Updated Fantasy Football Defense (D/ST) Rankings (2025) - Broncos D/ST, Steelers D/ST, Vikings D/ST, Chiefs D/ST, Bills D/ST, Packers D/ST, Jets D/ST

Whether you like to ride with an elite defense all season or stream a stop unit each week, identifying a defense with favorable early-season matchups is key. Ahead of your fantasy draft, we're here to help with our updated 2025 fantasy football defense (D/ST) rankings for redraft leagues. Below, check out where key fantasy defenses […]

10 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Busts: Draft Targets and Avoids for 2025

The 2025 fantasy football season is fast approaching. Experienced managers know that there is a significant amount of work ahead to adequately prepare their drafts. Whatever your approach is on draft day, it’s always important to remember one thing. You can’t win your league on draft day, but you sure can lose it. To that […]

Undervalued Fantasy Football Running Back Sleepers: Mid-Round RBs To Target In 2025 Drafts

After you have dedicated your efforts toward assembling a competitive roster during the initial rounds of your drafts, you should maintain the same degree of diligence as you construct your teams through the middle rounds. That also applies to your strategic approach at the running back position, which remains critical regardless of how you have […]

Win-Now Dynasty Fantasy Football Trade Targets: 8 Potential League-Winning Buys for 2025

For fantasy managers, the question is usually whether to blow up the roster or go into a complete rebuild. Well, it doesn't have to be that black and white; sometimes the best option is to retool on the fly.  For dynasty managers in particular, it's all about managing windows of opportunity. Some managers are always […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Draft Sleepers: Undervalued WR3s to Target in 2025

The ones are gone, the twos are off the board, and now the wide receiver board is looking thin. Don't fret, fantasy football managers. There's still talent to be tapped out of the WR3s. Selecting receivers on elite offenses or rookies with the ability to move up the depth chart are two smart strategies. Sometimes, […]

6 NFC South Fantasy Football Draft Targets or Avoids: Undervalued/Overvalued Players

The NFC South used to be one of the most competitive divisions in football, but it has developed a reputation as a bad division in recent seasons. The Buccaneers have won the division every season since 2021, but have failed to make the NFC Championship Game in these four seasons, so they could hardly be […]

Underdog Fantasy Football Rankings: 2025 Best Ball

Welcome, RotoBallers, to our Underdog Fantasy Football Rankings for 2025 Best Ball leagues on Underdog Fantasy. Keep in mind that on the Underdog Fantasy platform, NFL best ball leagues only have four positions: Quarterback (QB), Running Back (RB), Wide Receiver (WR), and Tight End (TE). You will see these four positions reflected in the rankings […]

Updated Fantasy Football Kicker Rankings (2025) - Brandon Aubrey, Jake Bates, Cameron Dicker, Chris Boswell, Harrison Butker, Jake Elliott, Younghoe Koo

The new fantasy football season is inching closer, and while the kicker spot is not the most exciting position, it can make the difference between winning and losing weekly matchups. Ahead of your fantasy draft, we're here to help with our updated 2025 fantasy football kicker rankings for redraft leagues. In the rankings below, check […]

Fantasy Football Landmines: Draft Avoids and Busts in Each of the First 10 Rounds

The 2025 NFL season is quickly approaching. If you want this to be the year you finally win your fantasy football league’s trophy, then now is the time to start planning. There’s an old saying when it comes to fantasy football. You don’t win your league on draft day, but you sure can lose it. […]

Fun Ways To Determine Your Fantasy Football League's Draft Order

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived! No, not Christmas. It's fantasy football draft season! The time to hang out with loved ones as you draft the team that is going to decimate each and every other one in your league. The time to trash talk your opponents and make them feel worthless. […]

Dynasty TE1 Candidates: 3 Tight Ends Who Could Dethrone Brock Bowers in Fantasy Football (2025)

One offseason ago, Sam LaPorta was widely viewed as the TE1 for dynasty fantasy football leagues (He's going to be on my roster until he retires!). That didn't last long. Brock Bowers rewrote the record books in his rookie season and cemented himself atop the dynasty rankings. Now entering his second season, with an improved […]

5 Risky Wide Receivers to Buy in Dynasty Fantasy Football Leagues: Top WR Trade Targets

Fantasy leagues come in all sizes and formats – from the six-team single-QB league you started ages ago with four of your closest friends and one of your friend's friends, to the 16-team Superflex with rotating bonuses and a league charter longer than a few James Joyce novels. But no matter which league you're talking […]

5 Quarterback ADP Busts for Fantasy Football: Overvalued QBs to Fade

While we talk about how important running backs are, how vital it is to have multiple elite wide receivers, and how increasingly necessary it is to pinpoint top-end tight end production in fantasy, the quarterback has become a bit of an afterthought. It’s hard to say that when we’ve gotten so much bankable production at […]

Dynasty Start-Up Draft Targets: 5 Rookies and Sophomores to Chase in Fantasy Football

It's crucial to draft the right players in your dynasty fantasy football startup leagues, and certain players can be had for massively cheap. Those are generally the players you should target, though it's important to try to chase value in every round. Taking a holistic view of the player and their situation can help you […]

Top 100 Fantasy Football Rookie Rankings (2025): Ashton Jeanty, RJ Harvey, Emeka Egbuka, Jaylin Noel, Cam Skattebo, Kaleb Johnson, Matthew Golden

Rookie draft season rolls on as the 2025 fantasy football season inches closer, and it's time to check in on our updated 2025 fantasy football rookie rankings after the NFL Draft, with ranks for the top 100 NFL rookies. Below, navigate the rankings table to find out where key first-year players like Ashton Jeanty, RJ […]

5 Fantasy Football Tight End Target Hogs to Draft: High-Volume Pass-Catchers for 2025

The tight end landscape has definitely changed in recent years. After only five tight ends finished with above 175 PPR fantasy points in 2022, nine finished above that 175-point threshold in 2023, and another seven scored above that mark last year. Therefore, it's safe to say that the tight end position is deeper than ever. […]

8 Fantasy Football Rookies to Target or Fade - Undervalued Sleepers, Overvalued Busts in Best Ball Drafts (2025)

Every year, we see rookie players shoot up draft boards throughout the summer. It is easy to fall in love with the potential of a young player in a new landing spot, especially when recent seasons have seen rookies have massive fantasy impacts. Rookies do have the ability to make or break fantasy teams. Find […]

7 Fantasy Football Rebound Candidates to Target: Last Year's Busts to Draft in 2025

Set those clocks. As we enter July, fantasy football drafts across the world are being scheduled. NFL football is now just weeks away. Sure, it's preseason football, but it's football nonetheless. Now, I could list some studs due to bounce back, but listing off the likes of Christian McCaffrey, Breece Hall, and Kenneth Walker III […]

Top Candidates to Dethrone Josh Allen as the QB1 in Dynasty Fantasy Football (2025)

Josh Allen is deservingly the dynasty fantasy football QB1 at the moment. His combination of arm strength and speed makes him a fantasy cheat code and the most valuable quarterback to roster in dynasty leagues. Things change, though. Allen's been at or around the dynasty QB1 spot for a few years now, but each passing […]

Travis Etienne Jr. vs Bhayshul Tuten: Fantasy Football Outlook for Jaguars RBs in 2025

The backfield of the Jacksonville Jaguars is confusing many fantasy managers right now. The clear top-4 candidates for the positions of RB1 and RB2 are likely Travis Etienne Jr., Tank Bigsby, Bhayshul Tuten, and LeQuint Allen Jr., so at least we know that. Etienne is a veteran entering his fourth season, while Bigsby was drafted […]

2025 Fantasy Football Rookie TE Rankings (July Updates): Elijah Arroyo, Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, Gunnar Helm, Harold Fannin, Mason Taylor

Whether you're in a dynasty, rookie, or season-long fantasy football draft, tight ends are always the toughest position to navigate. To help your rookie draft efforts, we're back with our 2025 fantasy football rookie tight end rankings. Below, check out where key Year 1 TEs, including Elijah Arroyo, Colston Loveland, Tyler Warren, Gunnar Helm, Harold […]

4 Fantasy Football Tight End Sleepers: Undervalued ADP Value Picks for 2025

Most agree there are three elite tight ends in fantasy football this season. Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, and George Kittle are all deserving of an early round pick, but what happens after that? According to Yahoo's average draft position (ADP), only three tight ends go between picks 40 and 100. That's Sam LaPorta, T.J. Hockenson, […]

2025 Fantasy Football Rankings (Preseason Rankings)

Editor's Note: Stay on top of your draft prep with RotoBaller’s fantasy football rankings, featuring expert analysis, ADPs, and draft insights for both PPR and non-PPR leagues. Check out all of RotoBaller's fantasy football rankings. Staff rankings are updated regularly for all positions and include standard formats, PPR scoring, tiered rankings and dynasty leagues.

4 Cheap Dynasty Trade Targets: Bargain-Bin Fantasy Football Buys in 2025

What a weekend! I was in charge of organizing the Scott Fish Bowl Live Drafts in Dallas. This is Dallas' (and my) third year hosting the event, and it was such a fun time. It's weird hosting an event when nothing goes off the rails, especially since all the other years felt so stressful. Shout […]

10 Fantasy Football League-Winners to Draft After Round 10: Breakout Candidates, Sleepers, Value Picks

As we approach the redraft season, mock drafts are unfolding left and right to predetermine who you can get in each round to build your dream team. If you're coming off the 2024 season, where you drafted Bo Nix as a late-round flyer at his QB23 ADP, Bucky Irving at his RB53 ADP, or even […]

Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Draft Busts: Overvalued WR2s to Avoid in 2025

It's one of the most common talking points in sports media: Who do you go to when you need a big play? On the football field, it's the top wide receiver, and those are the guys fantasy managers love to target early in drafts. But there's a handful of No. 2 receivers (Tee Higgins, Davante […]

Evaluating Ambiguous Fantasy Football Backfields: Bears, Cowboys, Jaguars, Patriots

With drafters getting smarter every year, trend-breaking strategies that felt like well-kept, league-winning secrets just a few short years ago can now seem commonplace. At the same time, it's important to always be ready to zag as soon as the rest of your league starts zigging -- or zig once more as zagging becomes the […]

2025 Fantasy Football Rookie WR Rankings (July Updates): Travis Hunter, Matthew Golden, Jayden Higgins, Elic Ayomanor, Jaylin Noel, Kyle Williams

NFL training camps are set to begin later this month, and it's time to start digging into rookies if you have not done so yet. To get you up to speed on first-year players, check out our 2025 fantasy football rookie wide receiver rankings. Below, check out where key Year 1 wideouts, including Travis Hunter, […]

6 Fantasy Football Rookie Values and Sleepers for Redraft Leagues: First-Year Draft Targets for 2025

The 2025 NFL Draft is already two months in the past. That means it is time for fantasy managers to lock in and do the research necessary for their upcoming fantasy drafts. With the elite seasons that rookies Jayden Daniels, Brian Thomas Jr., Brock Bowers, and more had last year, it would be wise to […]