2025 Fantasy football draft prep: Rankings, strategy, guide, rookies, advice, top 150 players by NFL experts

The 2025 NFL Opening Kickoff Game is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 4, with the Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Dallas Cowboys to open the season, and that means time is running out to conduct your 2025 Fantasy football draft prep. The NFL offseason is almost as action-packed as the season itself with players coming and going via NFL trades, NFL free agency and the NFL draft. That roster turnover is often the most difficult part of developing a winning Fantasy football draft strategy, but having the right resources can quickly put you on a winning path.

Patrick Mahomes is coming off a down year but the two-time NFL MVP has historically been one of the most reliable Fantasy football quarterbacks in the league. So where exactly does he belong in the Fantasy football QB tiers and who are some of the 2025 Fantasy football sleepers, breakouts and busts you should be targeting? Whether you're hunting for a 2025 Fantasy football top 150 you can trust, potential 2025 Fantasy football breakouts, sleepers, and busts, or position-specific 2025 Fantasy football rankings, be sure to see what the 2025 Fantasy football draft bible at SportsLine has to say.

Prepared by Fantasy experts Jacob Gibbs, Heath Cummings, Dan Schneier, R.J. White and Josh Nagel, the Fantasy draft bible is a must-have for any serious Fantasy football player. Gibbs, who powers the Fantasy Football Today newsletter, uses a data-driven approach that has helped him be one of the nation's most accurate Fantasy rankers in recent years. Cummings is a senior Fantasy writer at CBS Sports who hosts the Fantasy Football Today Dynasty podcast. 

Schneier is the senior Fantasy editor at CBS Sports and appears regularly with Gibbs on the Beyond the Box Score editions of the Fantasy Football Today podcast. White is SportsLine's No. 1 NFL expert since 2017 who got his start in the Fantasy industry, with his work appearing at AOL Fanhouse, Fantasy Café and other sites prior to joining CBS Sports, where he is the current managing editor of Fantasy and betting content. Nagel is the longtime assistant managing editor at SportsLine and a Fantasy Football veteran. This team brings decades of Fantasy experience and can give you a huge edge in your league.

Our 2025 guide not only ranks the top 150 players in non-, half- and full-PPR leagues, it reveals must-see sleepers, breakouts and busts, highlights key draft tips and strategies at each position and draft slot, and gives you more analysis that can guide your selections. The Fantasy football draft bible also offers detailed strategy tips for whichever league you play in: snake drafts, salary cap drafts and more. Head to SportsLine now to see the 2025 Fantasy football draft bible.

Top 2025 Fantasy football picks, advice 

The Fantasy football draft bible features Nagel's 2025 Fantasy football advice, including tips for drafting RBs:

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"Your job as a Fantasy manager is to take the player in every round who has the most potential to help you win the league. If you take (Bijan) Robinson with a top-three pick, you should already have a plan for grabbing (Tyler) Allgeier, and you're likely the only manager thinking about him. With a current ADP of 173, what other 14th-round pick is going to potentially help you win the league more than Allgeier? None, which is why it's practically dereliction of Fantasy manager duty to pass on him. His value is enhanced by the fact that he has already proven capable of RB1 numbers and likely would produce RB1-level results should Robinson go down."

The Double RB strategy:

"This strategy is gaining some steam this season and, honestly, we don't hate it. The "Double RB" approach involves grabbing running backs in each of the first two rounds to build a formidable positional advantage before addressing other positions. This is basically the converse of the "Zero RB" approach and we certainly don't want to advocate a double standard when it comes to the general idea of striving for balance in our Fantasy lineups at all times, regardless of format. But a couple of key differences from "Zero RB" is that "Double RB" focuses on one position or at least one fewer round (two as opposed to three). What's more, the value deficit is easier to bridge at the receiver position." Get the full Fantasy football draft guide over at SportsLine.

How to find proven 2025 Fantasy football rankings

SportsLine's Fantasy football 2025 draft guide has also identified three potential busts to avoid in the first round. These players have massively inflated Fantasy football ADPs and have the potential to completely sink your playoff hopes if over-drafted. You can only see who it is here.

So what is the value of every single player in the 2025 Fantasy football rankings and which huge busts could sink your season? Visit SportsLine now to see the complete 2025 Fantasy football draft bible, all from a team of proven Fantasy analysts who can give you a huge edge in your league.