2025 Fantasy Football IDP Rankings and Tiers Breakdown: Linebackers
The 2025 Fantasy Draft Season is quickly approaching, so it's time to get our minds right, ducks in a row, and tiers in order. Rankings are helpful, but as you likely know, breaking those rankings out into tiers is essential for when you're on the clock. Tiers help you understand when to ignore a positional run and when to jump in.
Linebackers are extremely important in IDP, regardless of the format and scoring your league uses. With defensive sub-packages like dime and nickel becoming more common, there are fewer linebackers on the field than ever before. Traditional 4-3 fronts with three linebackers are almost nonexistent, even on early downs.
As noted in my 2025 IDP Primer, just 10 linebackers played in 90+% of their team's snaps last season, down from 31 in 2023. Overall, just nine linebackers topped 1,000 total snaps, down from 16 in 2023.
Whether it's offense or defense, nothing is more important in fantasy football than opportunities, and it's not hard to see that linebackers who rarely leave the field are extremely valuable.
IDP Rankings and Tiers Breakdown: Linebackers
Tier 1 - Highest Ceiling and Floor
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