Tier Ranking My 2025 Fantasy Football Picks

Published on 10 November 2025 at 06:29

Written by Matt Green

PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 10: Tier ranking of the Green Goblins' 2025 fantasy football draft selections. | Credit: Matt Green.

Tier Ranking My 2025 Fantasy Football Picks

Like most fantasy football managers, I have been looking back and analyzing how good, bad, and depressing my 2025 draft selections were. For context, I participate in a standard 10-team P.P.R. league; each team starts a quarterback, a kicker, a tight end, a flex, two wide receivers, two running backs, and a defense. The league is 10 years old, and I am a one-time champion.

That championship came 10 years ago, so I have spend the last decade analyzing my drafts to try and figure out what I could have done differently. This season, I decided to make my analysis public by sharing my tier list of my 2025 draft selections. With a 4-5 record heading into Week 10, I must admit writing this post is very humbling; however, with me being the fourth seed a few weeks ahead of the playoffs, this post will be interesting to look back on if the Green Goblins make any noise in the seven-team tournament.

The Homerun Pick
  • Patrick Mahomes might be the NFL's 2025 M.V.P., but he is certainly the M.V.P. of my fantasy football team.
  • Selecting Mahomes in the sixth round of my draft was a season-saving move; he has been responsible for all four of my wins this year.
  • Fantasy-wise, Mahomes has been better and more consistent than every other quarterback in the league, including the guys that were drafted ahead of him. Getting him in the sixth round was a steal.

The Good Picks
  • Ashton Jeanty at pick nine overall in a 10-man snake draft was a risky selection at the time, but he has since proven to be a conistent running-back-one in PPR leagues.
  • Jeanty was the best pick at the time with Amon-Ra St. Brown and Christian McCaffrey going in front of him; Jeanty has outperformed Derrick Henry and Malik Nabers, the two guys who went right after him in my draft.
  • George Kittle has been hurt for most of this season, but with the second-to-last pick in the fifth round, Kittle was the right selection with many running backs and wide receivers off the board.
  • He is now fully healthy and should be San Francisco's best pass-catching option for the rest of the 2025 season.

The Wrong Picks
  • Selecting A.J. Brown in the second round with the 12th overall pick felt good at the time, but in hindsight, taking him over Puka Nacua, Jonathan Taylor, Josh Jacobs, and De'Von Achane was a move that still haunts my team.
  • Tony Pollard has been nothing but mediocre this season, and guys like Jaylen Warren and Travis Etienne Jr., both of whom were drafted after him, have been better.
  • Taking Brock Purdy as my backup quarterback was not a bad pick, but it was the wrong pick; taking a gamble on another wide receiver or running back while fading quarterback in the 11th round would have been the better move. Unfortunately, Purdy has been hurt for most of the 2025 season; meanwhile, Drake Maye and Dak Prescott have been having elite fantasy campaigns.

The Trash Picks
  • Taking Marvin Harrison Jr. as my third wide receiver, at the time, made me ecstatic about my team. I thought he would get pummeled with targets and take a huge leap this season with the Arizona Cardinals. Unfortunately for him, his divison rival Jaxon Smith-Njigba has taken that leap, and unfortunately for me, I took Harrison Jr. over the Seattle Seahawks' star.
  • I thought Cooper Kupp would be a consistent wide-receiver-two for the Seahawks, but he has gotten little action in their offense. Taking a swing on a younger receiver in the tenth round would have been the smarter play.
  • Nick Chubb came into the season presumably as the Houston Texans' best running back option with Joe Mixon hurt. Unfortunately, he has been inefficient carrying the ball, and he is now splitting carries with the younger running backs in that room. Selecting an aging, recently hurt running back in his first season with a new team was not the most intelligent draft choice.

After working the waiver wire and making a few trades, my team currently consists of the following players.

Wish me luck the rest of the way.

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