Fantasy football rankings: PFF's consensus top 200 for PPR leagues

There are a few key days over the course of the football year. The start of training camp. The first day of the season. The Super Bowl. The start of the draft.

But for fantasy players, July 4 is (unofficially) one of the biggest. For years, Independence Day has marked the start of the real fantasy football season, meaning it’s time to transition from more theoretical fantasy talk to real, concrete conversation.

With that in mind, a group of the PFF Fantasy team got together to compile PFF’s consensus rankings for those ready to get their draft prep going. It’s a top 200 for PPR leagues. The rankings came from Director of PFF Fantasy Jeff Ratcliffe, senior fantasy analyst Scott Barrett, fantasy editor Daniel Kelley, and fantasy writers Tyler Buecher, Mike Castiglione, Pat Thorman, Dan Schneier, and Brandon Marianne Lee.

We’ll be back later this week with some reactions to some of the specifics, but for now, look through, build your own draft board, and of course, jump on Twitter and tell us where we made stupid decisions.

Related content:

• Mike Castiglione explains his off-the-wall ranks.
• Dan Schneier was the only one who had David Johnson at No. 1 instead of Le'Veon Bell. He details why.
• Brandon Marianne Lee was the wet blanket  on the Patriots in the rankings and explains her rationale.
• Daniel Kelley is not totally sold on the Marshawn Lynch return from retirement meaning he'll be a fantasy superstar again, and explains his hesitation.
• Tyler Buecher noticed that he deviated from the group opinion several times, so he explained the discrepancies.