Top Fantasy Football Breakout Candidates: 8 Draft Targets for 2025

What exactly is a "breakout" player? It can be thought of as multiple things. It can be a player who is undervalued who goes all "scorched-earth" on the field. It can be a player who showed upside last year who puts it all together over a full season this year. When I think of a […]

6 Fantasy Football Rookies With Top-12 Positional Upside In 2025

Every season, a handful of rookies finish in the top 30 or so players at their respective positions in fantasy football. However, the truly elite players finish in the top 12 and go on to be difference-makers for your team. Running backs and wide receivers in particular can achieve such a feat. Rookie seasons from […]

Fantasy Football Draft Values and Avoids: Early ADP Analysis For 2025

When preparing for your fantasy football draft, it’s always a good starting point to see where players are currently being selected in drafts. One way you can do so is by analyzing average draft position (ADP). This can help you gain an edge in your league by identifying breakouts, values, or potential busts. Depending on […]

4 Fantasy Football Quarterbacks To Avoid in 2025 Drafts

The quarterback position is one of the least consistent positions in fantasy football from year to year. The top-tier fantasy quarterbacks, such as Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and Jalen Hurts, tend to stay near the top, but many pocket passers fluctuate based on various factors. Additionally, players will have unusual spike years, such as the […]

2025 Fantasy Football PPR Rankings: Post-NFL Draft Updates for Malik Nabers, Ashton Jeanty, Christian McCaffrey, Travis Hunter, Bucky Irving, more

The NFL Draft has come and gone, which means the 2025 fantasy football season will be here before you know it. Now that we know where the majority of impact players will play, the fantasy football pecking order is beginning to take shape. Below, check out our team's early 2025 fantasy football PPR rankings for […]

2025 NFL Schedule Analysis For Fantasy Football

The NFL schedule release is a pivotal moment for fantasy football enthusiasts, marking the transition from offseason speculation to actionable planning. Far beyond a mere list of games, the schedule offers a treasure trove of insights that savvy fantasy managers can leverage to gain a competitive edge. By analyzing the strength of the schedule, bye weeks, […]

Fantasy Football Bounce-Back Candidates You Must Have in 2025

One bad season shouldn't deter you from drafting players in fantasy football. Bounce-back seasons are more common than you think, and we'll likely see a bunch of them this season. For several reasons, these players struggled to live up to the hype in 2024 and let their fantasy managers down. However, these stars are determined […]

Video: Early 2025 Fantasy Football PPR Rankings - Top 12

The fantasy football world continues to turn its attention to the 2025 NFL season. Here at RotoBaller, we're taking a look at the Top 12 players in our early PPR Rankings for 2025. RotoBaller analyst David Rispoli highlights the Top 12 players in our early 2025 Fantasy Football PPR Rankings. Win MORE in 2025 with […]

Fantasy Football Best Ball Sleepers For 2025 - Quarterback Draft Targets

The 2025 NFL Draft and free agency have passed us by, so we're now in the thick of best ball season. This is a great time to be drafting because you can find some terrific value on players. Once training camp and preseason get going, some players will rise in average draft position, so you […]

Brock Purdy Signs Five-Year Extension

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has agreed to a massive extension with the organization on Friday. The two sides have agreed to a five-year, $265 million deal, which includes $181 million in guaranteed money. The 2022 Mr. Irrelevant gets his big payday with $165.1 million coming his way in the first three years of […]

More to Derek Carr's Retirement Than his Injury?

Everyone concedes that quarterback Derek Carr (shoulder) was dealing with a torn right labrum and "significant degenerative changes to his rotator cuff," but not everyone believes it's the full story of why he abruptly retired, according to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler and Katherine Terrell. Just before free agency in early March, word began to spread within […]

Browns Say Shedeur Sanders is Willing to Put in the Work

Former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders went from being a projected first-round pick in this year's NFL draft to not being taken until No. 144 overall in the fifth round by the Cleveland Browns. The Browns passed on Sanders six times before taking him with their seventh pick. However, head coach Kevin Stefanski is confident Sanders […]

Browns Maximizing Reps For Rookies

Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski told the media that he added 7-on-7 passing reps to the team's practice program in order to maximize reps for rookies. According to Zac Jackson of The Athletic, rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel took the first snaps in the competitive drills, which was expected given that he was selected 50 […]

2025 Could Be A Redshirt Year For Jaxson Dart

ESPN's Jordan Ranaan writes that if all goes well with New York Giants quarterback Russell Wilson as the starter and he stays healthy, rookie first-round QB Jaxson Dart will sit and redshirt in his first year in the NFL. If things don't go well and the Giants are losing, or if Wilson gets hurt, Dart […]

UFL DFS Lineup Picks: DraftKings Daily Fantasy Advice for Week 8

Welcome to Week 8 of the UFL season, RotoBallers! The playoff race is officially heating up. Birmingham and Michigan are rolling in the USFL conference, while D.C. and St. Louis have emerged as the class of the XFL conference. We’ve got four games on tap this weekend, starting Friday night with Memphis traveling to San […]

2025 NFL Schedule Winners and Losers

What was once an event with little fanfare is still an event with little fanfare. But thanks to the constant obsession of corporations with increasing their profits and squeezing revenue out of everything possible, now we have the schedule release becoming some big event. We're at the peak of boredom in the offseason, at the […]

Raiders Hiring Brandon Hunt As Vice President Of Player Personnel

The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring Philadelphia Eagles senior director of scouting Brandon Hunt as their vice president of player personnel, according to NFL insider Jordan Schultz. Hunt has worked in the NFL since 2005 in various roles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans, and Eagles. He joins new Raiders general manager John Spytek's front […]

Caleb Williams Considered Way Around Going To The Bears

According to details from a forthcoming book reveal, quarterback Caleb Williams and his family consulted with lawyers to find potential ways around being drafted first overall by the Chicago Bears in 2024. "Chicago is the place quarterbacks go to die," Carl Williams, Caleb's father, told Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the […]

Dynasty Quarterback Risers and Fallers: 2025 Fantasy Football Offseason Winners and Losers

With the NFL Draft behind us, it is time to turn our attention to the Dynasty fantasy football leagues that never rest. Like the quarterback market, dynasty football is ever-changing, with new wrinkles being thrown at us, constantly changing the received value of the quarterback position. Here are several quarterbacks in dynasty football that have […]

Quarterback Fantasy Football Rankings for Best Ball

Best ball is a fantasy football format in which you draft a full roster of players, and each week, only the players with the most points scored are included in your team's scores. You don't have to worry about who you start and who you bench, as your lineup will automatically be optimized. Of course, […]

Hendon Hooker "Off To A Good Start" In QB2 Competition

Detroit Lions quarterback Hendon Hooker missed nearly his entire rookie campaign in 2023 while recovering from a torn ACL, and he appeared in just three games last year. Overall, he completed three of his six passing attempts for 62 yards. The former third-round pick out of Tennessee is competing with Kyle Allen for the backup […]

Vikings To Host Lions On Christmas Day

The Minnesota Vikings will host the NFC North division-rival Detroit Lions on Christmas Day on Dec. 25 in Week 17 in 2025 in a game that will be on Netflix, sources tell FOX Sports' Jordan Schultz. The Lions went 15-2 in the regular season last year to win the division, but they were upset in […]

Super Bowl Rematch Will Come In Week 2

The Super Bowl 59 rematch between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs will come in Week 2 in Kansas City on Sept. 14, sources tell FOX Sports' Jordan Schultz. The Chiefs were pursuing an NFL-record third straight Super Bowl championship back in February, but the Eagles spoiled their party and went up 34-0 before […]

Chiefs To Face Cowboys On Thanksgiving Day

The National Football League announced on Wednesday that the Kansas City Chiefs will travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys for a Thanksgiving Day showdown on Nov. 27. The following month, the Chiefs will host the division-rival Denver Broncos on Christmas night. Kansas City and Dallas last played each other in November of 2021, […]

Packers-Lions To Face Each Other In Week 1

Quarterback Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers will open the 2025 regular season at home at Lambeau Field against NFC North rival Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Sept. 7, sources told FOX Sports' Jordan Schultz. Believe it or not, this will be the first time in head coach Matt LaFleur's tenure […]

Dynasty Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - May 2025 Market Report and Rankings

The dynasty market is again on the move, and the NFL Draft has concluded. Throughout the offseason, we at RotoBaller have been tracking the market's ups and downs from free agency to the draft, and it's been rather telling. We have finally seen where the class of 2025 has ended and which veterans are potentially […]

Derek Carr "Extremely Unlikely" To Make A Comeback

Retired quarterback Derek Carr (shoulder) is "extremely unlikely" to make a comeback in 2026, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. The 34-year-old is already making other professional plans. Carr will eventually land on the New Orleans Saints' reserve/retired list, and an unretirement in 2026 would likely trigger an immediate release of his […]

Tyler Shough, Chris Olave, Rashid Shaheed Fantasy Football Outlooks: Post-Derek Carr Retirement

New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr announced his retirement on May 10, in a surprise move (well, somewhat) that will have many fantasy football implications moving forward. Carr's tenure with the Saints was rocky, marked mainly by inconsistency and, obviously, injury issues. The Saints drafted quarterback Tyler Shough, a rookie from Louisville, as injury insurance […]

Titans Adding Familiar Concepts To Offense For Cam Ward

The Tennessee Titans are working to make rookie quarterback Cam Ward as comfortable as possible in his new NFL offense, according to ESPN's Turron Davenport. Head coach Brian Callahan and company are integrating passing concepts from Miami's offense last season to help expedite the transition from college to the pros for its No. 1 overall […]

Commanders-Dolphins To Square Off In Spain In 2025

The Washington Commanders announced on Tuesday that they will square off against the Miami Dolphins in the league's first-even game in Spain in Madrid in Week 11 on Nov. 16 at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. It will be the final game of the 2025 international NFL slate, and it could be a high-scoring affair between two […]