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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Jake Ciely’s Top Targets In The First 10 Rounds (Ep. 1625)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Join Ryan Wormeli and Jake Ciely as they highlight Jake’s favorite picks to make in each of the first 10 rounds of 2025 fantasy football drafts that will help you dominate your league!

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Hello everybody. Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I am Ryan warmly joined by Jake Sealy from The Athletic. Today, we are talking about Jake's top targets in every round. Why shouldn't say every round? We're talking about his top targets in the top ten rounds of fantasy drafts. It feels like every round, but obviously there will be going to be going to be going a few rounds longer in most drafts there but we'll be talking

0:54.8

about his top targets in the first 10 rounds of every draft and we're going to go through

0:58.0

there's no real like position here it's just who you like in every round this is not to be clear

1:01.9

building a team you're not saying like this is my perfect draft it's in a vacuum irrespective

1:08.6

of who I've gotten in previous rounds these are the names I am targeting in these rounds. Fantasypros.com slash rankings. Everybody can check out ECR, you know, kind of those half-p-pr rankings, see roughly where those guys are going. We'll move quickly here. Jake, let's start at the very top. Who's your top target in round one? Everybody, I almost put Christian McCaffrey again. I know if we talked about him a few times. But I'm going to say I'm on St. Brown, only because it seems that he's getting a little bit of pushback lately. And I know a lot of the concerns are the Ben Johnson leaving and what is the Morton going to do? And I know they said they're doing a little bit of changes. But I just think it's strange of one of the most consistent wide receivers, wide receiver three in points per game. And overall two years ago, wide receiver seven in points per game in top five again last year. And maybe people want to say, well, wide receiver seven shouldn't be going on the first round. But I feel like this is the floor. I think you sing a little bit different with St. Brown last year, with some of the stuff being shorter.

1:45.0

And, you know, Jerry... going on the first round. But I feel like it's the floor. I think you're seeing a little bit different

2:01.2

with St. Brown last year with some of the stuff being shorter and, you know, Jared Goff had this

2:05.6

huge passing season and the touchdowns might not be there again. It seems like a lot of is for

2:10.4

somebody who is clearly the number one focal point in this passing game, even with the emerges

2:15.2

of James and Williams last year, that I'm taking those

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targets. I'm taking that consistency. And even if he finishes between last year and the year before,

2:23.4

that would still put him inside the top five with what I think is one of these safest floors.

2:28.3

You tell me who's more risky, and I love Puka Nakua, but who's more risky between Nakua and

2:32.6

St. Brown? There's more risk with Nakuwa.

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Nuku would you be shocked if he was the number two alongside Adams this year just because of how good Adams still is? No, I would not be shocked. And let alone the injury history, you think I like Puka. I think when you look at the other guys in this,

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because I am somebody who has kind of been fading it,

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like not all the way out of the first round,

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