2025 Fantasy Football Draft Kit: Strategy, cheat sheets, mock drafts, rankings — everything you need to win your league

The most important part of the fantasy football draft season has arrived. To get you ready, we've gathered all of our excellent analysis and advice, in one place, to help you build those eventual championship-winning teams.

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The 2025 Yahoo Fantasy Football Draft Kit is being updated daily and we’ll continue to add new content here all the way up until the season kicks off. So, whether you’re playing fantasy football for the first time or a seasoned pro looking to add another title to your trophy case, our draft kit will provide all the rankings, sleepers, fades, positional advice and more expert analysis you need to win.

Jump to different sections with our table of contents

• Rankings

• Draft Resources

• Mock Drafts

• Sleepers and Breakouts

• Positional Advice: QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs

• Deeper Reads

• Injuries, camp buzz and more

• 28 Days of Fantasy

• Podcasts: Latest takes from our analysts

• Keeping fantasy fun

Draft Rankings

Consensus Draft rankings (half-PPR)

• Top-300 Draft Rankings

• Quarterbacks

• Running Backs

• Wide Receivers

• Tight Ends

• D/ST

• Kickers

Justin Boone's Rankings:

2025 Fantasy Rankings (Half PPR)

QB | RB | WR | TE | DEF | K | Top 300

Download a Top 300 PDF | Positional cheatsheet

PPR

RB | WR | TE | Top 300

Download a Top 300 PDF | Positional cheatsheet

Tiers & Salary Cap Values

QB | RB | WR | TE

Scott Pianowski's salary cap rankings tiers

• Quarterbacks

• Running Backs

• Wide Receivers

• Tight Ends

• Salary Cap Draft Strategy

Draft resources

• Downloadable cheatsheets: Top-300 players | Positional

• Strength of schedule matrix

• Easiest early-season schedules

• Hardest early-season schedules

• Positional Depth Charts: QB | RB | WR | TE

The 2025 Fantasy Football Blueprint

Click on the image below for our staple story of draft season, presented to you by Matt Harmon. Consider this the first step on your journey to a fantasy football championship!

Mock Drafts

The Yahoo Fantasy team has conducted several mock drafts, with varying formats, to learn where their player convictions are the strongest and to help provide big-picture takeaways you can take into your drafts.

• How to mock draft like a fantasy football expert

• Mock draft now

• Mock drafting from every first-round pick: 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th

• 10-team 3-WR Superflex league

• 12-team 3-WR full-PPR league

• 12-team half-PPR league

• 12-team Superflex dynasty startup

• Instant Mock Recap: 12-team, half-PPR league

• Draft Strategy: Top-4 picks | Middle-4 picks | Bottom-4 picks

• More to come!

😴 Sleeper and Breakout Picks 🚀

There are few better feelings in fantasy than when that non-star draft pick erupts — when the sleeper awakens, when the breakout breaks out. Check out some of our favorite sleeper and breakout picks for 2025.

• There are some major draft values outside the top 100 picks

• Roundtable: Our favorite breakout picks this season

• 2025's All-Sleeper team

• It's time — meet 2025's All-Breakout team

• Justin Boone's top sleepers per position: QB | RB | WR | TE

• Justin Boone's top breakouts per position: QB | RB | WR | TE

• Forget the hype — target these sleepers in 2025

• More to come!

Quarterback Advice

• 2025 quarterback position preview

• Debate: Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson?

• Rookie QBs should have an impact, but don't expect a major one in 2025

• What to expect from Aaron Rodgers as Steelers' starter

• Regression is coming for these QBs, one way or another

• QB Draft Strategy: How to approach drafting the position

• More to come!

Running Back Advice

While the RB position isn't exactly the end-all, be-all like it used to be in fantasy, there has been an intriguing infusion of young talent as well as old faces in new places for 2025.

• 2025 RB Preview: Hero RB strategy? Maybe not in 2025

• RB Roundtable: Thoughts on CMC, Barkley and more

• Does the RB Dead Zone exist in 2025?

• Ambiguous backfields — and who to prioritize from them

• Expect rookie running backs to return to their former glory

• Two RBs who should score more (and one who'll score less) in 2025

• What do we do about Christian McCaffrey, other veteran star RBs?

• Is Raiders rookie RB Ashton Jeanty too big to fail?

• More to come!

Wide Receiver Advice

• WR Position Preview: One stage of drafts stands out for value

• Candidates to be 2025's WR1

• Wide receivers ready to make the jump into the elite tier

• 4 WRs undergoing changes that should be super impactful for fantasy

• The top wide receivers aged 25 and under

• Risk/reward cases for every first-round rookie WR

• One stat fantasy managers should consider when reviewing receivers

• Is George Pickens the key to the Cowboys offense?

• Which receivers have escaped the quarterback wilderness?

• Receivers who should be values, even if they regress

• What historical trends tell us about this rookie class of receivers

• These wide receivers should experience regression in 2025

• Which WRs can make the jump from the 20s to top 10?

• How to approach Jordan Addison's suspension

• More to come!

Tight End Advice

For many seasons, it was Travis Kelce or bust at the TE position. It seems like those days were years ago — there are a lot of solid options this season!

• TE Position Preview: It's the Big 3 and then everyone else

• Draft Strategy: Focus on tight ends who look like wide receivers

• Rookie TEs facing unrealistic fantasy expectations after historic run

• These tight ends should be draft values even if their production changes

• Will Jonnu Smith make an impact on the Steelers?

• Regression is coming for this TE duo

• More to come!

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🧐 Expert Analysis

We've got content on just about every subject to help give you the tools and the knowledge to crush your drafts this year.

• Safest picks for rounds 1-10 in a 10-team, half-PPR league

• Roundtable: Players we've changed our minds on this draft season

• 2025's All-Boring Team | 2025's All-Bust Team | 2025's All-Upside Team | Don't call it a comeback — 2025's All-Renaissance team

• 10 stats you need to know before your draft

• Breaking down all 12 first-round picks based on Yahoo ADP

• 3 players who could pay off if you're brave enough to draft them

• Matt Harmon's favorite picks in every round

• 7 players who could carry you to a title in 2025

• Roundtable: Players we're fading at each position this season

• You might be better off just avoiding Rashee Rice this season

• Risky players to gamble on in 2025

• Our toughest players to rank this season

• Fantasy regression comes for us all — good and bad

• 2025 versions of 2024 surprises

• Want to simplify your draft? Target players from these teams

• Five players to get excited about this fantasy football season

• Breece Hall, Marvin Harrison Jr. and more players who need a fantasy reset

• Why kicker scoring isn't random | Week 1 streamers if you don't draft one

• 3 players on new teams set to excel this season

• 6 players seeking a new contract — will that affect their fantasy outlook?

• Which teams are set to pass most (and least) in 2025?

• 3 players giving Justin Boone headaches this season

• Which offense will be 2025's top fantasy value?

• Which team will be the fantasy carnival of 2025?

• What are the characteristics of a first-round bust?

• Biggest ADP risers/fallers for first week of August

• ZeroRB: Why it might be a better strategy than you think

• More to come!

🩼 Injuries, camp buzz and more

Fantasy football might be a supremely player-based exercise, but knowing and interpreting the context around those players is important as well — like their team, division, schedules and more.

• NFL training camp injury tracker

• ADP Analysis: August 5 | August 12 | August 19 | August 26

• Preseason fantasy takeaways: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3

• 10 rookies who have stood out so far in training camp

• Fantasy football takes for every team: AFC | NFC

• Analyzing the 2025 NFL schedule for fantasy

• Bye-week breakdown for every NFL team

• These could be the 10 most fantasy-friendly matchups of 2025

• NFL offseason review

• One player from every team to watch in training camp: AFC | NFC

28 Days of Fantasy

To celebrate our 28th year of Yahoo delivering fantasy football, we're dropping 28 BIG NEW features over 28 straight days. We kicked things off with the launch of guillotine-style leagues on August 4. In this killer fantasy football game, fans compete for survival every week.

Learn more about guillotine-style leagues below and follow all the 28 Days of Fantasy as we release new features daily throughout the rest of August.

• Guillotine 101: How to play and win

• Draft strategy

• In-season strategy

• Players who are more valuable

• Players who less valuable

• Mock draft takeaways

🎧 Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

What's better than one podcast a week? How about five? Matt Harmon is joined by the experts from Yahoo Fantasy and all around the fantasy football community to keep you up to date on the latest fantasy football news, rankings, sleepers, draft strategy and more every weekday from now until the end of the regular season.

Listen to or watch the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast on your favorite podcast platform:

• Apple Podcasts

• Spotify

• YouTube

How to make your leagues better

• Funny fantasy team names to inspire your creativity

• Which of these 9 draft personalities do you fit into?

• More to come!

The heat of the fantasy football draft season has arrived. Keep it locked here as we continue to bolster our fantasy draft kit with more analysis, predictions, sleepers and breakout picks!

Your one-stop shop for all things fantasy drafts is just opening its doors — you won't want to miss it!