9 super fun fantasy football draft order ideas for 2025
You're running through your checklist you go through every year, particularly if you're running a league: Looking into the best fantasy football team names for your squad, coming up with the perfect last-place punishment, and beginning to craft your spreadsheet with sleepers, busts and breakouts.
Now, it's a good time to think about how to determine the draft order. And, yes, that could be done by taking all your fellow managers' names, writing them on slips of paper and pulling them out of a hat. But you know you could do something better, more fun and definitely good for content.
Thanks to social media, we've got the 2025 edition of our now-annual list:
1. Do a combine
It's a classic for a reason.
2. Do a creative race or physical challenge
This is sort of like the combine but sort of not.
3. Get an animal to do it
4. Order a Cameo to get a celebrity to do it
A worthy, memorable investment of money.
5. Use a video game (specifically, a WWE title)
6. Turn the last place punishment as a way to determine the draft order
This is a way to connect last season to this one.
7. Use a competition that's based on an random luck event
From Reddit:
I actually got this idea from a thread on this topic 6+ years ago. We had 12 teams. We all arrived at noon. First thing did was partner up based on pulling names. So 6 pairings. Each pair then pulled out of hats the name of a pizza delivery place and a type of pizza (pepperoni, meat lovers etc). Then at same time we all ordered off Uber eats. It was amazing to have 12 grown men standing on the curb shouting as we saw the first delivery guy round the corner. So the first pair got picks 1 and 2 then each pair just flipped a coin to see who got first or second. You could do 12 pizza orders and avoid pairing up but that seems excessive.
8. Let people pick their draft spot
I've heard of this one for years, and I love it, so here it goes: You have a hat full of names and when you pick one out, that person gets to pick WHICH selection they get. So if you get picked first, you could take the No. 3 pick if you choose. So much drama!
9. Use a fun random generator
I like the one at DraftOrders.com.
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