The Big Gorilla Blueprint: Top 200 Rankings, 11 Tiers, 41 Priority Targets, and the Complete Game Plan

Shawn Siegele
May 23, 2025

Shawn Siegele provides his top-200 player rankings for 2025 redraft formats. Breaking the groups down into 11 tiers and providing ADP contrasts to select 41 priority targets, Shawn gets you ready to win $1 million in the Big Gorilla.

This ended up as the biggest single-article project I’ve attempted in almost 15 years in writing about fantasy. This exercise will include blurbs on almost every veteran player, rankings, tiers, priority targets, an overall game plan, and even five or six mini-workshops focused on player evaluation.

The goal is to get started early this season so you can exploit ADP in early drafts and perhaps select a $1 million roster over the summer.

Since we started working closely with the FFPC in 2020, it’s been easy to track our redraft results. Over the course of those five years, we’ve had four excellent seasons (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024) and one down season (2022). For me, it included high finishes in the Main Event with my RotoViz co-managers Blair, Colm, and Curtis, and a tantalizingly close result in 2023 when Ben Gretch and I had a Stealing Bananas squad enter the final day in the top five.

Use Shawn’s tiered rankings, priority targets, and master plan in your own Big Gorilla drafts for a chance to turn $350 into $1 million! There are still about 100 leagues remaining for the Early Rampage promo, featuring an additional prize pool and drastically improving the expected value of your entry. Don’t wait to join a league!

While the 2024 dynasty season featured once-in-a-lifetime results, the redraft slate almost kept pace. While no team threatened for a tournament title as one had in each of the previous four seasons across redraft or best ball, seven of my 11 MEs qualified for the sprint, with four winning titles (including teams with Ben and Colm). Five of those teams impressed in the tournament, with one finishing in the top 100.

The good news for subscribers is that we play the same game plan with the same player targets that we discuss on the site and pods.

The 2024 Priority Targets list included . . .

Brock Bowers
Bucky Irving
Jayden Daniels
Malik Nabers
Trey McBride
Chase Brown
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Tee Higgins
Jordan Addison

The 2023 Priority Targets list included . . .

Amon-Ra St. Brown
CeeDee Lamb
Jahmyr Gibbs
Keenan Allen
Breece Hall
Brandon Aiyuk
Sam LaPorta
Rashee Rice
De’Von Achane

Can we do one better in 2025?

How the Rookies Fit

I won’t bog down this exercise by replicating the rookie evaluations and strategy discussions. When you find a rookie target who piques your interest, make sure you check out our detailed rookie content and the post-draft rookie series from Kevin Szafraniec.

200 Players, 11 Tiers, 43 Priority Targets and the (Early) 2025 Game Plan

My ranking is before the player name. Early ADP from the ME and the Big Gorilla is available in the FFPC Redraft Dashboard and is noted following the player name. Priority targets are in bold with fades in italics. Usually the targets and fades are purely the result of ranking relative to price, but in a few cases they are tactical.

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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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