OUTCOME The core strategy of treating TEs 18–25 as a gamble tier proved partially correct: Goedert was the clear outlier, finishing as a top-6 TE with a career-high 11 TDs and 60 catches — far too good to be treated as a late-round streamer. Waller (6 TDs in 9 games, IR'd) and Strange (46 catches, 540 yards, 3 TDs in 12 games) showed boom/bust gamble value as predicted. However, several others disappointed even by streamer standards: Ertz tore his ACL in Week 14 (50/504/4 but then gone), Otton had zero TDs through most of the season (59 catches, 572 yards, 1 TD), Freiermuth finished TE24 (41/486/4 in a crowded Pittsburgh room), Mason Taylor ended as a TE32-35 with a neck injury ending his season after Week 13 (44/369/1), and Okonkwo ranked TE22 with only 2 TDs. The prediction was right that this tier required streaming luck, but misidentified Goedert as belonging here and underestimated how injury- and disappointment-prone the group would be as a whole.

OUTCOME The prediction to draft Bijan Robinson at 1.02 in dynasty and pivot to a Gibbs-like workhorse strategy to 'SMASH' proved largely correct. Bijan Robinson finished as the RB2/RB3 in PPR formats with a league-leading 2,298 scrimmage yards and 11 TDs on 366 touches in 2025, validating him as a dynasty cornerstone. Gibbs also delivered as a top-3 fantasy RB with 1,223 rushing yards, 13 rushing TDs, 77 receptions, and 18 total TDs across 17 games, making the overall 'SMASH' thesis accurate — though the note specifically references 'Anthony Gibbs' when the player is Jahmyr Gibbs, a minor but notable error in the original take.

OUTCOME Dynasty Dad's top-12 PPR draft board was largely consensus-accurate for the players who stayed healthy — Chase at #1, Bijan Robinson, Gibbs, and Barkley in the top tier all performed well, with Robinson finishing as RB2 in PPR and McCaffrey finishing as the overall RB1. However, significant misses drag the score down: Malik Nabers (ranked #8) was the biggest bust of the season at his position after missing 13 games with injury, Nico Collins hit concussion protocol mid-season limiting his output, CeeDee Lamb missed ~4 games and posted his lowest totals since his rookie year, and Justin Jefferson was ranked far too low at #6 while Jaxon Smith-Njigba — completely absent from this list — finished as the AP Offensive Player of the Year with a league-leading 1,793 receiving yards. The board got the general tier structure mostly right but several specific slot placements and omissions proved costly.

OUTCOME Swift was indeed the Day 1 starter and held the lead-back role throughout the 2025 season, finishing as the RB15 in PPR with 1,087 rushing yards, 299 receiving yards, and 10 TDs. However, the 'more potential to grow / not the bell cow' framing proved partially right but incomplete — rookie seventh-rounder Kyle Monangai emerged as a genuine timeshare partner, splitting snaps nearly evenly with Swift in the second half of the season, limiting his upside ceiling despite a strong overall year.