Video: 12 League Winners to Draft (2025 Fantasy Football)

12 League Winners to Draft (2025 Fantasy Football)

From Trey McBride’s TE1 upside to Kenneth Walker’s emerging bell-cow role, Ryan Wormeli, Jake Ciely and Derek Brown reveal their favorite league-winning targets by draft tier.

Jake Ciely defends Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s rise, Derek Brown backs Kaleb Johnson as a true Steelers breakout, and the guys debate tight end strategy with George Kittle and Brock Bowers in the mix.

This episode is stacked with top-30 value picks and late-round steals like Cam Skattebo and Chris Olave.

League Winners Timestamps:

Introduction – 0:00:00
Drake London – 0:03:52
Kenneth Walker III – 0:07:26
Trey McBride – 0:13:03
Jaxon Smith-Njigba – 0:18:21
Tetairoa McMillan – 0:23:25
George Kittle – 0:29:19
Kaleb Johnson – 0:34:39
Chris Olave – 0:38:50
Cam Skattebo – 0:42:52
Matthew Golden – 0:47:30
J.J. McCarthy – 0:51:16
Trey Benson – 0:58:06
Other Targets – 1:00:39
Closing – 1:03:54

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