Handicapping The NFL In 2025 & Cutdown Day
Harris Fantasy Football Podcast
Christopher Harris
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
NFL Cutdown Day happened on Tuesday, and...it was a little underwhelming? At least in terms of big names changing teams, Cutdown Day didn't really deliver. But we *did* get some pretty big roster news elsewhere, with players who did and didn't wind up going on PUP lists and IR lists. We'll handle that material, we'll read Brian Robinson's *new* Almanac profile, and then we'll have a look at the handicapping market for the NFL in 2025. What team win totals do we like and not like, who do we like to lead the major stat categories, are there player props we like, etc. Fun show! Guest: Chris Raybon from The Action Network.
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Our 2025 NFL bets:
* Team you feel strongest about going OVER their win total?
(Raybon - Steelers over 8.5; Harris - Jets over 5.5)
* Team you feel strongest about going UNDER their win total?
(Raybon - Dolphins under 7.5; Harris - 49ers under 10.5)
* Team you feel best bet to MAKE the playoffs?
(Raybon - Broncos (-165); Harris - Vikings (-120))
* Team you feel best bet to MISS the playoffs?
(Raybon - Vikings (+100); Harris - Patriots (-140))
* Favorite bet for a playoff team (can be to win Super Bowl, to make Super Bowl, to make Conference Final, etc.)?
(Raybon - Chiefs to make Super Bowl (+400), Jaguars to win AFC South (+280); Harris - Lions to make Super Bowl (+550))
* Favorite bet on NFL Leading Passer?
(Raybon - Patrick Mahomes (+900), Trevor Lawrence (+2200), C.J. Stroud (+1500); Harris - Jared Goff (+1200))
* Favorite bet on NFL Leading Rusher?
(Raybon - Ashton Jeanty (+1800), TreVeyon Henderson (+10000); Harris - Christian McCaffrey (+1100))
* Favorite bet on NFL Leading Receiver?
(Raybon - Brian Thomas (+1300), Ladd McConkey (+3500), Amon-Ra St. Brown (+2200), Drake London (+1500); Harris - CeeDee Lamb (+1000))
* Jayden Daniels over/under 3450.5 pass yards? (Raybon OVER; Harris OVER)
* Brock Purdy over/under 23.5 TD passes? (Raybon OVER; Harris OVER)
* De’Von Achane over/under 875.5 rush yards? (Raybon UNDER; Harris UNDER)
* Ashton Jeanty over/under 7.5 rush TDs? (Raybon OVER; Harris UNDER)
* Brian Thomas over/under 1150.5 receiving yards? (Raybon OVER; Harris OVER)
* Puka Nacua over/under 5.5 receiving TDs? (Raybon OVER; Harris OVER)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey! It's the Harris Football Podcast with your host, Christopher Harris. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome! |
| 0:15.8 | Hey everybody, welcome in. My name is Chris, and this show will just be the greatest. Hello there. Good morning. Thank you so much for listening today. I know how many other shows cover the NFL. I know you have a lot of choices. I'm really thankful that you listen to this little podcast that could. I genuinely mean it when I say it means a lot to me. |
| 0:38.9 | So it is now, as of my recording this, the day after Cutdown Day in the NFL. |
| 0:44.8 | I remember in the early years of the show, I used to devote like a lot of real estate. |
| 0:50.3 | Like, I don't remember how much, but a lot on the show to Cutdown Day, and we're |
| 0:55.4 | going to talk about it here now. I'm not, I'm not sure if back then it was just bad planning |
| 1:00.3 | on my part, or if Cut Down Day has gotten less interesting, but yeah, we're not going to, |
| 1:04.9 | the actually cuts themselves. I mean, there's some NFL news for sure yesterday that is related |
| 1:09.4 | to roster size, but people actually |
| 1:11.1 | like losing their jobs. |
| 1:14.3 | It was kind of uninteresting. |
| 1:16.2 | No major trades, at least not yet, though that can certainly happen any time over the |
| 1:21.1 | next week or so. |
| 1:22.8 | And I can't come up with that many major headlines for like shocking cuts, the most noteworthy thing for this |
| 1:30.3 | show might be something that doesn't matter at all for the NFL or for fantasy. |
| 1:35.1 | It's the quest for Tunyan. |
| 1:38.1 | Arizona by the time. |
| 1:40.0 | The actual Robert Tunyon got let go by the chiefs, but of course the metaphorical quest for Tunian will go on in his name. |
| 1:49.2 | We will certainly weigh in on the people who play the dumbest position in fantasy throughout the film watching season to see if we can accurately nominate a few of this year's Tunions, |
| 1:59.9 | a.k.a. undrafted for fantasy tight ends, |
| 2:03.2 | who can join the ranks of the startable by the end of the season. |
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