The 2025 Preseason Football Dream Team will be published by Strib Varsity, the Minnesota Star Tribune’s new high school sports franchise, on Monday morning. If waiting isn’t your thing, this video will deliver all the spoilers.

Randy Shaver, the longtime face of Minnesota high school football coverage who is partnering with Strib Varsity this season, sat down with Strib Varsity reporters Jim Paulsen and Marcus Fuller to discuss the Dream Team selections. You can watch that conversation in the video embedded in this article.

Paulsen led the way on Strib Varsity’s selection process, and you’ll hear both reporters talk about what makes these players from across Minnesota stand out. Shaver adds some of his own insights as well.

It’s a conversation that will get you excited and ready for the season, and get you ready for the publishing of the Strib Varsity Preseason Dream Team article online on Monday at stribvarsity.com.

Minnesota Top 25 is next

Coming soon is a second video from Strib Varsity and Shaver featuring a conversation around the Preseason Minnesota Top 25. Paulsen again led the way with these selections, and he’ll be joined by fellow reporter Cassidy Hettesheimer. Coming soon to stribvarsity.com.