Our Biggest Hits and Misses From 2025: What We Learned, Part 2 (Episode 961 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 32 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
1:21 - Calvin Ridley
3:39 - DJ Moore
6:02 - Chris Olave
8:06 - Justin Fields
11:24 - Tyler Warren
14:25 - Baker Mayfield
17:42 - Dak Prescott
18:22 - Jaydon Blue
21:26 - Bhayshul Tuten
23:32 - Kaleb Johnson
26:36 - Jordan Addison
28:40 - Zach Charbonnet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 9161 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.4 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:25.3 | As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva, |
| 0:28.2 | and the NFL season is officially over. |
| 0:31.1 | That means it is time to continue our annual look back |
| 0:35.3 | at what happened from a fantasy perspective. Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:40.8 | It's going great. Ready to get after it. |
| 0:42.4 | On the previous episode, we did an autopsy of our early round, hits and misses. |
| 0:48.2 | Today, we will move to the later rounds. |
| 0:51.3 | We will highlight our biggest wins, our biggest losses, and see if there is anything |
| 0:55.4 | we can learn from them, as of course our goal is to get better every year. |
| 1:00.8 | Reminder, we pulled these names from episode 899, which was our round-by-round favorite |
| 1:07.0 | picks show. |
| 1:08.0 | Also pulled these names from My Perfect Draft and the Draft Kit, |
| 1:11.4 | Silva's Shyaway List, and other content from the draft kit in late August. All right, let's get |
| 1:18.6 | into it here with later round hits and misses. We will start with a big miss from me, and that was |
| 1:25.0 | Calvin Ridley. I mean, he was just terrible, terrible, terrible, |
| 1:29.5 | and then he got hurt. Even if Calvin really didn't get hurt, though, I suspect this one was a big |
| 1:34.5 | miss. I think the biggest takeaway for me is if your thesis for a play is, well, the situation |
| 1:42.6 | can't be any worse than it was last year or can't get any |
| 1:45.3 | worse. That's just not the best argument. And I was excited for Cam Ward, but I still knew the |
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