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It's rankings day! Apologies for the length, but we're going to go player-by-player through our top 10 QBs, top 20 RBs, and top 5 TEs so far in the 2025 Class, as well as cover NFL Week 4.
FULL SHOW TIMELINE
NFL Notes Week 4 -- 4:20 || QBs -- 4:30 (Deshaun Watson, Daniel Jones, Sam Darnold, Jacoby Brissett, Jalen Hurts) || WRs (Positive) -- 11:00 (Olamide Zaccheaus, Nico Collins, Jayden Reed, Tutu Atwell, Jauan Jennings, Rashid Shaheed, Michael Pittman, Xavier Legette, Brian Thomas Jr./Christian Kirk || WR/TEs (Negative) -- 25:15 (Mark Andrews, Kyle Pitts, Buffalo Bills Pass Catchers, Quentin Johnston) || RBs -- 28:40 (Roschon Johnson, Tank Bigsby, Chuba Hubbard, and Kareem Hunt)
2025 Rankings Intro -- 34:35
2025 QB Rankings -- 42:10 || Jalen Milroe -- 48:00 || Cam Ward -- 54:55 || Shedeur Sanders -- 63:35 || Cade Klubnik -- 68:15 || Jaxson Dart -- 74:00 || Quinn Ewers -- 78:45 / 79:30 || Carson Beck -- 88:45 || Garrett Nussmeier -- 92:35 || Drew Allar -- 97:30 || Miller Moss -- 104:20 || Noah Fifita -- 107:00
2025 TE Rankings -- 109:55 || Colston Loveland -- 11:00 || Mason Taylor -- 111:00 / 114:10 || Harold Fannin Jr. -- 116:30 || Tyler Warren -- 119:40 || Honorable Mentions -- 122:00
2025 RB Rankings -- 124:30 || Ashton Jeanty -- 127:55 || Nicholas Singleton -- 136:15 || TreVeyon Henderson + Quinshon Judkins -- 143:45 || Kaleb Johnson -- 150:15 || Dylan Sampson -- 152:10 || Jordan James -- 154:35 || Devin Neal -- 157:00 || Omarion Hampton -- 159:55 || Phil Mafah -- 163:45 || Ollie Gordon II -- 165:45 || D.J. Giddens -- 172:45 || Raheim "Rocket" Sanders -- 175:15 || Damien Martinez -- 178:20 || Jonah Coleman -- 181:35 || Kaytron Allen -- 184:00 || Kalel Mullings -- 186:50 || Ja'Quinden Jackson -- 188:50 || R.J. Harvey -- 190:45 || Kyle Monangai -- 192:40 || Honorable Mentions -- 195:35
Ending Notes -- 196:55 || The Jeanty v. Singleton question -- 198:30
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On 2025 Rankings Eve, I take a look back at my early October rookie rankings for the last two rookie classes. Additionally, which TEs are the most and least concerning. CFB Preview to end.
Intro/Schedule -- 0:00
NFL || Cowboys/Giants -- 3:25 || Broncos/Jets -- 4:15 || Vikings/Packers -- 5:20 || Saints/Falcons -- 6:45 || Eagles/Buccaneers -- 8:05 || Bengals/Panthers -- 9:20 || Jaguars/Texans -- 10:30 || Steelers/Colts -- 12:00 || Rams/Bears -- 13:30 || Commanders/Cardinals -- 14:10 || Patriots/49ers -- 15:20 || Browns /Raiders -- 15:45 || Chiefs/Chargers -- 16:20 || Bills/Ravens -- 17:20 || Titans/Dolphins -- 18:20 || Seahawks/Lions -- 19:20
TE PANIC METER -- 20:30 || Bowers/McBride -- 20:55 || Ferguson -- 21:45 || Goeddert, Henry, Likely -- 22:45 || Kmet -- 23:50 || Gesicki -- 24:55 || Kincaid -- 26:10 || Laporta -- 27:30
RANKINGS LOOK BACK (2023-2024) -- 30:20 || QB -- 32:25 || RB -- 37:10 || WR -- 41:30 || TE -- 50:00
COLLEGE PREVIEW || VaTech/Miami -- 52:55 || Washington/Rutgers -- 55:15 || Georgia/Alabama -- 56:30 || OklaSt/KSU -- 60:20 || Stanford/Clemson -- 61:45 || Kentucky/OleMiss -- 66:30 || OhioState/MichState -- 69:20 || Illinois/PennSt -- 73:20 || Wazzu/BoiseSt -- 77:30 || Arizona/Utah -- 78:05 || Minnesota/Michigan -- 78:55 || The 3:30-4:30 PM Buffet -- 80:15 (Wisconsin/USC, Oklahoma/Auburn, Colorado/UCF, North Carolina/Duke, MissSt./Texas*
*: Maybe; Arch Watch
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Today's show starts with Buys/Sells and NFL QB Reviews for Week 3, before going into a 2025 Rookie Mock Draft (One Round). Afterward, it's Week 4 CFB Risers.
INTRO -- 0:00
NFL || Jayden Reed -- 2:00 || Roschon Johnson -- 10:00 || Sam Darnold -- 13:00 || Deshaun Watson -- 17:00 || Quentin Johnston -- 20:00 || Justin Jefferson -- 22:30 || Chris Godwin -- 23:20 || Saints WRs -- 24:50 || Tyler Lockett / Seahawks -- 26:25 || Caleb Williams & Rome Odunze -- 27:30 || Anthony Richardson & Pass Catchers -- 28:55 || Bo Nix -- 31:00 || D/ST -- 32:45 || Malik Willis -- 34:10 || Justin Fields -- 36:00 || Jared Goff -- 41:10 || Andy Dalton + Panthers -- 42:15 || Jauan Jennings -- 43:30 || TE Teaser -- 44:15
2025 Rookie Mock Draft --46:15 (Full Rankings Next Week)
COLLEGE || Travis Hunter -- 54:50 || Cade Klubnik -- 59:30 || Harold Fannin Jr. -- 66:30 || Mason Taylor -- 68:45 || Kalel Mullings -- 72:00 || Nick Nash -- 73:25 || Jack Bech -- 76:00 || Tai Felton -- 78:00 || Fluff Bothwell -- 80:10 || Cam Ward -- 82:25 || Miller Moss -- 84:30 || Drew Allar -- 86:05 || Dylan Raiola -- 87:25 || Nicholas Singleton -- 89:10 || Devin Neal -- 92:25 || Omarion Hampton -- 94:15 || Dane Key -- 95:55 || Kyle Monangai -- 96:45 || Jackson Arnold -- 99:15 || Ollie Gordon II -- 102:05 || Luke Hasz -- 104:45
NFL Ending Notes -- 107:00
College Ending Notes -- 113:10
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With a lot to look forward to this weekend, today's FFR looks at the NFL, key CFB Games, and discusses big picture ideas at TE, QB, and RB.
Today's Timeline:
Intro -- 0:00
NFL PREVIEWS || Patriots/Jets -- 2:10 || Bears/Colts -- 3:30 || Chargers/Steelers + Justin Fields -- 4:00 || Texans/Vikings -- 7:30 || Eagles/Saints -- 9:15 || Broncos/Buccaneers -- 10:55 || Packers/Titans -- 13:15 || Giants/Browns -- 14:30 || Panthers/Raiders -- 17:30 || Dolphins/Seahawks -- 19:00 || Ravens/Cowboys -- 20:15 || Lions/Cardinals -- 22:15 || 49ers/Rams -- 23:10 || Chiefs/Falcons -- 24:30 || Jaguars/Bills -- 26:15 || Commanders/Bengals -- 27:45
TE Rookies -- 29:45
QB Breakouts (College) -- 34:45
RB Prospect Traits & Size -- 56:45
COLLEGE SCHEDULE || Stanford/Syracuse -- 74:30 || Illinois/Nebraska -- 75:25 || N.C. State/Clemson -- 77:20 || USC/Michigan -- 80:55 || Tennessee/Oklahoma -- 85:45 || Kansas/West Virginia -- 89:45 || Arkansas/Auburn -- 90:45 || Utah/Oklahoma St. -- 92:40 || Iowa/Minnesota -- 94:15 || Arch Manning Watch -- 96:30
End Notes -- 98:15
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Today's packed FFR features discussions on Nico Collins, Quentin Johnston, and Tony Pollard as well as prospect discussion involving Arch Manning, Rocket Sanders, Cam Ward, and so much more.
FULL TIMELINE:
Intro / Tua -- 0:00
PODCAST RECORDED BEFORE BRYCE YOUNG NEWS
NFL: Nico Collins -- 3:45 || Quentin Johnston -- 8:15 || Young Players (Harrison, Nabers, Bowers, Allen, Smith-Njigba, Flowers, Jameson, Polk) -- 14:00 || Buys (Pollard, Robinson Jr., Reynold) -- 19:00 || Richardson + Daniels WRs -- 23:30 || Gardner Minshew -- 26:55 || TEs (LaPorta, Kincaid, Andrews/Likely) -- 27:50 || JK Dobbins / Antonio Gibson -- 32:55 || Bryce Young (see above) -- 35:30 || Christian Kirk -- 41:00 || Other NFL Quick Notes (White, Jacobs, Jeudy, Stafford, Fields, Burrow, Pacheco) -- 43:30 || Deep Leagues (Tutu Atwell & Luke Schoonmaker) -- 47:50 || Caleb Williams -- 49:30 || Bo Nix -- 52:10
Arch Manning & Quinn Ewers -- 56:10
College Football Risers Week 3: Cam Ward -- 69:30 || Garrett Nussmeier -- 73:30 || Raheim "Rocket" Sanders -- 77:55 || Isaiah Bond -- 79:00 || Avery Johnson -- 81:25 || Nico Iamaleava & Jackson Arnold -- 82:20 || Jeremiyah Love & Darius Taylor -- 83:05 || Caden Durham -- 84:15 || Ryan Williams & Ryan Wingo -- 85:50 || Tetairoa McMillan -- 87:10 || Luther Burden III -- 88:10 || Evan Stewart -- 89:45 || Jordan James -- 91:35 || Ollie Gordon II -- 92:00 || Dylan Sampson -- 94:40 || TCU/UCF -- 95:00 || Tai Felton -- 95:20 || Tre Harris -- 96:00 || Ja'Quinden Jackson -- 96:20 || Lev Moss, Maalik Murphy, Gunner Helm, Eli Holstein -- 96:30 || Carson Beck -- 98:00 || Damien Martinez -- 99:20 || Luke Lachey -- 99:45
Ending Notes -- 100:55
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(Reminder that this show is recorded earlier and injury news is not always current). On the second full preview episode from FFR, we look briefly through each NFL game this weekend, discuss important College Football match-ups, and discuss the Week 1 performances of Darnold & Daniels
TIMELINE
NFL: Bills & Dolphins (2:25) || Raiders & Ravens (4:15) || Browns & Jaguars (5:20) || Jets & Titans (7:25) || 49ers & Vikings (8:25) || Chargers & Panthers (10:25) || Seahawks & Patriots (13:20) || Saints & Cowboys (14:40) || Giants & Commanders (16:05) || Buccaneers & Lions (17:05) || Colts & Packers (19:10) || Rams & Cardinals (20:05) || Steelers & Broncos (21:30) || Bengals & Chiefs (23:00) || Bears & Texans (25:00) || Falcons & Eagles (26:40)
Rookie QBs -- Bo Nix, Jayden Daniels, and Caleb Williams in Week 1 (29:20)
College (42:00): Arizona & Kansas St. (43:30) || LSU & S Carolina (45:30) || Alabama & Wisconsin (48:30) || Boston College & Missouri (50:30) || Texas A&M & Florida (51:15) || Tulane & Oklahoma (53:40) || Oregon & Oregon St. (55:45) || Washington St. & Washington (58:15) || West Virginia & Pittsburgh (59:10) || Georgia & Kentucky (61:45) || Colorado & Colorado St. (65:30) || UCF & TCU (66:20)
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In the first of many big weekly reaction shows, I go through every game (except MNF) of the NFL schedule as well as my biggest risers from Week 2 of College Football for the Future of Dynasty FF.
Timeline: Opening (1:45) || Pre-Show Notes (7:40)
NFL Timeline: Ravens @ Chiefs (11:45) || Packers @ Eagles (15:15) || Titans @ Bears (19:45) || Cardinals @ Bills (24:00) || Patriots @ Bengals (27:20) || Vikings @ Giants (29:50) || Panthers @ Saints (32:50) || Steelers @ Falcons (36:50) || Jaguars @ Dolphins (42:20) || Texans @ Colts (46:55) || Raiders @ Chargers (49:15) || Commanders @ Buccaneers (54:40) || Broncos @ Seahawks (59:20) || Cowboys @ Browns (63:05) || Rams @ Lions (66:00) || SUMMARY OF NFL (75:15)
College Timeline: Ashton Jeanty (80:30) || Nicholas Singleton (88:00) || Evan Stewart (92:15) || Quinn Ewers (94:55) || Dylan Sampson (101:50) || Desmond Reid (104:30) || D.J. Giddens (105:30) || Kaleb Johnson & Jamarion Miller (106:30) || Tai Felton (108:00) || Tyler Warren & Oronde Gadsden II (110:00) || Ole Miss (112:00) || 2027 Class (112:45) || 2026 Class (116:15) || Barion Brown (121:15) || Luther Burden (122:45) || Ollie Gordon II (124:15) || Shedeur Sacks (127:25) || Drew Allar (128:40) || END (130:55)
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On today's packed FFR, I discuss one question for each team in the NFL I hope to get answered in Week 1 & go over the Week 2 match-ups in College Football.
Full TIMELINE |||| NFL Rapid Fire -- 1:15 | Weekday Games -- 2:15 | 1 PM Games -- 4:05 | Afternoon Games -- 12:10 | Primetime Games -- 16:30 |||| Drew Allar Mini-Rant -- 19:45 |||| Game Previews -- 27:35 | Texas @ Michigan -- 28:05 | Tennessee @ N.C. State -- 34:00 | Colorado @ Nebraska -- 40:00 | Oregon @ Boise St. -- 46:15 | Other Games -- 54:45 |||| End Notes -- 68:45
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On today’s FFR, we finally have some real football to react to. While we do not want to overreact, it is never too early to take stock of major players and see who may be rising and who may be falling.
|| Timeline || Risers Preview – 9:00 || Cameron Ward – 14:00 || Nicholas Singleton – 18:00 || Antonio Williams – 20:30 || Colston Loveland – 22:30 || Jeremiyah Love – 24:15 || Tetairoa McMillan – 25:45 || Ashton Jeanty – 28:40 || Travis Hunter – 32:00 || Kevin Concepcion & Nico Iamaleava – 32:45 || Drew Allar, Quinn Ewers, and Carson Beck – 34:15 || Jalen Milroe – 36:10 || Ollie Gordon II – 37:45 || Elic Ayomanor – 40:00 || Oronde Gadsden II – 40:45 || Harrison Wallace III – 42:30 || Tai Felton – 43:30 || Pofele Ashlock – 44:45 || Jimmy Horn Jr. – 46:00 || Isaiah Neyor – 47:00 || Deion Burks – 48:15 || Bauer Sharp – 49:30 || Cam Cook – 50:00 || London Humphreys – 50:15 || Dylan Raiola – 52:45 || Taylor Tatum – 53:55 || Nate Frazier – 54:30 || Daniel Jeremiah – 56:00 || Ryan Williams – 56:30 || Ryan Wingo, Cam Coleman, & Perry Thompson – 57:15 || Conner Weigman – 60:15 || Aidan Chiles – 62:00 || Graham Mertz / D.J. Lagway – 64:20 || Gavin Sawchuk – 65:15 || Donovan Edwards – 66:00 || Miller Moss – 68:30 || Garrett Nussmeier – 70:25 || Mason Taylor – 72:15 || Zachariah Branch – 73:30 || Kyren Lacy – 75:50 || Kyron Hudson, Ja’Kobi Lane, Duce Robinson – 77:25 || LSU RBs – 79:30 || Aaron Anderson – 80:00 || Maalik Murphy – 80:45 || Eugene Wilson III & Tez Johnson – 81:30 || Cameron Ward (II) – 83:00 || 2027 v 2026 Freshman – 84:45 || Branson Robinson – 86:45 || Deion Burks (II) – 88:15
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On today's episode of FFR, I run down the biggest games on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of this week in College Football. Mostly a CFB show today, but I do discuss strategies for 8 & 14-TM leagues.
Timeline || 8-Team Leagues v 14-Team Leagues -- 1:30 || Clemson / Georgia -- 15:45 || Penn St. / W. Virginia -- 26:15 || Miami (FL) / Florida -- 31:00 || Notre Dame / Texas A&M -- 35:25 || USC / LSU -- 39:00 || Boston College / Florida St. -- 44:30 || Ending -- 45:30 ||
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On today's FFR, I dig into my final minor notes about the NFL pre-season before getting into some non-exhibition football recapping Week 0 and previewing Week 1 in College Football.
Timeline || Preseason Notes -- 8:25 || Week 0 Recap -- 26:45 || Week 1 Preview (Thur & Fri) -- 38:30 || UNC @ Minn -- 39:30 || NDSU @ COL -- 45:30 || TCU @ Stanford -- 50:45 || Ending -- 54:25
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Today's episode of FFR covers our first real football action with the FSU/GT game in Dublin this weekend. Additionally, I wrap up my pre-season coverage with RBs and WRs in redraft leagues. || TIMELINE || Show Starts: 1:15 || Florida State v Georgia Tech: 4:30 || SMU (Preston Stone): 19:15 || Redraft RBs: 21:50 || Redraft WRs: 33:20 || The End: 49:00
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On today's FFR, we continue both the discussion about the pre-season and specifically redraft leagues that began on the previous episode. This time, I'll be focusing in on the QB and TE positions. Show Timeline: PRESEASON NEWS -- Minshew 1:30 / 46:45 || McCarthy 3:15 / 48:30 || PRESEASON WEEK 2 -- Caleb Williams 7:55 || Drake Maye 9:00 || Ray Davis 10:00 || Sione Vaki 12:45 || Jahwar Jordan 14:00 || De'Von Achane 15:00 / 53:45 || QB MARKETPLACE 17:20 -- Kyler Murray / Jordan Love 22:05 || Jayden Daniels 25:30 || Caleb Williams 27:10 || Matthew Stafford 28:45 || Daniel Jones 30:30 || TE MARKETPLACE 32:40 -- McBride/Kincaid/Andrews 37:30 || Ferguson/Njoku 39:45 || Dalton Schultz 41:25 || T.J. Hockenson 42:00 || Cole Kmet 43:05 || Isaiah Likely 44:20 || Cade Otton 44:30 || FINAL ENDING NOTES -- 45:15
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On today's episode of FFR, I get away from Prospects and Dynasty and focus on a few key statistics and ideas that go into both general redraft leagues as well as strategy for auction leagues. || FULL TIMELINE || Pre-Season Notes -- 1:30 || Redraft Rules (How much does passing volume matter?) -- 8:00 || Auction Strategies -- 20:00 || Overrated/Underrated (Redraft Pt. 1) -- 34:15 || End Notes (Passing Volume Revisited) -- 46:00
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A list of the all-undervalued team made up of the best values on market aggregates like KeepTradeCut and FantasyCalc. Players Discussed: Kyler Murray = 4:40 || Nico Collins = 9:20 || Brandon Aiyuk = 22:25 || A.J. Brown = 23:45 || DK Metcalf = 25:50 || Tee Higgins = 27:00 || Kenneth Walker III = 30:50 || (TEs = 35:15) || T.J. Hockenson = 36:30 || Mark Andrews = 38:45 || Trey Benson = 40:25 || Matthew Stafford = 43:30 || Geno Smith = 45:25 || Russell WIlson (& Justin Fields) = 47:05 || Raheem Mostert = 49:20 || Ja'Lynn Polk = 51:15 || Demario Douglas = 52:15 || Rashid Shaheed = 55:30 || David Njoku = 57:30
I'm planning on doing a "redraft" week for next week. Don't know if it'll be one show or two. Don't know what all we'll be discussing. But next week will be redraft week.
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The final pre-season futures content from the FFR Podcast, I finish my breakdown of my top 3 tiers of College Futures looking over the ACC and Big 12 Conferences. Detailed timeline is in the spreadsheet linked below. Tier 1 = 5:00 || Tier 2 = 10:00 || Tier 3 = 38:00 || Honorable Mentions: Around 1 Hour 8 Minutes
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zYzqxONrZ8hdG7qEAJOPe5_Xm7jrj36wvdMhNn8k7dk/edit?usp=sharing
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The second part of a three-part series, I go into my top 3 Tiers of prospects for the Big Ten Conference. This includes players eligible for 2025, 2026, and 2027 as early declares. Specific time keys can be found in the Google Sheets link attached here. Tier 1: 6:25 || Tier 2: 24:45 || Tier 3: 34:15
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19oJCb6MPRfmq3eJ2UzkNE5XwZaqJolGt0AAEw6tvNus/edit?usp=sharing
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A breakdown of Future NFL Prospects at the Fantasy Relevant positions. In part one of this breakdown, I cover the players who are in the SEC. A specific breakdown of times can be found on the spreadsheet found at the end of these notes. Player Discussion Starts @ 11:30. Tier 2 @ 24:15. Tier 3 @ 47:15. Honorable Mentions start around 01:10:00.
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g6zbLxU4ZXVcpJvMVSTjodp3q9-GgM7MLvmYELS3A-c/edit?usp=sharing
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One final show for this 12-Team, 12-Round Start-up Mock Draft. Sorry for the delay! Working on all my Conference-Preview Shows for CFB at once and should start cranking them out soon. Thank you for your patience. This should cover all the picks and team rosters: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VLR1BLni5-kKZiZWUKHGmYnB9lv0O29pYgN_IcsDF_4/edit?usp=sharing
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In Part 2 of the SF Start-Up Mock Draft, I go through Rounds 5 through 9. The link provided here should go to a spreadsheet with all 12 teams written out through almost 9 full rounds (8 rounds and 11 picks). || https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VLR1BLni5-kKZiZWUKHGmYnB9lv0O29pYgN_IcsDF_4/edit?usp=sharing || Round 5 -- 5:45 || 5/6 Turn -- 24:00 || 6/7 Turn -- 37:45 || 7/8 Turn -- 53:55 || 8/9 Turn -- 69:45 || Recap -- 86:30
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