Draft Kit, Vol. 3: Final, updated guide
Just the key links you need for the biggest draft weekend
I’ve sent a couple of these “draft kit” posts out, and they’ve included some important links, as well as a lot of different content going back through the offseason. There is still a ton of key content from those earlier time periods, but if you want the full catalog of stuff to read through, go visit Draft Kit, Volume 2.
For this one, before the final Labor Day weekend that is the biggest draft weekend of the year, I wanted to pare down the links to the main, most important player series, the four key strategy guides (with one for auction and one for superflex), and then the rankings.
Here are the most important pieces of actionable content for a quick draft guide.
Draft Strategy
“Cut your fantasy football drafts into quarters” is a primer for how to think through your draft approach. What players do we target, and why?
“The best way to play home leagues in 2025” gives you the specific blueprint for winning your league, tailored to softer draft environments. In the past, I’ve used the exact home league blueprint to dominate in the high stakes space, as well.
My favorite picks in each round, with an emphasis on the ADPs at each major home league site between ESPN, CBS, Yahoo, and Sleeper
Positional strategy, Targets and Fades
Each of these posts includes a long introduction about the position and how to understand it for fantasy football. It’s very important context about how to exploit the positions individually.
Then, I work through my tiered rankings and look at all the players a different way than the team-by-team nature of the Offseason Stealing Signals series, and updated with about a month of new information since those deeper dives were written.
Offseason Stealing Signals series
These are the aforementioned deeper dives with key stats about every player and every team, including why the different players have different ranges of outcomes in the different offenses.
The specific ways the different coaches and schemes fit, and what the players do within those schemes, is probably the biggest edge in fantasy football right now. If you’re looking for my thoughts on any given player, here’s that important context, with summaries for each team highlighting what’s “Signal” and what’s “Noise.”
The suddenly intriguing AFC South, including an introduction to the series
Some strong WR targets and young QBs in the NFC South
Unique offenses that challenge projection logic in the AFC East
Top-tier talents at QB, RB, and WR in the NFC East
Breakout WRs from four great offenses in the deep NFC North
Rookie RBs ready to dominate in the AFC West
Various degrees of target concentration in the NFC West
Preseason Stealing Signals series
Important weekly breakdowns of all the relevant snaps from each preseason week, including discussion of how key rookies looked on the field.
A few other new pieces
Just because I haven’t linked these in other versions of the draft kit.
Breaking down the Rashee Rice suspension, with a focus on Xavier Worthy
Team HVT projections for predicting RB upside
My recent draft results in high stakes formats
Rankings
The rankings will continue to update daily through the weekend. The below rankings tool (behind the paywall) is an awesome way to track the players in live drafts, with the ability to click names to cross them out, and visually see the tier breaks, Targets, and Fades.
Additionally, if you’re looking for a spreadsheet version of the rankings, there’s a download .csv button on the top right of the tool. Good luck in your drafts!