The 2025 Big Gorilla Bible: Updated Rankings and Tiers, Target Labels for Every Player, A Deep Dive into Tactics from Real Drafts, and Much More

Shawn Siegele
June 17, 2025

Shawn Siegele updates his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla.

Fresh off our best dynasty and redraft seasons to date, the original edition of The Big Gorilla Blueprint was the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in 15 years of writing about fantasy.

The Blueprint included . . .

blurbs on every veteran player
rankings, tiers, priority targets
five mini-workshops focused on player evaluation
a discussion of how to balance rankings value and ADP value
and the 2025 overall game plan

Now with three more weeks of drafting in the books and personal experience drafting in both the Main Events and Big Gorilla, I want to update where we are as we head into a month of summer drafting before training camp starts.

But the Bible is more than just an update. Today’s exercise includes . . .

The top-200 players ranked in 11 tiers with a contrast to ADP from our FFPC Redraft Dashboard
Discussions of player movement within and across each tier and explanations for the 12 newly bolded targets and eight newly bolded watch options late
The full 2025 ADP list with a target category for every player
A breakdown of tactics in real Big Gorilla drafts

The full target list is an August staple and reader favorite. Considering the players by ADP and providing tactical labels at price is an exercise that helps build out a global strategy.

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RotoViz crushed the 2024 and 2023 seasons in large part due to our rookie evaluations powered by Sports Info Solutions. If you haven’t yet, it’s a good time to dive into the 2025 edition.

The 2024 RotoViz Big Gorilla Bible

Draft Tactics, New Targets, and Action Categories for 200-Plus Players

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Shawn Siegele

Author of the original Zero RB article and 2013 NFFC Primetime Grand Champion. 11-time main event league winner. 2015, 2017, 2018 titles in MFL10 of Death.

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