2025 Fantasy Football Round-by-Round Favorite Picks + Draft Strategy (Episode 899 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan and Evan Silva provide the answers for the test that is your upcoming NFL Fantasy Football drafts by labelling the strategy they would employ and their favorite players they would pick in each round to create their perfect draft.

In this episode, we discuss:

- What strategy to employ for your bench

- How to draft Wide Receivers if you miss out on them early?

- How late to draft a TE if you miss out on an elite option?

- Which rounds hold the best WR talent value?

- What an ideal roster construction looks like through the first 10 picks

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:29 - Round One

5:18 - Round Two

8:50 - Round Three

13:11 - Round Four

16:35 - Round Five

20:04 - Round Six

24:19 - Round Seven

27:08 - Round Eight

31:11 - Round Nine

34:36 - Round Ten

37:29 - Bench Strategy in Redraft

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 899 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders
0:24.5	here at ETR, as always joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. And it is time for one of our most
0:31.0	anticipated shows of the entire year, our favorite picks and strategy for your fantasy drafts this season. Evan, how's going on this
0:41.6	glorious day? It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day. And we're winding down our,
0:47.7	our, you know, fantasy draft coverage. I mean, I'm like on the verge of starting to write the
0:51.9	matchups columns. Oh, baby. But we have some big time content still to come on the redraft front, and I'm excited.
0:59.6	Yes, indeed.
1:01.3	On today's video, we will be sharing our guide to drafting a league-winning fantasy football roster.
1:08.2	Evan and I will go round by round to discuss two things.
1:11.3	First,
1:16.3	how we're thinking about overall strategy for that round, and second, our favorite player to target in that round. At the end of the video, we will reveal some of our favorite
1:22.5	bench stashes and bench strategy to execute in your fantasy draft.
1:32.8	All right, let's get into it here with round one.
1:41.8	My overall strategy for this season is about capitalizing on the mid-range wide receivers because that's where I think the most mispricings are. I think that's
1:45.3	where the most value is. And so that leads me to a lot of barbell-style running back rooms. In other
1:51.2	words, taking running backs early and taking them late. I think it's really tight this year
1:57.5	between the round one running backs and the round one wide receivers.
2:01.7	Where I don't think it's tight is between the mid round running backs and the mid round
2:06.6	wide receivers. I think the wide receivers have a huge edge there. And so, Evan, my perfect
2:11.4	pick for round one is going to be Bejohn Robinson true three-down plus goal line role for a shootout team who
2:22.6	gets to face Tampa, Arizona, and the Rams in the fantasy playoffs. Also note that Bejohn
2:29.0	Robinson only had five runs of 20 plus yards last season and still finished as fantasy's number four running back
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