Best Ball: Stacks We’re All About in 2025 (Fantasy Football)
On Friday’s DFS & Betting Podcast, Betz and I talked through a number of team stacks that we are into for 2025.
For each of the categories listed below, I have shared excerpts from our Stackability section from our Best Ball Primer to give you a feel of how you can look at all 32 NFL teams.
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High-End Stacks
These are teams we are willing to pay up for knowing what each of the players must do at their draft cost. However, each team provides multiple paths to triple or quadruple stack with viable later round options as well. The combinations for each team are endless.
BORG- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
How good were the Bucs last year? Since 2000, only two teams (2012 Patriots and 2024 Buccaneers) produced all of the following in the same season: top-5 fantasy QB, two top-24 fantasy RBs, a top-12 fantasy WR, and top-12 fantasy TE (in ppg). Baker and the boys were a juggernaut last year and apart from Bucky Irving, their 2025 ADPs do not reflect the breakout. While regression could certainly hit in the TD department and Liam Coen’s departure does raise question marks, we aren’t deterred from going after full-on team stacks. They are the only team with four WRs going inside the top-150 as the WR logjam and Godwin’s injury recovery is muting their ADPs. Take multiple shots here cashing in on the confusion. Their Week 17 Florida showdown in Miami is circled on our Best Ball calendar.
BETZ- San Francisco 49ers
With five top-100 players, the market is saying the 49ers are back baby! Yet, they might be the team Betz and I are buying the most in Best Ball. We are higher than market on CMC and Kittle but the ambiguous WR situation says there is room to double-down on this team’s stock. Over the last five years, every team projected for 10.5+ wins (by Vegas) had a WR inside the top-36 ADP or a QB drafted inside the top-5. The 49ers have neither with Purdy being a screaming value and shots at taking any of the WRs (Jennings, Pearsall, or Aiyuk) being relatively cost-effective. If you take CMC or Kittle early (or both), push the limits with this team going for four or more 49ers. Before asking us at the end of the year how our Best Ball teams performed, check the 49ers record. If they are at 10+ wins and NFC West champs, you can bet our squads made out alright. With the Bears being another team with 5+ options within the first 8 rounds, their Week 17 showdown looks like a priority connection for tournaments.
Value Stacks
This team screams value at their current ADPs. Completing a team stack with a QB drafted after pick 100 or multiple pass-catchers going past Round 8 says this is an affordable team to attack.
BORG- Green Bay Packers
The Packers feel like a team you could come at from 5-6 angles in Best Ball. Josh Jacobs is the only Packer going in the first six rounds while you likely have a chance to grab the Packers’ WR1 (whoever that may be) as late as any team. Jordan Love is a value in our book but keep in mind how he spreads the ball around as he threw a TD pass to ten different pass-catchers in 2023 and eight different ones in 2024. Love double-stacks are viable but don’t be afraid to let them fall to you. Reed and Kraft are our primary targets despite the fact Reed isn’t a full-time player. Through 2 seasons, he’s NOT been on the field for 267 total drop backs with 2 or fewer WRs on the field. That stat could be irrelevant as Green Bay used 3WRs on 79% of their dropbacks but we prefer him over Golden. Tacking on a late Lloyd as leverage on Jacobs lineups is one of the sneakier plays we are employing. Consider us back on the Pack in 2025 and a team we will be overweight on in Best Ball.
BETZ- Buffalo Bills
Josh Allen remains the constant here in Best Ball but his receiving options are pushed even further down the board in 2025. Both Kincaid (52.5) and Coleman (78.6) went ahead of where his first pass-catcher (Shakir) lands in most drafts. Shakir’s 21% advance rate last year was solid for someone who went past pick 100 but his paltry pass-catching inside the 10-yard line (3 total targets) makes him a better play on full PPR sites like DraftKings. Double-stacking Allen comes down to finding the right cheap options who could luckbox into 6-7 TDs at their price tags. We don’t mind Kincaid as that guy as a post-hype sleeper who can work as your team’s TE2. Ray Davis also fits a classic backup strategy at a palatable price. We’re both behind the market on James Cook citing major TD regression at an increased cost. We hate the first two weeks of Buffalo’s playoff schedule with a few cold weather low total road games (@ NE and @ CLE) before a showdown with the Eagles in Week 17. The Bills might be one of those rare “better in real life” types bucking the trend when someone says “he that guy is better in best ball” every time a volatile name perks up. The Bills are dang good and currently favored in all 17 of their games in 2025.
Overrated Stacks
Description: Not willing to pay the ADP admission
BORG- Jacksonville Jaguars
This is an easy team to stack for 2025 considering Lawrence lands at the back of a QB tier we really like. His weapons have been upgraded with Travis Hunter being the highest drafted WR in the NFL Draft since Calvin Johnson. He is also also being drafted as the 5th highest rookie WR in BestBall ADP history. Perhaps you think the offense is super condensed the way Liam Coen structured his offense in Tampa Bay with two WRs (Evans and Godwin) eating into 50% of the targets but both options are being priced near their ceilings, in my opinion. Double-stacking Jags with Trevor Lawrence
BETZ- Detroit Lions
The Lions are the rare offensive powerhouse stack that is completed by drafting its QB last. Goff’s ADP remains in Round 10 territory so it depends on how your draft room splinters itself with Lions in the first 5-6 rounds. Grabbing multiple pass-catchers (yes, that includes Gibbs) and then coming back with Goff as your QB2 is all too easy to make happen given the way the draft board sets up. There is expectation that the Lions will throw the ball downfield more under new OC John Morton after Goff had the 3rd lowest percentage of attempts 20+ yards downfield among qualifying QBs. Yet, he ranked 3rd among all QBs in fantasy points per dropback on 20+ yard attempts being super effective when given the chance. While we expect the overall passing volume to come down and the Lions defense to hopefully field a healthy defense in 2025, overstacking the Lions will be hard to pay off. LaPorta is (appropriately) going roughly 30 picks later than last year’s ADP while Montgomery continues to hang out in low-end RB2 territory. Before his Week 15 injury, Monty had just two fewer receptions and two fewer receiving yards (32-for-310) than Gibbs (34-for-312) so a slightly cheaper price tag than last year once again makes him a value. Don’t go overboard with more than three Lions.
“Oh Crap” Stacks
Description: You got sniped and now you are scrambling for a late stack
BORG- Indianapolis Colts
You need to be aggressive with the Colts if you think they represent a value. It is a make-or-break year at QB and head coach Shane Steichen. Draft Richardson/Jones as your QB3 if he was a league winner. Yup, we said it. If he does hit a ceiling outcome, you are balling out with someone who is top-10 in fantasy points per dropback when he plays. A backdoor single stack with Pitty City, Tyler Warren or Josh Downs is our preferred course of action as both go near. JTT + IND QB isn’t a stack worth connecting. Since 2015, one RB scored 15+ fantasy points per game alongside a QB who scored 100+ total rushing fantasy points: Saquon Barkley and (drumroll) Daniel Jones. The two will be competing for rushing TDs. The ADPs of this team reflect a bunch that finish with a top-10 pick heading into 2026.
BETZ- Carolina Panthers
The Panthers set up like those classic back door stacks as you draft the main fantasy options while biding your time to take Bryce Young as your QB2 or QB3 late. After being benched early in the season in favor of Andy Dalton, he resurrected his career in the 2nd half. From Week 12 on, among QBs with 100+ dropbacks, he was tied for 7th in fantasy points per dropback, 5th in aDOT, and 2nd in QB Scrambles. We need that type of rushing to continue in order for a Carolina stack to make some noise in Best Ball. TMac is priced up going as the third highest rookie WR in the Underdog era (circa 2021) behind last year’s Marvin Harrison Jr. (13.1) and Malik Nabers (26.2) and ahead of some guy 2021 rookie named Ja’Marr Chase (48.1). We are slightly behind market but don’t fault anyone for going for Zero RB builds to load up on the top-10 pick. Chuba Hubbard’s 10 rushing TDs were impressive last year considering the Carolina offense ran the 2nd fewest total offensive plays and 3rd fewest with a lead. If those pace metrics change even slightly, his ceiling could end up much higher even if his pass-catching inefficiencies remain. Much like the Texans last year, a Panthers stack can easily outperform the corresponding ADPs if the defense continues to be a punching bag and they are forced into more shootouts like they were at the end of the year. Carolina is a cheap stacking partner for their final two excellent home playoff matchups: TB and SEA.