The BIGGEST Lessons We Learned in Fantasy Football

The 2025 fantasy football season is in the books, and it was truly one of the craziest, most unpredictable seasons that I can remember. Um, think about just the NFL playoff field right now. I feel like 14 different teams could probably win the Super Bowl. And the fantasy football season was no different. You think of major busts like Justin Jefferson. You think of major breakouts like, you know, early season Puka Nacua and, you know, late season Jahan Dotson and guys like that. Very crazy season.

We're going to break down our biggest lessons learned, some of the takeaways, macro strategies. This is going to be more of like a general discussion. We're not necessarily talking about micro player takes here, although some micro players did teach us these lessons. Um, should be a lot of fun to break down. Um, Danny, let's get it kicked off with lesson one, which to me is the biggest takeaway of the entire season. I think this is the most important thing that I'm going to be taking into next year about the running back position. And it's not just a fluke anymore. It's not just a one-off season where running backs stayed healthy and wide receivers got injured. To me, the running back position is back and it's here to stay. I think it's important to understand that zero RB slappies like you and I back in 2021 and 2022 had merit to our argument and robust RB boomers also had merit to their arguments.

>> Yeah, 100%. You want to hit on a running back. At the same time though, we kind of oversensitize the topic of like we want to make sure the running back we pick is perfect to the point they have no flaws. Well, guess what? That would matter if the wide receivers we were picking around them also had no flaws. The issue with the wide receivers is we kind of have glamorized the position to a degree. We kind of think, oh, with the full PPR watching these wide receivers catch 100, 110 passes. It's like, yeah, those are advantageous. When wide receivers hit, you can get a Puka Nacua, you can get a Davante Adams, Cooper Kupp, you can get seasons like that. But the fact that we kind of just, I would say as a whole, as a community, forgot that running backs could also win you leagues, I think is the big thing here because as we see with the running back position, I mean, how many guys had over 18 points per game this year? How many guys outscored the top 10 wide receivers? Like, yeah, I do think it was to a little bit of an extreme in 2025, but like you said, if it's a strong projection at running back, being old shouldn't be a full reason to take him off our board or downgrade him on our board.

>> Yeah, I think the attitude that you and I had early on in 2021 and 2022 and stuff because the data supported it from those seasons that the wide receiver position was very significantly a big advantage if you could hit on them and the running backs were busting at an extremely high rate. Zero RB slappies like you and I were right about this. Running backs who were propped up by volume, not talent, not situation, not receiving touches, whatever. They were propped up by safety that you got a running back was mainly the reason in most home leagues. Those guys should have been faded and we were correct to fade players like that for the better projections at wide receiver, at quarterback, or at tight end. Running backs do or supposed to generally get hurt more than wide receivers. That has not been the case for like almost three years now. Two years for sure. Recent trends, running backs have been staying healthier. Maybe that's how they're being used. Maybe it's cuz wide receivers are playing on MetLife turf. We don't exactly know. But all that being said, the reality is an RB1 in fantasy is more consistent than a wide receiver one in fantasy. Running backs touch the football 15, 20 times a game. Even the best wide receivers in fantasy have four-point fantasy performances. The robust RB bros were right that when you can hit on two plus running backs that are studs, you are going to be a wagon. You are going to be a weapon. Look at Sal's team in the Flock League as a great example of this. You hit on two wagon running backs, you are going to be very tough to beat.

>> And it's still funny because obviously ourselves included, you know, Nick for for example for BDG, like a lot of people pointed to the criticism with Sal's team. S, how are you going to catch up at wide receiver? You drafted two running backs and a tight end in your first three picks. Well, guess what? A strategy is going to work if you hit on the right [ __ ] players. When you hit on the RB1 and RB2 across the first half of the season, the clear-cut RB1 in the second half of the season with McCaffrey, he an elite difference-maker at 10. Again, we'll talk about how we maybe view the onesies later on in this video, but the fact of the matter is taking McBride in the third round and he produces three points per game more than the rest of the position. That was a home run type of pick. When you take those three picks and you combat them with also hitting on mid-round receivers, hitting on this year's George Pickens, hitting on a safe projection like Chris Olave, like it makes sense. S deserves every bit of the success he had this year.

>> Yeah. And my takeaway here is not I'm going to start taking 14 running backs with the first 16 picks. My takeaway here is that when someone's a clean projection because they're going high at running back because they've been an RB1 before, they're a young back, they're PPR machines, maybe they play in great offenses, they have goal line work, like everything I just said could be applicable to Derrick Henry, great offense with goal line work. PPR backs, those are the Bijan Robinson, De'Von Achane of the world. The clean projections at running back, when they're that clean of a projection, just take them. They're probably going to be wagons for you. And again, could they get injured because they're running backs? Yes. The wide receivers have been getting injured at a high rate lately. The only real takeaway in the middle ground between robust RB bros and RB0 Zero slappies is that we should fade the daylights out of the bad running back picks, the overdrafted players. But the reality is that we might never see players like that go high again. We're never going to see a Kenyan Drake projection go top 15 again. We're never going to see Mike Davis go in round four ever again. A guy like Josh Jacobs this year as a good example coming into the season two, three turn pick, right? That's where he was going. Previous season, 17 points per game, multi-time RB1, 16 touchdowns the year before, still in his prime generally. He was a little bit older, but still in his prime generally. In 2018, if this was 2018, that exact projection of Josh Jacobs was a guy like Devonta Freeman or Melvin Gordon, and they were first-round picks. So, the fact that you got Josh Jacobs at the two-three turn this year, and I know he tapered off at the end of the season because of injuries or whatever, that should have been a clear and obvious example to just take the the running back one projection. And honestly, I think like a part of the takeaway here, the running back position is back and it's here to stay overall more so at the top of your drafts. Like don't be afraid to take a running back or two if you really like their projection at the top because I would even argue that the dead zone might be back, man. Like outside of the rookies and De'Von Achane, like look at the picks in the Flock League between rounds four and seven at running back, outside of those players, Chuba Hubbard, Tyjae Spears, obviously more of a late season play we'll talk about in a second, Kenneth Walker, James Conner, Isiah Pacheco, Brian Robinson, obviously like there's context there, but I digress. Tony Pollard, like a lot of these guys, it was more so, okay, let's make up our touches at running back because we took wide receivers early. If you just took the strong projection at running back earlier on, you would have ended up with better wide receiver opportunities.

>> Yeah. So, I guess like the takeaway here is like we kind of want to be double hero RB at least through the first couple rounds. And um ironically, the ones that were the best picks in that range were like the shortly after them like the ETNs and the Javonte Williams of the world who in 2018 probably would have been fourth-round picks based on projectable volume and that kind of thing. So again, I think it's important to understand that the zero RB slappies did some work here and the ADP is now sharp because of it, but also the robust RB bros are going, if you're going to let us get good projections at running back in the second, third, and fourth round, we're going to take them. That's the middle ground.

>> Well, exactly right. Because again, the reason why those running backs are going high is because they balance both early season projection and late season projection. If you're not going to take a running back high, how do you balance that kind of pendulum? And that's going to be my lesson number two. And I'll kind of put both these lessons together in the sense that we want late season upside. We want, you know, this year's Tyjae Spears, who was the 17 point per game scorer between weeks nine and 17. We want Rachaad White, who was the clear-cut RB1 for the Broncos, down the stretch. We want the players who have the league-winning upside down the stretch. But we also have to acknowledge that rookies will inherently start slow, especially given certain situations. And if you are going to take your upside shot, make sure you pair it with a good solid projection. If you could pair the Tyjae Spears upside piece that you took in your draft with a JK Dobbins, with a Travis Etienne, with a Jordan Mason, or vice versa wide receiver, if you took Tee Higgins in the fourth round, pair him with a Deebo Samuel type. Archetypal drafting matters so much. Taking all of the highest projections between weeks nine and 17 will leave you short-handed in weeks one to eight. Vice versa though, if you don't take a swing, if you don't try to play for upside in the late season stretch and you're only focused on weeks one to eight, you're the team that starts six and two and makes and misses the playoffs if you're not proactive.

>> Yeah, I think there's so much like when it comes to drafting, I think you're correct. Yeah. Archetypal drafting. Like for example, I think a good rule of thumb is let's say you're in a two wide receiver, two running back, one flex, you know, regular ESPN Sleeper league, something like that.

>> The second your starting lineup is filled out. Yeah, you can take these swings, you know, but if you're in a a more deeper league, it may be not worth or if you're spending an early enough pick on the player, like it's a third or a fourth round pick that he's going to be your RB1 or your wide receiver two or your wide receiver one or something like that, then yeah, you probably don't want to be taking players like that that high if they don't project well at the beginning of the season. But I will say drafting a little bit more for the early portion of the season for us specifically because we know inherently to draft late season it's like been a lesson pounded into our head for a while is something I would like to try and do a little bit more just because

>> once the early portion of the season hits your players are now rapidly fluctuating in terms of value like you know your Travis Etienne of the world everyone understood going into the season that he was going to be good early in the year and maybe not so much late in the year but Then once he gets going early in the year, he's suddenly valued as an RB1 on the open market. Uh Josh Jacobs, everyone understood, he was more of an early season play than a late season play, but he was going as like a first-round redraft asset midway through the season. So playing a little bit more for the early portion of the season is something that I personally want to take away because you can always make trades. If you want to go buy low on Tyjae Spears in week seven because you think he's going to break out down the stretch or Jahan Dotson in week 10, you want to pick him up off of waivers, you want to pick Cole Kmet off of up off of waivers in week eight, you can then have the flexibility to do that. But the beginning of the season is when you shape what your team looks like um and manage redraft. Obviously best ball, you got to think about those late season upsides a little bit more in the draft, but in redraft where you can trade, you can definitely um think about them a little bit less.

>> Yeah, best ball is a little bit different. Uh more so talking about from a managed perspective in terms of balance like in baseball too like you're going to get spike weeks randomly from your 15th round Alec Pierce from your you know 18th round pick who randomly has a six target two touchdown game like at least in baseball it's easier to manage the volatility but in a managed league having a steady option that you can put into your lineup can't go more underrated than what it's been and I think part of it for us specifically drafting in a sharp league trying to get ahead of the curve at least for me specifically I kind of overestimated the aspect of people's um how do I put this attachment to their players. If they drafted a young high upside piece, I automatically assumed, okay, they're too sharp to give up on them prior to the breakout. But Corey, if you remember, like I traded for Tyjae Spears in the Flock League, multiple young players, they were acquired on the waiver wire. Jahan Dotson was available on the waiver wire. Cole Kmet, if I didn't have them all year, probably would have been available on the waiver wire. was in the on the waiver wire in my home league for example.

>> Right. So like a lot of these pieces I almost how do I put it overestimate the value that the person who drafted them is going to have for the remainder of the season. I didn't think that so many players would become available on the waiver wire like they did in the Flock League.

>> Yeah. I think it's important to understand that if you're watching this channel, if you're making content like you and I are, yeah, you pay attention. You're going to understand who the good waiver pickups are. You're going to understand who the good trade targets are and so on and so forth. So, um, hitting on your players is really important because that gives you trade ammo. That gives you opportunity to know where your weaknesses, like let's say sample draft, first 10 rounds, you hit on six of your picks. Okay. Well, you now have a quarterback, two running backs, a wide receiver, and two flexes that you can count on each and every week. And you know, now at week four what your biggest weakness is, and you can do something about it if you're paying attention. So, that's something to remember, I think, as well is, um, hitting on your picks sounds super easy. It's like, oh, yeah, just hit on your picks. It's like, okay, well, yeah, obviously I'm not trying to miss on my picks, but um understanding which of your picks are hits and misses pretty quickly is something that matters as well.

>> Well, like guess what? If you took your swing on Tyjae Spears,

>> but you hit on Javonte Williams, you hit on um Jalen Waddle, you hit on JK Dobbins, another one here. Rhamondre Stevenson, maybe if you if you really wanted to make the analysis, hey, Tyjae Spears, I can get him in the fourth round. He's my upside shot longer, but I don't think that he's going to get the work out immediately. Was it really the worst thing taking Rhamondre Stevenson in round 13 of your league?

>> No. Yeah. And we talked about we did talk about that. That's not a lesson that's new to us about drafting players to cover your bases a little bit. Like we we talked about drafting, you know, Devin Singletary his rookie season as like a late round upside swing. We talked about if you take Rachaad White this summer, you should probably take a Travis Etienne or something like that. So, um, yeah, that was something that we understood. Um, so it's good to see that really play itself out and work out if you did it properly. But you and I had like a heated debate before we got on here. Was Tyjae Spears a good pick? Period.

>> I mean, you guys,

>> three, that's where he went. By the end of the summer, he was going at the 3-4 turn.

>> He was virtually droppable for the first eight weeks of the season. Like, he was useless if you started him and on your bench 90% of the time. Was he a good redraft managed pick? No dynasty, no baseball bias whatsoever. Just redraft managed. Was he a good pick? Yes or no?

>> And argue, my argument is if in that range only five total picks basically hit between rounds three and four. And I knew that that guy would be a 17 point game scorer in the money weeks of the year. If you were able to uh account for it, if you're able to get, let's say, like I said, an Etienne, a Warren Mason,

>> Yeah. Unless that guy was available for super cheap cost, which again I traded for him in the Flock League, um maybe in your league he wasn't attainable. I think the upside of what he did down the stretch was alone is worth a fourth-round pick, third-round pick. Especially when you compare that to Chuba Hubbard, Tyreek Hill, Alvin Kamara, Breece Hall, Mike Evans, Tee Higgins. Like there's so many picks in this range, injury or not, didn't end up working out either. Yeah, I guess my argument would be if he was a sixth-round pick, then yes, I would argue it was a good pick. But because he was like a third, fourth-round pick, then you needed him to be better than he was for the first bit of the season. And he was very acquirable. You guys can go back and look week six trade targets or whatever we talked about him. Um, what were the prices we were saying he was worth? Like everybody understood that he was more of a late season play or they should have understood that he was more of a late season play when they drafted him and yet his price still went down which is why my attitude on a guy like Tyjae Spears who I think it was predictable he would start slow because Stevenson was an argument

>> that's a little bit more hindsight bias

>> a little bit a little bit but I I do think there was somewhat to be predicted there because Stevenson was a productive running back on a big contract it was poss it's not like he had you know Mike Davis in 2025 in his backfield like we knew Stevenson was pretty significant backfield competition relative to other running backs.

>> Sure. Um countering that though, at the same time, even when Stevenson came back, he was still getting over 18 opportunities per game. And the narrative coming into the season wasn't like, oh, Rhamondre Stevenson's going to have an RB1 workload. The narrative coming into the season was, oh, the Patriots know what they have with Tyjae Spears, and we saw it every week for 100 yards in the preseason and stuff. That's why his price got so high. I'm just saying,

>> if you took him,

>> was it a good pick? That's that's the that's the philosophical question. Was it a good pick at the three four turn? And my argument is 3-4 turn should not be a late season upside play. That's my argument for why I don't think it's a good pick.

>> Yeah. And in totality, he finished as a mid-to-end RB2. You did get RB1 utility down the stretch. Me personally, what I'm looking evaluating at Tyjae Spears compared to, like I said, some some other picks in the range. Maybe somebody took Terry McLaurin, DJ Moore, any of the quarterbacks outside of Josh Allen, any of the tight ends outside of Trey McBride. Garrett Wilson got hurt. Mike Evans got hurt.

>> Garrett Wilson was treated as like a wide receiver one on the open trade market for eight weeks before Tyjae was even useful for anything.

>> Sure. Yeah. You know, you got you got your six healthy games from from Garrett Wilson. Before he got hurt, he was he was valued more in Spears. I guess if your argument is if you took Garrett Wilson and traded in for Tyjae Spears plus yeah sure that has merit.

>> That's kind of my argument to be honest is that yeah why would I draft a guy like that in the third fourth round when I feel like I can get a good buying window on him. That's kind of my argument entirely on why I wouldn't take Spears that high even in hindsight situation that we have.

>> I don't disagree but I do think in totality if you drafted and held Tyjae Spears across the year it was probably about a six out of 10 pick compared to some of the other options that was

>> Yeah. Yeah. The the round being as bad as it was definitely helps. Um, let's get into lesson two here, which is a big kind of discussion about the quarterback and tight end position. I mean, it's one thing we should probably qualify first is that in our leagues, people faded this position, quarterback and tight end. If your league is very well like really just pushing them up the board or if you're in any kind of league that has bonuses for these position, tight end, premium, superflex, etc., then this is less applicable. But regular one quarterback leagues where people understand late round quarterback's effective late round tight end can be effective

>> especially in two or more flexes. By the way, if it's a three wide the majority of your starting lineup is running backs and wide receivers most of the time. It's well known that I hate tight ends early. I've been talking about this for a couple of years. I talked about it all the way back in July that a league winner at tight end and a league winner at quarterback has two definitions. A league winner can be Trey McBride. can be a guy who was taken high and was barned on the gold st gold standard at tight end. It could be past years Travis Kelce, etc.

>> Those guys are worth it.

>> Those guys are worth it. A league winner also at tight end can be Dalton Kincaid or at quarterback can be Drake May or Matthew Stafford who were not taking high but were still very, very good options. Now, I've come to learn this about quarterback and tight end. In my opinion, it is easier to predict the next Drake May, the next Matthew Stafford, the next Dalton Kincaid, the next late round blank than it is to find out which of the top tight ends is going to be Trey McBride. I think it's harder to do that than it is to find a couple late round upside swings that can be good options for you. And before you rebut, because I know you're going to prefer Trey McBride in some cases,

>> the reason I think it's easier is because you get one shot at trying to do Trey McBride. If you took Sam LaPorta instead of McBride or Brock Bowers instead of McBride or Dalton Kincaid instead of McBride,

>> you were tethered to that asset. You probably assumed you were fine at tight end the rest of the season. You weren't looking on waivers for tight ends. You weren't making trades for tight ends. You probably also started them every single week. And LaPorta, for example, before he got injured, wasn't an effective guy for you. So, my takeaway here is that going going forward, my strategy is going to be to to trust my ability to get onesies late because if I miss, I can stream. I can make trades. I can do. I'm not tethered to the guy that I spent my early round pick on.

>> So, fun fact, um I was talking about this with you off camera. For those of you that are watching right now, you can uh engage with this as well. There's a lot of things that went wrong in my Flock League season. The one thing that I played perfectly was the tight end position. Corey, in weeks one to eight, Tucker Kraft and Trey McBride were scoring the same points per game. They were both 16.2 points per game. Weeks 9 through 17, Cole Kmet was the tight end five at 13 points per game. I spent the 902 and the 1102 at consistent top five tight end production across the year.

>> Yeah. And I think the like nuanced version of that take was you had the strategy and you said it in the vlog when you made the pick.

>> I I'm taking Tucker Kraft here. He was the first tight end that you selected. If I'm not or no, did you take LaPorta? I

>> took LaPorta first.

>> You took LaPorta first. But then after you took LaPorta, you were like, I'm going to take Tucker Kraft here because I might need an early season play here. So, we understood that going into the season that that's kind of what we were doing at the tight end position. I did it too, just not very effectively because I took Andrews and Kincaid, but Kincaid was pretty solid when I had him and I ended up picking up Pitts from uh from Thomas. The whole point here is that quarterback and tight end in the late rounds,

>> you don't have any commitment to them. You drafted them late, maybe drafted two of them late, which I did in a lot of leagues where I draft two quarterbacks late, two tight ends late, whatever the case is. If you got none, go to the waiver wire. If you got none there and you keep striking out on the waiver wire, then go to the trade market.

>> I think it's so much more detrimental to your team to take an early round quarterback and start him every single week because you assume he's an every starter and he isn't. Go, look at me fumble my playoff spot in the Flock League by starting Lamar Jackson every single game.

>> Um, yeah, and there's context to that. Um, I'm sure coming into the year we couldn't expect, you know, Lamar Jackson to have a bad year.

>> It was injury related most of it, too. Like he wasn't healthy clearly.

>> Jayden Daniels, you know, he gets hurt and he struggles. The big one for me, uh, that didn't really even have an injury take effect is Jalen Hurts losing 40 plus rushing attempts and six plus rushing touchdowns. Like, that's a big one as well. Like, maybe we should have thought coming into the year, okay, this is a guy that really got there on scoring 10 plus touchdowns every year. Well, what if the Eagles offense wasn't as good as it was in 2024? They had the clear best rushing offense in the league. Obviously, it's the second year after losing Jason Kelce, injuries up front. Like, there was always the risk that they wouldn't be as strong of a rushing team as they were in 2024. And that's kind of what played out. On top of that, Bowers, he gets hurt. Kincaid, he gets hurt. You can make the argument in the Flock League, you go through the first seven rounds of players that were picked at the onesies, there were nine of them off the board. The only two that actually paid off at their ADP was Josh Allen and Trey McBride because they were clear-cut the top players at each of their positions. Outside of that, you go through across the board. Yeah, like I said, McBride, he paid off three plus points per game more than everybody else. Like I just mentioned, Tucker Kraft was outproducing Brock Bowers and Dalton Kincaid when when he was on the field. There were 11 tight ends after that that finished between 10 and a half and 12 and a half points per game at quarterback. Even Josh Allen over 23 points per game. Clearly an advantage there. Only three other quarterbacks in fantasy finished above 21. And there were nine quarterbacks that finished between 18 and 21 points per game this year. If you didn't pick Josh Allen, you were much better off, again, even if you didn't hit on a Drake May, even if you didn't hit on a late season Brock Purdy, a Matthew Stafford, you were much better off taking any of the alternatives, a Daniel Jones type, a Caleb Williams type later on in your draft. I mean, Caleb Williams wasn't even drafted in our league. Well, here's the other thing, too. You want to know how many games in the listener redraft league this season where my quarterbacks were Bo Nix and Caleb Williams? I drafted both of them relatively late in the redraft league. Do you know how many games this season I I came in second place in the league? I lost in the championship to Arthur. Do you know how many games I had

>> less than 20 points in my quarterback spot this season between those two guys? I was just streaming matchups all year. That's all I did.

>> How many games did I have less than 20 points in my lineup?

>> Well, there is context in that league. for passing touchdown league. That's the context of it.

>> Probably 85% of the time, 90% of the time, you got 20 plus points.

>> There were four games in which I did not have 20 points per game in my lineup. You know how many games Josh Allen finished less than uh uh than 20 points? Four times.

>> Yeah. Yeah, I know. Exactly. Um even even me in that league, like I was pedaling Dak Prescott for a bit. I had Jared Goff in a couple of weeks. Uh drafted along with Dak. I'm try It was Jordan Love. It was Jordan Love. Um, regardless though, whether it was Love, Goff, uh, Dak, uh, Bo Nix, uh,

>> that's not even including like May and Stafford who were like every week starters that you got late.

>> Exactly. So, when you're looking at it across the board, I took this guy in the eighth round for my preference when all these guys picked round 11, round 12, round 13, produced at the exact same level.

>> Yeah. And I I want to go back to the league winning quarterback and tight end videos that I did in the summer just as a good frame of reference. on the screen. You guys should be able to see the exercise that I did if you guys are just following the channel in the season or whatever. Basically, every year I go through and I break down what makes a league winning quarterback, running back, wide receiver, and tight end. And then I score them based on those um you know, parameters. And the guys that are highlighted in green stand out as very good bets at their cost. Guys that are highlighted in yellow with scores close to 20 basically are also good guys highlighted at their cost. Look at the guys highlighted on the quarterback one. Bo Nix, Brock Purdy, Caleb Williams, Dak Prescott, Drake May, Jared Goff. I mean, again, JJ McCarthy. There's guys that are misses here, but Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, Trevor Lawrence, um, Matthew Stafford, and Daniel Jones. Eight of the guys that I just named were quarterback ones this year. Eight of them. And none of them were going inside the first like eight rounds of fantasy drafts.

>> Yeah. And even at tight ending on guys like you know Tyler Higbee, Tucker Kraft, Cole Kmet, even if you go further on to a guy like Jake Ferguson, Dallas Goedert, like straight up they were way better than the guys that are seven and eight there. And if you look across the board, their scores were relatively similar.

>> When the position at quarterback and tight end is such that the tight end 14 in ADP can easily outscore the tight end four or five in ADP, why the hell would I take one early?

>> Yeah. Um, and again, like we'll see what the context changes because I do think part of the issue was just how bad of a mid-round tight end crop it was. Like Tyler Higbee wasn't going to go ahead of those guys because he was a rookie. Same thing with Cole Kmet. Tucker Kraft didn't really have the production yet. Dalton Kincaid has missed a lot of time. Like I understand why those guys got devalued, but why were we valuing Evan Engram so high going

>> Well, we weren't. We had Higbee and those guys ranked over him going into the season.

>> The market as a whole though. Why were we valuing, you know, Mark Andrews who clearly took a step back as a player? Even Travis Kelce to a degree. T.J. Hockenson never running the same after his knee injury that he had, having JJ McCarthy in a bad offensive projection. All these guys that were going in the top eight outside of the clear-cut top three to me were just put there because we didn't have anybody else we felt confident enough to put there going into 2026. Now that you have a second year Tyler Higbee, a second year Cole Kmet, Dr. graphic and hopefully we get good signs this offseason how he recovers off the knee injury. Dalton Kincaid for that matter better projection than he was going into this past year. Dallas Goedert we feel great great about from a talent perspective touchdown perspective like I feel like the mid-round tight ends are going to be better going forward but the fact that we aren't able to identify that this year like outside of just pass production why are we taking T.J. Hockenson in tight end five? No, I I don't know, dude. Like, again, this is my whole argument. To get an elite league winning tight end in the early rounds, you can only do one thing. You have to identify who's going to be Trey McBride. You have that's the only way to get an elite league winning tight end out of an early round pick. You getting the tight end three in fantasy when you took him tight end one off the board in second uh round is a bad pick. That's a bad pick. You need him to be dominant at the tight end position to make a second round ADP on Brock Bowers is worth it. You need Sam LaPorta in round four or five to be at least a top two to three tight end for that pick to make make a lot of sense. How do you solve the tight end position if you don't take a tight end early? Well, you can take multiple late. You can stream the waiver wire. You can make waiver claims. You can go after the Dalton Kincaid, the Juwan Johnson's of the early season portion that we saw this year where they were early season week one, week two, week three waiver ads that ended up being very good startable options for a lot of people. And then same goes for quarterback. You can get the Daniel Jones, the Matthew Staffords, the Drake Mays of the world who maybe have gone undrafted in your specific uh league. And again, break glass in case of emergency. Let's say it's week four and you've been starting three points at your tight end spot for the last four games. Go make a trade. We love to trade here. Worst case scenario, you have more information by week four and you know who's good and who isn't at tight end.

>> The fact that Kraft produced at the level of Bowers and Kincaid already makes the Bowers and Kincaid pick bad uh picks bad. And then outside of those four, yeah, sure, you hit on Kyle Pitts. He was the tight end five in fantasy. Obviously, he got you there in that 45.6 point in week 15. But respectfully, the difference between Kyle Pitts finishing tight end five versus the tight end 16 finisher this year, Darren Waller, or the tight end 15 finisher this year, Dalton Schultz, is not actually a needle-moving piece of difference because we're looking at 12 and a half versus 10 and a half points per game. You look at a two points per game difference at other positions and it's negligible. Yeah. No, it's and this is not a anecdotal. This is what happened this year. We're only like go go go back to like 2024. The second ranked tight end in fantasy was Brock Bowers who was like a ninth round pick. The fourth ranked tight end in fantasy was David Njoku who was a late round pick. Taysom Hill was the fifth ranked tight end in fantasy on an eight-game sample size. Juwan Johnson went undrafted in every single league and he was the tight end six in fantasy. It's the same [ __ ] every year, especially at tight end and at quarterback too because in the late rounds, you know how easy it is to identify a late round quarterback that could have a good season. I'm like, Matthew Stafford throwing to Puka Nacua and Davante Adams. How is he not gonna have a great year? Drake May ran the ball at like a super high level as a rookie. How is he not going to have a great year? Caleb Williams was fifth in quarterback rushing as a rookie, even on a terrible offense. How is he not going to have a great year?

>> Yeah. I mean, it's funny when you contextualize it like this, too. The difference between wide receiver six, George Pickens, and wide receiver nine, Davante Adams, is a bigger difference between the tight end five and 16 in points per game this year.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Like the that's always true of quarterback, too. It's like, yeah, there's three or four quarterbacks that end up hitting, but like for the most part, the quarterback position blends together. You look at the top quarterbacks this year, it was like, okay, when Brock Purdy was healthy, he was an absolute stud. When um you had opportunities to start Caleb Williams, he had really, really high ceiling games. Trevor Lawrence by the end of the season was really producing at a high level. Dak Prescott consistently was giving you good production. Um Justin Herbert, he was very startable all year. Jared Goff very startable all year. Daniel Jones, Jackson Dart off of the waiver wire. All these guys, Jacoby Brissett off of the waiver wire. Like it was it's so easy to find quarterbacks to the point that this is the bottom line here. If I don't have Lamar Jackson in the Flock League, if I don't spend that third round pick and I'm anchored to that price tag that I spent on him, I'm streaming Jackson Dart, Daniel Jones, and Jacoby Brissett and I'm in a much better position. probably enjoying life a lot more, too.

>> Yeah, probably. I probably make the playoffs easily in that situation. So, yeah, taking an early round quarterback, you better be damn sure he's going to be great. You better be damn cuz if he's not, you're going to be suck starting a guy who's not that good all year.

>> Elite players are irreplaceable is my take here. And it's the Puka Nacua trade that I made in the Flock League. I thought, hey, I lose Travis Hunter. I lose Tucker Kraft. I felt pressure within a week. Both those guys clear startup lineups in my team. They both get hurt. I'm thinking, well, what the [ __ ] am I going to do? I got to make a more balanced lineup and I got to see what I can be able to accomplish here. So, what did I do? I made the worst deal and ultimately the deal that got me to Denny's. I traded away Puka Nacua, Jaylen Warren, and Alec Pierce for Justin Jefferson, Derrick Henry, and Jordan Addison. And at the time, everybody in the Flock League thought I won that [ __ ] deal. Everybody in the Flock League. And obviously, there's context. Obviously, nobody expected Justin Jefferson to be as bad as he was, but just to the fact of the matter, even if Jefferson was a 17 point per game scorer, giving up 23.4 points per game from Puka Nacua, which is what he scored in weeks 9 to 17 after I traded him was terrible in its own right. Obviously, when you contextualize that Jaylen Warren and Alec Pierce versus Henry and Addison was negligible, and realistically the only difference in this trade was a 15 point per game gap between Puka Nacua and Justin Jefferson. Sure, it's not going to work out for you. But like I said, even if Jefferson ended up working out, he ended up being a 17 point per game score, an 18 point point per game score, I still would have gotten taken to the woodshed. It didn't matter.

>> Yeah, I think there's something to be said for riding the wave of the season, too. Like when you realize that, let's say Justin Jefferson is not going to have the season that we're used to seeing from Justin Jefferson. I think it's good to remember maybe he's not a boom candidate anymore. Maybe he's just going to have a down year. Um, when you recognize that the Baltimore Ravens for me, for example, I they were not having the type of season that they had last year, uh, Lamar's hurt. Zay Flowers has been good, but he's not going to have a breakout year with Lamar playing the way he is. It's time to admit that they're not the 2024 Cincinnati Bengals. Like I was saying, um,

>> week 10 of last year where I was like, "Hey, go trade for them. They're going to win you your league." Well, they didn't, and I apologize for that if anybody did it. Um, yeah, th those hammers matter and the sooner you can identify them, Puka Nacua was clearly one of them and he'd been one for the beginning portion of the season onward. Uh, don't trade them. Don't trade them. It's it's not worth it. And when you identify those hammers, you also need to identify the guys we thought were going to be hammers that maybe weren't as well, like Justin Jefferson.

>> Yeah. And it's unfortunate because like I said, even if Jefferson, the thesis was, okay, I'm going to break Puka Nacua into Jefferson and Henry basically. And by the way, I'm not going to discount Warren because Warren outside of that one week where Derrick Henry won everybody the the gold in week 17. Like Jaylen Warren was relatively in striking range of him across that stretch. Like a 14 versus a 16 point per game score. At running back, that's much more stomachable between 14 and 16 than it is at 23.4. And like I said, if Jefferson hits 17, missing out on the guy that can produce 23.4 4 points per game is a lot more of a loss than trying to make up for the fact that you lose a Tucker Kraft and Travis Hunter.

>> Well, yeah. And the reason it's more stomachable because when you're, you know, you got by weeks or you get injuries or whatever, what do you do? How many times you start a wide receiver 40 to 50 on a weekly rankings projection standpoint? Like even like our teams were [ __ ] in the Flock League obviously, so we're bad examples. But even S was starting DJ Moore and Jakobi Meyers and stuff in his flex before Jakobi Meyers was traded to the Jags even. He was starting guys like that in his flex, but didn't matter because he had Christian McCaffrey and Jonathan Taylor. Like you could figure that out. Uh the flexes, the the late round guys. And we always talked about you got to win through the flex and you got to have these great options through the flex. What actually matters is having Jonathan Taylor and Christian McCaffrey and Trey McBride.

>> Yeah, it could look pretty when you have Derrick Henry and Justin Jefferson in your lineup, but when they're combining for less points than Puka Nacua, it really doesn't [ __ ] matter. You could put Puka,

>> not only Puka Nacua, but Jaylen Warren or whoever Nathan was starting in his flex.

>> Correct. Right. Yeah. You could put Puka plus [ __ ] Ryan Fitzpatrick at a couple points and you still would have gotten more combined points because Puka Nacua was that big of a difference ultimately here. And it's funny, I've said it to you, like I didn't want to make the deal at the time. Like something in my gut was saying, "Don't make this [ __ ] trade. Puka Nacua is special." But the false narrative of having to make that move because I lost too much to injury was always false because the reason my team was a threat was because of Puka Nacua, not because of Travis Hunter, not because of Tucker Kraft. So trading away Puka Nacua was always going to end up being a bad move.

>> Yeah. Not to and it's a very similar process of what happened to me in 2024 which is when I made the IUK trade

Which I thought I was getting a hammer. Obviously, in both cases, no one thought Jefferson would be as bad as he was for you. No one thought Brandon Iuk would blow his knee out the week later after I traded for him for me. But uh, maybe the takeaway that you and I need to have is, uh, once we get to the mid-season portion, we got to stop making trades because they're not running, uh, running too hot for us in that league. But that's our personality. We like making deals. We like trying to upgrade our roster. And generally, it's a net positive to our fantasy teams. Like, you look at the team I drafted versus the team I ended up with. I think the team I ended up with was actually better. It's just, um, sometimes a bad trade can screw you over if you run cold in those negotiations and the guy gets injured or the guy has a bad season.

Yeah. And obviously, this run out for me was terrible. Like, again, I started four and two and I ended up being, uh, the representative of Dennis. But at the same time, a lesson that I've learned in general, I'm never going to stop trusting my intuition. My intuition is what makes me who I am as a fantasy player. There's going to be years that it ends up like this. There's going to be years where, hey, guess what? Every move that you [ __ ] make isn't going to end up working out. But the thing is, you have to have the confidence to go back to that plate. You have to have the confidence that the next at-bat you have is going to be the home run that you hit. So, in general, I'm not going to change who I am. I'm not going to change trying to make moves based off my intuition to improve my fantasy team. That's the other thing, too. If a year doesn't go well for you guys, don't lose confidence. Keep doing what you got to do. Obviously, I identify and digest what went wrong and what's actually applicable for moving forward on how you can correct it. That's why we're doing this video here. The video is not stop making trades because they didn't work out for you one year. The video is what went wrong with those moves and what could we potentially apply to them moving forward.

Yeah. What, what, why would you not make that trade again was the reason, like, that specific trade, not trades in general, but yeah. Um, and when you made the trade for Puka, I said, hey, he might be like Christian McCaffrey 2019 level dominance. So that was maybe the thing that we should have stuck to before those trade negotiations with Nathan. Um, lesson, uh, another lesson that I have here is, uh, it's kind of the polar opposite of the Justin Jefferson situation. Jackson Smith-Njigba's season was something that I didn't see coming. I, I didn't see it coming and I'm pissed that I didn't see it coming because generally speaking, I would say thought process-wise, it should have been something I saw coming based on how I think about fantasy football in general. The easy takeaway here is like, talent wins out, but talent didn't win out for Justin Jefferson. Everybody knows Justin Jefferson's super talented. I would say the more like nuance take is proven talent over a small sample or over a large sample size will win out over mild concerns. Mild concerns being Gino Smith is gone, Sam Darnold is in. Mild concern being Cooper Kupp comes in and JSN can't play on the slot anymore. Like, those are mild concerns. JJ McCarthy being like the worst quarterback of all time is not a mild concern. That's a significant concern. So when you're JSN and you have a significant sample size of being good, excellent prospect, first-round capital, probably a good player coming into the NFL. Rookie year underlying metrics were solid. Reception perception numbers were solid. It was a crowded room. He didn't produce that much. Second-year breakout, 14.9 points per game, which would have been wide receiver 10 in fantasy this year, was wide receiver 17 in fantasy last year, and second half of the season, as you detailed and contextualized game logs, he was unbelievable.

But this JSN takeaway was also true of Travis Etienne, who had a big sample size of being good. Chris [ __ ] big sample size of being good. JK Dobbins, Zay Flowers to a lesser extent, pretty big sample size of being good, overwhelming samples of good talent. But for one reason or another, they fall, whether it was JSN and not playing on the outside or whatever the case is, they can overcome mild concerns. So, it's not just talent wins out every single time. Talented players have down seasons all the time. Mild concerns are overcomeable if you're a great talent playing well, too.

Yeah. Um, part of it too that should have been baked in is, oh wow, JSN was this good down the stretch in 2024. And that was with [ __ ] Ryan Grubb calling the shots. Everybody, and I mean, I w I talked about this in the coaching changes video. I actually tier-listed the offensive coaches that changed going into the season. I graded them on a scale of, you know, S-tier being like the Liam Coen, the Ben Johnson, complete upgrade at at play-calling. I mean, I had Clint Kubiak in the second tier. I said what he did with the Saints offense. There is upside here that the Seahawks could be one of the best offenses in the league because Kubiak is that level of a play-caller. Once I identified that and I also acknowledged that, uh, that JSN down the stretch was a 17.5 point per game scorer, I ended up getting a lot higher on JSN by the time we drafted, but I should have been even higher on him.

Yeah. And I actually ended up like at market on Underdog, but in redraft and in dynasty, I was not like sold on him. I was like, "Yeah, he's he, I felt exactly lukewarm on him. I'm like, he's going exactly where he should, but I don't feel excited about drafting him." And I should have felt excited about drafting him because of what he truly turned into, which is an elite player at the position. He's truly one of the best receivers in the league. And talent won out over those mild concerns that I had. So again, large focusing on evaluating talent over large sample sizes. We had a lot of reason to believe that JSN was a very good player dating back to his prospect profile. And again, same goes for like Travis Etienne, who I was in on, Chris Olave, who I was in on, like those type of guys. That's what pisses me off so much about missing on JSN, quote unquote, is that I was in on Chris Olave for the exact same reason I should have been in on JSN for.

Yeah, I know. And it was funny because we said it with LaDainian Tomlinson. I actually hope LaDainian Tomlinson falls a bit in terms of drafts going into next year because we've seen it before. We have two years of him showing and showcasing top-end wide receiver ability just in [ __ ] in 2025. If he's now like the market overcorrects and he's a fifth-round or sixth-round pick, I'm going to be taking a lot of LaDainian Tomlinson next year because I still believe he's going to be a talent and I still believe his talent relative to the other players in that area can kind of make for that Chris Olave type of bounce back.

Yeah, I think the challenging thing with Tomlinson was, um, it was a smaller sample size of him being an elite player like that. It was more back half of his rookie season in that playoff game against the Texans as a prospect. He wasn't as good as Jackson Smith-Njigba. He had holes in his profile and that kind of thing. We were pretty sure that that Tomlinson was a great player, but we weren't certain that he was a great player. And I think that's maybe why he wasn't able to like dominate targets when Keenan Allen and Quentin Johnston take a step up and when, you know, Aronda Gadson pops out of nowhere as a good player or whatever. So, I think that's that's one thing that I want to remember is like the bigger the sample size you have of this guy being a great player, the better it's probably going to end up for you, especially if they have some kind of mild concerns knocking their price down. Um, the final lesson that I kind of wanted to mention here was the mid-round wide receiver breakout is getting harder and harder, um, to identify because think about in 2020, Justin Jefferson went like the ninth round of fantasy. Think about in 2018, this is a good example because, uh, two of the prospects in this class who were the first two receivers off the board comped directly to players in 2025's class in the prospect model, DJ Moore and Calvin Ridley. Those were the first-round receivers in 2018. They went outside of the single-digit rounds in redraft leagues that season. They were pick 129 and pick 134. So we're talking about players, DJ Moore and Calvin Ridley, first-round receivers. If I told you pick 20s caliber wide receivers like Puka Nacua and Matthew Golden, who comped favorably, Puka Nacua to Moore, Golden to Ridley profile-wise, they did not go outside of the single-digit rounds. They went in the sixth round, fifth round for Ameka Ebuka, seventh round, eighth round for Matthew Golden. It's not as easy to get these rookie wide receiver breakouts or even second and third-year wide receiver breakouts at a discount anymore. We don't have [ __ ] ADP services, uh, influencing your league mates to take like a 31-year-old, uh, Cooper Kupp or whatever in like the fifth round like he probably would have went back in 2018.

Yeah. Well, exactly. We've gotten so sharp as a market to the point where as soon as we see these type of young profiles, we can acknowledge the upside of them, but we do a bad job thinking of like, who, who are the complete players in this range? Who are the proven assets that we know are going to score production? Xavier Worthy was a big projection to be taken in the fourth round. And a lot of people made that mistake. I made that mistake in a couple of leagues. The end of the day, he hadn't shown the ability to be a sustained top 12, top 15 level wide receiver. And we know that when Rashee Rice has been on the field, he has been the clear number one on that team. The fact of the matter is, we were so quick to point at the upside, the 4.2 speed working with Mahomes to acknowledge that the change in the offense and how they were calling it was going to be a factor and that Rashee Rice commanding 35% of the targets when he came back was going to be a factor. Obviously, we thought that'd be offset a little bit. You know, Rashee Rice, he's got a suspension for six games. But even still, down the stretch, we knew that when Rashee Rice and Travis Kelce were on the field, they were going to be the top two targets on the team.

Yeah. Mid-round wide receivers is such an important part of fantasy football landscapes nowadays because if you're playing on Underdog, especially, this is where people, the avalanche starts and people want to catch up and they want to, it's a three wide receiver start. So, people are drafting wide receivers higher than ever. Back in 2018, we would not have had to draft Ameka Ebuka in the fifth or sixth round. You would not have had to draft Matthew Golden in the eighth or seventh round or wherever he was going. But the reality is you do now because of, you know, best ball contests and the influence that that's had on the ADP market. So getting picky with these wide receivers in the mid-rounds is something that we got to do better going forward because it's littered with busts across the board. And when you look at the best picks, like here are the best picks in the mid-rounds in the Flock League, is a good example because it's a sharp redraft league. The best picks from rounds four through round eight at wide receiver were guys like, let's say, Adams.

George Pickens. I would say relatively speaking, Jameson Williams, DeVonta Smith, DK Metcalf, those type of guys. Odunze, Ebuka, Walls, Flowers, Allen Sutton, those type of guys. I would say like if you look at the commonality of all of those guys, um, the common thing is that a lot of them are just wide receivers who are in their prime that we know who are good. That's pretty much it. It's just they're talented wide receivers we know are good. The the biggest busts in this range are usually like older wide receivers, guys who got injured, breakout candidates that probably shouldn't have been going that high. Like that's that's the territory that we got to think about with these mid-round wide receivers because it is hard because you can look at a wall of wide receivers in the fifth round and go, these guys all blend together. How can I possibly pick one?

Yeah. Well, exactly. Like again, if you're going to take a risky profile, like, uh, for example, the riskier profiles I would say coming in would be more like, you know, the Hunter, the Worthy, the Jamo, the George Pickens, the DK Metcalf, the T-Mac, the, um, Odunze, uh, guys like that. There are hits in there. Like if you hit on Pickens, that you're feeling great. If you hit on, um, what was the other name that I said?

Mac by the end of the season was good. Romans at the beginning of the season was good.

Yeah. Like if you hit on guys that got a big usurp in value, then yeah, it worked out for you. But at the same time, acknowledging that if you overindulge solely in the highest upside profiles in this range, it's fine to take your shot, but also acknowledge that, hey, if they had all this upside without significant risk or without some type of risk factor holding them down, they would be going in the round three portion. Why are they not going in the round three portion is how we kind of have to, you know, re-evaluate it and have to remind ourselves.

Yeah. And we all have our favorites in this era. You, of course, were just Travis Hunter pilled left, right, and center going into the season. I was very high on Xavier Worthy. I was very high on Jameson Williams. I was very high on Ameka Ebuka. Like those type of guys, you're going to hit on some of those guys if you have great conviction for them. But I think the takeaway for me, like the actual actionable takeaway here is that mid-round wide receivers need to be upside swings for your flexes. They need to be like, you can't rely on these guys to be starters for you right away because they do bust at a pretty high rate. You should probably not take more than one or two of them as well. You probably shouldn't have two good running backs, one elite tight end, and then all four of these guys as your wide receiver core.

Yeah. Like realistically, after I took Travis Hunter, I probably should have taken a guy like Courtland Sutton there. I mean, if I was going to hit on two profiles like that, uh, I should have taken obviously George Pickens over Xavier Worthy, but overall, once I take Hunter, maybe steering clear of the Worthy, the Pickens, the, um, Ebuka, guys like that. Like I, I should have waited at least another pick and secured that spot.

Yeah. And there's a reason I did that, um, the early-round wide receiver strategy video where I talked about wide receiver ones in their prime, breakout candidates, wide receiver twos in their prime, and trusty veterans is because I, I this was the reason I wanted to sort through this area of the draft board. And the prime wide receiver ones again, hit at the best rate. Like when you have a history of being a very productive receiver and you're still in your prime, you're probably a good pick in the mid-rounds. And the reason you're going in the mid-rounds is probably situational factors like Chris Olave, for example, who was not on a good team.

Well, yeah, cuz part of it is realistically like, yeah, there's a difference with what we thought coming into the year in terms of the median projection between, let's just say Xavier Worthy and Luther Burden. But guess what? With what Luther Burden looked like down the stretch, that upside feels a lot better in weeks 13 through 17 when it comes at a 12th-round opportunity cost. When you draft Xavier Worthy, even if he finished the way Luther Burden did, obviously it ended up being a busty year. Even if he finished the way Luther Burden did, it's almost like, well, he has to, man. He, I picked him at the 52 in this draft.

The point of this video is to try and make us better fantasy players because we admitted to some faults here in this video. Like I talked about overvaluing Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. You know, Xavier Worthy you drafted, but I traded for shortly after the draft at the Flock League meetup. So, there were some L's, some humble pie. Obviously, the Flock League being a good example of two, uh, two of our teams that didn't work out because you guys got to see them in front of, you know, hundreds of thousands of views the entire season of how our seasons went and some of these takeaways came from that league because generally these are the leagues that we did the worst in. Thankfully for our single worst. Like this is by far the worst I did in any league.

Hey, single worst league, uh, that I had this year, and, uh, that was not a high bar to cross.

No, for sure. But yeah, we're trying to get better. We're trying to figure out what's actionable because it's not actionable to take away something from every single player in fantasy. Sometimes a player just had a bad year. Sometimes a player just got hurt. Sometimes a player just had an unlucky season. Like it, sometimes you don't have a takeaway from every single player. But macro overall takeaways to take into next season, make us better drafters. Like we said, kind of going over them, uh, just briefly was running backs might be back. Like this might be the time that we need to start really thinking about taking running backs early and more so taking running backs through the flex as well. Like think about the players that did the best in the Flock League. Mason had running backs in his flex most of the year and he had the second seed in the league, and it's because he hit on those running backs. He was able to identify guys that were starters and consistently getting them 15 points per game. Understanding your downside risk with these quarterbacks and tight ends early directly impacted my season in the Flock League. It's why Lamar Jackson, uh, was in my lineup for the most part all season. JSN, I should I should have taken him over Lamar Jackson in that exact draft. And then mid-round breakouts, wide receivers, uh, mid-round breakout wide receivers like Xavier Worthy contributed to my demise a little bit at at certain points during the season. Once I got him off my team, it was a little bit better, but, uh, I traded him for Marvin Harrison, who was also a mid-round breakout wide receiver that didn't hit. Yeah. Um, just taking digesting what kind of went on in the season, what's actually applicable to learn from moving forward because like you said, you're not going to get a lesson from every single point from every single thing that went wrong, but when you do, how do you correctly identify how to fix it?

Yeah. Yeah. No, exactly. So, um, yeah, signing out here. This will be probably for the most part the last we talk about the 2025 redraft season just because, you know, now we're into January, people want to talk about prospects, people want to talk about dynasty. We're gonna have a couple dynasty videos coming out for you guys next week. Startup mocks and, you know, rises and falls in our rankings and whatnot. So, appreciate you guys for tuning in. If you guys are just finishing off your season pass over on the site, you can convert your season pass right now into an annual membership, get a free team review, and of course, you'll get the discount because you bought the season pass, um, knowing that you already paid 3/4 of the $97 it costs to get the annual subscription. You can use that, uh, basically as a credit to be able to convert your season pass into an annual site subscription. You got a lot of value hopefully from the site this season and you want to continue it and keep it going. Maybe you're a redraft player and you've never played dynasty before and you want to get into dynasty. This is the perfect time to do that. Get ahead of your league mates and all that good stuff. So, um, with that being said, if you enjoyed, like, subscribe. What was the biggest thing you guys learned this year? What was the biggest goofball move that you made? Did you draft Brian Thomas Jr. or something? Like, let us know down below in the comments what was the biggest mistake you made this year and what it taught you as well. Don't just put down I drafted BTJ and he [ __ ] me over. What did you learn from Brian Thomas Jr.? What did you learn from taking four running backs in the first four picks? What did you learn from taking a quarterback and a tight end early or whatever? Whatever the mistake was, let us know what you learned from it in the comments as well.

Absolutely. And maybe something that we didn't touch upon that you think is a big macro thing to take away. Again, like you said, not micro things like, oh, I picked this player and he sucked out. Like macro lessons that we could take going forward and can apply to our 2026 drafts.

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