Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 12, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- 1 hour ago
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Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 12 will guide you to make the correct decisions. We now have enough data points to breakdown every team. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, no matter how much data we gather there are too many moving parts to be as confident in our predictions in football as we are when analyzing other sports.
Week 12 Schedule
Bye Week: DEN, MIA, LAC, WAS
Thursday Night Football
Buffalo Bills at Houston Texans 8:15pm ET
Sunday, November 23rd
Indianapolis Colts at Kansas City Chiefs 1:00pm ET
New England Patriots at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pm ET
New York Jets at Baltimore Ravens 1:00pm ET
Pittsburgh Steelers at Chicago Bears 1:00pm ET
New York Giants at Detroit Lions 1:00pm ET
Seattle Seahawks at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET
Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers 1:00pm ET
Cleveland Browns at Las Vegas Raiders 4:05pm ET
Jacksonville Jaguars at Arizona Cardinals 4:05pm ET
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys 4:25pm ET
Atlanta Falcons at New Orleans Saints 4:25pm ET
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Los Angeles Rams 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football
Carolina Panthers at San Francisco 49ers 8:15pm ET
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that we are really only looking at positional ranks, not flex or overall rankings. When it comes to who you start in the flex a lot will depend on your specific league rules and roster construction. If players are ranked within 3 spots of each other the difference between them is negligible, they are expected to score the same amount of points, in those cases go with your gut, flip a coin, or join our Discord Channel.
Quarterback
Falcons placed QB Michael Penix (knee) on injured reserve.
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, Penix aggravated a bone bruise and knee sprain he suffered earlier in the season, but also added, “there has been damage to the ACL, which could mean a full reconstruction.”
Falcons coach Raheem Morris said “it’s fair to say [the offense will] look different” with Kirk Cousins as the starter.
Ian Rapoport reports Aaron Rodgers (fractured wrist) will undergo tests to determine whether or not he can play in Week 12 against the Bears.
Jets HC Aaron Glenn has informed the team that Tyrod Taylor will start in Week 12 against the Ravens.
Texans HC DeMeco Ryans said C.J. Stroud’s (concussion) status for Week 12 against the Bills is uncertain.
Running Back
Packers HC Matt LaFleur said Josh Jacobs is dealing with a knee contusion.
When asked if there was a chance Jacobs could play in Week 12 against the Vikings, LaFleur said, “Potentially. We’ll see where he’s at.” Jacobs is not a candidate for injured reserve. Jacobs is reportedly dealing with a decent amount of swelling due to the hard blow dealt to his knee by the turf at MetLife Stadium.
Jaylen Warren said “I could have returned” when asked about the ankle injury he suffered in Week 11 against the Bengals. Warren was walking awfully gingerly on his ankle after going down in the third quarter of Sunday’s contest, so it’s a bit surprising to hear him say he believes he could have returned. Assuming that’s the case, we would expect Warren to have a chance to log some limited practice sessions this week, in hopes of playing in Week 12.
The Process
My usual process is to only take data from the previous six weeks, I truly believe anything older than that holds little relevance unless there is a player returning from injury or some reason to discount the newer information. In Week 2 we have very little information we can be confident in. The last six weeks of the previous season can give some indication, and the preseason could provide a glimpse of what’s to come or it could be a mirage.
Wide Receiver
Ja'Marr Chase has received a one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct during Cincinnati's loss to the Steelers in Week 11, ruling him out for Sunday's matchup against the Patriots, Ian Rapoport reports. Chase is appealing the suspension, per Kelsey Conway of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ian Rapoport reports Drake London suffered a sprained PCL in Week 11’s loss to the Panthers. There’s a good chance London misses more than just one game, but for now, we know he will be sidelined for Week 12 against the Saints.
Tight End
Bills TE Dalton Kincaid (hamstring) was listed as a DNP on Monday’s estimated practice report. Kincaid missed Week 11’s game due to his hamstring injury and could be at risk of missing Week 12 due to the short turnaround to prepare for Thursday night.
Kicker
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
The best way to start our weekly approach is to look at implied team totals based on Vegas odds and adjust from there. We need to pay attention to DFS articles and individual player prop-bets (over/under) to get a good idea of how to project median outcomes. With six weeks of data we can begin to examine the individual matchups some players may have, but we can't overreact to that data. There are so many changes from week-to-week in the NFL the best we can do is project a range of outcomes. Picking the outliers is what wins championships.
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