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Dynasty Fantasy Football Sells - Top 2025 Trade Candidates: Terry McLaurin, Kyren Williams, and More
It's easy to adjust our expectations season by season for fantasy football players and base the majority of our opinions on how their previous season went. But sometimes, other factors at play might have given them a boost before they regress, which can leave you with an asset that falls greatly in value in dynasty […]
John Johnson
Top 3 Boom or Bust Players to Target for 2025 Fantasy Football Drafts: High-Risk, High-Reward Picks
The completely risk-averse of the world's population might not be the best suited to play fantasy football. Boom-or-bust players can just as often get fantasy teams into the playoffs and win them championships as it can cause them to lose in the postseason or not make it past the regular season at all. The biggest […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Combine Results For Fantasy Football: Top Takeaways
The 2025 NFL Combine is now in the books. The first significant action of any kind we get to see after the Super Bowl, the combine is an exciting time for rookie prospects, who are getting their first chance to show their skills outside of their college play. It's also intriguing for dynasty fantasy football […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Free Agency Predictions: Top 10 Fantasy Football Free Agents and Impact Rankings
Free agency is always an exciting time of year for fans of NFL teams and fantasy football managers, as well. A player's situation is very important, and the idea that someone could land on a team with a better situation is tantalizing for anyone looking to get an edge in their leagues. In the same […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Breakout Candidates for 2025 Drafts: WR1 Projections and Outlooks
Fantasy football is inherently unpredictable, mainly because it features humans playing against other humans. We know that they'll try their best to play as hard as they can and produce as well as they can, at least. Those who don't usually find themselves out of the league very quickly. Some of them stick around, like […]
John Johnson
Top Rookie Quarterback Sleepers to Target in 2025 Dynasty Fantasy Football Leagues
The quarterback position is notoriously difficult to evaluate. A big reason for this is that it's the position that requires the most information processing, awareness of what's happening on the field both before and after the snap, and the ability to react to many different types of situations. As such, it's incredibly difficult to find […]
John Johnson
Top Running Back Breakout Candidates for 2025 Fantasy Football Drafts: RB1 Projections and Outlooks
There's plenty of change in the 12 players that finish the season as "RB1s" every season. It makes sense because running back is a position that depends heavily on factors out of the control of the back in question, such as offensive line play, being traded to other teams, injuries, and the like. The injury […]
John Johnson
Top 5 Players to Trade Away in Dynasty Fantasy Football Leagues – Best Sell-High Targets (2025)
Sometimes it's just time to move on from certain fantasy football players -- though they may still have some good years ahead of them, there may be red flags that could impede their production in the future, cause them to lose part of their roles in their offenses, or simply fall off for other reasons. […]
John Johnson
Top Fantasy Football Busts from Last Year to Target in Early 2025 Best Ball Drafts
Sometimes it's not an NFL player's fault if they have a bad season. It's hard to blame them for getting injuries, and though some are more injury-prone than others, even stalwarts like Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry sometimes get hurt and have to miss serious time. There are other situations players can get in […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Rookie Running Back Draft Sleepers: Must-Target RBs in 2025
This is a deep, deep running back class. Consensus rookie rankings have five of them as 1st-rounders: Ashton Jeanty, Omarion Hampton, Kaleb Johnson, Treveyon Henderson, and Quinshon Judkins. But every class has underrated prospects. That's especially important in classes that are stacked at one position. The deeper they are, the more likely they are to be sleepers. […]
John Johnson
2025 Fantasy Football Rookies: Overvalued and Undervalued Prospects for Dynasty Leagues
This year's rookies include a ton of underrated players, which I have covered in depth so far this season. In dynasty fantasy football, that's important -- if many first-round ADP players are overrated and a lot of the later-round guys are slept on, you can leverage this to make decisions like trading back for picks. And that's […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Draft Strategy - Players to Target in Drafts For A Win-Now Team (2025)
What if I told you that you could draft a win-now team in dynasty fantasy football and still be set up very well for future success? Well, you can by following my guide below. I've put in hundreds of hours of film study to develop my scouting eye. It helped me suggest that you should […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Trade Targets and Avoids: Top 3 Wide Receivers to Buy or Sell (2025)
Wide receivers typically enjoy longer stretches of being productive than do running backs, so in Dynasty fantasy football, the windows in which it's valuable to hold them last longer. This applies to their trade values as well, so it's always important to keep that in mind. But this can be part of a collection of […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Trade Targets and Avoids: Top 3 Quarterbacks to Buy or Sell (2025)
Dynasty fantasy football never sleeps. Even if you think your team is set up for success and you like how your rosters look, there are plenty of players that end up as overvalued or undervalued, depending on how they produced last season. It's just a fact that sometimes players have abnormally good or bad seasons, […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Rookie Fantasy Football Draft Sleepers - Value Pick Targets at Every Position (2025)
Everyone's always looking for sleepers in rookie drafts in Dynasty Fantasy Football. There's a massive payoff waiting for you if you can pick a rookie that far outperforms his expectations. Fantasy managers who selected Brian Thomas Jr. or Bucky Irving in last year's drafts gave their teams massive boosts and players that should produce well […]
John Johnson
NFL Rookie Breakout Trends: Top 2025 NFL Draft Prospects to Target in Fantasy Football Drafts
The 2025 NFL Draft has quite a few intriguing prospects, many of whom can be directly compared to players who are already in the league, or at least archetypes that are generally successful. There is a suite of skills at all the offensive skill positions that help players succeed at the next level. They vary […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Draft Predictions: Fantasy Football Sleepers to Target in Dynasty League Drafts
I'll keep this intro short. This year's draft has a ton of late-round steals that will be league-winners in redraft if they go to good situations and don't get injured. This is especially true in the running back position. It's a stacked RB class, and the position is valued less in the NFL than every […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Trade Values: Four Backup Wide Receivers To Buy (2025)
Depth charts are constantly shifting in the NFL, and on the offensive side of the ball, wide receivers are constantly breaking out, falling off, or displaying all the precursors for an increase in production the next season. The third group of players are the ones we'll be discussing today. It's easy to be pessimistic about […]
John Johnson
NFL Combine (2025): NFL Draft Rookies to Watch and Target for Fantasy Football
The 2025 NFL Combine is coming up soon. It's strange to think it happens not long after the Super Bowl, but the league never sleeps. And it's a time of excitement for teams, incoming rookies, and most importantly for us, dynasty fantasy football managers. How every player who attends performs is important, but you should […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football NFL Wide Receiver Age Cliff: When Should You Fade Aging WR Veterans?
The age cliff comes for all players, but importantly, what age it arrives is very dependent on the position played. While running backs rely heavily on raw athleticism and explosive bursts, wide receivers can also win with nuance and subtlety in their games. Naturally, this would lead you to believe that the age cliff for […]
John Johnson
Fantasy Football NFL Quarterback Age Cliff: When Should You Fade Aging QB Veterans?
No human on earth can avoid the aging process. For athletes, especially those in the NFL, one of the most competitive sports leagues on earth, we get to see it play out in real-time and how it affects different position groups differently. The most famous position group is obviously quarterback. Part of the reason QBs […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Draft Quarterback Prospects: NFL Rookie QBs Resembling Veteran Fantasy Football Stars
It never hurts to compare the best college prospects at each position to pro players who are similar in many respects. Unfortunately, it might not be the most useful thing to do in a weak quarterback class, but I'll try my best either way. There is one gem that's being underrated, though, and he'll be […]
John Johnson
2025 NFL Draft Wide Receiver Prospects: NFL Rookies Resembling Veteran Fantasy Football Stars
While pro comparisons are difficult to make accurately, as we don't know how a prospect's career will go and how much they'll develop their skills at the next level, it can help frame more accurately what a player's ceiling and floor are in the NFL. Not every career path is linear in the NFL, and […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football RB, WR and TE Bust Candidates: Avoid These Players in 2025 Drafts
There are always players that are overvalued in Dynasty fantasy football, and if you happen to take them in a start-up draft, you can be in big trouble. It's not always easy to predict how players' careers will go, though. They can seemingly rise and fall in drafts without much warning. And owning a player […]
John Johnson
The Tight End Age Cliff: When Should You Fade Aging Fantasy Football Veterans?
In professional football, the "age cliff" of a player is the age at which their production takes a sharp downturn and never recovers. While plenty of players have down seasons and others suffer career-ending or career-altering injuries, these are different than simple declines due to their bodies not being able to handle NFL punishment or […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Values: Later-Round Targets For Dynasty Start-Up Drafts
The most important part of every Dynasty fantasy football league is the startup draft. There's nothing more impactful that you can do to boost your team in the short term than nail your picks in the drafts. But as the rounds wear on, less and less obvious picks are present. By the late rounds, it […]
John Johnson
The Running Back Age Cliff: When Should You Fade Aging Fantasy Football Veterans?
The NFL and other professional sports leagues are all centered around collecting the most genetically gifted and physically talented athletes and having them compete against each other. The mental aspect of the game is important as well, but without the raw physical ability, one simply cannot compete in the big leagues. For running backs, toughness, […]
John Johnson
Rookies to Target in Early 2025 Fantasy Football Best Ball Drafts
Best ball fantasy football formats are all about hunting for as much upside as possible. Drafting players who can produce explosive scoring games, like those in the 20 PPR point range or more, is massively important, especially in the later rounds. The uncertainty surrounding most NFL rookies and the constant whiffs by consensus opinions of […]
John Johnson
NFC Players To Sell In Dynasty Fantasy Football Leagues
There are always players other dynasty fantasy football managers may still have faith in. It's not always readily apparent which will be good buys and which ones you should sell, but that's what I'm here for. It can be hard to let go of players who have helped you win in the past. But you […]
John Johnson
Dynasty Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers From the 2024-25 NFL Playoffs
The NFL playoffs give fantasy football managers a unique chance to see how fantasy-relevant players perform in a higher-pressure situation than the regular season. Usually, performing well against higher-quality defenses, which often find their way into the postseason, can be revealing of a player's skill. It doesn't always give us a clear picture of how […]
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