Superflex Dynasty Rankings Explained: Andrew Francesconi

Dynasty Rankings Explained is back! In this series, DLF rankers explain their dynasty fantasy football rankings, including 2025 rookie draft pick selections so you can see how we each value those dynasty rookie picks compared to players as if it were a dynasty fantasy football startup draft. As expected, you will find a great degree of variability in the valuation of these picks as well depending on the style of the ranker. Each draft class has its own quality and depth and, depending on how the ranker values that quality and depth, individual rookie selections will appear earlier or later on the list.

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DLF has always offered our readers multiple sets of dynasty fantasy football rankings from different experts to provide a broad view of player rankings. With many different strategies for building a successful dynasty team, no single set of rankings could possibly meet the needs of every manager. Instead, we've long subscribed to the idea of our experts providing their own individual rankings, ultimately giving our readers the opportunity to gravitate to a particular expert who closely matches their own style of ranking or, perhaps instead, choosing to use an average ranking across all experts.

A note about the tables. The Rank column indicates this ranker's personal rankings. The AVG column indicates the consensus rankings value at the time these rankings were created. The "+/-" column indicates how much higher or lower the ranker is to the consensus average. We'll go 120 players and picks deep, so for a deeper list of rankings, please visit our consensus dynasty fantasy football rankings.

SUPERFLEX DYNASTY FANTASY FOOTBALL RANKINGS: ANDREW FRANCESCONI

I don’t think I’m reinventing the wheel with my rankings. My main goal when drafting or trading players is to try and maximize the chance that the player I end up with increases in value at some point over the next year. With this approach, fantasy points will naturally follow. Either that player’s value increased because they are scoring more fantasy points than expected or their situation improved, their theoretic value increased, and then I’m able to flip that asset for tangible fantasy production.

Philosophically, I tend to not prioritize the middle tier of quarterbacks even though it’s Superflex. As you’ll see below, I’m lower than consensus on players like Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, and CJ Stroud because they’re expensive and don’t run. Every year there are much cheaper options who end up outscoring these projected QB1s like Baker Mayfield and Bo Nix from a season ago.

I’m also coming around to the idea of the elite RB in dynasty. So many people are scared of the short life of running backs in the NFL but with every year that passes, I’m noticing the same trend. Average running backs have short careers and get replaced quickly while the elite guys remain productive far after the internet proclaims “This is the year they fall off.” Guys like Najee Harris, Rachaad White, and Travis Etienne have short careers because they stink and there’s sufficient evidence they stink. But players like Joe Mixon, Josh Jacobs, and Saquon Barkley produce past the age cliff because they’re elite players and every metric reinforces that fact. I’m more likely to “buy high” on a 26-year-old RB who’s shown multiple seasons of elite play if someone else in my league expects them to fall off just because they watched Rhamondre Stevenson do the same thing.

Rankings: 1 - 24

The first four players in my rankings aren’t much of a surprise with the elite quarterbacks finding themselves occupying the top spots. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels, and Jalen Hurts have separated themselves from the rest of the pack due to their rushing upside and should retain their value for years to come.

However, after those four, you’ll notice I’m a bit lower on the rest of the quarterbacks in this range and instead prioritize the elite skill position players. I know these are superflex rankings, but I think pushing up quarterbacks who don’t add anything with their legs is silly just because of their positional designation. Because of that, players like Joe Burrow and Patrick Mahomes have fallen a bit to the back half of the first round and given ground to the top four receivers.

The second round is once again filled with elite position players who are still fairly young. I don’t agree with the ADP of Nico Collins, AJ Brown, and Drake London who are all poised to be WR1s again in 2025.

The three biggest “surprises” in this range are Drake Maye, CJ Stroud, and the 1.01 rookie pick. I’m 18 spots higher on Maye than ADP because of everything he showed down the stretch last season with his playmaking ability and his rushing upside; he’s the only other quarterback that I think can possibly make the jump to join that group of four near the top. On the other hand, I’m 12 spots lower on Stroud because he provides essentially nothing with his legs. I still think Stroud is a much better quarterback than what he showed in 2024 but I’m not sure how that will translate to fantasy success moving forward. Finally, we have our first rookie pick entering the fold with the 1.01 which will almost certainly be Ashton Jeanty in every format. He was my dynasty RB3 before he ever stepped foot on an NFL field.