2025 Fantasy Football Draft Rankings: Fitz’s Early Picks & Predictions

We’ve entered the fantasy football “offseason.”

Those aren’t scare quotes around the word “offseason.” They’re more like mockery quotes, because so many of the people who have embraced fantasy football as a hobby are deeply immersed in it, committed to keeping up with it year-round, even though there won’t be another regular-season game until September.

Fantasy football isn’t just a hobby; it’s a compulsion.

Check out Fitz’s Early 2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft

And so here I am, rolling out 2025 fantasy football draft rankings roughly seven months before home-league drafts start to take place.

Putting together early fantasy draft rankings is always fun, but it’s also a tricky exercise. There’s a lot of projection involved. Rosters are going to change. Some coaching staffs are going to change.

Free agency will dramatically alter the fantasy landscape. So will the NFL Draft. And it’s impossible to tell exactly how those events will change things — although we can make some educated guesses.

These rankings reintroduce some players who were lost to major injuries in 2024. They also include some players who sustained major injuries late in the 2024 season and may or may not be able to contribute in 2025.

These rankings also include rookies. Plugging rookies into such an early set of rankings involves some serious guesswork. Combine testing, draft results and yet-to-be-completed rookie research will make rookie rankings extremely volatile in the coming months. Heck, we don’t even know who all of the early declarers are yet.

So, please understand that these are mere placeholder rankings for the rookies, subject to significant changes. But I wanted to include rookies in these early rankings, because early rankings that don’t include rookies are pretty useless.

These fantasy football draft rankings are a starting point. I hope you’ll check back frequently as I continue to make adjustments over the months to come. Here are my early 2025 fantasy football draft rankings.