Forget the weak takes, the safe takes, the predictions that
won't make you look silly. No, it's time for truly bold
predictions. And not just any kind of bold
predictions. These are the types of fantasy
takes that can only be coaxed out via a super special truth
serum. I rounded up 26 of the best
fantasy analysts and best ball players across the space, and I
told them to stop what they're doing, drink this truth juice,
and then share with me. Share with us their deepest,
darkest secret about the 2025 football season that they
otherwise would be too scared to share publicly.
I'm Pete Overzeat, this is the Deposit Kingdom, and these are
the things your favorite tout actually believes will happen
this year. We got 27 truth serum takes to
get to, and we are going to countdown from #27 all the way
down to #1 to kick things off. We're starting with ETR
wunderkind Jack Miller, who immediately pissed me off with
this take considering this QB is one of my most drafted.
My truth serum isn't that hot of a take, but it's pushing back on
the idea that Bryce Young suddenly became a good NFL
quarterback over the second-half of last year.
Once he was reinserted into the starting lineup in Week 8, he
averaged 6.6 yards per attempt. The only reason people are
talking about him as if he took a a big leap forward is because
he had 15 past touchdowns in 10 games and five rushing
touchdowns in those ten games as well.
Even after the Panthers by he was only at 6.9 yards per
attempt and he was below average in EPA per play as well.
It was technically a step forward because for the first
year of his career he was literally the worst quarterback
in NFL history. But he was still solidly a below
average quarterback over the second FL last year, and I think
it's overstated how much he improved.
All right, Jack, we get it. You hate Bryce Young, you hate
fun. No wonder you get along so well
with Leone. Next up we have a truth serum
take from the queen of waivers and Leg UPS dynasty maven.
It's Steph Miller. Steph Miller AKA Super Shorty
AKA Pete Overset's official best ball grader here and I just took
a giant sip of juice. Sarah, I am addicted to drafting
Cowboys running backs. Last year Rico Dotto was my
highest drafted player and this year my Cowboy choice is a
little bit grosser. Miles Sanders.
Not only can I not stop drafting Miles Sanders, but I believe
that he could lead the Cowboys backfield this year.
Now listen, that's not saying much.
My argument isn't that Sanders is good, but rather Javante
Reliance was one of the most inefficient facts last year.
Hasn't run for 90 yards in a single game since 2021, despite
being in a situation with ample opportunity on the Broncos.
Last year, the Cowboys only spent a fifth round draft pick
on Jaded Blue, who's arguably more of a fast catcher than a
running back, and a seventh round pick on Phil Moffa, whose
prospect profile is uninspiring at best.
Miles Sanders right now has an underdog ADP of 198.
He's a cheap bet on an ambiguous situation that could pay off in
a big way. So now you know the truth.
If you want a good grade from me, go draft some Miles Sanders.
Props to Steph for actually taking a sip of the serum on
camera, even if she's clearly a blatant Dallas Homer.
Next up we got a tournament game theory take from Legendary
Upside's Michael Dubner. My truth serum take is that I
couldn't care less about projected ownership in
basketball. While in daily games we can
reasonably project ownership, basketball is a different beast.
The multi round format of basketball tournaments makes
projected ownership irrelevant because ownership gets jumbled
in each new round. We have no clue what the
ownership in the finals will be like.
Plus there's the catch 22 where the high to own players in the
finals are typically the players who crushed and were the reason
you made it to the finals in the 1st place.
So stop fading last round picks or early round player combos
purely to leverage ownership and instead focus on getting
exposure to the players and combos at their frequency you
think is optimal for your portfolio.
Come on Dubner, if we can't talk about ownership, how else are we
going to fill time on 4 hour best ball streams at #24 We got
best ball Sharp and ETR contributor Dave caping for a
very specific group of wide receivers.
What's up guys? Dave from Establishment run here
and my 20. 25 true CM take. Are the the wide?
Receivers, we're taking around the 4-5 turn.
Right now are the keys to one of your best ball tournaments and
home leagues. I'm talking the likes of.
George Pickens, Jameson Williams, Devante Smith say.
Flowers, Calvin. Really.
Jalen Waddle? Travis.
Hunter, all the guys I. Just mentioned.
I want to be overexposed to and I'm willing to.
Reach up to a round on. And I'll take these guys over
the names of DJ. Moore.
DK Metcalf, Cortland Sutton, I'll even take some of these
guys over James Cook. So go.
Get these guys this season, they are the key to winning your
basketball tournaments. Did someone say Jalen Waddle?
Because ET Rs Mike Leone would also like to push all in on the
Dolphins wide receiver. Shouldn't be difficult to top my
blistering hot take last year that Kyle Pitts would be one of
the top overall tight ends in fantasy.
So we're starting with the low bar and my truth serum take.
It is something I'm ashamed to admit because I I have to
capitulate to Evan Silva and his hyper aggressive Jalen Waddle
ranking in the top fourty. While I think that ranking is a
little little crazy, especially relative to ADPI, don't think
Silva's too far off Jalen Waddle is going to be one of the most
important fantasy wide receivers this season.
Last year, you know, it was a bit of a cluster year for Miami
with the OL issues, the two injury, the quarterback play and
whatnot, but he's entering his fifth season.
He's still only 26 years old. If you look at his first three
seasons in the NFL. Year one as a rookie comes out
140 targets over 100 catches. Year 2 we see the elite
efficiency going for over 1300 yards over 18 yards per catch in
year 3. In 2023 was actually 6 in the
entire NFL in our yards per out run data at 2.81 yards.
Now you know, obviously coming off the down here in 2024 is
giving you an incredible discount at a player who ceiling
we have not yet fully seen. In my opinion we know Miami have
an insanely high target per out run to both Tyree Kill and Jill
and Waddle. Especially with John Smith being
traded. The vibes on Tyree kill aren't
great right now. Relationship issues with the
team getting a little bit older, unsure on help.
So Jaylen Waddle is really, you know, one of the targets you
should be making and drafting aggressively even into the
fourth round of your fantasy drafts and in all best ball
formats. I asked for 30 to 45 second
clips and this guy sends me Casablanca.
Classic behavior from a spreadsheet virgin.
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Next up we got the Slap King himself living up to his name
with a very sloppy take about ignoring production profiles.
My truth serum take is that the nerds have lost their way in
fantasy football just to a little bit of a degree, and I'm
going to use three players to highlight this example.
Matthew Golden, Jameson Williams, and Xavier Worthy.
All three of these guys have questionable target turning
profiles to which a nerd would say they're just going to have
to run too hot. It's not sustainable for them to
generate enough points. Whereas if you just zoom out on
the chart, it's the same sort of logic as why we, you know,
fading guys like Barkley, fading guys like Derek Henry.
These guys are outliers, but for a very clear and provable
reason. When you run a four 240 you are
going to score touchdowns and long touchdowns at an above
average rate compared to other players at your position who
generate a similar amount of target volume.
Don't be a nerd. Draft speed.
I'm not sure if Karain's ears were burning when Davis called
him a nerd for overthinking it about Jamo, but Pat has a
rebuttal. Or does he So this idea that?
He's just going to be. You know this incredible.
Spike week player We don't. Actually have a lot of.
Evidence for that and he's going at the 4-5.
Turn based on anything he's done in the past.
He's like clearly overpriced. But none of that matters.
Because Jameson Williams is going to hit.
This year and I think. He's going to hit.
Because the lions are. Redesigning their offense, or at
least tweaking their offense to have it be more about Jameson
Williams and this is. A bit of a.
Problem for me because I've faded.
Jameson Williams. Most of this offseason because.
He's clearly overpriced, but again, that doesn't matter
because he's going to hit. And that, my friends, is what
capitulation via drum beat looks like.
I should also point out last year Pat's capitulation truth
serum take was that Jaden Daniels should actually be a six
round pick, even though at the time he thought he was going to
get hurt. Do with that what you will.
Speaking of Jamo, let's talk about his old offensive
coordinator's new running back. Roto World's Denny Carter has
some thoughts after taking a swig.
My truth serum take for this year is that DeAndre Swift has
one of the worst running back AD PS I've ever seen in my life
going off the board in the RB 2425 range.
I wouldn't take him at RB-45. The Bears are desperate to not
play this guy and yet we think he's going to see volume.
He's not. It's over.
That's my truth serum take then. Are we taking Roshan Johnson,
Kyle Manon? Guy Denny, You can't just drop a
truth bomb like that and leave us hanging.
Come on man. But the show must go on.
Next we got Draco from leg up and stat chasing urging us to
slurp up the Dipperino on a disgusting franchise.
My true serum take is that the Browns are going to be a fun,
bad team in 2025. I think that cheap Browns
players will be one of the keys to the season.
I think that Kevin Savansky is a quarterback whisperer and people
have forgotten that he made Joe Flacco look very good in 23.
He made percent look like a starter level in 2022.
I think that he's going to be able to do that.
With one of the four quarterbacks available in
Cleveland this year, it should be no surprise that Draco stat
chasing Co host sacrilegious from leg up, also likes an
undervalued Cleveland Brown. And let the record show that
this truth serum take was submitted before it was revealed
that Quinn Shawn Judkins wouldn't face charges.
I had to take an extra large goal for truth serum for this
one, but my 2025 truth serum take is that I don't think Quinn
Shawn Judkins is a bad pick given how far he falls in
drafts. I just checked some teams.
I think getting him in the 170's, I got a 170, a 175 and I
think at that cost the risk is probably worth it.
I feel like the markets. Over indexing to the.
Outcome where he gets suspended and goes on the commissioner's
exempt list and misses six games.
But there are lots of examples in the NFL where players got
accused of very similar things and never saw a suspension or
even touch the commissioner's exempt list.
Players like Jerry Judy or Zay Flowers or Tyree Kill or Xavier
Worthy just to name a few. And the list is much longer than
that. So I think there is some
probability that he just doesn't get suspended this year.
And if that's the case, he is a smash in the one 70s.
OK, we've done a lot of player takes and we got a few more
spicy ones to come. But before that, my guy Nez from
the Badge Bros. Apparently it's my week 17 as
all that Matters video. My true serum take of 2025 is
that the regular season matters. The regular season matters so
much, man. It's the one round in these best
ball formats that you have the most control over 14 weeks of
football where you can build a team that makes sense, that can
score points and get you to the playoffs.
After that, it's straight variance.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't stack.
Like, yes, obviously you should be stacking.
Yes, you should be here and there thinking about players
that can absolutely take off late in the.
Season but you still. Got to get there first, man.
You still got to get there first.
You have very little control over what happens in weeks 1516
and 17 if you happen to even get there.
Very little control. So focus on the regular season,
build a good team, stack a little bit and run.
Good. Considering how boomer that take
is from Nez, it's no surprise that the oldest man to ever
stream all 150 of their best Ball Mania drafts feels
similarly. I don't think drafting for
advancement, like just just trying to build a team that will
advance is actually that bad. I think it's really hard to
advance teams in best ball 2 out of 12 in most structures.
Just just super hard to get there to begin with.
And then NFL football is really random.
Like it's really hard to predict what's going to happen in the
playoffway. So I still think you should try
to correlate, you know, with with your quarterbacks, stuff
like that, but ultimately just getting there and hopefully that
luck goes your way. I think it's a totally, totally
fine approach. It's really hard to predict
spike weeks. Everybody thinks like this
player has the spike week profile.
This other player doesn't. We can't predict spike weeks.
I mean, we we can't do an extent, but it's really
difficult to predict spike weeks.
Nobody expected Zach Ruth last year to have a spike week in the
playoffs. He was clearly an advancement
piece and he was great in the playoff weeks.
It happens every year. So that's my take.
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bonus funds as well. Moving on, we have the first
submission that blew my mind. This comes from DFS in Boss and
leg up contributor. Shady advice.
I'm shady advice and I have been deep in the labs for The Sims.
I've looked at projections and correlations, I've used discrete
and continuous variables to run regressions and classifications,
I've used linear non linear models, and I've even thrown
reinforcement learning and neural networks at the problem.
I have looked for every possible hidden confounding factor, but
after taking this troop theorem I just can't hold this
conclusion back any longer. It turns out fantasy sports
might be more fun if you watch the games.
I know, I know, it's painful for some of you to hear me say this,
and I may have even lost your trust, but I can't find any
errors in my analysis or my models.
So sit back, watch some games, and enjoy the season.
Wow, I thought the whole point of being a nerd was that you
didn't need to watch the games. Truly stunning stuff for Mr.
Shady there. Let's head to someone who might
not watch all the games, but does watch literally every
single word an NFL coach says. Truth serum time.
Tyler Warren is an elite tight end option, but we are not
drafting him like it. Even though Shane Steiken and
Chris Ballard have been thirsting for a wide tight end
more publicly and harder than Jim Ursay thirsted for Raquel
Welch, I think Tyler Warren should be going ahead of Sam
Laporta and TJ Hawkinson. Definitely presently ahead of
Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews, even though I have all those
guys ranked ahead of him. Warren has unbelievable hands
and the Colts have made it clear that he will be a focal point of
this offense. But we're all scared of how bad
this offense is going to be, how bad the quarterbacks are, All
the same arguments we heard about Brock Bowers last season.
How did that turn out? Let the record show that that
was submitted even before Daniel Jones was announced as the
starter. So kudos there to coach speak
index. However, that isn't even the
hottest rookie tight end take we have.
Let's head out to my former chess coach who I think
previously won a tournament but I couldn't confirm chess.
Liam. My truth serum take for 2025 is
that Colton Loveland is going to be the tight end for after Brock
Bowers, Trey McBride and George Kindle.
He goes roughly around tight end 9 and drafts after Sam Laporta,
Tyler Warren, Mark Andrews, TJ Hawkinson, Travis Kelsey.
Sometimes up in Ingram is the guy who went top ten in the real
NFL draft. We got the connection with the
man who made Sam Laporta a big thing his rookie year.
We've seen breakouts from Brock Bauer's his rookie year.
Coming fresh off that, we have Dalton Kincaid, who had a decent
rookie year. We had the Caleb Williams year 2
in the Ben Johnson offense. Improved online just competing
with Cole Comet and Co DJ Moore, Pelton on the sidelines.
So Colston Lublin a smash in drafts Titan 4 should be going
four or five rounds more expensive.
All I will say is this, whether you agree or not, fade Liam at
your own risk. His deal with the devil is
unlike anything I've ever seen in this world.
But while Coach Beak and Liam are urging you to aggressively
draft rookies splash plays, Chris Spagg says everyone needs
to chill out on the diaper dandies.
If I were to give you guys a 2025 true serum take and one
that cuts the bone to be in particular as a guy who last
year stumped the entire year for rookies, guys like Daniels,
Bucky Irving, Marshawn Lloyd, they can't all be winners.
The point being loved rookies last year and we saw a lot of
other guys hitting too. Brock Bowers, Brian Thomas, Ladd
Mcconkey, they all matter to winning lineups across best ball
no matter what platform you're playing on.
That said, this year, I think the rookie enthusiasm from last
year and having those historically great guys is
making you guys take rookies too much.
And I love guys like Ashton Genti, oh, Marion Hampton really
taking Genti over Derrick Henry, Devon age Chan guys were really
projectable. We know of major spike week
upside that when you turn tournaments, is that the right
move? Going down the list even further
is where I think they're even bigger errors where the
enthusiasm for Basil Tootens, hos Brooks, DJ Giddens, all
these guys were running backs that might not matter at all,
might not get in the field. At least Giddens is an RB2, but
should you be taking him over guys like Braylon Allen should
be taking him over Austin Nekler, Rashad White as part of
your RB room? I don't think so.
And I really hate being the old guy yelling at clouds here,
having the boomer take the got to have projectable guys.
But in reality, I think people are going to be led to the
slaughter a lot this year by taking too many rookies given
what they saw last year. And that's my 2025 true serum
take. You're taking too many rookies.
They're going to kill us all. And if I'm wrong, you yell at me
on Twitter like people seem to love to do.
One of the most fun things about putting this video together is
seeing the takes where some people have the complete
opposite take as someone else. That's what we have here from
Spike Week's Eric Beim 4 when it comes to chasing rookie risers.
If you gave me a dose of troops in the moment, I would tell you
that these super steamy high risers, particularly rookies and
young players during training camp and the preseason, are the
exact players we should be buying at that time of the year.
It feels really uncomfortable to draft guys who have risen from
undrafted or late round picks all the way up the boards
because they're performing well in camp.
They're getting buzz from the players and coaches.
But those are. Exactly.
The guys I think that we should be taking, we wait all summer to
get the information from training camp from the coaches,
who's performing well, who's climbing the depth chart, which
rookies are popping. And then once we get it, we fear
chasing those guys because in May you could get them at pick
200. Those are exactly the types of
players that I think we should be chasing because those are the
players that end up being the biggest league winners, the
stars of camp, the breakout rookies and young players that
we didn't see coming. The Kyron Williams, the Bucky
Irving's, the Brian Thomas's, whoever.
All these guys that got tons and tons of hype during the summer.
We should buy those guys even though we have to pay a little
bit of a premium after the hype comes in.
I'm with Eric. I'm aggressively drafting the
rookies who have seen their outlook improved, specifically
the ones I wasn't drafting at the beginning of the summer.
Even if it means I'm orph orph orphing in drafts like the seal
of the Best Ball Bros video. Give me all the Tory Hortons and
Isaac Teslas and Ollie Gordon's. It's now or never.
Next up we have one of my video editors and Uber bestball
contrarian with a true serum take about running backs.
Take it away, Buck. My truth serum take is what if
the second and third round should be mostly running backs?
It's the year 2025 and we've got great running backs on high
scoring offenses like I haven't seen in 15 to 20 years.
The current NFL meta on both sides of the ball is something
that we have seen before and top end running back points are not
as replaceable by contingent RB bets as they have been in the
past decade. We often talk about the
importance of back rated production being a reason to
target rookies in uncertain situations.
The most not often mentioned is that top end running backs on
high scoring teams have very high weekly ceilings all year
and that includes week 17. If a good team is winning,
they're running the ball well. The other side of this is that
once you get past the elite wide receivers, the position is a lot
flatter than drafters want to admit.
Do your own research. Of course there are wide
receivers that deserve to be in the second and third round, but
I would not be surprised if we look back on this wondering if
we were pulling up wide receiver just because early running backs
make us uncomfortable. Buck isn't alone with his high
teeth thoughts. Tom from Fantasy Sanctuary feels
similarly and comes with some data to back it up.
I can't believe nobody is making more of a big deal about hero
wide receiver. Like seriously, we spent all our
time talking about hero running back, 0 running back, but nobody
wants to talk about somebody that's worked for years and is
probably going to work again this year.
In 2021, if you took a wide receiver in round one and then
took your second in round four or later, you get advance rates
as high as 21% with six wide receiver bills.
Twenty 2220% 2020 317%, then 2024 green across the board. 7
wide receiver. Bills had 30. 2% advance rates.
Compare that to 0RB builds like 7%.
But no, everyone just wants to talk about how this is a great
year for zero RB. Once again, nobody wants to talk
about how here a wide receiver can be really freaking good and
could hit. Once again, take your hero wide
receiver round one. Take one or two running backs,
maybe an elite tight end or quarterback in rounds 2 or 3.
Then get back to the wide receiver position in a range.
For everyone who's been banging on about being good.
Seriously, just go and look at the data.
Then perhaps come and subscribe to the Fantasy Sanctuary.
Continuing this trend of high T true Serum takes, we have easy
from the Deposit Kingdom sharing his truth from the incline
bench. I think people are drafting a
little scared, a little too high, tee anchor, RB is RB still
good. Touchbacks are going out to the
35. Passing is going to be up,
scoring is going to be up. A lot of really good chief
contingent rookie running backs. Don't give up on it.
Now wow, I did not see that coming at the end.
Easy becoming a zero RB bro. I will say I didn't feel this
way all summer, but I'm absolutely loving how the 0RB
builds with elite quarterback and elite tight end look right
now. Make sure you check out the
video I did with Sean last week where we drafted a truly extreme
0RB team. Next up we go to the other badge
bro John Warner, who has some harsh words for people who go
ham on specific players in their portfolio.
There is no reason to have extreme ownership thresholds
unless you're just trying to big Dick screenshots on the
Internet. That is the only reason I
actually think it is bad practice.
I used to think it was a Rick's risk tolerance exercise, and I
believe that is true when it comes to the daily slates.
But over the course of the entirety of the season you are
funneling yourself down 1 isolated path too thinly.
In a 14 week followed by one week, one week one week style
contest. They play.
Significantly dense, exploitative ownerships play
significantly better in the Sprint style contest, the
Marathon Style contest, and the Eliminator than BBM.
But stealing signals, Ben Gretch says not so fast.
John Warner and Flat Exposure Bros grow some balls and take a
stand. The obsession with exposures has
made people significantly worse at best ball.
I think it's important that you do what's best for the
individual build and too often people use balancing exposures
as a scapegoat to build worst teams.
I also think people play scared they're unwilling to full fade
players that could make them look stupid publicly because of
all the look up tools that are out there.
I think in the end, if you're lucky enough to get a team or a
handful of teams through, your exposures are consolidating
anyway. So the idea you need to balance
this, you know, what if he's the guy you need in round 18, it's
really just saying you're trying to get really lucky that the one
team you get through has that one guy on it that you got a
little exposure to, as opposed to maybe taking some real stands
on the guys that you think have the best shot to really impact
and have them on all your rosters.
Fantasy Life's Kendall Balenzuela agrees with Ben.
She says go and get your guys. ADP is just a social construct
meant to keep you Pete in a box and you will never win a fantasy
football championship if you follow just ADP.
And getting more into that is that.
I just think that it really does.
ADP can find some players for fantasy football.
I think the best fantasy football players and the ones
that win the most are the ones that go get their guys earlier
or ahead of ADP. They say I'm not not going to
follow this. ADP is just a guide in my
opinion. So the ones that win the most
championships are the ones that are willing to get their guys
either earlier. We're not talking crazy, We're
not saying get your round 14 guy in the fifth round, but they
make sure to throw ADP out the window when it comes to guys
that they actually believe in and that's what helps them win
the most championships. Next up we have the
aforementioned Sean Siegel. And let me just say, this heel
turn from Sean made my head spin.
I thought this man loved elite tight ends, but I was wrong.
I have to consider myself one of the founding members of Team
Tight End. Scores a lot of points, but
under the bright lights with the true serum I'd probably say that
in touchdown heavy formats 2020. 5.
That you can get by with the really scrubby guys at the end.
Late and a heavy. Take a lot of those guys.
That's going to be the path to winning the big tournaments and
even though I have Brock Bowers ranked number one in some
formats, the way that you beat. 2025 ADP.
To get those running backs and still draft mostly zebra RB late
and heavy tight end the league winning play this season.
Sean is not alone, however. The BBM One champ strongly
agrees. Justin Herzig here from
Established The Run and the FF and 60 Fantasy Football
newsletter Time for my truth serum.
And I'll admit it, I had to drink quite a lot of that sarin
to admit this one. Because if you use this
strategy, you'll definitely get clowned in underground Discord
channels and Twitter and just laughed out of the room.
But deep down, I really believe that the optimal tight end
strategy for this year for basketball mania might just be
wait until the final three rounds to draft your tight ends.
And here's why. First, the tight ends in this
range are the best value compared to other positions.
They have the highest relative projections and also the highest
likelihood of breaking out of the position given the variance
of tight ends and just overall pretty soft thin position 2.
They're super easy to stack late with your quarterbacks because
there are so many. Rarely are people trying to
target a specific one they don't already have the QB of.
Because you have so many options, people just end up
stacking with their already drafted QBs and 3rd it's the
best way to actually get that low drafted player that can
actually make an impact on your team come fantasy playoffs.
I mean Tyler Higbee 7% Herald fan and 16% Theo Johnson 38,
Juwan Johnson 52, Elijah Arroyo 53.
These are all guys that can be that unique late playoff hammer.
And if you're concerned about missing out on the low end wide
receivers or running backs in that range, just pull them up to
the 15th round. You're not actually giving up
that much draft capital. So yeah, my true serum is this.
Skip the early the mid round tight ends, let the rest of the
room watch snicker as you continue to pass on that
position, and then hammer at the end of the draft with three
straight. And if you want to get crazy,
might as well make it four straight at worst case scenario.
Your team sucks at a position that is the least impactful to
scoring, but you're smashing at the other positions and best
case you win $2,000,000 and you did it without devoting any
capital to that position. Sounds like a plan to me.
Good luck. If two of the sharpest players
in fantasy think punt tight end is the way, I might need to
rethink my Brock Bowers exposure.
OK, we're down to the final two. My guy Jacob Sanderson from ADP
Chasing has a true serum take that.
I'm so glad he shared because I was going to do it.
If someone else didn't have the courage to say it, I just
slurped the truth. Areno.
The true. Serum and I'm giving you my 2025
true serum take. There is a team currently.
With four pass catchers, 1 running back, and their
quarterback all going in the top 10 rounds of underdog drafts
right now. And I think they're going to
suck. That's the Chicago Bears.
We have given blanket excuses to the players who were on the
20/20/14 because of coaching the Kayla Williams.
Was terrible. For most of last year, was one
of the worst quarterbacks in the NFLDJ.
Moore gave no effort, couldn't separate past five yards.
If you watched him on All 22 Roma, Dunsay had the kind of
rookie season that should make us think he's more likely to be
Rashad Bateman or Corey Davis than DeAndre Hawkins.
And I'm excited about Luther Burden.
I'm excited about Colston Loveland.
But I'm not 100% sure when I look at Ben Johnson, if these
guys are going to be put in position to succeed.
I see a coach who is a brilliant offensive mind but who doesn't
sleep, shows up to the facility at 2:00 AM, yells at people all
the time, wants to lock along the day.
Zacchaeus into a role wants to force call Kyle Manungai into
our lives and I'm a little scared that he's just Josh
McDaniels 2.0 and that he's going to be too frantic forcing
people to play his system I think in my heart, despite my
actual. Draft record that the.
Bears are going to go 5 and 12 this season.
I think that none of the wide receivers finished top 24 and I
think that neither Caleb or Loveland finished top 12.
In this scenario. I hope that I'm wrong for the
sake of some of my bags, but that's my true serum take.
Everything about the Bears scares me.
Caleb and Rome weren't good last year.
Ben Johnson is out on his own. Hell, my most drafted wide
receiver and all of best ball is the Chicago rookie who was hurt
for most of the summer and is still playing behind Olamide
Zacchaeus. I'm so scared, you guys.
But it's actually not even the take I'm scared about the most.
Look, I didn't want to put my own personal submission first
last year. I was like 18th.
And I also don't want to put all of my lovely contributors on
blast. They're all very smart,
thoughtful people, and I sincerely appreciate their time
making content for this video. But I just didn't feel the fear
and the terror in a lot of these takes.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm scared to say mine.
I would not otherwise publicly say what I'm about to say.
You will never catch me writing this in the Fantasy Life
newsletter. I might have mumbled it once on
basketball breakfast, but right now, after a big strong pull of
this truth juice, I'm ready to get vulnerable.
Guys, Ashton Gene T is going to be a colossal bust.
It's Trent Richardson, 2 point O.
The dude went to a Mickey Mouse college.
They played on blue turf for fuck's sake.
Pete Carroll is going to love giving Raheem Mostert 12 touches
a game. close your eyes right now.
Gene T is going to RIP off a 40 yard run fall down at the goal
line and Pete Carroll is going to tuck his rock hard boner into
his pants before sending Mostert out onto the field to punch it
in. Omarion Hampton, Trevion
Henderson and like two other rookie running backs will
outscore Gene T this year. I thought we learned our lesson
with round one rookies last year with Marvin Harrison, but I
guess not Go with God. Gene T slaps.
You're gonna need it.