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🥇 Your Draft Is Closer Than You Think
Draft rankings, cheat sheets and draft values. All aboard!

Happy Friday!
I’m on a mission to identify the most used fantasy football platform for the upcoming 2025 season. I have a poll below asking which fantasy football platform you are mostly using this season, please submit your answer and I’ll share the answer with the class next week.
Back to draft domination.
Let’s get to draft prepping!
In this week’s newsletter:
📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
🏷️ Draft Room Values
🕘 Read Past Issues
📉 ADP Trends Week-to-Week
📋 Fantasy Platform Poll
🥇 WR Draft Rankings

📝 Draft Day Cheat Sheet
Welcome to Year 2 of my draft cheat sheet - JuiceSheets!
These sheets pair nicely with my Abusing Draft Rankings as it includes projections and a value column for Standard, Half PPR and PPR scoring on ESPN, Sleeper and Yahoo. Check it out as a tool to use as you draft.
🏷️ This Week’s Draft Values
Every week I’ll highlight draft values found in draft rooms, primarily using my Abusing Draft Rankings tool to help find these players.
HOU WR Christian Kirk - ESPN
Draft room rank: WR70 | Expert rank: WR52
Landmine Score: 4.2
Help, I think I’m falling in love with the Christian Kirk value. For a player being ranked in ESPN draft rooms at the start of the 15th round, there’s value to be had with Kirk. He’s ranked by experts in about the 11th round range, but shows up four rounds later in draft rooms. He’s looking to be the number two guy in Houston behind Nico Collins on a team that favors the pass. I’m in on the value and the late round potential.
NYJ QB Justin Fields - Sleeper
Draft room rank: QB17 | Expert rank: QB10
Landmine Score: 2.4
If your draft plan is to wait on QB, Justin Fields is a top choice. It’s personally between Fields and Drake Maye as my late round QB options, and sometimes it’s both! But for Fields he is being ranked higher by industry experts and could be found in the Sleeper draft room 7 QB spots later, or 55(!!!) total spots later in draft rooms compared to where he is ranked.
CAR WR Tetairoa McMillan - Yahoo
Draft room rank: WR34 | Expert rank: WR27
Landmine Score: 5.1
McMillan may be my favorite middle round pick in redraft this year, and his value in the draft rooms is a key reason why. His value in Yahoo draft rooms, however, is the greatest among all platforms. Sorting my position, he is 7 spots lower in Yahoo ranks than ECR. In overall ranks, he’s 18 spots lower. For the group of WRs showing up in this range of drafts I am much more in on McMillan than the others.
New for 2025: Landmine Score - It’s a 0-10 scale that rates how risky a player is in your draft room - based on how much earlier they’re ranked on your platform versus expert consensus.
Most players land somewhere in the 5-6 range. A score of 10 means they’re being pushed way up the board and you’re probably walking into a trap. A 0? That’s a straight-up steal.
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📉 ADP Trends: Movers this Week
Each week moving forward this section will highlight weekly shifts in ADP to get a good sense of player movement as drafts and hype begin to exist throughout the summer.
📈 Weekly Rise in ADP
🔼 +19 - Keenan Allen - WR, FA
🔼 +16 - Dylan Sampson - RB, CLE
🔼 +16 - Dont'e Thornton - WR, LV
🔼 +15 - Jaydon Blue - RB, DAL
🔼 +13 - Josh Downs - WR, IND
📉 Weekly Drop in ADP
🔽 -26 - Jack Bech - WR, LV
🔽 -17 - Najee Harris - RB, LAC
🔽 -15 - Quinshon Judkins - RB, CLE
🔽 -13 - Rico Dowdle - RB, CAR
🔽 -11 - Kyle Williams - WR, NE
Which fantasy platform are you primarily playing on?You may be playing on multiple platforms, but which one would you say you are using the most this upcoming season? |
🥇 Top-Ten WRs
The 2025 draft rankings are LIVE! Here’s a look at my top WRs. Feel free to view all player ranks at the link below. Ranks are updated every couple days.
Rank | Player | Team |
1 | Ja'Marr Chase | CIN |
2 | Justin Jefferson | MIN |
3 | Puka Nacua | LAR |
4 | Malik Nabers | NYG |
5 | CeeDee Lamb | DAL |
6 | Nico Collins | HOU |
7 | Amon-Ra St. Brown | DET |
8 | Brian Thomas Jr. | JAX |
9 | Drake London | ATL |
10 | Ladd McConkey | LAC |
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