5 BEST BUYS for 2025 + Player Comps That Will Define This Fantasy Football Season
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports
4.9 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Dan Schneier & Jacob Gibbs are BACK to break down all the finest points on everything you need to DOMINATE your fantasy football league! Who are some rookies to target and why? How does coaching and playcalling impact some sleepers? Which rookie compares to Bucky Irving? Which QB's are the most accurate & more!!!!
(0:00) Intro
(1:37) Travis Kelce Avoiding Tackles
(3:00) Brock Bowers Comps
(8:00) Ben Johnson Play Action
(12:35) Colston Loveland
(17:00) Play Action Efficiency
(18:45) Bucky Irving
(23:40) Irving vs. Kamara Comp
(27:16) RJ Harvey
(39:00) QB Accuracy
(45:00) Raiders & Brock Bowers
(51:40) Lamar Jackson
(1:02:00) Patrick Mahomes
(1:08:50) Bryce Young
(1:11:00) Joe Burrow
(1:12:00) Top 5 Fantasy Buys
(1:17:00) Michael Pennix
(1:18:00) Brock Purdy
(1:20:00) JJ McCarthy
(1:24:30) Josh Downs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In 2024, Travis Kelsey was credited with only three avoided tackles. |
| 0:15.0 | According to True Media, True Media is a database that I have access to through CBS Sports and my job with fantasy football |
| 0:22.1 | today. |
| 0:23.1 | We recently got the green light to share True Media, share our screen, and all that we've |
| 0:28.9 | been working on and building and looking into over here on the data side of things. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm really excited to show all of that to you here. |
| 0:40.6 | On Beyond the Box Score, bring that to our YouTube audience. |
| 0:45.2 | And so I want to start here with Travis Kelsey. |
| 0:50.5 | So only three avoided tackles for Kelsey in 2024. |
| 1:01.2 | If you look at his career leading up to that point, this is a clear deviation. |
| 1:14.6 | All right, we've got it. Sharing screen on YouTube. Okay. So here I've got each year from Travis Kelsey's age 30 season until 2024. You've got avoided tackles here, first downs, all this good stuff you can see here. |
| 1:19.6 | This is going to be so cool. I'm excited. I'm so excited for this. It's going to be a learning curve, |
| 1:23.6 | getting all the true media stuff done, but it's very cool to share it here. |
| 1:33.3 | 15, this is starting in 2019, 15 avoided tackles, then 20, 14, then 19, then 24, then 17 avoided tackles. |
| 1:34.6 | Even in 2023, when he wasn't as productive, still is avoiding tackles, creating |
| 1:39.3 | yak, all the stuff that we have come to know and love Travis Kelsey for, and then three |
| 1:44.0 | avoided tackles last |
| 1:46.1 | year. So, you know, it's easy to look at that and, you know, sound the panic alarm. It's over. |
| 1:54.4 | And that's fair. But I do, I do want to just talk a little bit more about this avoided tackle |
| 1:59.4 | stat. Because if you look at, |
| 2:03.6 | you know, look at the top scores last year at the tight end position. It's not, you know, |
| 2:10.0 | you've got Zach Ertz at tied in seven. You've got Mark Andrews at Titan 6. There's a lot more |
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