The Playbook: Planning a winning fantasy football draft-day strategy Mike Clay goes position by position and lays out a successful approach for 2025 fantasy football drafts. A fantasy football beginner's guide to salary cap drafts Eric Karabell's provides an introduction to the ins and outs of salary cap drafts for fantasy football.

The biggest fantasy stars go with the earliest picks. But here’s the thing: All of them normally are great players. All of them normally should be in line for great seasons. There shouldn’t ever really be bad first-round picks.