The NFL season starts Thursday night, and all Fantasy Football enthusiasts should have one common goal: Crush the competition. And whatever you do, don’t come in last. My fraternity brother Ira has a daughter in a Fantasy league in L.A, and the punishment for coming in last is setting up a lemonade stand on Sunset Boulevard with a T-shirt that says, “I Suck at Fantasy Football.” Another league’s penalty is eating lunch at The Cheesecake Factory sitting opposite a blow-up doll. With these horrors in mind, let’s remember as we set our opening day lineups to use common sense. Start your best players; don’t roll the dice on a sleeper just yet. Good luck to all in 2025. Here we go!

GIDDY UP!

QB Baker Mayfield at Falcons — Both Bucs-Falcons games last year were Fantasy dream shootouts (30-36,

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