The 2025 NFL season is quickly approaching, so now is the perfect time to begin preparing for 2025 Fantasy football drafts. Every offseason features a bevy of trades, injuries, and retirements, which all play a role in the 2025 Fantasy football rankings. The NFL Draft has also come and gone, so there are plenty of 2025 Fantasy football breakouts on the board, but which players should you target with your 2025 Fantasy football picks?

While targeting breakouts is one way to gain an advantage this season, avoiding 2025 Fantasy football busts and identifying 2025 Fantasy football sleepers is just as important. A quality set of 2025 Fantasy football rankings can help you build optimal 2025 Fantasy football lineups. Before setting your 2025 Fantasy football draft strategy, be sure to check out the 2025 Fantasy football rankings and cheat sheets from the proven computer model at SportsLine.

Last year, the model accurately predicted that Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud might take a step back in his second season. He finished as QB18 and anybody who avoided drafting him early dodged a major headache in their Fantasy football lineups. 

The same model has a proven track record providing Fantasy football tips, identifying A.J. Brown as a sleeper in 2020, nailing Jonathan Taylor’s monstrous season in 2021 and calling Rachaad White’s breakout in 2023. Additionally, it has called past Fantasy football sleepers like Derrick Henry in 2019, Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara in 2018, and Davante Adams in 2017. 

Now, SportsLine has simulated the entire NFL season 10,000 times and released its latest 2025 Fantasy football rankings for PPR and non-PPR leagues, along with plenty of sleepers, breakouts and busts. Head to SportsLine now to see them. 

Top 2025 Fantasy football sleepers

One of the 2025 Fantasy football sleepers the model is predicting: Commanders running back Austin Ekeler. The 30-year-old is being overlooked in Fantasy drafts due to Washington’s crowded backfield, which includes Brian Robinson Jr. and Chris Rodriguez Jr. However, Ekeler was productive when healthy last year, scoring double-digit PPR points in eight out of his 12 games.

He had 134 yards from scrimmage and scored three touchdowns in two games when Robinson was sidelined with a hamstring injury, showing that he still has a high ceiling. Another injury to Robinson could open the door for a return to RB1 status for Ekeler. SportsLine’s model has him ranked ahead of running backs like J.K. Dobbins and Quinshon Judkins, who are both going off the board before Ekeler in consensus ADP data. See more Fantasy football sleepers 2025 here.

Top 2025 Fantasy football breakouts

One of the 2025 Fantasy football breakouts the model is predicting: Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty. Jeanty is expected to be the lead back in his rookie season in Las Vegas. While at Boise State, Jeanty put on a show in his final season, finishing with 2,601 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns.

Now, he’ll join a Raiders offense that has a veteran signal caller in Geno Smith. Since 2010, there have been four RBs selected with a top-six pick in the NFL Draft. That group — which includes Trent Richardson and Leonard Fournette — averaged 20.1 PPR points per game with a low of 17 per game. With his three-down skill set and favorable situation, Jeanty is poised to become a Fantasy football difference-maker from Week 1. SportsLine’s model is calling for Jeanty to be extremely effective in his rookie campaign, ranking him as RB8. See more Fantasy football breakouts 2025 here.

Top 2025 Fantasy football busts

As for players to avoid, the model lists Ravens wide receiver Rashod Bateman as one of its 2025 Fantasy football busts. Bateman had his most productive season of his career in 2024, suiting up for all 17 regular-season contests and securing 45 of 72 targets for 759 yards.

However, he had an up-and-down season in terms of Fantasy production in 2024. He had outbursts of 23, 22.1, and 18.6 points last year, and scored four touchdowns in those three games combined. Bateman was also held below 50 receiving yards in nine of his 17 games, making him a boom-or-bust candidate to include in your Fantasy football lineups. That’s a big reason why the model ranks him as WR36 in its 2025 Fantasy football rankings, behind wideouts like Jakobi Meyers, Quentin Johnston and Jerry Jeudy, all of whom are being drafted later. See more Fantasy football busts 2025 here.

How to find proven 2025 Fantasy football football rankings

SportsLine is also extremely high on a surprising wide receiver you aren’t even thinking about being taken in the early rounds of 2025 Fantasy football drafts. This wide receiver is listed as a shocking top-15 option ahead of stars like A.J. Brown and Tyreek Hill. You can only see who it is, and the 2025 Fantasy football rankings for every player, at SportsLine.

So which 2025 Fantasy Football sleepers, breakouts and busts should you target and fade, and which WR shocks the NFL with a top-15 performance? Visit SportsLine now to get 2025 Fantasy Football cheat sheets for every single position, all from the model that called C.J. Stroud’s disappointing sophomore season in 2024, and find out.