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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

QB Sleepers, Tiers, and Fears 2025

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

The Ringer

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The guys go through their quarterback rankings, place the QBs in tiers, and discuss how they plan to approach QB in their fantasy drafts. Plus, emails! (00:00) Intro(02:03) Overall Strategy(08:07) Tier 1: Elite Fantasy QBs Who Can Run(19:56) Tier 2: Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes(27:54) Tier 3: QBs Who Can Run(38:07) Tier 4: Pocket Passers(49:27) Tier 5: Anthony Richardson(56:59) Tier 6: Solid 3rd Guys in a 2-QB League(01:03:40) Emails! Check out our 2025 Ringer Fantasy Football Rankings here! Email us! [email protected] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Kai Grady and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer Fantasy football show.

0:15.0

I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Crollback.

0:17.3

And today we are going through our quarterback tears, our quarterback fears, sleepers,

0:22.2

depending on you feel about the sleeper. Some people get really touchy about what constitutes a sleeper or whatever. We're going to know through basically how we're going to think about the quarterback position this year. Because again, training camps are in full swing. Your group chats are probably waking up. And so people are figuring out when your drafts are. So it is time to start thinking about it. I think quarterback is, I think, the best entryway into looking at fantasy a lot of times,

0:21.3

just the season and general teams, everything. So we're going to go through all our quarterback thoughts, some dumb emails at the end. But actually, some serious stuff up top. I'm sure everyone listening has heard about this by now. But so on Monday, a gunman killed four people in a building on Park Avenue in New York City that includes NFL headquarters.

0:57.4

And he shot several people in the buildings lobby.

1:00.2

Investigators believe the shooter was trying to get to NFL headquarters inside the building, but accidentally entered the wrong set of elevator banks.

1:07.5

And so the man had a note on him claiming he had CTE, including the phrase,

1:12.8

quote, study my brain, please. I'm sorry. And quote, the gunman never played professional football.

1:17.6

He did play high school football. I know this is a weird thing to talk about at the top of a

1:22.7

fantasy show, but frankly, we just didn't know how to talk about the NFL for like an hour plus

1:26.9

and not talk about this. So obviously, absolutely horrific story. You read about the victims. It's just gut wrenching. And so, you know, that's just a horrible thing. So we can move on. I have absolutely zero segue on how to go from that to like Malik neighbors briefly left the Giants practice with some

1:44.4

tweak in his leg. And it's like, I don't know. There's no good segue. But yeah, awful story.

1:49.0

And now we'll talk about this fake football game that we play. And I really awkward clunky

1:54.4

transition. But yeah. So with that said, with that said, we can get to overall quarterback strategy for fantasy in 2025.

2:08.2

I don't know about you guys.

2:10.9

Just looking at quarterback this year, I actually have never felt stronger about what I want to do.

2:15.4

I might be wrong, but I actually know every time I go into a draft, I know exactly what I want to accomplish. I don't know, Dika, do you feel that way? Yeah, I mean, I think that there's, for me, I have a specific strategy I'm going with this year and that is, should I just say it now? Reveal it. Let's go. Hold it. Unboxing right now on air.

2:34.6

It's very not novel, Craig.

2:36.3

I want one of the top four guys. Or I'm going to wait a really long time. Get me one of them big ones. Give me one of them big ones. Basically, the god tier of fantasy quarterbacks, I think I really want to kind of go for it. It's just these are the types of guys that not only have a really high floor week in and week out, they're going to be really consistent.

2:35.6

They're going to get you your, you know, 16, 17 points almost surely. And then they also have the upside because of the rushing to get you 22, 25, 30, sometimes even more points, depending on what they do. So there's Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels, Lamar Jackson, Jalen, Hurtz, if you have a different tier one, let me know.

2:51.9

But those guys... points depending on what they do. So there's Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels, Lamar Jackson, Jalen,

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