First Fantasy Football Draft of 2025 (Episode 844 with Evan Silva, Adam Levitan, Justin Herzig, John Daigle, Mike Leone, Jack Miller)

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adam Levitan leads a star-studded ETR lineup of Fantasy experts with Evan Silva, Justin Herzig, John Daigle, Mike Leone and Jack Miller in our first 2025 Fantasy Football Draft.
In this episode, we discuss:
- A preview into how early rosters can be constructed
- How far do aging Running Backs like CMC and Derrick Henry fall?
- Where does the Elite RB cliff fall?
- How many QBs make the first three rounds?
- Which 2024 sleeper finds their way into this year’s first round?

Timestamps:

2:40 - Pick 1.01

4:05 - Pick 1.02

5:07 - Pick 1.03

6:12 - Pick 1.04

8:12 - Pick 1.05

10:04 - Pick 1.06

11:16 - Pick 1.07

12:37 - Pick 1.08

13:18 - Pick 1.09

14:30 - Pick 1.10

15:04 - Pick 1.11

17:15 - Pick 1.12

18:20 - Pick 13 (2.01)

20:00 - Pick 14 (2.02)

21:23 - Pick 15 (2.03)

22:38 - Pick 16 (2.04)

23:25 - Pick 17 (2.05)

24:52 - Pick 18 (2.06)

25:29 - Pick 19 (2.07)

27:23 - Pick 20 (2.08)

29:40 - Pick 21 (2.09)

31:03 - Pick 22 (2.10)

31:43 - Pick 23 (2.11)

32:56 - Pick 24 (2.12)

33:59 - Pick 25 (3.01)

35:14 - Pick 26 (3.02)

37:23 - Pick 27 (3.03)

38:51 - Pick 28 (3.04)

41:17 - Pick 29 (3.05)

43:12 - Pick 30 (3.06)

43:55 - Pick 31 (3.07)

45:04 - Pick 32 (3.08)

46:00 - Pick 33 (3.09)

47:07 - Pick 34 (3.10)

48:08 - Pick 35 (3.11)

50:05 - Pick 36 (3.12)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 845 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:22.2	My name is Adam Levittan, and today we are gathered for a very special episode,
0:27.4	a unique episode of the show.
0:28.9	We're going to do a fantasy football draft six months before the NFL season starts.
0:35.0	For this today, I am gathered.
0:38.3	With five other gentlemen you know and love,
0:40.4	Evan Silva, of course,
0:42.3	King of the Best Ball Streets, Justin Herzig,
0:44.6	from the season-long trenches John Daigel,
0:47.2	from the spreadsheets and data side team, Michael Leone.
0:50.8	And coming to us live from the projections team,
0:52.8	Jack Miller.
1:00.0	On today's show, we're going to do basically what everyone wants, what everyone asks us for.
1:06.7	A three-round, 36-pick fantasy football draft for the 2025 NFL season.
1:08.8	Very loose parameters here in place.
1:12.9	Half-PR, regular season-long fantasy, not best ball. We're not trying to get into the weeds here in place. Half PPR, regular season long fantasy, not best ball.
1:17.8	We're not trying to get into the weeds here on strategy or roster construction or team construction.
1:19.6	We'll hit that throughout the summer, of course.
1:27.8	Right now we're simply taking a first look at how we view the players for next season as we sit here on March 4th.
1:31.6	Before we get into it here today, reminder, two things.
1:37.3	First, for my DFS golf brothers out there, we have put a ton of time and energy and frankly, money into our golf product, a bunch of new content and data as part of that
1:42.0	subscription.
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