Fantasy Football Draft 2025 Blueprint: Win Your League Using Math & Historical Evidence To Make the RIGHT PICKS
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports
4.9 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Help us raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital here: https://tiltify.com/@cbs-sports/fft-draftathon-2025 Jacob and Ryan Heath use historical trends and math to get you all the data you need to dominate your fantasy football draft! #FantasyFootball #NFL #FantasyFootballAdvice #Podcast 0:00 Intro 2:30 Fantasy Football Commandments 4:40 Anatomy of a League Winner 8:45 Positional Parameters 11:00 The Importance of Early Round WRs 12:45 Travis Kelce Has Been the ONLY League Winner at TE Recently 15:30 Round 3 & 4 QBs 20:00 The Other Way to Find League Winner QBs 23:14 Brock Purdy's Upside 32:20 How Age Curves Impact League Winners 40:00 Biggest Upside Guys 41:45 De'Von Achane 43:45 Why You Need A WR in Round 1 or 2 47:30 The Round 3 Complication 53:30 Round 5 is RB Round 1:01:00 Round 6 1:08:00 Who Is On Championship Teams? 1:13:30 Back Up RBs 1:18:00 Top Tier WRs 1:23:30 Overlooked WRs 1:27:37 TEs, George Kittle & Target Ambiguity 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/FantasyFootballToday • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider ▶︎FFT Express: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyK1zeDYsKPiLNzzFk3jHa199--RN6nff 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fEvGGxwXqSM8xuSNgxjFR • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-podcast/id261735167 • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast ▶︎Fantasy Football Today Express: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=51b16cab6d6747ed ▶︎Fantasy Football Today Dynasty: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=1a4cd6f9fc464606 ▶︎Fantasy Football Today DFS: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=f330cceb49b34780 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/fantasyfootballtoday • Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday • ASK all of your Start/Sit questions in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ 📖 READ • More fantasy football news: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/fantasy-football-today • Shop our store: https://shop.cbssports.com/fantasy 💵BETTING • Visit the betting arena on CBS Sports.com: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/ • For all the latest in sportsbook reviews: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/sportsbooks/ • And sportsbook promos: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/promos/ 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Want to dominate your league and get Fantasy Football bragging rights? Join host Adam Aizer, analysts Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, and the rest of our crew throughout the year. Start or Sit, Waiver Wire, Buy or Sell, Grade the Trade and mailbag from your emails and #AskFFT tweets. This is the only podcast you'll need to win your league.
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| 0:00.0 | win every round. |
| 0:13.8 | It's that special time of year. |
| 0:15.7 | It's that time of year where Ryan Heath comes down from Mount statistically significant with a new tablet of fantasy football commandments for us. |
| 0:27.0 | It's that time of year where we all come together and nerd out. |
| 0:31.9 | It's fantasy draft season. |
| 0:34.3 | And man, the commandments this year have hit me hard, Ryan. |
| 0:37.8 | Thou shalt not draft zero RB teams. |
| 0:41.9 | Thou shalt not chase elite titan seasons. |
| 0:45.2 | The era of Travis Kelsey has ended. |
| 0:48.0 | Thou shalt not draft middle round QBs. |
| 0:50.4 | You got to either commit to one of the dual threat elite quarterbacks at the top or |
| 0:56.0 | draft a position in round 11 or later. And most of all, love one another and keep drafting |
| 1:02.6 | Devon A. Chan. Those are some of the commandments. We're going to get into all of them today. |
| 1:07.7 | You're listening to Beyond the Box score. I'm Jacob Gibbs. I'm joined by my friend, |
| 1:11.9 | my colleague, Ryan Heath, and we're going to help you win some leagues today. Ryan, you've done |
| 1:16.5 | it again. Absolute banger of an article proliferating around the nerdiest corners of the fantasy |
| 1:21.3 | football online space. I would dare say anyone watching this video if you have not read |
| 1:26.6 | Ryan's article, the anatomy of a league winner, you're already losing your fantasy football competition. |
| 1:34.4 | Don't worry though. |
| 1:35.0 | We've got you. |
| 1:36.6 | We're taking a historical approach to what has won leagues in the past. |
| 1:40.8 | We're going to provide a blueprint for you on how to draft in 2025. It's going to be a lot of fun. |
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