
Should I Draft Dylan Sampson or Devin Neal? 2025 Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Draft Analysis
It's not always easy to distinguish clearly between running backs drafted in the middle-to-late rounds of the NFL Draft. But trying to sniff out who is in the better situation, who has a chance of getting early volume, and who will likely have the better career isn't an easy task. And in dynasty fantasy football, […]
John Johnson
Big-Name Fantasy Football Players to Avoid in 2025: 4 Overvalued "Stars"
Most people hate hearing that their favorite players will be busts in the upcoming fantasy football season. But turning a blind eye to the massive red flags that a lot of big-name players are waving in front of our faces is a great way to lose your fantasy football leagues. It's not like all of […]
John Johnson
Top 24 Tight End Rankings and Tiers for 2025 Fantasy Football
The tight end position is one of the most frustrating aspects of fantasy football for managers who don't play in tight end premium or TEP leagues. Those leagues award extra points to tight ends for receptions in excess of all other pass-catchers. Most leagues, especially redraft leagues, aren't TEP, though. The TE position can thus […]
John Johnson
6 Fantasy Football Outlooks for Second-Year Wide Receivers: Brian Thomas Jr., Malik Nabers, Ladd McConkey, Marvin Harrison Jr., and more
Last year's wide receiver class was touted as one of the best in the history of NFL drafts. For three receivers -- Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas Jr., and Ladd McConkey -- it lived up to the billing. But the depth wasn't quite what it was claimed to be, as we saw in Year 1. Instead, […]
John Johnson
Top 24 Fantasy Football Running Backs: Player Outlooks, Rankings and Tiers (2025)
The running back position is difficult to predict year over year. We often see backs have explosive breakouts, only to fade into obscurity just a few seasons later. Additionally, there's a long history of huge busts at the position, for a variety of reasons. Injuries, changes in offensive schemes, and unsustainable production early in players' […]
John Johnson
When Will Dak Prescott, Brandon Aiyuk, Chris Godwin Return for Fantasy Football? NFL Offeason Injury Updates
As much as it absolutely stinks to see, injuries are just a part of life for football players. It's a sport where many of the world's best athletes are crashing into each other and falling to the ground on top of each other at ridiculously high speeds. Season-ending injuries can be brutal for everyone involved. […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Zero RB Strategy - 4 Running Back Sleepers to Target and Draft (2025)
Zero-RB was possibly the worst strategy you could have followed in fantasy football drafts last season. If you missed out on a few key players, like Cincinnati Bengals running back Chase Brown, you likely would have regretted your choices greatly. This is primarily due to the rash of injuries that struck many of the league's […]
John Johnson
Will Travis Etienne be Traded? Top Landing Spots and Fantasy Football Player Outlook
It doesn't take long for things to change drastically in the NFL. Jacksonville Jaguars running back Travis Etienne Jr. rushed for 1,125 yards and five touchdowns in 2022, following that with a 1,008-yard, 11 rush TD season, adding 478 receiving yards and a receiving score to those totals. But the cracks were already showing -- […]
John Johnson
Tyreek Hill Trade Proposal, Rumors, and Top Landing Spots - Fantasy Football Player Outlook (2025)
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill easily had the most disappointing season of his career in 2024, at least relative to expectations. After two league-winning seasons in a row, he failed to come close to his projections last season, finishing as the overall WR18. What was worse were his matchup-losing weeks. 6.6, 7.0, 8.2, 2.3, […]
John Johnson
Top 24 Quarterback Rankings and Tiers for 2025 Fantasy Football
A lot of the players on a list of the top 24 quarterback rankings wouldn't surprise most people. Neither would the tiers they fit into. With QB being the most stable position in the NFL in the sense that elite quarterbacks tend to have the longest careers of any non-special team player, this isn't much […]
John Johnson
Second-Year Fantasy Football Regression Candidates: Potential Sophomore Fallers
No one likes to hear that one of their favorite rookies, who just had a nice season to start their career, could be set to regress and put up disappointing (relatively) numbers in their second season. But the fact is that it happens all the time, no matter how much dynasty fantasy football bagholders want […]
John Johnson