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Fantasy Focus Football

2025's Biggest Surprises and Disappointments | Fantasy Focus 🏈

Fantasy Focus Football

ESPN Radio

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4.413.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Fantasy Focus Football presented by Wingstop! Today, Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay celebrate our Focus Show League Champion Miller Lite Mike and give a shoutout to Chef Drake for winning the Gridiron Gauntlett before sharing one final Week 18 Playoffs Stash for managers still chasing a win. We look back at 2025’s biggest fantasy surprises and disappointments, including Javonte Williams’ breakout season and the stars who fell short when it mattered. Then we turn our attention to the incoming rookies as we hand out first round grades for Cam Ward, Jaxson Dart, Travis Hunter, Tet McMillan, Emeka Egbuka, Matthew Golden, Ashton Jeanty, and Omarion Hampton while also breaking down Yates’ early 2026 mock draft featuring Fernando Mendoza, Dante Moore, Carnell Tate, Makai Lemon, and several more future fantasy names to watch. We wrap with our 2026 Fantasy Resolutions and the trends that will shape next season’s draft boards. All that and more on Fantasy Focus Football! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.5

Focus.

0:35.9

Fantasy.

0:36.6

Fantasy focus. Fantasy. Fantasy focus.

0:43.8

What's good, friends, and welcome into fantasy focus football.

0:47.2

Two shows in a row, my friend.

0:48.9

You were totally fine.

0:51.7

I was good until we started to do this.

0:53.8

Anyways, welcome into fantasy focus football, presented by by Wingstop alongside Mike Clay and Field Jates. My name is Daniel Dopp. Week 17 is officially in the books. Most of your championships have been decided. If you're a sicko that plays into Week 18, we'll talk with you in a little bit. However, very excited to be able to have you guys. How are you doing today?

1:11.4

Doing awesome. I am very excited for New Year. Yes. Always lots of possibilities within the

1:18.1

new year. I also just want to say thank you because you just alluded to those people correctly.

1:22.2

If you are one of the sickos that's listening or watching, shout out to you. And if you're

1:26.5

one of those people that's watching not because you have fantasy matchups to be determined, all the more love to you because it takes a special kind of dedication to be with us right now. We absolutely are so grateful for it. Yeah, but these are going to be fun shows. We have today and Friday, and we're doing awards and talking about, you know, recapping a lot of the season, looking forward to next year.

1:45.9

So, you know, it's always sad when the season winds down, but also I'm, I'm excited. Like I already put out, I told you guys before the show, kind of a first initial run of ranks for next year. Which is always a fun exercise. I have to tune these before we publish them in a few days. but it's always fun to kind of look ahead to the next season.

2:01.4

Always nice to be able to look ahead and see what fun to kind of look ahead to the next season.

2:01.4

Always nice to be able to look ahead and see what we are going to be able to do in 2026. First and foremost, though, I want to give a couple of quick shoutouts to our friends over at Trophy Smack. Cat anova Trofeysmack.com. Use the promo code Focus 10. If you need something for your league, someone won a championship, you want to grab a belt, go out there and make that happen.

2:17.8

I would love to have a belt like that.

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2:20.9

You have to grab a belt. Go out there and make that happen.

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