2025 Fantasy Football Breakouts: 5 Guys to Target Now

12:14am UTC 4/3/25

Breakouts win leagues. We saw Jayden Daniels coming in 2024. Is it Rome Odunze’s turn now? Meet five breakout candidates for 2025.

Video: 5 Early Sleepers

10:07am UTC 3/27/25

Justin Fields has proved that when he's on the field, so is big fantasy upside. Drafters are underrating the new Jets QB. So he leads this list of five high-ceiling fantasy football sleepers.

2025 Fantasy Football Sleepers: Sneaky Good, Stupid Cheap

1:08pm UTC 3/27/25

Build an unbeatable team with these seven fantasy football sleepers. A first-time starter with QB1 upside, an under-the-radar RB with 200+ carry potential, an exciting second-year breakout WR, and more!

Podcast: Best-ball strategy with Tod Burros 3-4-21

Best-ball veteran Tod Burros (@TodfromPa) joins Matt to reveal traps that you should avoid early in your fantasy football drafts and "one big thing" to keep in mind ...

By Matt Schauf | Updated on Tue, May 23 2023 5:27 PM UTC

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Tod Burros of the Run to Daylight podcast and OneWeekSeason.com has been a high-volume best-ball fantasy football drafter for years. He joins Matt this week on the podcast to talk about what he's been doing wrong in recent seasons, how to construct the proper roster and when we should be wary of groupthink -- plus much more.

Here's the rundown:

Best-ball philosophy ... 5:46

QB strategy ... 25:29

RB strategy ... 32:25

TE strategy ... 35:28

WR strategy ... 43:53

Rookies ... 48:01

DFS carryover ... 51:11

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Matt Schauf, Editor

Matt has earned two Fantasy Pros accuracy awards for IDP rankings and won thousands of dollars as a player across best ball, dynasty, and high-stakes fantasy formats. He has been creating fantasy football content for more than 20 years, with work featured by Sporting News, Rotoworld, Athlon, Sirius XM, and others. He's been with Draft Sharks since 2011.