Best QB Strategies For 2025 Fantasy Football: Elite QB, Late-Round QB, SuperFlex, More (Episode 888 with Adam Levitan, Mike Leone, JJ Zachariason)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan takes a look at the quarterback position in 2025 fantasy football with the help of Mike Leone and JJ Zachariason, analyzing which strategies work best this season and which strategies to avoid.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Do Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson make Elite QB the best way to go?
- Why to think twice on pocket passing quarterbacks
- Is it time to buy the Patrick Mahomes bounceback?
- Is late-round quarterback still a viable strategy?
- How each strategy impacts your optimal best ball roster construction strategy
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Elite QB Strategy in 2025
7:18 - When to Draft Elite QBs
12:32 - Where Jalen Hurts Fits
15:15 - When To Employ An Elite QB Strategy
19:12 - The Quarterback Mid-Range
25:47 - Late-Round Quarterback Options
35:52 - Matchup Streaming Options
38:48 - Drafting Quarterbacks in Superflex
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 888 of the official. |
| 0:19.4 | Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:22.9 | NFL regular season is just one month away. |
| 0:28.0 | Time to start thinking not just about players, |
| 0:31.9 | but strategy around how to actually draft those players. |
| 0:35.2 | To discuss that from a quarterback point of view, I'm joined by two young men you know and love. |
| 0:42.0 | Michael Leone, game theory bro extraordinaire. |
| 0:45.5 | Analytics director here at ETR. |
| 0:47.6 | Michael, how's it going? |
| 0:49.1 | Not so young anymore. |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, buddy. |
| 0:52.0 | I know. |
| 0:53.8 | Also, special guest, J.J JJ Zacharison of late round fantasy football. |
| 0:59.1 | JJ, thanks for the time. |
| 1:00.2 | How's it going? |
| 1:01.2 | Not very young over here either. |
| 1:03.5 | I appreciate the kind words, though. |
| 1:05.9 | Of course. |
| 1:06.3 | We're going to hijack this podcast and just start talking about Zone 2 training. |
| 1:10.4 | That's exactly it. Yes. |
| 1:13.4 | We're not because on today's show, we're going to examine the quarterback landscape for the |
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