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Fanspeak has a new Best Ball subscription via Substack! All the great articles and resources we posted HERE last season that led to a very successful Best Ball season for our family, will now be on Substack.   If you subscribe, you will get full access to the Fanspeak team’s Sub-ONLY Best Ball package! -Fanspeak’s … More »

2025 NFL Mock Draft With Trades: Round 1: 1 . Tennessee Titans: QB Cam Ward 2. Cleveland Browns: WR/CB Travis Hunter 3. New York Giants: EDGE Abdul Carter 4. New England Patriots: OL Will Campbell 5. Jacksonville Jaguars: DL Mason Graham 6. Trade: Dallas Cowboys via Las Vegas Raiders: RB Ashton Jeanty The Cowboys trade … More »

Tier 1: Teams with elite upside: Denver Broncos: The Broncos aren’t likely to get in on the Ashton Jeanty sweepstakes, but they might have the best landing spot in the NFL for a rookie back. The Broncos have a top-tier offensive coach in Sean Payton, who has had some fantastic fantasy rushing seasons in his … More »

Every week, we have at least two best ball strategy shows, in addition to a bunch of LIVE Big Board draft shows on the Fanspeak Network!   Check out our recent Best Ball Strategy shows: Top 10 Undervalued Players in Big Board Drafts   Mid to Late Round Tight End Drafting Strategy   Running Backs … More »

Every best ball draft season, I write monthly articles about my fades and top targets. For the Pre-Draft Big Board contests, I have players that I have ranked much higher or much lower than their current ADP.   So here are my top 10 players whose ADP is too high (Overvalued) in my opinion. I … More »

Every best ball draft season, I write monthly articles about my fades and top targets. For the Pre-Draft Big Board contests, I have players that I have ranked much higher or much lower than their current ADP.   So here are my top 10 players whose ADP is too low, (Undervalued) in my opinion. I … More »

Right as Underdog Big Board season kicked off, I released rookie rankings for QB, RB, WR, and TE. See below from late January: 2025 Pre-Draft NFL Rookie Rankings: QB and TE 2025 Pre-Draft Rookie Rankings Running Backs 2025 Pre-Draft Rookie WR Rankings   Now that we are further into the pre-Draft process and the NFL … More »

Right as Underdog Big Board season kicked off, I released rookie rankings for QB, RB, WR, and TE. See below from late January: 2025 Pre-Draft NFL Rookie Rankings: QB and TE 2025 Pre-Draft Rookie Rankings Running Backs 2025 Pre-Draft Rookie WR Rankings   Now that we are further into the pre-Draft process and the NFL … More »

We just taped a show on the Fanspeak Network about the Bull case for WR/CB/Unicorn Travis Hunter. So it made sense to put an article here on Fanspeak.com about this very polarizing topic as well.   We are IN on the risk/reward best ball Underdog Fantasy Big Board draft pick of WR/CB Travis Hunter. Let’s … More »

How are you handling the running back free agents or cut/trade candidates? With murky situations for these RBs, this is how I’m handling each player.   RB Free Agents: Aaron Jones: Jones is coming off a 17-game season, during which he had over 1,500 combined yards and 7 TDs for the Vikings. He got banged … More »

As we are a couple weeks into the Pre-Draft Best Ball season, one of the clearest early values is waiting on tight ends. With so much uncertainty in these early drafts, you can wait on the TE position without much risk. Focus your first 8-10-round picks on building a core of the higher scoring positions, … More »

1. Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona McMillian is the best pure receiver in this class, with excellent size and good route-running ability and speed. He absolutely can be a team’s number 1 X WR, and despite dealing with poor QB play this past season, he continued to dominate at Arizona. His upside is Mike Evans, but even … More »