Our Biggest Hits and Misses From 2025: What We Learned, Part 1 (Episode 960 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva take a look back at their preseason rankings and deconstruct their fantasy hits and misses, assessing what made their hits become hits and what lessons we can learn from the misses.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:10 - Jonathan Taylor
5:21 - Brian Thomas Jr.
9:43 - De’Von Achane
12:17 - Christian McCaffrey
16:25 - Chase Brown
20:23 - Trey McBride
21:56 - Lamar Jackson
23:48 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba
27:17 - Xavier Worthy
30:01 - George Pickens
31:13 - Marvin Harrison Jr.
34:31 - TreVeyon Henderson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 960 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.8 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:25.8 | As always joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva, |
| 0:28.5 | and the 2025 NFL season is officially over. |
| 0:34.3 | That means it is a perfect time to do our annual look back at what happened from a fantasy |
| 0:40.3 | perspective. Evan, how's it going today? It's going great. This is always an interesting |
| 0:46.2 | show to do because we talk about hits and misses. The hits, I mean, we're probably just |
| 0:52.6 | going to cheerlead ourselves. You know, that's what the tendency is to do. |
| 0:56.2 | Unless we got something right with bad process, which does happen. |
| 1:00.8 | But then the misses are difficult because there is sort of, you know, |
| 1:05.7 | you kind of want to almost defend yourself when you're wrong. |
| 1:09.0 | But, you know, if you're a really good analyst, you want to |
| 1:12.0 | zoom out and be like, what did I miss regarding this player? Why did I get this wrong? So it's, |
| 1:19.0 | you know, a lot of mindset going into this. For sure. Yeah. And I like doing this too, just |
| 1:24.8 | trying to think through what our process was back over last summer and see how it played out. |
| 1:30.5 | So over the course of the next two shows, we are going to do an autopsy of sorts on our takes from this fantasy football season. |
| 1:40.7 | We'll highlight our biggest hits and misses and see if there's anything we can learn |
| 1:44.9 | from them, as of course our goal is to get better every year. In terms of how we identified |
| 1:50.6 | these biggest hits and misses, we pulled these names from, mostly from episode 899, which was |
| 1:56.3 | our round by round favorite picks show, also from my perfect draft article that I wrote in the draft |
| 2:02.8 | kit, Silva's shy away list and other content from the draft kit in late August. |
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