How I'm approaching Superflex leagues in 2025

Changes to the normal strategy guide for Superflex

There’s just never enough time before Week 1.

I let myself breathe for a few minutes over the weekend, and now I’m realizing I still owe you guys a big Q&A mailbag, the Signals Gold livestream, the Team HVT piece I really want to work through, some reviews of my own drafts which I’ve completely neglected this year, a piece where I do a favorite pick in each round to try to give my spin on the “my guys” thing where I emphasize my favorites, and then I’m also trying to fit in some fun one-off pieces I want to write, because I think they are interesting. One of those was going to be more about the RB Dead Zone than I’ve written in a while, because it does still exist, but that probably won’t fit this year.

I’ve been a little slower on the Superflex piece this year because I’ve covered Superflex deeper over the past couple years. Last year, I wrote a longer breakdown in a piece where I looked at overall ranks and talked about early-round strategy, but a massive part of that was me breaking down how difficult Superflex is to do content for, because each league has its own environment.

I recently got sent a sick Superflex team where the drafter got something like Jayden Daniels and Trevor Lawrence in Rounds 8 and 10 or something. I think it was maybe 10 teams, I can’t remember the specifics, but some leagues are legit crazy in their devaluing of QBs. This is so, so much different than other teams, and some Superflex drafters I talk to seem to think the way their league plays QBs is the only way, or the common way. I assure you, it’s not. I get a wide disparity, especially from those of you who have been doing it for three or four years, because your own league develops an ecosystem, and then everyone kind of knows how much they can play the QB chicken game.

This is basically the Cliff’s Notes to a Superflex guide right here. You’re following the normal strategy guide, but then figuring out how your league handles QBs. It’s obviously not that simple, but if I needed to sum it up, that’s how I’d do it.

Of course, the question I get the most about Superflex is “Where do I take the QBs?” “How do the QB tiers fit into the other positions?” And mostly it’s the top of the draft — how would I rank it, and exactly which non-QBs would I take before which QBs?