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These rankings are for the Best Ball fantasy football format available on Underdog Fantasy and DraftKings.

Best Ball is a wildly popular form of fantasy football that requires no roster management. Simply join one of the available tournaments on DraftKings or Underdog Fantasy, and draft your favorite 18 to 20 players from the available options. Each week the software will automatically construct your best possible lineup on your behalf with no additional action required. The regular season champions of each 12-player league will advance in the tournament to compete for huge cash prizes in the final rounds.

Here at RotoGrinders, we use our decades of combined fantasy football and data science experience to create a statistical fantasy football model for projecting future performance.

Our team accomplishes accurate best ball rankings for fantasy football by using millions of data points that include but are not limited to:

  • Historical player usage: targets, touches, and opportunity
  • Play calling tendency including situational run vs. pass ratios
  • Route participation
  • Pass rate over expectation data
  • Coaching changes and tendency
  • Offensive line performance metrics
  • Defensive line performance metrics
  • Turnover and penalty data
  • Pace and play volume data
  • Scoring and drive efficiency data
  • Passing depth and efficiency
  • Receiving depth and efficiency
  • QB designed vs. scrambling yards
  • Age and Injury history
  • Positional rushing, target, and touchdown distributions
  • Alignment and personnel usage data
  • Opponent schedule and strength of competition

This information is the backbone of our projections, but because of the speculative nature of the NFL each season, we must apply our own expertise in finalizing the inputs that formulate the Underdog Best Ball rankings and DraftKings Best Ball rankings. We have a team of data science and fantasy football experts that consider all factors when ranking players. NFL player projections are the spine of the rankings, but important elements like upside potential and position scarcity are also included in the analysis. We test our NFL Best Ball rankings to ensure the results match the intentions.

You can click here to find our favorite picks from the NFL Best Ball Rankings for fantasy football 2025. Expect this data to be updated daily as new information is ingested throughout the offseason.

Many players gravitate toward Best Ball since the lack of in-season management makes it a super easy way to get in on the action. Another format you might enjoy includes pick’em contests—check out our Underdog Fantasy Picks and DraftKings Pick6 Picks for more helpful tools.

PLAYER TEAM POS UD RANK UD ADP POSRANK UNDERDOG DK RANK DK ADP DRAFTKINGS
Ja'Marr Chase CIN WR 1 1 WR1 240.64 1 1 315.13
Saquon Barkley PHI RB 2 4 RB1 252.27 2 2 292.2
Justin Jefferson MIN WR 3 2 WR2 222.26 3 3 288.96
CeeDee Lamb DAL WR 4 5 WR3 220.62 4 6 292.87
Bijan Robinson ATL RB 5 3 RB2 250.04 5 4 289.04
Malik Nabers NYG WR 6 9 WR4 220.41 6 9 294.31
Puka Nacua LAR WR 7 7 WR5 219.32 7 7 286.83
Jahmyr Gibbs DET RB 8 6 RB3 237.58 8 5 276.18
Ashton Jeanty LVR RB 9 11 RB4 234.18 10 10 274.65
Christian McCaffrey SFO RB 10 8 RB5 232.72 11 8 272.65
Brian Thomas JAC WR 11 13 WR6 211.8 12 14 271.78
Amon-Ra St. Brown DET WR 12 12 WR7 208.88 13 11 272.09
Devon Achane MIA RB 13 15 RB6 232.9 9 15 278.97
Derrick Henry BAL RB 14 14 RB7 222.14 14 13 251.09
Nico Collins HOU WR 15 10 WR8 200.49 16 12 263.49
A.J. Brown PHI WR 16 17 WR9 206.01 17 19 263.6
Drake London ATL WR 17 16 WR10 194.85 18 16 256.76
Ladd McConkey LAC WR 18 18 WR11 194.42 19 18 252.6
Brock Bowers LVR TE 19 19 TE1 170.55 15 17 232
Garrett Wilson NYJ WR 20 29 WR12 186.75 20 28 243.5
Josh Jacobs GBP RB 21 25 RB8 218.83 22 23 250.51
Bucky Irving TBB RB 22 21 RB9 209.57 23 22 242.88
Tyreek Hill MIA WR 23 23 WR13 184.97 24 26 242.59
Tee Higgins CIN WR 24 24 WR14 184.74 25 25 239.91
Marvin Harrison ARI WR 25 27 WR15 178.44 33 31 229.16
Davante Adams LAR WR 26 30 WR16 178.16 31 32 230
Trey McBride ARI TE 27 26 TE2 164.35 21 24 222.8
Chase Brown CIN RB 28 28 RB10 204.38 26 27 233.96
Jonathan Taylor IND RB 29 20 RB11 198.02 27 20 227.72
Terry McLaurin WAS WR 30 31 WR17 176.29 36 33 227.83
Jaxon Smith-Njigba SEA WR 31 32 WR18 175.18 34 35 228.84
Rashee Rice KCC WR 32 22 WR19 174.56 30 21 232.78
Kyren Williams LAR RB 33 35 RB12 198.55 32 34 226.58
D.J. Moore CHI WR 34 40 WR20 172.79 37 41 225.42
Lamar Jackson BAL QB 35 36 QB1 360.29 28 30 376.67
Mike Evans TBB WR 36 37 WR21 166.45 39 37 214.14
Josh Allen BUF QB 37 33 QB2 355.81 29 29 371.63
Jayden Daniels WAS QB 38 38 QB3 339.33 35 38 354.58
Jameson Williams DET WR 39 45 WR22 165.13 42 44 206.18
D.K. Metcalf PIT WR 40 43 WR23 163.4 41 42 209.97
James Cook BUF RB 41 42 RB13 195.95 38 39 225.59
Breece Hall NYJ RB 42 34 RB14 183.36 40 36 213.64
Jalen Hurts PHI QB 43 47 QB4 331.7 44 43 340.77
George Kittle SFO TE 44 41 TE3 131.84 43 40 169.98
Omarion Hampton LAC RB 45 45 RB15 175.96 50 46 197.24
Xavier Worthy KCC WR 46 44 WR24 150.03 52 47 185.83
Jaylen Waddle MIA WR 47 51 WR25 149.29 45 56 192.7
DeVonta Smith PHI WR 48 47 WR26 146.18 55 51 183.38
Tetairoa McMillan CAR WR 49 39 WR27 146.05 47 50 188.72
Calvin Ridley TEN WR 50 56 WR28 143.27 51 58 185.87
Jordan Addison MIN WR 51 66 WR29 142.93 54 74 184.02
Travis Hunter JAC WR 52 53 WR30 142.92 56 59 180
Courtland Sutton DEN WR 53 49 WR31 142.62 53 48 184.66
Kenneth Walker III SEA RB 54 55 RB16 172.82 48 55 200.87
Jauan Jennings SFO WR 55 60 WR32 142.42 58 67 179.93
Joe Mixon HOU RB 56 58 RB17 172.12 57 57 197.22
Zay Flowers BAL WR 57 54 WR33 142.19 59 53 179.8
Chuba Hubbard CAR RB 58 52 RB18 171.66 49 52 200.36
Chris Olave NOS WR 59 63 WR34 137.28 65 71 177.73
RJ Harvey DEN RB 60 62 RB19 168.5 62 63 195.16
Alvin Kamara NOS RB 61 57 RB20 166.99 61 49 196.71
Joe Burrow CIN QB 62 61 QB5 302.47 46 45 322.35
Matthew Golden GBP WR 63 77 WR35 136.66 68 89 173.71
Rome Odunze CHI WR 64 59 WR36 136.12 67 66 174.73
Jerry Jeudy CLE WR 65 68 WR37 135.99 64 69 177.87
George Pickens DAL WR 66 50 WR38 135.92 66 54 176.42
Deebo Samuel WAS WR 67 69 WR39 133.2 69 64 166.24
Sam LaPorta DET TE 68 76 TE4 128.19 60 61 163.6
TreVeyon Henderson NEP RB 69 64 RB21 156.29 63 62 179.13
James Conner ARI RB 70 64 RB22 155.12 70 60 177.34
Kaleb Johnson PIT RB 71 72 RB23 153.72 73 79 172.03
Jakobi Meyers LVR WR 72 71 WR40 128.56 72 73 165.92
Quinshon Judkins CLE RB 73 73 RB24 151.19 74 75 171.54
D'Andre Swift CHI RB 74 74 RB25 150.76 71 68 173.21
David Montgomery DET RB 75 70 RB26 147.86 77 70 167.34
Khalil Shakir BUF WR 76 80 WR41 122.94 78 76 156.18
Patrick Mahomes KCC QB 77 86 QB6 288.69 80 72 304.84
Aaron Jones MIN RB 78 84 RB27 147.41 75 77 171.01
Stefon Diggs NEP WR 79 81 WR42 121.7 79 81 155.34
Tony Pollard TEN RB 80 82 RB28 146.33 76 85 169.17
Jordan Mason MIN RB 81 93 RB29 146.32 94 98 160.96
T.J. Hockenson MIN TE 82 87 TE5 118.25 81 88 156.64
Darnell Mooney ATL WR 83 85 WR43 118.06 86 94 149.34
Jayden Reed GBP WR 84 78 WR44 117.64 90 90 146.73
Ricky Pearsall SFO WR 85 75 WR45 117.3 87 83 148.77
Chris Godwin TBB WR 86 67 WR46 115.49 91 65 146.65
Cooper Kupp SEA WR 87 94 WR47 114.32 93 84 146.27
Jayden Higgins HOU WR 88 96 WR48 110.98 102 108 141.77
Travis Kelce KCC TE 89 99 TE6 115.4 82 80 149.81
Bo Nix DEN QB 90 100 QB7 285.57 83 91 298.94
Baker Mayfield TBB QB 91 92 QB8 281.39 84 82 297.45
Josh Downs IND WR 92 83 WR49 113.8 89 87 147.23
Caleb Williams CHI QB 93 109 QB9 273.06 88 106 287.5
Jaylen Warren PIT RB 94 97 RB30 141.27 85 97 162.28
Tyrone Tracy NYG RB 95 104 RB31 140.13 92 99 161.61
Kyler Murray ARI QB 96 95 QB10 271.09 98 92 282.76
Brock Purdy SFO QB 97 103 QB11 270.07 97 104 285.18
Rashod Bateman BAL WR 98 112 WR50 108.5 103 112 133.3
Drake Maye NEP QB 99 115 QB12 269.65 99 119 282.11
Justin Fields NYJ QB 100 101 QB13 269.45 100 96 277.38
Michael Pittman IND WR 101 91 WR51 101.39 104 105 131.84
Najee Harris LAC RB 102 111 RB32 141.32 101 109 155.72
Brian Robinson WAS RB 103 88 RB33 139.82 96 86 156.75
Isiah Pacheco KCC RB 104 79 RB34 138.15 95 78 158.56
Zach Charbonnet SEA RB 105 114 RB35 126.96 105 117 145.14
Tyler Warren IND TE 106 120 TE7 113.13 110 111 142.66
Justin Herbert LAC QB 107 124 QB14 266.84 106 118 279.62
Trey Benson ARI RB 108 138 RB36 124.67 116 150 139.53
Tucker Kraft GBP TE 109 128 TE8 111.38 107 127 143.08
J.K. Dobbins DEN RB 110 118 RB37 121.57 118 116 137.63
Dak Prescott DAL QB 111 113 QB15 248.06 114 107 265.45
David Njoku CLE TE 112 121 TE9 108.71 108 113 145.91
Mark Andrews BAL TE 113 106 TE10 106.73 111 103 129.54
Evan Engram DEN TE 114 108 TE11 91.17 113 93 119.37
Jordan Love GBP QB 115 127 QB16 265.62 112 124 279.35
C.J. Stroud HOU QB 116 135 QB17 265.59 117 126 279.67
J.J. McCarthy MIN QB 117 123 QB18 254.64 109 115 269.27
Jared Goff DET QB 118 117 QB19 253.59 115 102 269.08
Rashid Shaheed NOS WR 119 107 WR52 100.25 124 122 124.18
Trevor Lawrence JAC QB 120 133 QB20 251.17 129 132 264.8
Rachaad White TBB RB 121 140 RB38 118.65 119 134 137.55
Rhamondre Stevenson NEP RB 122 119 RB39 114.05 122 125 125.68
Tyjae Spears TEN RB 123 126 RB40 112.61 120 123 131.66
Cam Skattebo NYG RB 124 110 RB41 112.72 121 114 128.52
Ray Davis BUF RB 125 134 RB42 110.34 123 144 123.75
Isaac Guerendo SFO RB 126 142 RB43 105.4 127 147 115.57
Bhayshul Tuten JAC RB 127 132 RB44 105.26 125 140 121.15
Travis Etienne JAC RB 128 98 RB45 98.19 128 100 112.29
Marvin Mims DEN WR 129 130 WR53 98.07 126 128 120.89
Colston Loveland CHI TE 130 131 TE12 105.94 130 133 135.27
Dalton Kincaid BUF TE 131 137 TE13 98.92 132 131 129.13
Jake Ferguson DAL TE 132 144 TE14 98.68 131 148 130.82
Dallas Goedert PHI TE 133 139 TE15 98.15 133 137 127.24
Isaiah Likely BAL TE 134 141 TE16 98.22 134 136 120.51
Brenton Strange JAC TE 135 161 TE17 91.92 136 164 120.11
Cam Ward TEN QB 136 164 QB21 236.39 139 155 250.02
Michael Penix ATL QB 137 143 QB22 235.11 137 135 246.78
Javonte Williams DAL RB 138 125 RB46 92.45 135 120 103.22
Josh Palmer BUF WR 139 155 WR54 96.01 141 177 118.27
Emeka Egbuka TBB WR 140 89 WR55 95.49 140 95 119.62
Keon Coleman BUF WR 141 102 WR56 91.43 149 110 109.72
Demario Douglas NEP WR 142 171 WR57 91.11 142 179 117.33
Cedric Tillman CLE WR 143 145 WR58 89.01 143 159 113.79
Jonnu Smith PIT TE 144 148 TE18 84.3 152 129 104.96
Luther Burden CHI WR 145 115 WR59 88.78 144 139 110.9
Tyler Allgeier ATL RB 146 151 RB47 87.22 155 163 95.37
Christian Kirk HOU WR 147 122 WR60 88.29 147 130 110.11
Roschon Johnson CHI RB 148 166 RB48 86.72 154 173 96.78
Tre Harris LAC WR 149 105 WR61 85.94 158 121 106.31
Austin Ekeler WAS RB 150 152 RB49 85.47 145 152 99.15
Bryce Young CAR QB 151 154 QB23 229.94 138 146 240.46
Matthew Stafford LAR QB 152 156 QB24 208.51 148 142 220.96
Tua Tagovailoa MIA QB 153 150 QB25 205.33 151 138 218.7
Jaylen Wright MIA RB 154 162 RB50 85.46 159 166 94.92
Mike Gesicki CIN TE 155 172 TE19 90.51 150 169 117.3
Alec Pierce IND WR 156 177 WR62 85.78 157 174 106.75
Xavier Legette CAR WR 157 149 WR63 83.77 163 161 103.63
Kyle Pitts ATL TE 158 158 TE20 81.13 162 157 102.02
Hunter Henry NEP TE 159 165 TE21 80.59 160 171 103.91
Braelon Allen NYJ RB 160 169 RB51 82.32 169 175 89.75
Miles Sanders DAL RB 161 183 RB52 82.14 170 195 92.95
Rico Dowdle CAR RB 162 174 RB53 83.16 171 170 92.73
Aaron Rodgers PIT QB 163 182 QB26 228.45 153 168 242.9
Sam Darnold SEA QB 164 175 QB27 214.1 156 162 223.99
Geno Smith LVR QB 165 163 QB28 211.28 146 153 223.53
Quentin Johnston LAC WR 166 146 WR64 78.93 165 151 97.15
Dyami Brown JAC WR 167 184 WR65 77.27 168 199 96.29
Kyle Williams NEP WR 168 129 WR66 75.75 166 145 97.13
Pat Bryant DEN WR 169 160 WR67 75.13 175 181 95.62
Dont'e Thornton LVR WR 170 190 WR68 64.18 177 190 80.91
Darren Waller MIA TE 171 187 TE22 72.04 176 186 91.55
Will Shipley PHI RB 172 179 RB54 52.43 178 185 56.11
Nick Chubb HOU RB 173 181 RB55 74.26 173 172 80.55
DJ Giddens IND RB 174 189 RB56 60.8 196 207 68.04
Wan'Dale Robinson NYG WR 175 170 WR69 79.85 161 165 106.04
Romeo Doubs GBP WR 176 156 WR70 79.53 164 167 97.77
Jaydon Blue DAL RB 177 147 RB57 76.25 172 141 85.03
Cade Otton TBB TE 178 180 TE23 77.6 167 178 98.6
Justice Hill BAL RB 179 192 RB58 75.22 174 184 90.73
Tank Bigsby JAC RB 180 159 RB59 70.07 179 160 77.64
Jalen McMillan TBB WR 181 167 WR71 76.45 182 156 93.28
Elijah Moore BUF WR 182 228 WR72 75.09 181 236 94.05
Marquise Brown KCC WR 183 136 WR73 66.35 185 149 84.12
Ja'Tavion Sanders CAR TE 184 203 TE24 75.26 190 219 98.09
Tutu Atwell LAR WR 185 205 WR74 76.61 197 229 95.47
Michael Wilson ARI WR 186 178 WR75 74.81 183 189 92.65
Tyler Lockett TEN WR 187 207 WR76 74.39 186 208 96.08
Brandon Aiyuk SFO WR 188 90 WR77 73.14 184 101 90.56
Kareem Hunt KCC RB 189 213 RB60 69.74 180 182 74.92
Brashard Smith KCC RB 190 199 RB61 60.64 195 211 71.22
Blake Corum LAR RB 191 208 RB62 52.93 209 214 57.92
Andrei Iosivas CIN WR 192 204 WR78 73.5 187 200 90.54
Jack Bech LVR WR 193 153 WR79 64.92 193 158 81.22
Jalen Coker CAR WR 194 208 WR80 64.73 188 220 82.33
MarShawn Lloyd GBP RB 195 196 RB63 68.67 194 198 77.35
DeAndre Hopkins BAL WR 196 186 WR81 37.27 198 176 46.49
Jordan Whittington LAR WR 197 248 WR82 30.76 199 314 39.4
Daniel Jones IND QB 198 200 QB29 139.06 205 187 139.89
Zach Ertz WAS TE 199 173 TE25 66.24 200 154 86.74
Tyler Conklin LAC TE 200 228 TE26 77.3 189 307 100.53
Tyler Shough NOS QB 201 211 QB30 141.3 201 202 142.56
Dalton Schultz HOU TE 202 198 TE27 72.19 191 201 91.72
Juwan Johnson NOS TE 203 206 TE28 60.98 206 205 79.3
Chigoziem Okonkwo TEN TE 204 188 TE29 69.07 192 180 88.13
Russell Wilson NYG QB 205 219 QB31 133.73 207 197 135.73
Devin Neal NOS RB 206 242 RB64 60.54 213 228 65.37
Dylan Sampson CLE RB 207 197 RB65 53.76 214 191 58.07
Pat Freiermuth PIT TE 208 202 TE30 68.72 202 196 86.39
Mason Taylor NYJ TE 209 185 TE31 62.75 203 183 80.09
Theo Johnson NYG TE 210 214 TE32 54.09 208 213 70.17
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine MIA WR 211 252 WR83 68.81 211 313 84.97
Diontae Johnson CLE WR 212 232 WR84 59.14 219 227 76.04
Jerome Ford CLE RB 213 217 RB66 61.76 215 203 74.36
KaVontae Turpin DAL WR 214 264 WR85 56.61 221 256 68.93
Noah Gray KCC TE 215 225 TE33 53.2 210 223 66.91
Raheem Mostert LVR RB 216 223 RB67 56.44 216 216 60.68
Anthony Richardson IND QB 217 201 QB32 86.62 212 192 87.2
Jarquez Hunter LAR RB 218 194 RB68 49.8 217 204 52.5
Darius Slayton NYG WR 219 191 WR86 61.42 218 206 77.22
Calvin Austin PIT WR 220 193 WR87 54.95 223 188 65.51
Elijah Arroyo SEA TE 221 232 TE34 55.56 224 253 70.52
Devaughn Vele DEN WR 222 248 WR88 56.57 220 243 71.67
Adam Thielen CAR WR 223 168 WR89 52.1 222 143 67.39
Tre Tucker LVR WR 224 242 WR90 50.27 249 333 61.61
Elic Ayomanor TEN WR 225 218 WR91 48.99 228 212 61.53
Brandin Cooks NOS WR 226 278 WR92 45.27 230 342 57.79
Marquez Valdes-Scantling SEA WR 227 236 WR93 44.99 231 323 54.79
Roman Wilson PIT WR 228 237 WR94 50.9 227 260 62.26
Dawson Knox BUF TE 229 304 TE35 51.31 226 242 65.02
Jaylin Noel HOU WR 230 176 WR95 41.59 232 193 50
Harold Fannin CLE TE 231 242 TE36 47.17 229 304 60.8
Adonai Mitchell IND WR 232 215 WR96 36.6 233 276 45.58
Cole Kmet CHI TE 233 248 TE37 35.86 285 264 45.53
Terrance Ferguson LAR TE 234 215 TE38 34.56 286 218 44.18
Oronde Gadsden LAC TE 235 252 TE39 31.94 288 301 40.98
Tyler Higbee LAR TE 236 258 TE40 53.5 225 225 68.96
Cam Akers NOS RB 237 304 RB69 52.07 238 263 58.19
Kenneth Gainwell PIT RB 238 304 RB70 50.84 244 285 54.92
Ray-Ray McCloud ATL WR 239 223 WR97 42.97 237 221 54.39
Savion Williams GBP WR 240 271 WR98 41.63 239 280 50.29
Dontayvion Wicks GBP WR 241 212 WR99 40.24 241 222 49.39
Emanuel Wilson GBP RB 242 278 RB71 51.32 242 331 55.84
Demarcus Robinson SFO WR 243 264 WR100 39.32 243 274 49.04
Samaje Perine CIN RB 244 304 RB72 49.62 240 308 56.74
Tahj Brooks CIN RB 245 221 RB73 42.1 247 224 48.4
Isaiah Davis NYJ RB 246 278 RB74 44.16 248 338 50.67
Noah Fant SEA TE 247 278 TE41 54.04 270 335 68.73
Jeremy Ruckert NYJ TE 248 304 TE42 51.94 271 0 67.85
Michael Mayer LVR TE 249 278 TE43 37.29 281 330 48.34
Will Dissly LAC TE 250 278 TE44 42.17 272 355 54.43

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