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Ultimate Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet: The names you need to know for draft day

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It's hard to beat fantasy football season, but it can also be tough to read every article we publish all summer and retain every name you want to know for each part of your draft.

Picking between two running backs? Need to remember the name of that backup running back or rookie receiver? Looking for a dart throw for the end of your draft? We've got you covered.

To help you stay sharp in your drafts -- or to enable you to succeed without reading a ton of prep -- we present the ultimate ESPN fantasy football cheat sheet, a curated rundown of all the names we've been talking about this preseason.

If you want to read more about these sleepers, busts, rookies, backups, value picks and more, the analysis is available for you to pore through at the links below, or in our Fantasy Football draft guide. But if all you want is a cheat sheet, well ... it's not actually cheating.

Our PDF aggregates the names and rankings featured in the following content:

Page 1

  • Eric Karabell's Do Draft and Do Not Draft lists

  • Mike Clay's players who will score more and fewer TDs in 2025

  • Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft's most reliable running back touchdown scorers

  • Bowen's most reliable wide receiver touchdown scorers

  • Eric Moody's updated Best backup running backs

  • Liz Loza's players generating buzz

  • Moody's players with more opportunity

  • Loza's risky players worth drafting

  • Bowen and Cockcroft's skilled players who just need opportunity

  • Loza's late-round fliers

Page 2

  • Karabell's running back and wide receiver tiers

  • Moody's quarterback and tight end tiers

  • Cockcroft's Deep Sleepers

  • Clay and Daniel Dopp's favorite breakouts

Here it is: ESPN's (printable!) fantasy football draft cheat sheet. 


Printable PDF of the Ultimate ESPN Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet


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