Every week of the 2025 season we followed eight or nine of the biggest fantasy football shows — every episode they put out that week, which some weeks was a truly unhinged number of hours — found where they agreed and where they fought, and published our Must-Start and Must-Sit calls. With context, always. Then we graded every single one against the real box scores. Elite = nailed it. Solid = right side of the line. Miss = we own it. One thing to know: these lists were built around the hard calls, not the layups. When an obvious player did make the list, it was a "duh — and here's why" — mostly when a position got thin. So the season total — 1,054 calls, 64.5% right in Standard, 68.1% in full PPR — is two out of three on the genuinely hard calls. Flip the toggle for your league's format; point totals in the call lines are Standard scoring.
Week 141 E / 26 S / 32 M · 99 calls68%
Best CallJosh Allen, Must-Start — 38.8 pts, 4 total TDs in a 41-40 shootout win over Baltimore
Worst CallJustin Fields, Must-Sit — 29.5 pts on the bench with 2 rushing TDs
Our RB bench calls went 9-for-11 out of the gate — we knew who not to start before we knew who to start.
Week 235 E / 26 S / 28 M · 89 calls69%
Best CallJa'Marr Chase, Must-Start — 14 catches, 165 yards & a TD; best PPR line of the week
Worst CallRussell Wilson, Must-Sit — 450 yards & 3 TDs in an OT shootout
Tight end bench calls went a perfect 9-for-9. The "shell of himself" read on Russ? Less perfect.
Week 322 E / 8 S / 15 M · 45 calls67%
Best CallCaleb Williams, Must-Start — 29.1 pts, 4 TDs against Dallas
Worst CallMark Andrews, Must-Sit — 2 TDs on Monday night
Bench calls were nearly bulletproof: 13 of 14 graded Elite. The start calls were the coin flip.
Week 424 E / 9 S / 22 M · 55 calls60%
Best CallGeorge Pickens, Must-Start — 8 catches, 134 yards & 2 TDs as Dallas's WR1
Worst CallAshton Jeanty, Must-Sit — 31.5 pts, 3 total TDs. A full breakout, on your bench
Our first-ever DST section debuted... and promptly went 1-for-5 on start calls. We kept the receipts anyway.
Week 531 E / 24 S / 15 M · 70 calls79%
Best CallRico Dowdle, Must-Start — 206 rushing yards & a TD, the best line of the week anywhere
Worst CallGiants DST, Must-Start — 0.00 points. Zero sacks, zero takeaways, zero everything
Best week of the season. QB start calls went 7-for-7 with zero misses — every streamer hit.
Week 624 E / 12 S / 21 M · 57 calls63%
Best CallRico Dowdle again — 29.9 pts in a revenge game against his old team
Worst CallDK Metcalf, Must-Sit — 95 yards & a TD through the bench call
The sit ledger was nearly spotless; the marquee starts (Stafford, Love) were the ones that wobbled.
Week 742 E / 7 S / 22 M · 71 calls69%
Best CallChristian McCaffrey, Must-Start — 32.1 pts with the exact passing-game usage we promised
Worst CallBo Nix, Must-Sit — 36.0 pts, 4 total TDs. The worst sit call of our season
Six Must-Start tight ends, six misses under 4 points. Some weeks the whole position just ghosts you.
Week 834 E / 12 S / 31 M · 77 calls60%
Best CallJonathan Taylor, Must-Start — 35.4 pts, 3 total TDs against Tennessee
Worst CallSaquon Barkley, Must-Sit — 29.4 pts. "Tempered expectations" aged terribly
The bye-pocalypse week. WR start calls went 4-for-19 — the roughest section of our whole season.
Week 921 E / 23 S / 22 M · 66 calls67%
Best CallJosh Allen, Must-Start — 28.8 pts, 3 total TDs in the KC shootout we called
Worst CallRico Dowdle, Must-Sit — 26.1 pts against a top-two run defense
The QBs carried the week almost single-handedly while three sit calls blew up at once.
Week 1032 E / 14 S / 25 M · 71 calls65%
Best CallJonathan Taylor, Must-Start — 46.6 pts. 244 yards & 3 TDs in Berlin. Call of the year
Worst CallDavis Mills, Must-Sit — 292 yards & 3 total TDs from a "Superflex-only" QB
Every single headline RB start graded Solid or better — Taylor, Achane, and Gibbs combined for 116 points.
Week 1128 E / 10 S / 32 M · 70 calls54%
Best CallJosh Allen, Must-Start — 42.7 pts, 6 total TDs. The best single game we called all year
Worst CallNico Collins, Must-Sit — 9 catches & a TD with a backup QB throwing to him
Our roughest week of the season — and it still had the year's most electric single performance in it.
Week 1216 E / 8 S / 17 M · 41 calls59%
Best CallJahmyr Gibbs, Must-Start — 44.4 pts with a 69-yard walk-off TD in overtime
Worst CallCaleb Williams, Must-Sit — 3 TDs right through our "disagreement alert"
The humble streamers (Winston, Darnold) quietly outscored the entire marquee QB start section.
Week 1321 E / 19 S / 29 M · 69 calls58%
Best CallTyrod Taylor, Must-Start stream — 21.3 pts from the deepest sleeper on the board
Worst CallBryce Young, Must-Sit — 3 TD passes to snap the Rams' 6-game win streak
Biggest slate of the year (69 calls). RB sit calls went a perfect 6-for-6 while the start side struggled.
Week 1415 E / 11 S / 20 M · 46 calls57%
Best CallJosh Allen, Must-Start — 35.8 pts, 4 total TDs in a shootout with Cincinnati
Worst CallJalen Hurts, Must-Start lean — 4 INTs, 0 TDs, 2.4 points
Both marquee QB "debate" leans (Mahomes, Hurts) busted the same week. Growing pains for the new format.
Week 1526 E / 10 S / 20 M · 56 calls64%
Best CallTrevor Lawrence, Must-Start — 44.3 pts, 6 total TDs in a 48-20 playoff-week rout
Worst CallBo Nix, Must-Sit — 4 TDs. Again. He heard us the first time
Win-or-go-home week, and the start calls carried it: Kyle Pitts dropped 34.6 with 3 TDs on our call.
Week 1619 E / 11 S / 15 M · 45 calls67%
Best CallJames Cook, Must-Start — 25.4 pts & 2 TDs on a day Josh Allen threw for just 130
Worst CallAshton Jeanty, Must-Sit — 30.8 pts. Our costliest bench call of the season. Again him
Semi-finals week: two benched RBs (Warren, Jeanty) combined for 57 points we told you to leave at home.
Week 1714 E / 5 S / 8 M · 27 calls70%
Best CallDrake Maye, Must-Start — 32.4 pts. 19-of-21 for 5 TDs in championship week
Worst CallJaxson Dart, Must-Sit — 2 rushing TDs turned "zero trust" into a league-winner
Closed the season the way we opened it: trust the QB start calls. Five of six cleared Elite in the championship.