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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

12 BREAKOUT candidates you need to target in your fantasy drafts

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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4.7737 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

We kick off ‘Boom or bust week’ on the pod with Upper Hand Fantasy’s Faraz SIddiqi joining Matt Harmon to identify 12 breakout candidates in 2025 you need to target in your fantasy drafts. The two alternate their picks and stand on the table for guys they think will have career years this season.

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0:00.0

Big show here for you today.

0:02.2

Faraz Sadiqi of Upper Hand Fantasy. He joins me to talk breakout candidates. We've got 12 breakout candidates to go over with you that you're going to want to draft these guys in your fantasy football leagues. We also hit some breaking news as Brian Robinson Jr. is looking like he's on his way out with the commanders. Jacori Kroski Merritt, aka Bill, big time hype bunny. Are we buying into the hype? Then again, we get into our breakout candidates.

0:01.9

Drake, May. way out with the commanders. Jacori Kroski Merritt, aka Bill, big time hype bunny. Are we buying into

0:22.3

the hype? Then again, we get into our breakout candidates. Drake May is going to be the Super

0:26.7

Flex QB2 that you need to take this year. A breakout rookie running back for the Denver Broncos,

0:31.8

a tight end that you just want to absolutely smash in the late rounds. All that and more coming

0:36.1

up on today's show. Let's get into it.

0:51.4

What's going on, everybody?

0:52.5

I'm Matt Harmon.

0:53.6

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast, and it is a hell of a day to talk ball.

0:58.6

And join me to do just that is Faraz Siddiqui of Upper Hand Fantasy.

1:02.7

Faraz, what's going on, buddy?

1:04.6

Oh, man, this is such an exciting time of a year, man.

1:07.2

Like, it's busy, but this is probably my favorite time of the season, to be

1:12.2

the time of the year, to be honest with you, just because, you know, we're full-on player

1:16.3

takes, pre-season's here. We kind of get the usage. A lot of players that we're not

1:20.2

using in certain spots, we get to see it now. And we get to overreact, which is what I love

1:26.6

to do, too. So I'm excited to me.

1:30.1

It is an exhausting but exciting time of the year. I would agree with that, that it is exciting.

1:36.9

If nothing else, Faraz, then, I mean, you know, you know this because you go so deep on the

1:41.3

prospect new stuff just like I do. The fact that, you know,

1:44.6

we're seeing Kiannari Lambert Smith make plays. We're seeing Isaac Tesla draw Pooka Nakuwa,

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