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The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

986: Pre-Draft Rookie Rankings

The Late-Round Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The NFL Draft begins this week, so JJ is bringing you his thoughts on how Round 1 of fantasy football rookie drafts should go before things start. On Episode 986, you'll hear nuggets of information about TreVeyon Henderson, Travis Hunter, Luther...

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0:00.0

This is the late round podcast with your host, J.J. Zacharisa.

0:11.3

What's up, everyone? It's J.J. Zacharisen.

0:14.2

In this episode 986 of the late round fantasy football podcast, thanks for tuning in.

0:23.1

It's finally NFL draft week.

0:29.5

Finally, we made it. Now my feelings towards players, my feelings have shifted a bit since the start of the draft process because I either learn more about them or I see their projected

0:34.1

draft capital shift. Draft capital matters to me.

0:38.3

If a player goes from being a projected day three pick to all of a sudden being projected

0:42.0

to go in the top 50, that's going to alter the way that I feel about a player.

0:47.5

So today as a little pre-NFL draft primer, I'm going to talk through my top 12 single

0:52.4

quarterback rankings, as I do each year.

0:55.5

Essentially, this is how I view the first round of rookie drafts heading into the draft.

1:00.4

Things will change, but this at least will serve as a nice baseline for post-draft analysis.

1:06.5

Now, before we get to the rankings, as you clearly know by now, the NFL draft is happening

1:11.0

this week, which means there's not that much time left to get the pre-draft version of the

1:15.5

late-round prospect guide.

1:17.4

The guide's 160 pages of nerdy prospect information.

1:21.7

You get to know what goes into my prospect and year two models.

1:25.3

You'll get write-ups on 80 running back and wide receiver prospects, and there's about 40

1:29.7

year two profile write-ups too.

1:31.7

There's rankings, there's tiers, there's so much more.

1:34.4

If you get the pre-draft version of the guide, so if you order before the NFL draft is over,

1:39.5

you'll get the post-draft version as well.

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