Jack's 2025 Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet

I posted this last year to help the Snapback Fam win their fantasy leagues. I made a run in our office league using the rankings I had, and more importantly, avoiding the guys I knew to stay away from. I spent the summer prepping for this sheet and I'm ready to share it with you guys now. Let's go win some fantasy leagues.

MY GUY: Calvin Ridley

Last year I touted Terry McLaurin as the can’t miss pick of the 2024 fantasy season. He finished as the WR6 totaling 82 catches for 1100 yards and 13 touchdowns. In Week 1, he had 2 catches for 17 yards and the world lost their mind talking about how Kliff Kingsbury was ruining another football team. Daniels had a spectacular season (who I was also high on) and McLaurin was an incredible selection in the later rounds.

This year, we are going back to a very similar model. Consistent WR with bad QB play. In his last 3 full seasons, Ridley has posted 1,000+ yards and 4,8, and 9 touchdowns. His QBs those seasons: the corpse of Matt Ryan, crappy Trevor Lawrence and … Will Levis (& Mason Rudolph).

What entices about Ridley, even more so than McLaurin, is that Ridley has already had big TD #s in his career. McLaurin had posted 4, 5, 5, 4 over the 4 seasons prior to scoring 13 last year. Ridley has seasons of 10, 9, 8 and 7 already in his career.

When Levis departed last year, Ridley averaged the highest YPC of his career. He was used as a true deep threat for the first time in his career. I expect Ridley’s usage to come back down to a mid range receiver and a red zone threat but that deep shot upside isn’t bad either. 

The evaluation is simple. Ridley is a 1,000 yard receiver, red zone threat, alpha receiver who is receiving a MAJOR upgrade at QB. No matter how highly you think of Cam Ward, he is an upgrade from last year’s Titans. 

I like WR28 Ridley’s situation and talent more than:  WR16 Mike Evans, WR17 Garrett Wilson, WR19 Tet McMillan, and WR22 Terry McLaurin (ironically)

Am I expecting Ridley to be WR6 like McLaurin was? No but a top 20 finish would still be a good pick here and I love Ridley to finish in the top 20.

Brian Callahan (ex-OC for Joe Burrow) had a rough go as a first year Head Coach but he also had the worst QB play in the NFL AND a very poor OLINE. Both got big upgrades this year yet Ridley added zero target competition for Ridley (another reason I loved Scary Terry last year).

I’m betting big on Ridley in 2025 😉

‍Last year I wrote about players that I was higher and lower than the field on and was pretty successful in my evaluation. Here’s what I like in 2025.

QBs

Higher:

1. Jordan Love
2. Tua Tagavaiola
3. Caleb Williams
4. Daniel Jones

Lower:

1. Baker Mayfield
2. Jared Goff

RBs

Higher

1. Devon Achane
2. D’Andre Swift
3. RJ Harvey
4. Najee Harris
5. Roschon Johnson

Lower

1. Ashton Jeanty
2. Kyren Williams
3. Chuba Hubbard
4. David Montgomery

WRs

Higher

1. Drake London
2. DJ Moore
3. George Pickens
4. Calvin Ridley***
5. Deebo Samuel
6. Matthew Golden

Lower

1. ARSB
2. Puka Nacua
3. Brian Thomas Jr.
4. Tet McMillan
5. Jayden Higgins

TEs

Higher

1. Tucker Kraft
2. Kyle Pitts
3. Isaiah Likely
4. Ja’Tavion Sanders
5. Darren Waller

Lower

1. Dallas Goedert
2. Zach Ertz

Write up:

Tua: It’s a shame I won’t leave every draft with Tyreek and Waddle because I’d like to leave every draft with Tua. QB24 is insane to me. Tua has been elite and a good fantasy scorer every season with McDaniel. Obviously injuries knock down his floor but he’s your QB2 anyways who has QB1 upside every single week.

Baker Mayfield: I don’t like drafting QBs at their ceiling and Baker had a career year, had a career year rushing and then has lost Godwin, JMAC, and his Offensive Coordinator. It’s tough for me to see Baker improving from QB7 when it took that much volume to be up there last year.

D’Andre Swift: The theme of this write up will be how much value I’m placing on Ben Johnson. I think Johnson is the best offensive mind in football right now and the Bears O should take a huge leap while Detroit’s takes a step back. In a putrid offense behind a putrid OLINE, Swift posted over 1,000 total yards and 6 touchdowns. If the offense is as good as I expect it to be, I think Swift’s floor can be 10 touchdowns.

Ashton Jeanty: Jeanty has tremendous upside which makes this fade scary but I think the Raiders OLINE could be dog shit. They were in pre-season…I don’t expect Jeanty to finish RB48 here, I just don’t know if he’s a top 5 RB.

David Montgomery: The Lions lost Johnson as aforementioned but they also lost some key pieces to the OLINE. Gibbs was already stealing DMONT’s work post injury and I expect the touch discrepancy to grow in 2025 plus I expect the Lions to score a lot less.

Drake London: What isn’t there to like about London. This is his break out season and if he finished WR1 it wouldn’t shock me! London has been improving year over year posting 100-1200-9 last year with Kirk Cousins for the majority of the year. Penix is better than Cousins was and London is just a certified stud. Imagine if Tee Higgins was WR1 in an offense, you’d like him too.

George Pickens: Was almost my guy over Ridley for 2025… he has all the talent in the world and now he’s escaping Arthur Smith and bad QB play to less double coverage and Dak Prescott who can surely help his fantasy outlook. 

BTJ: Caught like 12 80 yard touchdowns it felt like. Now target competition with Travis Hunter, I just don’t think this is sustainable for him over 17 games…

Tet McMillan: Bryce Young stinks.

Tucker Kraft: When healthy, puts up big numbers. I didn’t realize how good the Packers offense was when Love was healthy until I did some research. If the Packers can’t find WR1 in Golden or Reed, what if Kraft is that. TE1 upside.

Pitts/Likely/Sanders: All hyper talented players that are now being underdrafted.

Goedert/Ertz: Had great years last year, now they’re too dusty for me. Goedert was on the block and Ertz benefitted from a rookie QB and a situation where the young TE was injured. Things have changed in 2025.

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