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2025 Fantasy Football Best Ball FLEX Rankings: Bucky Irving, Tyreek Hill, Tee Higgins, Drake London, James Cook, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Chris Godwin

Tee Higgins - Football Rankings, NFL Injury News, DFS Lineup Picks

Do you already miss fantasy football season? Well, the good news is you can start drafting best ball teams already, and we're here to help with our NFL team's early 2025 fantasy football best ball FLEX rankings. Use these early best ball rankings for Underdog, DraftKings, NFFC, FanDuel, and more.

Be sure to check out all of our fantasy football best ball articles. And if you're looking for even more of an edge, check out our Best Ball Draft Kit and Tools including the best ball live draft assistant, best ball mock draft simulator, and best ball draft cheat sheets -- all part of the Best Ball Team Sync platform.

Two of RotoBaller's lead fantasy football analysts -- Phil Clark and Nick Mariano -- have put together their consensus staff rankings, which will be updated regularly through the start of the 2025 fantasy football season. Let's see where key flex options such as Bucky Irving, Tyreek Hill, Tee Higgins, Drake London, James Cook, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and Chris Godwin stand among other RBs, WR, and TEs.

Be sure to check all of our fantasy football rankings for 2025:

 

2025 Best Ball FLEX Rankings for Fantasy Football

For anyone who isn't very familiar with fantasy football best ball leagues, they are essentially draft-only leagues with no moves during the season. Once a best ball draft is completed, nothing else happens -- no setting weekly lineups, no trading, no waiver wire moves.

Every week of the season, the best combo of fantasy players on your team is automatically calculated and used to determine the highest possible scoring outcome. Best ball drafts always start earlier than regular drafts, and they are already in high gear!

Be sure also to check out our 2025 fantasy football rankings dashboard. It's already loaded up with tons of other great rankings. In case you missed it, you can also see our early Dynasty League rankings, and 2025 NFL Rookie rankings. Bookmark that page, and prepare for all of your drafts.

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1 Saquon Barkley RB
2 Ja'Marr Chase WR
3 Justin Jefferson WR
4 Bijan Robinson RB
5 Puka Nacua WR
6 Nico Collins WR
7 Jahmyr Gibbs RB
8 CeeDee Lamb WR
9 Malik Nabers WR
10 Amon-Ra St. Brown WR
11 De'Von Achane RB
12 Brian Thomas Jr. WR
13 Brock Bowers TE
14 Breece Hall RB
15 Chase Brown RB
16 Christian McCaffrey RB
17 Josh Jacobs RB
18 Bucky Irving RB
19 Ashton Jeanty RB
20 A.J. Brown WR
21 Kyren Williams RB
22 Tee Higgins WR
23 Ladd McConkey WR
24 Derrick Henry RB
25 Jonathan Taylor RB
26 Trey McBride TE
27 Mike Evans WR
28 Joe Mixon RB
29 James Cook RB
30 Drake London WR
31 Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR
32 Tyreek Hill WR
33 Chuba Hubbard RB
34 George Kittle TE
35 Garrett Wilson WR
36 George Pickens WR
37 James Conner RB
38 Alvin Kamara RB
39 David Montgomery RB
40 Davante Adams WR
41 Kenneth Walker III RB
42 DJ Moore WR
43 Jaylen Warren RB
44 Brian Robinson Jr. RB
45 Chris Godwin WR
46 Chris Olave WR
47 Terry McLaurin WR
48 Marvin Harrison Jr. WR
49 Xavier Worthy WR
50 Cooper Kupp WR
51 DeVonta Smith WR
52 Jordan Addison WR
53 Tyrone Tracy Jr. RB
54 Zay Flowers WR
55 Isiah Pacheco RB
56 DK Metcalf WR
57 Jameson Williams WR
58 Courtland Sutton WR
59 Rashee Rice WR
60 Deebo Samuel Sr. WR
61 Aaron Jones RB
62 Sam LaPorta TE
63 Jauan Jennings WR
64 Jonnu Smith TE
65 Jerry Jeudy WR
66 Mark Andrews TE
67 Tony Pollard RB
68 Tetairoa McMillan WR
69 J.K. Dobbins RB
70 Travis Kelce TE
71 Jayden Reed WR
72 Jaylen Waddle WR
73 D'Andre Swift RB
74 Rome Odunze WR
75 Brandon Aiyuk WR
76 Rico Dowdle RB
77 Rashid Shaheed WR
78 Calvin Ridley WR
79 Khalil Shakir WR
80 T.J. Hockenson TE
81 David Njoku TE
82 Dalton Kincaid TE
83 Michael Pittman Jr. WR
84 Jakobi Meyers WR
85 Josh Downs WR
86 Keenan Allen WR
87 Nick Chubb RB
88 Evan Engram TE
89 Travis Hunter WR
90 Jalen McMillan WR
91 Rhamondre Stevenson RB
92 Najee Harris RB
93 Tucker Kraft TE
94 Jake Ferguson TE
95 Darnell Mooney WR
96 Travis Etienne Jr. RB
97 Tank Bigsby RB
98 Zach Charbonnet RB
99 DeAndre Hopkins WR
100 Jaleel McLaughlin RB
101 Amari Cooper WR
102 Rachaad White RB
103 Marquise Brown WR
104 Tyjae Spears RB
105 Blake Corum RB
106 Dallas Goedert TE
107 Austin Ekeler RB
108 Jerome Ford RB
109 Kyle Pitts TE
110 Javonte Williams RB
111 Romeo Doubs WR
112 Ricky Pearsall WR
113 Keon Coleman WR
114 Rashod Bateman WR
115 Jordan Mason RB
116 Cade Otton TE
117 Quentin Johnston WR
118 Adam Thielen WR
119 Trey Benson RB
120 Christian Kirk WR
121 Diontae Johnson WR
122 Wan'Dale Robinson WR
123 Kareem Hunt RB
124 Pat Freiermuth TE
125 Omarion Hampton RB
126 Luther Burden III WR
127 Cedric Tillman WR
128 Audric Estime RB
129 Zach Ertz TE
130 Marvin Mims Jr. WR
131 Hunter Henry TE
132 Xavier Legette WR
133 Tyler Allgeier RB
134 Antonio Gibson RB
135 Tyler Warren TE
136 Ray Davis RB
137 Andrei Iosivas WR
138 Nick Westbrook-Ikhine WR
139 Michael Wilson WR
140 Dontayvion Wicks WR
141 Olamide Zaccheaus WR
142 Alec Pierce WR
143 Emeka Egbuka WR
144 Raheem Mostert RB
145 DeMario Douglas WR
146 Devaughn Vele WR
147 Devin Singletary RB
148 Jordan Whittington WR
149 Braelon Allen RB
150 Stefon Diggs WR
151 Chig Okonkwo TE
152 Jalen Coker WR
153 Malik Washington WR
154 Khalil Herbert RB
155 Gabe Davis WR
156 Roschon Johnson RB
157 MarShawn Lloyd RB
158 Sincere McCormick RB
159 Demarcus Robinson WR
160 Quinshon Judkins RB
161 Jaylen Wright RB
162 Kendre Miller RB
163 Jermaine Burton WR
164 Mike Williams WR
165 Brandin Cooks WR
167 Dalton Schultz TE
168 Cole Kmet TE
169 Isaac Guerendo RB
170 Tyler Lockett WR
171 Darius Slayton WR
172 Joshua Palmer WR


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