Rookie Report: 18 Deep Fantasy Football Sleepers to Know Before Your Leaguemates | Beyond the Box Score
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Who is this year's Bucky Irving? Puka Nacua? Jacob and Dan are back with the latest on 2025 rookies and which rookies are on their way to fantasy relevancy in year one.
(0:00) Intro + we’re talking rookies today & Emeka Egbuka
(6:10) Rapid fire rookies worth monitoring
(12:00) Early Season Rookie Snap Rate Projections
(23:00) This year’s Bucky Irving?
(52:30) This year’s Brian Thomas Jr.?
(1:01:40) This year’s Ladd McConkey?
(1:04:45) This year’s Puka Nacua?
(1:20:00) This year’s Bowers/LaPorta
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. This is Beyond the Box Score. I'm Dan Schneier. Join is always my co-host, Jacob Gibbs. |
| 0:15.0 | And Jacob, today we are diving deep into rookies. This is a little extension of our rookie work this preseason. |
| 0:23.0 | Before we do that, I wanted to ask you, I know you. |
| 0:26.8 | You're the type that just grinds down preseason film like it's candy in some degree |
| 0:32.7 | to a baby or candy to a kid. |
| 0:34.1 | I don't even know where I was going with that. |
| 0:36.1 | From all the preseason tape you watched, who was the one rookie that you expected to be less |
| 0:44.0 | high on? And then you watched this tape and you were like, wait a second, I see something here. |
| 0:49.6 | It's got to be all like Gordon. The cat's out of the bag at this point. We as a community have gotten real, real sick with it where like there's a huge demand for the preseason content. And at this point, we're through the preseason and everybody knows about Olly Gordon. Everybody knows about Isaac Tesla. You know, like they're not secrets anymore. But it would definitely be Gordon if we're talking about running backs. It's so funny with Gordon. I watched a ton of his tape because the Giants were bringing him in for a preseason as I think I mentioned it before. And that 2023 tape, Jacob, I know it wasn't the same in 2024, but that 20203 tape, he was a leadback workhorse for them. So I do feel like if things |
| 1:29.7 | fall right for him from an injury standpoint and the dolphins can get that offensive line back on |
| 1:34.3 | track and that offense back on track, it's like a league winning type last round pick. So this is |
| 1:38.5 | exactly what we're doing today's show for. We're doing today's show for those of you who are in |
| 1:42.8 | deeper leagues or medium-sized leagues, get to the final rounds of your draft. You're doing today's show for those of you who are in deeper leagues or medium-sized |
| 1:44.4 | leagues, get to the final rounds of your draft. You're looking through that board on a snake |
| 1:48.5 | draft. You're like, I don't really know or care about any of these names. What are we down to |
| 1:52.6 | here? Like, who are these guys? We have the guys for you. We have the players you want to target |
| 1:58.7 | at the end of your draft to give yourself the best |
| 2:01.1 | chance of winning your league because these are all upside based picks. So Jacob, without further |
| 2:06.9 | do, let's get into some of those rookies today. And we don't have, we'll start maybe with rookies |
| 2:12.6 | that are worth monitoring on today's show. So who's first on the list for you? |
| 2:18.2 | Yeah, it's more than just get these guys the end of the draft. |
| 2:20.9 | Just know these names. |
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