Fantasy Football Superflex Draft Guide, Tips, Strategy (2025)

John brings you RotoBaller's fantasy football superflex draft guide, with the best tips and strategy to help you win your superflex leagues for the 2025 NFL season.

If you've only played in normal leagues, with typical rosters and scoring settings -- namely, single-quarterback, four-point passing touchdown leagues -- you might have fun branching off into a superflex league. These leagues have an extra spot in the starting lineup that can be filled by a quarterback, running back, wide receiver, or tight end.

They're essentially flex spots with the QB position as an additional option. Naturally, these completely change the game. QBs are, on average, easily the highest-scoring position in fantasy football. This is especially true in most superflex leagues, which feature six-point passing touchdowns.

So obviously, the strategy completely changes. Every starting quarterback is typically rostered in these leagues, meaning it's the scarcest and overall most valuable asset you can have. Yet you still need good production from your other positions.

• 2025 fantasy football rankings
• Running back (RB) fantasy football rankings
• Wide receiver (WR) fantasy football rankings
• Tight end (TE) fantasy football rankings
• Quarterback (QB) fantasy football rankings
• Defense (D/ST) fantasy football rankings
• NFL rookie fantasy football rankings
• Best ball fantasy football rankings
• Superflex fantasy football rankings
• Dynasty fantasy football rankings

Keep in mind -- this guide will be for superflex, six-point passing TD PPR leagues. So let's dive into RotoBaller's superflex guide for 2025!

Fantasy Football Superflex Draft Guide - Target Quarterbacks Early

This should go without saying, but depending on where you draft and how you choose players, it's easy to get absolutely wrecked by the draft, quickly falling behind in team potential and possibly losing your league before you've played a single game. You should plan on taking two quarterbacks in the first five rounds, at minimum.

There are obviously elite receivers and running backs that warrant first and second-round picks. But in 12-team leagues, with 60 total players being selected in the first six rounds, the quarterback talent pool gets sucked dry extremely quickly. Multiple QBs far outscore all but the best wide receivers and running backs, while generally playing at a less injury-prone position, too.

As you can see in this superflex rookie rankings list from 2024, six of the top-5 spots are QBs. In hindsight, it probably would have been a great idea to pick Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Penix Jr. earlier. He was seen as likely to be benched for at least one full season and probably more, but he's now the locked-in starter.

Top-30 Superflex rookie rankings (with tiers)

If I have a player ranked far above consensus (e.g., Nix), I'd try to get all my shares close to ADP.

Don't let the Nix ranking cause you to have zero Brooks/Worthy, etc. pic.twitter.com/Nc1MwXYq04

— Ryan Heath (@RyanJ_Heath) April 29, 2024

While Sleeper ADP has just eight QBs ranked in the first three rounds of their two-QB leagues, once a run on signal-callers starts, especially in home leagues, you have to worry about too many of them getting picked too quickly. This makes sense because even "lower-tier" QBs become incredibly valuable later on.

QBs routinely score 40 points or more in six-point pass TD leagues. Many matchups are determined almost solely by QB production. Two QBs scoring 40 or more points, depending on the roster size, can build you a nearly insurmountable lead.

There are only 32 NFL teams, so you quickly run out of starting quarterbacks after the first five rounds. If you pick early and don't take at least two QBs in the first three rounds, you could be out of luck when bye weeks come and have to use bench spots on multiple backups in hopes one of them gets starting time.

Fantasy Football Superflex Draft Guide - When to Draft Backup QBs

It makes sense to ensure that you snag the backup quarterbacks of all the quarterbacks you draft as well. This is especially true if those NFL teams drafted QBs early in that year's draft. For example, had you taken Kirk Cousins last season, you would have hoped that you'd taken Penix later in your draft.

This season, the New York Giants drafted signal-caller Jaxson Dart. Dart was Pro Football Focus' highest graded quarterback of the 2024 college football season, and has significant potential to take over the starting job. According to my analysis, at least, Russell Wilson, the current starter, is likely to have lost his QB1 job by midseason.

Thus, it makes zero sense not to take Dart if you have Wilson. In six-point pass TD leagues, you might as well snag Jameis Winston. In fact, filling your bench with quarterbacks is often not a bad idea. You always want to have at least two good starting QBs, in case of injuries or bye weeks.

Jaxson Dart is the QB1 in this year's class and it's not close. Best processor, best under pressure, underrated athlete, and highly advanced in the mental aspects of the game. His understanding of what to do is levels above Ward and Sanders, who will struggle against pressure.

— JohnJohn Analysis (@JohnJohnalytics) March 1, 2025

After the first five or six rounds, the QB talent pool is so small that you're essentially shopping for backups. You can pounce by taking the highest-upside backups and stashing them on your roster. If you're in leagues where other teams want to ignore QBs starting around Round 7, you can snap them up and block other teams from taking them.

In most of the superflex sit-point pass TD leagues I've played in, only the absolute best of the non-QB players end up making a substantial difference. As a result, rostering a lot of third and fourth-string running backs and wide receivers doesn't make a ton of sense.

The typical waiver wire scrambles are for quarterbacks that end up getting the starting job over other QBs due to injuries or that player getting benched, and there's an easy path to 20 or more points for those QBs, even if they're not considered good signal-callers.

Fantasy Football Superflex Draft Guide - Filling your Bench with Upside Players

In superflex leagues, it makes sense to avoid players who clearly have careers in decline or who have middling production and are in similar situations as they were in previous seasons. You're better off taking dart throws on potential breakout players and rookies.

For example, a running back like Pittsburgh Steelers RB Jaylen Warren, who has essentially always played in a committee and never had a featured RB1 role, might not be particularly useful to your team. Players who can potentially score 20 or more points are much more valuable.

There's a higher barrier for non-QB players to win you your matchups. The massive glut of running backs and wide receivers in the later rounds of the draft is filled with veterans who have significant roles for their NFL teams, but not for your fantasy rosters.

Wide receivers to target and avoid in your fantasy drafts, based on my age curves research 👇🏻

On average, WRs take big steps forward in Years 2-3, peak around Years 5-6, and see sharp declines around Year 10. pic.twitter.com/8HAwgQ2KDi

— Ryan Heath (@RyanJ_Heath) August 27, 2023

As you can see from the above chart on age curves, wide receivers rarely break out in their fifth year in the league. While their career performance tends to be best at that age, it's second and third-year wideouts that take the most significant step forward. After their third season, they're likely to have shown at least a large fraction of their ceiling.

Of course, WRs moving to new teams can make a difference, but the bigger upside bet than a fourth-year vet is players who you believe are underrated that are in their second or third seasons, or rookies that are flying under the radar but show lots of promise.

Even if these players do nothing, drafting and hanging on to players that barely perform above a replacement-level waiver wire player is not likely to help you win your matchups. You should be swinging for the fences in hopes you get someone that has a season reminiscent of Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Bucky Irving's rookie year.

Reviewing insights from my July article on Age Curves — critical for your fantasy drafts!

Focusing on RB:

- Prime production is from Years 2-6
- Dropoffs occur in Years 7 through 9*

*Multiple players in this dangerous age range are being drafted very early. Read on… pic.twitter.com/kc7zrcDniT

— Ryan Heath (@RyanJ_Heath) August 17, 2023

Pretty much the same applies to running backs as it does to wide receivers, though they tend to break out a bit earlier. Huge rookie seasons are more common for backs, and this year's RB draft class was absolutely loaded. While the rest of the draft is focusing on the higher-ADP rookie backs, you should take shots on the cheaper ones.

Guys like Jaydon Blue, Jarquez Hunter, Bhayshul Tuten, and Brashard Smith are all very cheap in most redraft leagues, and they all have great athletic ability, with Blue and Tuten in particular being insanely explosive. Players with their speed and acceleration abilities are good bets to carve out bigger-than-expected roles.

Hunter and Smith join two backfields that seriously lacked explosiveness and elusiveness in 2024, so they could also gain prominent roles in their offenses. Those are the types of players you should target, and not hold out hope for some fifth-year veteran to finally break out!

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