2025 Fantasy Football Best Ball Draft Stacks To Target

March 22, 2025

Kevin Tompkins' fantasy football best ball stacks for 2025. Read the fantasy football expert analysis for top stacks for best ball drafts.

Combining several players on one team -- stacking -- is an increasingly advantageous way to boost your fantasy football teams and, in this case, your best ball teams. Selecting two or more players consolidates the scoring within an offense and if you hit on an offense that many predict to be middle-of-the-pack and they become a juggernaut, then you’ll reap the rewards.

Drafting a quarterback plus a couple of the team’s pass-catchers that will feature prominently in that team’s attack boosts your fantasy points ceiling while also reducing the number of things we need to get correct on a successful best ball roster. If a quarterback does well throughout a season, that will have a direct correlation to the pass-catchers he’s throwing to.

We’ve outlined a few stacks here that are clear targets in early best ball drafts.

QB Geno Smith, TE Brock Bowers, WR Jakobi Meyers, Las Vegas Raiders

Underdog Fantasy ADP: Smith: 165.1 | QB27, Meyers: 77.5 | WR42, Bowers: 16.3 | TE1

The Las Vegas Raiders are not in a position to be a good team or even an average team. They’re clearly in rebuild mode to gather some playmakers for a future run of contention. They did, however, need a quarterback in the worst way, which necessitated a trade for Geno Smith from the Seahawks in exchange for a third-round pick in this year's NFL Draft.

While Smith doesn’t move a lot of needles in terms of fantasy, it’s still a huge upgrade from the trio of Gardner Minshew II, Aidan O’Connell, and Desmond Ridder that the team rolled out at quarterback last season.

Smith is an incredibly accurate quarterback, with the fifth-highest completion percentage last season (70.4 percent) plus the third-lowest mark in off-target percentage (12.6 percent) of 39 qualified quarterbacks with 250 or more dropbacks, per Fantasy Points Data.

While Smith is the point guard of this stack, Brock Bowers is the priciest option here, and with good reason. He’s on a Travis Kelce-esque trajectory toward being the top tight end in fantasy for the rest of this decade and into the next.

What Bowers has done in his rookie season is just a continuation of his college dominance as an 18-year-old top target in the same Georgia offense as Ladd McConkey, George Pickens, Adonai Mitchell, James Cook, Zamir White, Darnell Washington, and numerous other NFL players.

Geno Smith traded to Las Vegas

It is officially Brock Bowers SZN

A Chip Kelly offense + the best QB play Bowers has had as a Pro

A 20 PPG break fantasy type season could be in store.

Get your 🍿

— TheOGfantasyfootball (@TheOGfantasy) March 8, 2025

Last season, Bowers led all tight ends in targets, receptions, YAC, and receiving yards while putting up a 2.02 YPRR and a 25 percent TPRR. Only Trey McBride (27.5 percent) earned a higher rate of targets than Bowers (26 percent) last season.

The fact that Bowers is a second-round pick right now in early best ball drafts is incredible. I have no problem taking him in the mid-to-late first round as a true difference-maker once the top first-round picks are off the board.

As for Jakobi Meyers, the Raiders’ offensive pieces are barren enough behind both Bowers and Meyers that this could be a very condensed offense in 2025. While the Raiders seem likely to add a wide receiver piece in the NFL Draft, that should not affect Meyers’ spot in the pecking order. Especially after his 2024, where he put up career highs in every receiving stat sans touchdowns.

Meyers’ draft stock in early pre-NFL Draft best ball has come up a little bit in recent weeks, but he is still vastly overpriced. In capturing pieces of condensed offenses, drafting a large chunk of a team’s passing game that will get a massive share of routes, targets, and production with just a couple of pieces gets much more out of your draft picks instead of drafting three or four players.

While the Raiders are unlikely to make real-world NFL noise this season, the team plays 11 of its 17 games indoors. That’s historically been a great thing for Smith.

Geno Smith moves indoors with #raiders

His 50 #seahawks starts:

Indoors (14 starts, all on road):
30 TD, 5 INT, 110.8 rtg

Outdoors (36 starts, w/25 at home):
43 TD, 31 INT, 89.7 rtg

— Mike Sando (@sandonfl.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM

Target Smith, Bowers, and Meyers with a lot less draft capital than some other targets, and when surrounding these picks with other top picks, you can jump-start your best ball team for 2025.

QB Baker Mayfield, WR Mike Evans, WR Chris Godwin, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

ADP: Mayfield: 89.2 | QB8, Evans: 35.4 | WR19, Godwin: 58.9 | WR33

The band is back together.

With Chris Godwin signing a new three-year, $66M contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it puts the trio back together on a supremely efficient and prolific offense under quarterback Baker Mayfield. Last season’s offensive coordinator, Liam Coen, is gone to Jacksonville, but the offense should remain the same with Mayfield plus Evans and Godwin.

Mayfield was a revelation in 2024 as one of three quarterbacks with at least 4,500 passing yards and 40 touchdown passes as well as one of four quarterbacks who had a completion percentage of over 70. The number of people who predicted Mayfield would finish as QB3 in 2024 could be counted on one hand, and maybe not even then.

With the offense fully intact and carrying over from 2024, Mayfield is being drafted as QB8 and that seems like a bargain price considering Patrick Mahomes and Bo Nix are being drafted ahead of him in early best ball drafts.

Coming along for the ride in Tampa is the longtime wide receiver duo of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. The duo has been around in Tampa Bay since 2017 and is going on its ninth season playing together.

Evans has been a model of consistency over his 11 seasons with at least 1,000 yards receiving in every single season. From an efficiency standpoint, Evans had his best season with a career-high 2.41 YPRR while missing three games.

Add in double-digit touchdowns in four of his last five seasons and we’re talking about somebody who we’re not at all worried about hitting an age or production cliff this season. And he’s WR19?! Can you draft him at the end of the third round right now in a best ball? Sign me up.

As for Godwin, the only question we have about him is how he recuperates after a dislocated ankle ended his season after just seven games. What Godwin produced in those seven games put him on a trajectory that would have likely resulted in the best fantasy season of his career.

After a 2023 season that saw Godwin out wide for most of his snaps for the first time since his second season, he was a primary slot player last season and was on pace for career highs in YPRR (2.36), TPRR (24.6 percent), and all his counting stats in this prolific Buccaneers offense.

(3) #Buccaneers Chris Godwin

Dislocated ankles tend to carry lingering performance impacts x1 year.

Data projects 20% production hit thru 1st half of season.

Projection lightens to 10% hit mid-season onwards.

Landing spot TBD. Prob too costly at projected ADP

4/6

— Deepak Chona, MD. SportsMedAnalytics (@sportsmedanalytics.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Will Godwin be ready for Week 1 in 2025? Medical experts seem to think so and Todd Bowles hinted at the possibility of Godwin being available for the team if it had made a deep playoff run. At WR33 at the end of the fifth round in best ball drafts, Godwin is a steal for fantasy managers and that price could climb if we get some more good news as the offseason rolls on.

With all three of these Buccaneers as values in the current best ball landscape, there’s no reason why we can’t see a repeat of 2024. As long as Godwin’s ankle is good to go for Week 1, there should be a ton of volume for everybody involved in Tampa and a lot of fantasy goodness.

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