Jake Ciely

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jake Ciely

The 2025 NFL Draft is nearly here, and Dane Brugler's The Beast is out, so now I can drop my column on the best rookies for fantasy football. As always, my goal is to help decipher the fantasy potential. This year, I had even more fun with mashup comparisons (Geno Burrow and Kyler Powell, for example). Like my wife says with my mixing cereals, energy drinks, candy and more... maybe I went too far?

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jake Ciely

NFL free agency is already a whirlwind with trades and early re-signings. As always, the fantasy football impact is of interest, and I'll cover all the important free agency winners and losers for fantasy football, including trades, franchise tags and more. As mentioned, we have a few impactful moves before free agency starts - we're getting into this already, but be sure to check back as I'll spin all the relevant moves throughout the free agency period.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jake Ciely

Here's a quick rundown as we get into the 2025 fantasy baseball rankings... Your team construction can alter category needs during the draft, thereby changing the value of each player and position. This is why you (if I can get philosophical for a minute) shouldn't focus much on the overall rankings for hitters and/or pitchers while drafting. That's also why I don't include a combined hitters and pitchers (overall) ranking.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jake Ciely

We're back for another 2025 fantasy football rankings update. Not surprisingly, there were quite a few impactful moves after free agents found new homes... plus a few interesting trades. That caused a shift in the ranks for some big names - for example, stock up for Justin Fields, stock down for George Pickens. As always, I'll have another sweeping ranks update after the NFL draft. Reminders: These are rankings as of today.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jake Ciely

NFL free agency is already a whirlwind with trades and early re-signings. As always, the fantasy football impact is of interest, and I'll cover all the important free agency winners and losers for fantasy football, including trades, franchise tags and more. As mentioned, we have a few impactful moves before free agency starts - we're getting into this already, but be sure to check back as I'll spin all the relevant moves throughout the free agency period.