2025 QB Fantasy Football Draft Strategy (Targets & Sleepers)

Everything this offseason has built up to this point.

With the 2025 Draft Kit in place as a North Star in how to play the game of fantasy football, I also know some of you are here because you want to know how I am playing drafts out myself this summer.

You want the answers to the test.

That is what this week is all about.

This is how I am approaching fantasy football drafts in 2025, starting with the quarterback position.

I will also update this throughout the remaining time in the offseason if we get any significant news that impacts draft approaches.

Even those with the draft kit may not have read every word written this offseason, but I am operating under the assumption you have at minimum checked out the player rankings page.

If you read only one thing, I would push you to the individual player writeups in the positional tiers posts if you haven't already.

With that in mind, these pieces will not be overly statistically centric and fully into the weeds on the pros or cons of each player, instead focusing on the approach to drafting the positions.

If you want further analysis on each player, check out those tiers, but here are some links to quarterback-related content that has influenced our decision making.

Quarterback Fantasy Related Articles:

• Quarterback Tiers
• Quarterback Rankings
• Quarterback Production Heading Into 2025
• Red Zone Points vs Expectation: Quarterback
• What We Can Learn From ADP: Quarterback
• Stats That Matter: Quarterback

2025 QB Fantasy Football Draft Strategy

Before we get into the specific targets, I do want to lay down some groundwork on how we arrived here.

This season is unique in that we have a top tier of four quarterbacks (Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, and Jayden Daniels) who check the boxes we are looking for when it comes to spending premier at the position.

These players offer the combination of high floors and ceilings through rushing and passing output.

I rarely spend front-end capital on quarterbacks, but when I do, I spend it on players who are actual dual assets on the ground and through the air.

Everyone else has come around on that over the past several seasons as well.

I say rarely, because this season has some nuance when it comes to those top quarterbacks.

We do not have a deep player pool of those dual-threat picks, and we do not have a lot of arbitrage situations for that archetype as we progress through the position.

Last season, Daniels was our top target because he blended what we look for in a fantasy quarterback paired with a price we could draft ahead of ADP and still wait at the position in total.

This year, that archetype is thin.

Kyler Murray is still hanging around the back-end QB1 picks but has yet to get over that hump for fantasy.

I still believe he is the best of the dual-threat options and is still in play for a pick, but he is not someone to outright prioritize, either.

Justin Fields is an old-school Konami fantasy player who has a floor in place through rushing output, but still comes with a questionable passing floor and questionable upside to completely threaten the top of the position consistently.

After those two guys, we get a lot of players who are not zeroes in the running game but are also not players I would categorize as consistent runners, either.

Because we do not have many arbitrage options for the dual threat options that occupy the opening tier, it gives the top options added appeal.

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