The conclusion of the NFL Draft is a clarion call to the more fanatical wing of fantasy enthusiasts: dynasty league players. And like the starting line at Daytona, our FI community dynasty leagues were champing at the bit to plunk their hard-earned draft picks down on all of the NFL's shiny new rookies, tout de suite.

The FIDD leagues are a group of dynasty superflex leagues that are run through the FI Discord server. We had four leagues' worth of rookie data in last year's write-up, but that number is up to six for 2025. These leagues are governed by a single constitution and have identical roster and scoring rules, so although this ADP data is from multiple leagues there are no differences in scoring nor positional scarcity to dilute the data.

Unlike Andy's (excellent) breakdown from his rookie draft earlier in the week, these leagues are not 1-QB, only half PPR and do not have a TE premium - hence the tight ends in a robust TE cohort coming off the board much more slowly, and QBs flying hot and heavy compared to a 1-QB format.

With that preamble rambled through, here's the way our guys chopped it up with the 2025 rookie class, with some of my musings after each round for flavor.

Ashton Jeanty succeeds Caleb Williams as our unanimous top pick across all leagues, which is somehow even less of a shock despite the premium placed on the QB position by our format. I don't have much to add on Jeanty at the moment; I love him as much as the next guy, and he's poised to creep into the back half of the first round of redraft leagues in August. I will say, I think people taking him with 300+ touches in mind are setting themselves up for a smidgeon of short-term disappointment - I don't see the Raiders piling their new franchise back's plate quite so high in year 1. ... As Andy Richardson pointed out, it is the Wild West after 1.01: we saw Tetairoa McMillan, Cam Ward and Travis Hunter each taken 2nd overall twice apiece. Wackier still, Omarion Hampton had a higher ADP than both Ward and Hunter despite never going higher than 3rd; go figure. For my money, this stretch of the board should probably go Ward-Hunter-Hampton-McMillan, with the first two being truly interchangeable depending on need and gut instinct. I maintain my Hampton skepticism and considering that the Panthers are going to need him to eat the overwhelming majority of his snaps outside, I think McMillan's in for an up-and-down rookie season - especially if the murmurs about his effort level on plays where he's not getting the ball prove to be valid.

It's a great year to have picks in the 5-6-7 range in superflex (4-5-6 in 1-QB), as you're guaranteed to nab a player whom we could easily be looking back at as the blue-ribbon winner of this class in six months' time. I love TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins, and I like their respective landing spots just fine: Henderson should push incumbent Rhamondre Stevenson into the 1B role by Thanksgiving, the David Montgomery role to his Jahmyr Gibbs. Judkins is the hyper-athletic bull that will make the departure of Nick Chubb at least somewhat bearable for the Dawg Pound regulars. Things are somewhat crowded with Jerome Ford and Dylan Sampson also underfoot, but one of those fellas will be too busy returning kicks to bother Judkins much.

Emeka Egbuka was glued to the board between eight and 10, and interestingly that was maybe even a touch higher than I was seeing him mocked before the Buccaneers shocked the world by using their first-round pick to stick him in a battle for the WR3 job with Jalen McMillan... curious. This typically delivered us to The Great Tyler Warren vs. Colston Loveland Dilemma, one which Warren won four out of six times. I'll be honest: I was leaning hard towards Warren right up until the moment the Bears walked right past him to get to Loveland. They are both tantalizing prospects, but I think it's fair to say that new Bears' HC Ben Johnson has earned a heck of a lot more benefit of the doubt than has Indy's Shane Steichen. Loveland is a crisp and intuitive mover through his routes, while Tyler Warren in a Colts' uniform is poised to be the closest thing to the tight end version of Deebo Samuel the NFL has ever seen. ... No incoming rookie's dynasty market value jumped harder from when and where they were drafted than that of Denver's R.J. Harvey; as an undersized (and older) running back coming from UCF, Harvey went from being an early third-rounder to the backend of the 1st when Sean Payton made him the fifth running back off the board. I want to like Kaleb Johnson more than Harvey here; at Iowa he was the rare big man who carried all of the team's mail while still hitting plenty of home runs. Alas, the Steelers offense remains a face only a mother could love.

Favorite values: Quinshon Judkins, Cam Ward, Travis Hunter, TreVeyon Henderson
Least favorite values: Tetairoa McMillan, Emeka Egbuka
My picks: Cam Ward (1.02), Travis Hunter (1.04), Colston Loveland (1.09), Colston Loveland (1.10)

Arriving as perhaps the perfect argument against the superflex/2-QB format is Jaxson Dart's ADP as the 13th player off the board. I get it: he was one of two QBs taken on day 1 of the NFL Draft; he put up rock-solid numbers with sustained year-over-year improvement at Ole Miss; he's freshly 22; he can run a little bit. There are shades of J.J. McCarthy here, including the luxury of sitting for most/all of his rookie season. And if he'd landed with a team like the Vikings, then I'd probably be singing a different tune. Unfortunately, Dart's landing spot with a Giants' team that is almost assuredly going to have both a new head coach and general manager eight months from now (and quite possibly much sooner) is about as Will Levis-ian as it gets. I'm also not sure he's appreciably better than Michael Pratt was in last year's class. Who? Exactly. ... One of the only Longhorns on the offensive side of the ball to make it out of last year's CFP run alive was Matthew Golden, turning his 2024 transfer from the Houston Cougars into a day 1 selection. Boasting true 4.3 speed and notable lateral-breaking suddenness, I do prefer him at this price to that of Egbuka. Both land in established offenses with franchise quarterbacks, but Golden doesn't have nearly the uphill climb to targets - and may not have any. ... Speaking of Egbuka, Luther Burden also lands with a team that has two clear-cut starters ahead of him, and that's ignoring that the Bears drafted another pass-catcher ahead of him in Loveland- not great! But squint your eyes a bit, and you might see that Burden's dominant sophomore season at Mizzou just might have called to new Bears' head man Ben Johnson's mind shades of Amon-Ra St. Brown, plus the fact that D.J. Moore's contract is effectively up after 2026, and Burden as a (somewhat pricey) 2025 hold quickly becomes more palatable.

One of our two or three most-ballyhooed rookies over the last few months, a landing spot on pretty much any other NFL team likely would have vaulted Cam Skattebo into the back end of the first round in a few of these drafts. Alas, Skattebo heads to Big Blue, presumably as the 'Ron Dayne thunder' to Tyrone Tracy's 'Tiki Barber lightning' of yore. Tracy was great for the Giants as a rookie last year and certainly has a bright NFL future of his own. Between him and the possibly lingering presence of Brian Daboll favorite Devin Singletary, Skattebo's path to significant work is not necessarily immediate, especially if his pass pro doesn't progress quickly. But his honey badger relentlessness as a runner and real receiving chops won't be kept off the field for long. ... Jayden Higgins could easily be one of the guys we look back at and are kicking ourselves for not taking much sooner. He's huge (measured 6'4 1/4"/214 lbs in Indy), he can fly (4.47 40, 1.53 10-yard split), he was great at Iowa State and the Texans want him starting on the perimeter immediately to enable Christian Kirk to post up inside - huge upside here.

Like Skattebo, Jack Bech is another kid who rode a big 2024 out of anonymity and into the NFL Draft, rocketing all the way up the board to 58th overall as the eighth receiver taken. A high-moxie converted tight end (6'1 1/4", 214), Bech will be lauded as 'just a football player, man' several times in the months to come. A sure-handed compiler underneath at TCU last year, there's a ton of slot work on the table in Vegas; after Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers this team has a whole lotta nothin'. ... This leads us into what I considered to be a pronounced tier drop, with new Bolt Tre Harris batting leadoff. Harris is a fairly one-dimensional guy for me; at 6'2 1/2" and 205 pounds with classic 'build-up speed', he can help the Chargers by pressing vertically outside and making teams commit two defenders to him. That helps other players on the team more than it will his fantasy owners. ... Every year a running back explodes onto the radar at the Scouting Combine, and this time it was Bhayshul Tuten (98th percentile 40-yard dash, 95th percentile vertical jump, 95th percentile 10-yard split, 96th percentile broad jump). The Jaguars are rumored to be souring on contract year incumbent Travis Etienne; Tuten drafters need this to be true.

In a lean QB class, this was where the dam finally gave way for guys taking home run swings on upside: Jalen Milroe flat out could be the next Jalen Hurts, and he could just as easily be the next Trey Lance. Amazingly, this is only the third QB drafted by longtime Seahawks' GM John Schneider. The last one was Alex McGough. The one before that was also a third rounder: Russell Wilson. ... The melodrama of the 2025 NFL Draft was obviously the epic slide of Shedeur Sanders, which resulted in him going from a presumed first round pick in every draft to having a gargantuan 17-spot range of selections - no other player yet mentioned had a larger range than nine. This one I truly see both ways: on the one hand, this is a kid who was in the running to be taken first overall as recently as three months ago, and really only fell this hard because of his famous father. On the other... well, everything else. ... An explosive burner who measured in at a sneakily not-small 5'10"/194, Jaylin Noel went punch for punch with co-No. 1 Jayden Higgins for the Cyclones the last two years. ... The shocking Derek Carr retirement news makes Tyler Shough drafters look genius, but it doesn't change the fact that he had a seven-year collegiate career, and yet due to injuries only arrives to the NFL with average experience (34 starts). Tyler Shough is older than Brock Purdy, and Trevor Lawrence. He will have to produce in a big way, right away to keep the Saints from making the 2026 draft the sixth out of the last seven where they've taken a quarterback.

Favorite values: Jayden Higgins, Jaylin Noel, Cam Skattebo
Least favorite values: Tre Harris, Jaxson Dart
My picks: Colston Loveland (2.01), Luther Burden (2.04), Cam Skattebo (2.07), Kyle Williams (2.11)

Given how many running backs with legitimate NFL futures were arriving simultaneously, some were always bound to slide. Still, Devin Neal's plunge into day 3 was a surprise; he was a major contributor for the Jayhawks as a freshman and never came off the field after that. He'll probably never be a superstar, but he's one of the five best receiving backs in the class. At 5'11/213 with a ho hum 40 time but strong explosion testing, there's some Alvin Kamara to his game. ... Kyle Williams followed up a solid 2023 as Cam Ward's 1C option with a fantastic 2024 as top dog (1198 yards, 17.1 yards/reception, 14 touchdowns). Blessed with 4.4 speed that plays even faster than that, Williams was on my radar regardless of where he wound up; landing in the junk drawer that is the Patriots' wide receiver depth chart smells like opportunity. With the host of intriguing options at tight end in this class, Mason Taylor this early just does not make sense to me. He's a fine young player, and you have to love his NFL lineage, but the Jets figure to throw it about as little as any team in the league. Taylor will be a ghost in box scores this fall more often than not. ... Dylan Sampson is a classic example of 'good player, disastrous landing spot'. The Browns are suddenly replete with talent at receiver, tight end, and ahead of him at running back; nothing wrong with betting on talent at this point in drafts, but that's also what Jaylen Wright, Blake Corum and Marshawn Lloyd drafters told themselves last year. ... Much better to take Jaydon Blue, who will also very likely never control an NFL backfield for long but figures to see change of pace work right away, and with his 4.38 speed perhaps more. Blue's story as a scatback with ball security issues is not a new one, but his ability to put his foot in the ground and make a devastating cut at full speed is special.

Pat Bryant is the other intriguing name at WR this round. At 6'2"/204 he's big enough to line up anywhere, and HC Sean Payton's comments drawing comparisons to Michael Thomas single-handedly moved Bryant's market sharply. I like the tape; he's fluid at multiple levels of the field, can high points contested balls, and plays faster than the 4.6 40 time. ... We've arrived at another tier drop, although it pains me to leave Jarquez Hunter on this side of the divide. Hunter's a pony keg of a runner, built like a J.K. Dobbins or Chase Brown, and like them he's got the horsepower to get to the edge and run around you, and just enough pop and toughness to run through one-on-one tacklers as often as not. He'll open the season no higher than third on the depth chart, but until Kyren Williams and the Rams come to terms on a new contract he'll have a theoretical path to real touches by 2026. ... The Chiefs' Jalen Royals is built like a Rashee Rice clone, and while he may be asked to to pick up some of the slack for any suspension working its way down the pipeline for this fall, I think Kansas City mostly just wanted a bigger body than twin 165-pounders Xavier Worthy and Hollywood Brown. That said, Royals looks like a guy who could quickly become a Mahomes favorite.

Elic Ayomanor is a Tre Harris clone with much more suspect hands. His job in Tennessee this fall will be to block, run clear-out routes, and free up veterans Calvin Ridley and Tyler Lockett to move around the formation. ... at 6'0"/212 with 4.43 speed and even better agility testing, D.J. Giddens may be the best Jonathan Taylor insurance policy the Colts have carried since Zack Moss. He's poised to be the (increasingly rare) true handcuff for Indy's oft-injured superstar as a rookie. ... Unlikely to ever hack it as an inline tight end and boasting only average speed for a move tight end, Harold Fannin Jr. will have to be an exceptional pass-catcher to make it in the NFL. But it's difficult to both overstate and comprehend how prolific he was last year: On a team that threw for 3,100 yards total, Fannin went for 1,555 yards as a 19-year-old. That's unheard of. At the polar opposite end of the spectrum is new Seahawks' heir apparent Elijah Arroyo. Arroyo's 6'5", 250-pound frame and gargantuan 82" wingspan certainly look the part, but he caught only 46 passes in four seasons of college football; Fannin caught 51 passes last November.

Favorite values: Kyle Williams, Pat Bryant, Jaydon Blue, Harold Fannin Jr.
Least favorite values: Elic Ayomanor, Mason Taylor, Elijah Arroyo
My picks: Kyle Williams (3.01), Kyle Williams (3.03), Isaac TeSlaa (3.09), Damien Martinez (3.10)

While his eye-popping combine testing (6'3 5/8"/214, 4.43 40-yard dash, 89th percentile vertical jump, 88th percentile broad jump, 10" hands) took him from future insurance salesman to likely NFL draftee, probably nobody knew any team had developed eyes for Isaac TeSlaa like did the Detroit Lions: GM Brad Holmes sent his 4th rounder and two 3rds next year for to go get this guy. He only caught 28 balls last year, but he did turn them into 545 yards and reportedly made good impressions with a few teams in Indy. Interesting name to sock away on a taxi squad. ... Not unlike TeSlaa, Terrance Ferguson burnished his draft stock with a fantastic showing at the Scouting Combine. The Rams made him the fourth tight end off the board; another worthwhile taxi stash. After testing out like a Sincere McCormick (another deep stash I like), Jordan James was already a guy I was keeping tabs on as possibly the next Kyren Williams-type 'small slow guy who just produces'. Landing in San Francisco, behind the last vestiges of Christian McCaffrey and the maybe-more-toolsy-than-anything Isaac Guerendo, James is moving toward my radar's center.

Ollie Gordon falling all the way into the sixth round and being a consensus 4th rounder in our leagues is probably the best way to characterize just how deep this running back class proved to be. Gordon was a monster in 2023 before the bottom abruptly fell out for both him and the Pokes last fall (his summer DUI probably didn't help). Gordon is every bit the punishing battering ram that Kaleb Johnson is, and he lands with an infinitely more interesting offense. Don't forget about this guy. ... Continuing the theme, the Seattle Seahawks are another team with more than their fair share of capable slot receivers (Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp) and were left pining for a prototypical X after the D.K. Metcalf trade. Enter Colorado State's Tory Horton, a 6'2 1/2" long-strider with a pair of 1100-yard seasons to his name. Horton slid after missing much of 2024 with a knee injury, the exact details of which were never disclosed. Assuming he's ready to rock, the Seahawks may have nabbed a hidden gem here; Horton's 4.41 forty time in February suggests he's feeling just fine. ... Unfortunately for him and his dynasty owners, the story of Will Howard's rookie season is largely out of his hands. Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers continue to play footsie, leaving Howard as a delightfully cheap scratch-off ticket buy at the position - even if his hands are almost as small as Kenny Pickett's.

There are always a few players in every draft that have a vigorous, full-throated handful of advocates in the FI Discord, and Xavier Restrepo was definitely one of them this year. Perfectly productive at the University of Miami (2,219 yards and 17 touchdowns the last two seasons), Restrepo's NFL Draft hopes were dashed by his testing (a 4.8 40-yard dash at 5'10"/209). And yet, despite falling out of the NFL Draft entirely, Restrepo nevertheless managed to get drafted in three out of six FIDD leagues, including going as high as 29th overall. Restrepo did immediately sign with Tennessee, making a reunion with Cam Ward a possibility - if he makes the team. ... Now we get to the fun running backs, and few are more fun for me than Tahj Brooks. Texas Tech's all-time leading rusher, Brooks is somehow both bigger and faster than he looks. Playing with real wiggle, contact balance, burst and even some breakaway speed, Brooks is one of my favorite deep cuts this year - and the Cincinnati landing spot ain't too shabby either. ... With the Shedeur gawking sucking up all the air, hardly anyone even noticed Quinn Ewers crashing all the way into the seventh round in Green Bay last month. Ewers won't be starting any games anytime soon, but as taxi squad stashes go, he's a pretty good one: Miami could cut bait on Tua Tagovailoa after 2025 if things once again go poorly, and Ewers has 37 Big 12/SEC starts under his belt.

A USC running back with two tickets to the gun show and an okay combine showing, Woody Marks may call to mind last year's MarShawn Lloyd for some. Unlike Lloyd, Marks is like a lot of other backs in this class: a shade undersized to be a multi-year workhorse back and not particularly fast, but that has the ability to go from zero to near max speed by the time he reaches his running lane. Marks is also older; at 24, he's physically mature and ready to contribute right away. In Houston he'll very likely only be behind the grizzled Joe Mixon, who himself is behind only Derrick Henry and Ezekiel Elliot on the all-time touches leaderboard among active players (2,135). Dameon Pierce is no sure thing to make the team. ... The running back whose plummet down the board shocked me the most was that of Damien Martinez. Like Devin Neal, Martinez forced his way into a major role as a freshman and never looked back, cranking out a couple of 1,000-yard seasons at Oregon before joining Cam Ward in Miami in 2024 and doing it again. A November 2023 DUI arrest (which was later dropped) likely played a factor here. Ashton Jeanty and TreVeyon Henderson averaged 6.4 yards per carry in college; Martinez averaged 6.2. The Seahawks were more than a little interested in trading either Kenneth Walker or Zach Charbonnet during last month's draft... Our Mr. Irrelevant by ADP was a fitting one: Kyle Monangai is 5'8"/211, just like Ashton Jeanty. That's where the similarities end: he's about as fast as a sundial, and when he finds daylight it's hard not to see a toddler frantically trying to make off with a stolen cookie. But Monangai is coming off of back-to-back 1200-yard seasons, and he may be even more relentless than Cam Skattebo; when he hits guys, those guys go backwards. Latching on with the Bears is exactly what the doctor ordered for this kid.

Favorite values: Tahj Brooks, Damien Martinez, Will Howard, Jordan James, Ollie Gordon
Least favorite values: None
My picks: Tahj Brooks (4.01), Harold Fannin Jr. (4.04), Jalen Royals (4.05), Isaac TeSlaa (4.09), Riley Leonard (4.10)

Now we're in international waters, where anything goes. Travis' kid brother Trevor Etienne was a popular post-draft grab, even shooting into the early 4th in one league. This is all about name recognition and having SEC teams on his college resume; Etienne's best-case scenario for 2025 is probably supplanting Raheem Blackshear as Carolina's primary kick returner. ... The Tyrone Tracy of 2025 is unquestionably Brashard Smith, who like Tracy converted from receiver to running back at the tail end of his college career. As you might expect the vision is still a work in progress, but Smith can fly (4.39 40) and was fantastic in his one year here in Dallas. Isiah Pacheco's path back to the 44 receptions he racked up in 2023 just got murkier. ... My initial reaction to Cleveland using a valuable third-round pick on Dillon Gabriel was one of disgust; they'd had such a brilliant start, why waste a pick on a guy with a Kellen Moore ceiling? Two weeks removed from the mania of the draft, and the case for Dillon Gabriel's a lot easier to make: he's played a metric ton of football (64 starts, D-I football's all-time leader in passing touchdowns), has enough arm to get away with most throws, and will add value in reality and fantasy on the ground, perhaps even with a dash of designed runs. Long story short: He's the shorter, left-handed Bo Nix. The Cleveland camp battle at QB is going to be a hoot.

He went a lot later than his new Nashville teammate, but Tennessee took Chimere Dike over thirty picks earlier on day 3 in Green Bay, and when I turn on the tape I see why. Dike is a string bean with field-flipping jets (4.34 40). Reminds me of Jermaine Burton, minus the off-the-field migraines. ... With no second-round pick in hand, the Vikings made Maryland WR Tai Felton their second selection of the draft at 102 overall - a rather loud indictment of Jalen Nailor's future. Like Nailor, Felton's a skinny quasi-perimeter player with a tiny wingspan (7th percentile arm length). Unlike Nailor, he can drive it like he stole it (4.37 40) and left college as his offense's BMOC (96/1124/9 as a senior). ... I love the upside on Riley Leonard at clearance rack pricing. Originally a basketball recruit, the 6'4" Leonard ran for 30 touchdowns across two seasons as a full-time starter while flashing just enough talent and chutzpah as a passer to excite the imagination. Buried on the Colts' depth chart, Leonard is thrift store Jalen Milroe - except the Colts didn't just give a quarterback a $100 million dollar contract. ... Green Bay seemingly outbid themselves when they selected TCU's Savion Williams 87th overall. It makes a certain sense; the NFL placed a premium on hyper-athleticism with renewed vigor this year, and Williams certainly has that in spades (6'4"/222, 4.48 40). But it's impossible to see him contributing on more than gadget plays and special teams any time in the first half of the 2025 season.

Kyle McCord's nonstop chuck-a-palooza in upstate New York was a big help to Oronde Gadsden II's cause. And he needed it: after missing all but two games of his junior season with a dreaded Lisfranc injury, the junior Gadsden authored a proper sequel to his excellent sophomore season as a senior in 2024, tallying 73 catches for 934 yards and 7 scores in his first full season as a converted wide receiver. Gadsden's already getting buzz as the future at TE for the Chargers. ... Another guy garnering 'late round STEAL' headlines is new Commanders' RB Jacory Croskey-Merritt. A mysterious figure after missing all but one game last year reportedly due to Alabama State's inability to keep track of which players were wearing which numbers in 2019, Croskey-Merritt's one season of D-I football was impressive: 1262 total yards and 18 touchdowns at 6.3 yards a pop. Croskey-Merritt was not invited to the Scouting Combine, but he reportedly demolished the Big 12 Pro Day with a 4.45 40-yard dash, 124" broad jump and out of this world 41.5" vertical jump. He's 24 and an absolute bull - stash him if you can. ... Jaylin Lane is the other Commanders' rookie of note this year, and one built like Houston's Jaylin Noel: 5'10" with world-class jets. ... I liked Gunnar Helm a lot at Texas, and although I knew he'd get snowed under in this year's deep tight end class I was hoping he'd land somewhere that he would see the field. Snagged by the Titans in the 4th round, that should be mission accomplished for Quinn Ewers' favorite redzone target.

Favorite values: Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Dillon Gabriel, Riley Leonard, Oronde Gadsden II
My picks: Tahj Brooks ($26 FAAB), Damien Martinez ($16), Jacory Croskey-Merritt ($16) x2, Riley Leonard ($1)

--Luke Wilson