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Your Draft Survival Kit For 2025 Is Here

Welcome to the official Guillotine Leagues™ draft kit, where we'll help guide you through everything you need to avoid the chop, beginning with the draft—which has some quirks in strategy you should be aware of. 

Guillotine is not your typical format, so this won't be your typical draft kit. In a Guillotine League, your season can end any week. You’re going to experience playoff-level anxiety every week.

The best way to curb that anxiety? Prepare. And prepare some more. And then? More.

How can you possibly prepare that much, you ask? Everything you need to do exactly that, and survive the chop, is not only here, but also free. ⤵️

1.06 Draft Strategy: Do You Feel Lucky?

You got your draft pick order and drew the 1.06. You feel deflated, knowing that players like Ja’Marr Chase and Bijan Robinson will be long gone by your turn. Then you think about the possibility of drafting the player who was the consensus 1.01 last year at this time, coming off seasons where he was the RB2 and RB1, respectively. What’s not to love? Oh, yeah, when that player is Christian McCaffrey and he played in just four games last season, injury pessimism sets in. What if he can’t stay healthy?

Chris Allen continues his excellent series on the different draft positions. He went into three different multiverses of draft strategies, including one that called for drafting another former QB1 who’s looking for a bounceback of his own. Yes, CMC was involved in multiple options. Which of these strategies will work for you?👇🏼

Tight End Tiers Have Some Bad Men At The Top

The Pulp Fiction reference at the top of Ian Hartitz’s tight end tiers article is reason enough to click on this article. While Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, and George Kittle are bad, ahem, men—arguably the baddest at the position—not everyone in your league is going to roster a set-it-and-forget-it TE1 at arguably the toughest position to fill in fantasy football.

Ian came up with the movie reference—no wallets needed—and also worked 24 players into six tiers, along with a “Best of the Rest” that features players who could be streamers at some point in the season. How does your TE strategy fit with Ian’s tiers? ⬇️

Around the Watercooler

The latest fantasy nuggets, silliness, and NFL gossip from our merry band of football nerds.

🔮 Who are you drafting at current ADP? And who you should pass on?

💀 Mike McDaniel is in his nihilist era. Don’t say “good morning” to him.

🔵 Keep very close tabs on this rookie RB. The starting job is up for grabs.

😤 I don’t buy this one. Arthur Smith loves Jonnu too much.

💤 Sleepers? We’ve got ‘em. Four sleeper targets at QB for 2025.

🍋 How long before you draft CeeDee Lamb?

🗣️ Yes, Sean Payton likes to talk up his players. But this?

👀 Travis Hunter can be found in a couple spots on the Jags’ depth chart.

😎 What happens when Ian waits until Round 10 to take a QB? Results are pretty, pretty, pretty good.