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Hello Fantasy Football Today fans, listeners and any Fantasy Football manager who joins us for this special occasion. Adam Aizer from Fantasy Football Today is joining us in the live chat on this article to talk Fantasy Football with you. The 2025 NFL Draft is over and we have a clear picture for which players are slotted where for the coming season. Depth charts are less clear, volume and opportunity will be projected and the FFT team has already released their first post-draft rankings. 

It's time to talk draft strategy, keepers, rookies and whatever else is poignant for FF managers as we prepare for our summer drafts. Join the conversation by asking your question in the chat and Adam will respond to as many as he can. Today, on Tuesday May 6th, Aizer will host a LIVE Q&A on this article from 2:30 p.m. ET until 3:30 p.m. ET. To join the chat, click "join the conversation" in the top right of this article (next to the byline) on desktop and directly underneath it on mobile and send your questions in the chat there. 

Once the live chat gets rolling, we will update this page with some of the best questions and answers to help other Fantasy managers set their lineups and prepare for the week ahead:

dave.r asks: What was your strategy in the superflex mock draft we just finished? I was THRILLED to get Jayden Daniels at 4th overall but might have waited too long to get my 2nd QB (JJ McCarthy in Round 5).

Aizer: Hey Dave! Welcome to the FFT community, whoever you are. It's great to see new faces in here.

My strategy was to wait on QB but with the #1 pick you can't really do that. So I took Josh Allen. I figured I would get at least 1 good QB at the 2/3 turn and I drafted Caleb Williams (hope he's good!). I think it's very important to have stud RBs and WRs in this format. TE is less important.

BUT, I also like to load up on QB because they have great trade value during the season. I drafted 4 QBs. Unfortunately, I'm going to need Russell Wilson and Anthony Richardson to keep their jobs long enough so I can trade them ... in this mock draft that we aren't playing out.

jamie.s asks: I feel like Heath always preaches either doing a full rebuild or going all-in when it comes to dynasty. I've got a squad that I started the rebuild this year (Jacobs and dowdle for 1.4, Otton+2.14 for 2.1, Kamara, Kupp and McCloud for 1.11, etc.) but still have guys like DJ Moore, Jauan Jennings, Jordan Mason, Jakobi Meyers as pieces that don't typically fit in a rebuild.

The team aint half bad overall for a TE+ PPR 14 teamer, but do you subscribe to the theory that if I'm gunna rebuild, I should go big and move almost everything?

Aizer: I do believe in that philosophy. Go full rebuild. Especially with a guy like Jakobi Meyers (I'd take a Round 2 pick for him in a second). All of those guys should be on the trading block.

jacob.a asks: Favorite late round rookies to take in a dynasty draft?

Aizer: All of the tight ends (other than the Top 2). So that would be the 4 TEs who were drafted in Rounds 2-3 of the NFL Draft. They all went in Round 3 of our rookie only draft last week.

That's too obvious, so how about Trevor Etienne, Jarquez Hunter and Woody Marks. Gunner Helm at TE. DJ Giddens. Tahj Brooks. At WR I'd look at Jaylen Lane and Elic Ayomanor.

Jaydon Blue should go ahead of basically all of those guys (except those Rounds 2-3 TEs I mentioned).

will.t asks: Is it time to bail on Kyle Pitts? I can keep Kelce in dynasty instead and then find a rookie TE if this ends up to be Kelce's last season.

Aizer: Interesting. I prefer Kelce to Pitts this season, but in a dynasty league I still think there is a chance something clicks for Pitts. Kelce is pretty much done being a big difference maker. I would probably keep Pitts or try to trade him for Top 30 pick in a rookie draft.

scott.l116 asks: Do you think that George Pickens has any value in a redraft league and if so what round should he go?

Aizer: If they sign Aaron Rodgers then he absolutely has value. I would take him in the 6th round probably (12 team league). It's worth noting that over the last 3 seasons, Pickens on a per route and per target basis hasn't been much worse than DK Metcalf. There is still untapped potential.

If they don't sign Aaron Rodgers and it's Mason Rudolph at QB, we're talking Round 8 for Pickens.

After doing some digging as I searched for an Aizer Stat (TM) for the show, I came across these interesting numbers regarding the 49ers pass game. Once Brandon Aiyuk got injured and forced to miss the remainder of the 2024 season in Week 7, the 49ers pass catchers had 10 games left to go. Here's how those 10 games played out on the receiving end:

Jauan Jennings

Jennings went 52/571/3 on 77 targets with a 27.4% target per route run rate. He missed one game with injury. He was on pace for 98/1,079/6 on 145 targets. From Weeks 10-18 (Jennings missed Week 8 without Aiyuk), Jennings was the #22/#21 WR in 0.5 Full PPR (#29/#29 per game).

George Kittle

Kittle went 44/731/3 on 52 targets with a 21.2% target per route run rate. He also missed one game and left Week 18 early. Kittle was on pace for 89/1,496/6 on 104 targets in his 8 healthy games. You can pencil him in for the six to seven target per game range.

Deebo Samuel

In his last run with the 49ers, Samuel went 31/335/2 on 49 targets with an 18.7% target per run rate. Had seven or more targets in four games and two of them were without either Jauan Jennings or George Kittle

Ricky Pearsall

Pearsall will be a trendy sleeper pick this season after going 28/379/3 on 41 targets to end the season. He also racked up a 15.1% target per route run rate.