

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show
The Ringer
Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck help you through the 2025 fantasy football season with who to draft, who to avoid, and how to win a championship—or at least how to not get last place. We hit everything you need to win: Which old guys aren’t washed yet? Which coaches will ruin your life? Which players would be drafted higher if they had cooler names? Why do I keep doing this to myself every year?We post episodes every week throughout the spring and summer and even MORE during the NFL season with four shows a week: Sunday recaps, Monday waiver wire targets, Wednesday power rankings, and Friday weekly previews.
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Jan 11, 2023 • 1h 59min
The 2022 Fantasy Rewatchables: The Season in Review
We recap the 2022 fantasy football season in the format of the popular Ringer movie podcast ‘The Rewatchables.’ We give out awards like What’s Aged the Best, the Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take, Apex Mountain, Picking Nits, Best Waiver Wire Pickup of the Year, the Play of the Year, the Winner of the Fantasy Season, and more.Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.comHosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 10, 2023 • 1h 6min
Fantasy Championship Chaos and Week 18 Winners and Losers
We start off by addressing an unprecedented ending to a fantasy football season—following the canceling of the Bills-Bengals Week 17 game—and the chaos that ensued in thousands of fantasy championship matchups. We later recap the end of the regular season and highlight the biggest winners and losers from the week, including Brock Purdy’s incredible run, the Texans blowing the no. 1 pick, the Cardinals firing Kliff Kingsbury, and Brandon Staley refusing to sit his starters.Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com.Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 5min
Championship Murderers, Fantasy Randomness, and Sneaky MVPs
We recap Week 17 and highlight the players that murdered your championship, led by Justin Jefferson, Trevor Lawrence, and DK Metcalf. We then discuss the players like Mike Evans who randomly blew up this week, Tom Brady’s huge day, winners of the season, and the sneaky over-performers. We then add our final player this year to the Ringer Fantasy Burn Book.Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com.Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 30, 2022 • 57min
Week 17 Championship Matchups and Questions
We kick off our NFL Week 17 preview by discussing the upheaval at the quarterback position this year, the ominous threat of teams benching their starters, the stars you may want to consider sitting, and more.Check out our Week 17 Fantasy Football Rankings for this week's positional rankings, and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.comHosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 1min
The Coolest Players in the 2023 Draft | The Ringer NFL Draft Show
Welcome back to another episode of The Ringer NFL Draft Show! This week, we discuss who we think are some of the coolest players in the 2023 draft, before closing the show with America’s favorite segment, “Two Jargons, One Lie” (51:17).Bijan Robinson, RB Texas (03:42)Quinton Johnston, WR, TCU (09:22)Jalin Hyatt, WR, Tennessee (15:13)Darnell Washington, TE, Georgia (19:24)Devon Achane, RB, Texas A&M (26:46)Joey Porter Jr., CB, Penn State (31:13)Deuce Vaughn, RB, Kansas State(37:03)Tyree Wilson, OLB, Texas Tech (40:48)Check back in on this feed every Thursday for more of The Ringer NFL Draft Show.Check out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.comHosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Ben SolakProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 27, 2022 • 1h 7min
Week 16 Awards and Week 17 Waiver Wire Targets
We recap Week 16 by giving out holiday awards for the biggest losers, including the Festivus airing of grievances to the stars who screwed us. We praise the tight end resurgence in the fantasy playoffs and the white-hot Vikings, and we give the Easter resurrection award to a certain Los Angeles Rams running back. Then we add our next player to The Ringer Fantasy Burn Book before running through the injuries from Week 15 and highlighting our must-add players for Week 17 with our favorite format, Showdown Time.(02:21) - Week 16 Awards(38:28) - RB Targets(43:31) - WR Targets(49:17) - TE Targets(59:05) - DEF StreamersCheck out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com.Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 23, 2022 • 1h 7min
Week 16 Weather Disasters, Must-Starts, and Must-Benches
We kick off our NFL Week 16 preview by discussing what could be the worst weather weekend in NFL history, with windchill temperatures forecasted to drop below zero in multiple cities. We talk about the players you should think about benching because of the weather, and how you should handle the abundance of backup quarterbacks starting this week. We finish the show by answering listener emails.Check out our Week 16 Fantasy Football Rankings for this week's positional rankings, and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.comHosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 22, 2022 • 53min
Why Will Levis Is Going to Be the No. 1 Pick, Plus Other Potential First-Round QBs | The Ringer NFL Draft Show
Welcome back to another episode of The Ringer NFL Draft Show! This week, Ben reveals why he thinks Kentucky QB Will Levis will be the first pick in next year’s draft (1:48). Along the way, the guys discuss a handful of quarterbacks that may sneak into the first round (16:32), as well as how they compare to USC’s Caleb Williams (35:42). Finally, they close with America’s favorite segment, “Two Jargons, One Lie” (37:07).Will Levis, Kentucky (1:48)Anthony Richardson, Florida (16:32)Hendon Hooker, Tennessee (26:09)Tanner McKee, Stanford (28:30)Check back in on this feed every Thursday for more of The Ringer NFL Draft Show.Check out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.comHosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, Ben Solak, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Kai Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 21, 2022 • 52min
Power Ranking the 2022 Fantasy Lessons to Tattoo on Our Bodies
We inevitably forget the lessons we vowed to always remember by the time the next draft season comes around, so today we power rank the lessons from the 2022 season to tattoo on our bodies, like Guy Pearce in the movie ‘Memento.’Check out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com.Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Kai Grady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dec 20, 2022 • 1h 11min
Week 15 Awards and Week 16 Waiver Wire Targets
We recap Week 15 by giving out awards for the biggest collapse of the day (hard to choose!), a gigantic week for QBs, the fringe players who went ballistic, and the tight ends who ruined your fantasy playoff matchup, and we add our next player to The Ringer Fantasy Burn Book. Then we run through the injuries from Week 15 and offer up our must-add players for Week 16 with our favorite format, Showdown Time.(02:02) - Week 15 Awards(33:09) - RB Targets(41:28 ) - WR Targets(46:53) - TE Targets(54:35) - DEF StreamersCheck out our Weekly Fantasy Football Rankings for positional rankings and more!Email us! ringerfantasyfootball@gmail.com.Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig HorlbeckProducers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices


