Ranking the 50 Best Rookie Seasons | Beyond the Box Score
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, NFL, Rookies, NFL Rookies
4.9 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 178 minutes
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Summary
Jacob and Dan break down the 50 BEST rookies from the 2025-26 season.
0:00 Intro & Welcome to the BTBS channel!
2:18 Rookie season takeaways & Laying the groundwork for the Top 50
9:20 Players NOT included in the Top 50 (Dishonorable mentions)
15:17 Tier 6 - Intriguing rookie seasons, not sure if it'll ever amount to anything
38:12 Tier 5 - These look like NFL level players who could be starters
1:40:55 Tier 4 - Replacement-level starters who might eventually be positive contributors
1:54:10 Tier 3 - Flashed star power, we still have incomplete information after just one year
2:11:53 Tier 2 - Extremely encouraging rookie seasons
2:49:13 Tier 1 - Colston Loveland is a superstar
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:02.0 | It's an unusual name. |
| 0:03.0 | Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. |
| 0:07.0 | What game are we playing today? |
| 0:09.0 | Discover the origins. |
| 0:10.0 | It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me. |
| 0:12.0 | Of crime's most iconic mind. |
| 0:14.0 | There has been a break-in. |
| 0:17.0 | Astoned. You should be a detective. |
| 0:19.0 | Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. |
| 0:22.5 | If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. |
| 0:25.9 | Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now Beyond the Box Score. We are happy to be back with you. I'm Dan Schneier. That's my co-host, Jacob Gibbs. He's back with you. Jacob Gibbs has been fighting quite the scene in these last few weeks trying to get himself healthy for this podcast. And he's back. He's been drinking electrolytes. I told him a little bit about my little electrolike plan behind the scenes. And we're ready to rip. We know you want draft profiles. draft profiles will be coming up. Both Jacob and I have been diving deep in the draft. I've been diving real deep. You should be, if interested, you can check out CBSports.com a little bit later today. I am doing a post. I am writing again, which is always fun, on my favorite combine risers and sleepers for the fantasy football dynasty draft season. So you'll get to read a little bit about the players I've been watching on tape. But today's show is not going to be about the upcoming NFL draft. |
| 1:30.8 | It's going to be about the last draft. |
| 1:33.2 | We're spending time on the rookies today. |
| 1:35.6 | Because why? |
| 1:36.2 | Because rookies are year two breakouts. |
| 1:38.5 | Rookies are year two busts. |
| 1:40.2 | And today we're going to spend time on a lot of players. |
| 1:43.1 | We know you've heard us talk all about the 2025 rookie class from Harold Fannin Jr. |
| 1:48.5 | to Arronday Gadsden, some of our big time favorites. |
| 1:51.1 | We know there's breakouts on the Risen's under the radar players we're interested in. |
| 1:54.9 | Tori Horton, Terrence Ferguson. |
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