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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

How to Build a Bench That Wins Titles

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jeff breaks down the one part of your fantasy football draft that most people overlook: your bench. Too many drafters fill it with "safe" names and end up wondering why their team can’t win when it counts. Jeff shows you how to build a bench with real upside, how to stash the right breakouts, when to draft handcuffs, and what types of players to completely avoid. If you want a roster that actually wins titles, it starts here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.0

Yo, what's going on?

0:16.6

It's Tuesday, August 5th.

0:18.1

I'm Jeff.

0:18.5

This is the rant, and hey, Kyron Williams just got paid.

0:22.9

Obviously, you can see from the title of this podcast. I'm not going to be talking about

0:25.8

Kyron Williams, uh, that news on the show, but just really quickly. It's a three-year deal.

0:31.1

I suspect it's probably just a two year in terms of the guaranteed money. It says 22 million

0:36.7

guaranteed. So guaranteed money over the first two years of the guaranteed money. It says 22 million guaranteed. So guaranteed

0:38.2

money over the first two years of the contract. Who knows with year three? However, let me put that

0:43.5

into context. Those two years take you to the end of Blake Corum's rookie deal. If you were hoping

0:49.4

for Blake Corum to have independent value or maybe Jarquez Hunter, I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think that's going to happen.

0:55.0

I don't think that's going to happen. But I digress. Today on the show, a very important topic.

1:01.8

I want to talk about building a fantasy football bench that will actually help you win championships.

1:07.2

I will tell you there's a huge mistake a lot of people make in fantasy football drafts,

1:12.1

and I'm going to tell you how to avoid that, and then what we're looking to stockpile on our

1:16.4

rosters to give us the best chance of hoisting that trophy at the end of the season there in week 17.

1:22.7

So that's what we're covering on the podcast today.

1:24.9

Over at Ftnfantasy.com, I actually just released an annual article

1:30.1

that used to be a free piece, but, and it was more for, you know, getting people to come to the site,

1:35.1

check out what we have to offer, but I thought it would be better if I revised it, made it more

1:39.9

detailed, and made it just for subscribers. It's my draft day checklist. Now, the idea for this article

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