The FantasyPros 2025 Fantasy Football Draft Kit also includes a robust essay on my 2025 draft strategy for redraft leagues, along with thoughts on some of my favorite targets.
But you have places to go, people to meet, things to do, cat videos to watch. If you’re crunched for time and can’t read my Perfect Draft article, here’s my more easily digestible fantasy football draft cheat sheet for 2025.
Fitz’s Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet
Let’s start with three guiding fantasy football draft principles:
The FantasyPros 2025 Fantasy Football Draft Kit also includes a robust essay on my 2025 draft strategy for redraft leagues, along with thoughts on some of my favorite targets.
But you have places to go, people to meet, things to do, cat videos to watch. If you’re crunched for time and can’t read my Perfect Draft article, here’s my more easily digestible fantasy football draft cheat sheet for 2025.
Fitz’s Fantasy Football Draft Cheat Sheet
Let’s start with three guiding fantasy football draft principles:
1. Tailor your draft strategy to the number of WRs your league requires you to start each week.
I can’t emphasize this enough: The number of wide receivers you’re required to start each week is the most important setting in your league.
If your league requires you to start only two receivers each week, you can choose between RBs and WRs in the early rounds based on where the value is. You have tactical flexibility.
If your league requires you to start three receivers each week, WR becomes a critical position, and you should attack it aggressively in the early rounds. Your goal should be to outgun nearly every team in your league at the WR position since you’re starting so many WRs each week.
2. Take advantage of discounts on high-upside rookies.
This should be a tenet of your draft plan every year, but it’s an especially good approach this year, with an outstanding group of rookie running backs entering the NFL.
The top rookies are often underdrafted because they haven’t played in the NFL yet, and it’s human nature to fear the unknown. But rookies with early-round draft capital have historically been good fantasy bets.
3. Chase Upside
Upside is important. You need to draft a lot of players with plausible ways of delivering high-ceiling outcomes. Even if such players have rock-bottom floors in their range of possible outcomes, invest anyway.
You’ll miss on a few of these types. That’s what waivers are for. The potential rewards outweigh the risk of a low-end outcome.
Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet
Now, my fantasy football draft cheat sheet:
Quarterback Sleepers
Quarterback Busts
Running Back Sleepers
Running Back Busts
Wide Receiver Sleepers
Wide Receiver Busts
Tight End Sleepers
Tight End Busts
Early-Round Value Picks (Rounds 1-4)
Middle-Round Value Picks (Rounds 5-8)
Late-Round Value Picks (Rounds 9 and later)
Deep-League Value Picks
Backup Running Backs to Target
Backup Running Backs to Avoid
Rookies to Target
Quarterback
Running Back
Wide Receiver
Tight End
Rookies to Avoid
Quarterback
Running Back
Wide Receiver
Tight End
DSTs to Target
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Minnesota Vikings
- Detroit Lions
- New York Jets
DSTs to Avoid
- Houston Texans
- Los Angeles Chargers
- San Francisco 49ers
Five-Word Draft Tip: Pay attention to league settings.
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