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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Which Draft Spot is Best in 2025?

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jeff ranks all 12 draft spots for 2025 fantasy football leagues and breaks down which positions give you the clearest path to building a league-winning roster. Whether you’re picking from the 1.01 or stuck near the turn, he walks you through the pros and cons of every slot, including how the player pool, positional runs, and roster construction impact your options. Then he shifts gears and adjust those rankings for 10-team leagues, where depth, value pockets, and strategy change in big ways. If you want to dominate your draft no matter where you’re picking, this one’s a must-listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.1

Yo, what's going on?

0:16.1

It's the rant.

0:17.0

It's also Thursday, July 19th. And let's continue. Yesterday, I talked a little

0:25.2

bit about some running back strategies. And I want to just dive into different strategies.

0:29.5

We talked about handcuffing a couple shows back. So if you missed that one, go back,

0:34.0

download that episode. You know, today, today not super strategic but still an important question

0:40.2

that i get i mean more times than i can count every single year if you had to pick any draft spot

0:47.0

what's the best draft spot so we're going to cover that and i'm going to rank them for you

0:51.2

in a 12 team league and then i'll modify it for a 10 team league, right?

0:54.4

Give you the thought process for each one of them and then go from there. It's actually a pretty fun topic. And I did put more thought into it this offseason than I had in the past. Like if you paid attention to me along the way, you follow me on Twitter at Jeff Rackle, If you follow all the work over at FtnFantasy.com or SiriusXM and all that, you know where I'm going with number one.

0:55.6

But you probably don't know the entire list. So we'll get into that for you today on the podcast. Good stuff, right? Also good stuff at Ftnfantasy.com. I'm going to tell you first and foremost, the stuff that I put up on the site, and by stuff,

1:28.4

it can mean anything. It could be articles. It could be my rankings and projections. It could be tools. It could be the cheat sheets, the draft guides. It's stuff that I want to use personally. Like, I'm selfish, right? I want to play this game better. But I'm trying to make this as useful as possible, and that's what we try to do

1:45.2

in general at FtNFantasy.com. So, like, this year, I revised the cheat sheets and made them

1:50.5

more useful, like a positional cheat sheet that you would get anywhere. You could download it on,

1:55.7

you know, for free from various sites on the internet, right? I don't think they're that useful.

2:00.4

And did you realize the format

2:01.8

of those cheat sheets has not changed in like two plus decades? Like people are still using the same

2:06.9

format. Well, I adjusted it a little bit. I didn't completely reinvent the wheel. I didn't discover

2:12.2

slice bread, but I changed it a little bit this year to make it more useful. There are tiers on it.

2:16.5

There's projected points. The layout is much much cleaner that's just one thing it's not even the that's not even the sheet that i use on draft day but i wanted to make it useful like if i was to use it how would it be more useful i use my ultimate draft board the only place to get that is ftn fantasy dot com it's the only place to get the game plan draft guide with my draft strategies uh the rookie fantasy scouting guide if youanysy.com. It's the only place to get the game plan draft guide with my

2:34.3

draft strategies, the rookie fantasy scouting guide if you're interested in that. It's the only

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