The 2024 college football season has recently ended but Purple Reign has been hard at work to bring you the first look at 2025 College Fantasy Football player rankings. I have gone deep into the well, providing a total of 380 players in these rankings. I’ve got you covered for your first deep best ball draft with all FBS, Power 4 only, and Group of 5 only downloadable draft day cheat sheets.
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As mentioned in the video, these player rankings are based more on a player’s fantasy floor than their fantasy ceiling. I want to provide you with the most reliable players that you can count on in your early fantasy drafts. I used a concept of placing players in groups to help easily identify how reliable a player is.
PLAYER GROUPS
Players vary greatly on how dependable they can be. While I create projections for all players, not every player will live up to those projections. Risk must be taken into account when looking at a player’s ability to live up to fantasy projections. To help highlight this in my draft guide, players have been placed into one of three “player groups.” Each group has a profile of the players within them, and these profiles help you understand the risk involved and when you should consider drafting them.
Group A: Proven Commodities
These are players with an established history of fantasy worthy play. They have a low risk level of living up to fantasy point projections, and a high fantasy point floor. It is best to draft these players for any starting spots and some bench spots.
Group B: Next Man Up
These are players that have shown flashes of fantasy worthy play. They have a slight/moderate risk level of living up to fantasy point projections, and a moderate fantasy point floor. It is best to draft these players for some starting spots and any bench spots.
Group C: High Risk/Reward Sleepers
These are players that have potential to break out into fantasy worthy play. They have a high risk of living up to fantasy point projections, and the lowest fantasy point floor. It is best to draft these players for bench spots only and in the second half of the draft.
TIERS
Another concept I use with player rankings is assigning players into tiers. Tiers are assigned to players based on how similar I feel about the fantasy floor potential of the players involved. I consider all players in the same tier to be viewed as “equal” which allows a drafter to select the player that they like best. Tiers go from 1 being the best, then counting their way downward. This gives us a starting point of how to view tiers in comparison to one another.
In the premium subscribers section below you can download my full player rankings. These rankings are packaged in a draft day cheat sheet format that you can print off and use while you perform your fantasy drafts. I have draft day cheat sheets made for all FBS schools, Power 4 only schools, and Group of 5 only schools.
***Please note some graduate class players listed may no longer have eligibility. I am working to verify these players’ eligibility with current lawsuit verdicts, injury redshirts, and covid rules.***
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