Welcome, everyone to the PFF Fantasy Podcast.

I'm John Macri, and I am joined once again by the great Nathan Yankee.

And with the 2024 regular season officially wrapped, we can now close the door

on this past season and look ahead to the 2025 season. Nate, it's obviously super early,

but you've put out your first run of 2025 fantasy rankings, which includes rookies who have

yet to be even drafted yet. So we're going to be looking at the top 12 today and discuss some of maybe your thought

process on how you're picturing the first round of fantasy drafts going here in early January.

So how are you?

And how did you find these super early fantasy draft rankings right after 2024 is done?

First off, doing well.

Kind of weird, not having football on Monday night or last Thursday night.

Luckily, we get back to having at least two more Monday night games, one NFL and one

college over the next couple weeks.

But I'm starting to realize I have more time at Thursday nights on Monday nights and

have to figure out what to do with that time.

Putting together the rankings, always a fun exercise doing it this early in the season, especially.

I think this is my second year in a row, adding rookies this early on as well, just because, like,

rookies always start off lower in people's rankings and then slowly but surely creep their way up. And I'm like, I should put them where I think they're going to end up being

and not start them low and then have them slowly but surely rise. They should be where I think

they are. And obviously the draft will move people up and down depending on landing spots and how

early people get drafted and whatnot. Yeah. No, I think that makes perfect sense.

And it's going to be an interesting conversation, right?

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