How To Draft League-Winning Fantasy Football Teams From Any Pick in the Draft | Beyond the Boxscore
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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4.9 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Jacob and Dan are back to help you dominate you draft with the best strategy from EVERY pick position!
0:00 Intro
2:45 Picking 1-4 Round
16:00 Why You Need at Least 1 WR by Round 2/3 Turn if you Draft 1-4
10:30 Brock Bowers Placement
12:00 The WR in Round 1 Reasoning
15:52 BREAK
16:10 The Early QB Conundrum
18:50 Round 4/5 Turn
25:45 Rashee Rice
38:30 Round 6/7 Turn
41:30 Why Dan Is Avoiding TE's in Rounds 4-7
42:00 Round 8/9 Turn
47:00 Round 10/11 Turn
47:50 Round 12 & Beyond
49:30 Picking 5-8 Round 1
53:15 Must Get A WR By Round 2
57:15 Round 3
1:24:00 Late Sleepers
1:26:37 Picking 9-12 Round 1
1:31:30 Round 3/4 Turn
1:42:30 Round 5/6 Turn
1:43:40 Round 7/8 Turn
1:52:00 Late Round & Sleepers
1:55:00 Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. It's beyond the box score. I'm your host, Dan Shire, joined as always by my co-host, Jacob Gibbs. We've got a great show for you today. but before we do that, Jacob, I just wanted to let you get an answer to this question that's been burning a hole in my mind after last night. |
| 0:30.1 | Are you still drafting Bill, as we're now calling him, your favorite sleeper of the off season now that that ADP is getting ready to skyrocket up draft boards. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, I was just writing about Bill. |
| 0:42.7 | What do you think is too high? |
| 0:44.2 | I've got him at 108, but I've seen some other analysts ranking him and they're pushing up into that range. |
| 0:52.8 | And I'm like, man, I've got to be the high guy. |
| 0:54.2 | I can't be missing out on Bill. |
| 0:55.2 | I think that's about as high as I can go right now. |
| 0:58.6 | Unless like we get Brian Robinson news, then maybe he pushes into the top 100. |
| 1:03.3 | But fortunately for FFT newsletter readers beyond the box score listeners, our bill bags are |
| 1:08.7 | already full, you know? |
| 1:09.8 | So we don't need to reach at this point. |
| 1:13.4 | Well, I hope for those listening to the show, you've already drafted him. By the way, Bill Chikori, |
| 1:18.4 | Crossgammer-Rat, that's what we're calling him. That's what they're calling him. Hopefully, |
| 1:22.7 | listeners have already drafted him on their dynasty teams. Hopefully, our advice helped you stash |
| 1:26.4 | him at a really, really cheap price in your dynasty leagues. Now, as far as redraft goes, Jacob, I am okay with where you haven't ranked. I actually haven't ranked a little bit lower. I thought Rodriguez looked pretty good, to be honest with you in that system as well. And I think Brian Robinson will be moved. I think they have a clear mindset for what they want. It goes back to my time |
| 1:44.7 | watching Cliff first come to the NFL with the Cardinals when he used Chase Edmonds in such a pronounced |
| 1:50.1 | role there and really defined what that's what you want out of that system. And watching some, |
| 1:55.9 | man, that one run where they had three pullers, I was just like, dude, one thing he doesn't get enough credit for, Cliff, is how he operates and how he designs his run game. I want to give him credit for that. I have at times bashed him. But today's show isn't about Bill, our favorite sleeper pick of the offseason. Today's show is about how to draft league winning teams from any pick in the draft. I think that's important to listeners. |
| 2:18.2 | We do a pick by pick series, Jacob. |
| 2:19.6 | You're a part of that on the site. |
| 2:21.4 | But a lot of people ask me like, I have the six pick. What do I do? I have the eighth pick. What do I do? So hopefully this show is that blueprint for some people and how they can build out their teams. At very least, Jacob, I hope they go into their drafts more confident. |
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