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2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: No. 10 to No. 6 – The Extreme Athletes Ready to Deliver Long Runs and Breakout Seasons

In the second installment of the 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown, Shawn Siegele unveils the five athletic superfreaks poised to join the stars this season. If you caught the full intro yesterday, jump to the Countdown. The Zero RB list has been helping RotoViz writers and users to high finishes in Main Events and tournament championships in best ball. A quick look at past results, and you’ll understand…...

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Are They Worth the Hype? Buying or Selling the 12 Biggest ADP Risers of the 2025 Preseason

Kevin Szafraniec looks at the 12 biggest risers in redraft ADP since the beginning of the preseason and breaks down whether fantasy managers should be buying or selling them at their current prices. As the preseason heats up every year, we see training camp buzz lead to ADP explosions across fantasy football. While there are generally legitimate reasons for the buzz, sometimes the hype goes…...

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Good Players Are Good, But Good Values Are Better: How to Beat the Running Back Market in Fantasy

Blair Andrews explores the metrics that best predict running back outperformance. The RB fantasy market is exploitable, if we know where to look. My last article detailed the key wide receiver metrics you need to chase to beat ADP — that is, to return an above-average win rate. In a 12-team league, every team can expect to win about 8.3% of the time, as a…...

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The 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown: No. 15 to 11 – A Tidal Wave of Youth Threatens History

Earlier this month, Shawn Siegele explained why you need to Win the Next War at RB. In the first installment of the 2025 Zero RB Candidates Countdown, he helps you catch a tidal wave of youth at the all-important position. The Zero RB list has been helping RotoViz writers and users to high finishes in Main Events and tournament championships in best ball. A quick look at past…...

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Drawing a Late Draft Slot Allows for a Fast Start in 2025 Redraft Leagues, But There Are Still Plenty of Pitfalls to Avoid If We Want to Build a Super Team

Kevin Szafraniec explains why drawing a late slot in the draft order gives fantasy managers an ideal opportunity to build a firm foundation in 2025 redraft leagues while also presenting some tough decisions as their drafts progress. Each passing year brings fantasy managers a new ADP landscape to navigate in their redraft leagues. While there are generally some tactics that carry over year over year,…...

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Opportunity to Add Elite Talent at the Onesie Positions Could Make Drawing a Mid-Round Draft Slot Optimal for 2025 Redraft Leagues

Kevin Szafraniec explains how fantasy managers who draw a mid-round draft slot in their redraft leagues can build a super team by adding elite talent at the onesie positions. Each passing year brings fantasy managers a new ADP landscape to navigate in their redraft leagues. While there are generally some tactics that carry over year over year, an ever-evolving player pool guarantees that no two…...

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You Got Through Round 1 . . . Now What? How to Navigate Your 2025 Redraft League From an Early Draft Slot

Kevin Szafraniec details the strategies that fantasy managers who draw an early draft slot in their redraft leagues should implement in order to bring home championships in 2025. Each passing year brings fantasy managers a new ADP landscape to navigate in their redraft leagues. While there are generally some tactics that carry over year-over-year, an ever-evolving player pool guarantees that no two seasons will ever…...

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Why Woody Marks Could Be This Year’s Kyren Williams, and 5 Other Day 3 Running Backs Moving Quickly Up Draft Boards

We’ve seen Day 3 running backs move up the draft boards, and some with good reason. Day 3 running backs have been relatively helpful over the past few seasons, especially in their first two seasons. We saw Bucky Irving, Chase Brown, and Tyrone Tracy Jr. hit last season, with Isiah Pacheco, Chuba Hubbard, and Kyren Williams being other notables (though Hubbard broke out in Year…...

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The Big Gorilla Update: You Put Together Monster Teams This Summer, Now Stay Ahead of the Curve With 23 Priority Targets for August

Shawn Siegele updates the Big Gorilla Blueprint with mega-tiers, tiers, 23 priority targets, and player updates. With one week of the preseason under our belts and draft season going in earnest, it’s time for an update to the redraft plan. In this edition, we’ll discuss movement in the rankings and how to create the most upside in current drafts. Today’s exercise is best used in…...

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16 Final-Round Targets Who Have the Potential to Become Weekly Staples in 2025 Redraft Lineups

Kevin Szafraniec examines the 2025 ADP landscape and highlights players at each position who can be selected in the final round of drafts and have the potential to become weekly starters in 2025 redraft lineups. There is no feeling quite like hitting on a player in the late rounds who ends up becoming a staple in your weekly starting lineup. Given that redraft leagues offer…...

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The Do Not Draft List: 12 Players Who Won’t Be On My 2025 Redraft Rosters, and 13 Others On the Bubble

Kevin Szafraniec highlights 12 players who represent landmines for redraft rosters at almost any cost, plus 13 other players who aren’t far behind them. It always feels better to be an optimist than a pessimist. But sometimes there is no helping a bad situation. Unfortunately, this can apply to fantasy football, or more specifically, fantasy football ADP. The rise of best ball has allowed us…...

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Never Chase Your Zero RB Winners, Right? Even for a Young, Supercharged Version of Aaron Jones?

What would you pay for a young, supercharged version of Aaron Jones, especially if he labored for one of the NFL’s best offenses? For years, I’ve forced myself to avoid Zero RB hits during their follow-up seasons. After all, taking the next step and becoming a 350-point sensation requires a mix of attributes that is incredibly difficult to deliver. Of course, it’s always tempting to…...

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Good Players Are Still Good: The Most Undervalued Wide Receiver Metric

If you think you fully understand the importance of fantasy efficiency, think again. Fantasy football doesn’t have to be difficult. We love digging into all the advanced metrics, refining our models, and finding tiny edges using new data sources. But sometimes the old standbys still give you the best bang for your buck. We’ve advocated using win rates to evaluate player seasons for several years…...

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When Rules of Thumb Fail: Winning the Next War

Shawn Siegele argues that occasionally simple rules of thumb end up not being so simple. Understanding the trajectory for players as they move through the NFL can be very important. That’s one of the reasons I so frequently reference Blair’s groundbreaking WR age series. It’s also helpful to understand the role that draft slot plays in establishing a baseline for a player’s likely usage. While…...

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Patrick Mahomes Is Inevitable: Is 2025 the Year of the Chiefs’ Offensive Resurrection?

In the final installment of Kevin Szafraniec’s 2025 team preview series, he discusses what the chances are for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs to reclaim their spot as one of the NFL’s elite offenses and which players could be the biggest fantasy winners in the latest iteration of Kansas City’s offensive evolution. It feels like it has been longer than two seasons since we saw…...

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Third Breakout’s the Charm: An Unsexy WR Set for a Stefon Diggs-Level Mid-Career Leap

Shawn Siegele examines a veteran star with perhaps the most bizarre ADP in all of fantasy. Stefon Diggs entered the NFL as probably the most hyped RotoViz sleeper in the site’s history, and he proceeded to play quite well during his first five seasons. He averaged over 200 points per season from 2016 to 2019 and constantly flirted with WR1 status. This was still a…...

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Caleb Williams Needs More Than a Coaching Change to Turn Things Around in Chicago, But There May Still Be Hidden Value in the Bears’ Offense

Kevin Szafraniec breaks down how the arrival of Ben Johnson in Chicago will alter the Bears’ approach in 2025 and explains why it may be wise to temper expectations for a wholesale turnaround from Caleb Williams and company in Year 1. When it comes to coaching hires, Chicago’s signing of former Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson was about as big as they get. Last offseason,…...

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2025’s Ultimate Big Gap Backfield Hack: Can Derrick Henry Defy History Again?

We’ve examined six small gap backfields in two previous articles, including three with rookies adding to the uncertainty and the one team with three rushers inside the top 150 in ADP. In the past, we’ve looked at big-gap and small-gap running backs to identify undervalued players based on their ADP. The idea comes from Jack Miller’s research on the win and hit rates for big or…...

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Malik Nabers’ Superstar Ascension Is Unstoppable: Why Even the Giants’ Offensive Struggles Can’t Prevent 2025’s Most Explosive WR Breakout

Kevin Szafraniec details the steps the Giants have taken this offseason to turn the franchise around and explains why not even continued struggles on offense can slow down Malik Nabers’ ascension to superstar status. Brian Daboll’s tenure as the Giants’ head coach started off with a promising debut in 2022, finishing the season with a winning record and making a trip to the divisional round…...

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A Secondary Breakout Will Help This Controversial WR Follow in the Footsteps of DeAndre Hopkins, CeeDee Lamb, and Amon-Ra St. Brown

Shawn Siegele explores the profile of a controversial 2025 wide receiver option. Is he an overrated cult favorite in a ready-made bust situation, or is he the most important fantasy WR in all of football? After the first 10 WRs are off the board in 2025, we have very limited options for additional, non-rookie WRs who might join that group in 2026. Fortunately, we do…...

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