The kicker position in fantasy football is often considered an afterthought, maybe even a punch line. Drafters will laugh and sneer at league-mates who spend premium draft capital on a kicker.
[2025 Fantasy Draft Rankings: QBs | RBs | WRs | TEs | D/ST | Kickers]
While we definitely don’t recommend being the first manager in your league to draft a kicker, ultimately, we just want the fantasy points — we don’t care which position they’re coming from. And hey, Chris Boswell and Brandon Aubrey scored over 170 fantasy points each last season — that’s more than Zay Flowers and new Bronco J.K. Dobbins did!
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So maybe stop thinking of kickers as some kind of nuisance or totally random week to week, and think of them more as another weapon in your toolbox to get a win over your weekly opponents!
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Check out how the kickers stack up for 2025 in our consensus draft rankings below:
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