Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 13, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- 15 minutes ago
- 4 min read
This is it! Your fantasy football playoffs have essentially begun and trade deadlines have already past or are looming. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 13 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 13 Schedule
No Teams on Bye
Thanksgiving Football
Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions 1:00pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys 4:30pm ET
Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens 8:20pm ET
Friday, November 28th
Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles 3:00pm ET
Sunday, November 30th
Atlanta Falcons at New York Jets 1:00pm ET
Arizona Cardinals at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers at Cleveland Browns 1:00pm ET
Houston Texans at Indianapolis Colts 1:00pm ET
New Orleans Saints at Miami Dolphins 1:00pm ET
Jacksonville Jaguars at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET
Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers 1:00pm ET
Minnesota Vikings at Seattle Seahawks 4:05pm ET
Las Vegas Raiders at Los Angeles Chargers 4:25pm ET
Buffalo Bills at Pittsburgh Steelers 4:25pm ET
Denver Broncos at Washington Commanders 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football
New York Giants at New England Patriots 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
Bengals QB Joe Burrow is practicing in full for Week 13’s game against the Ravens. Burrow has all but announced on Instagram that he’ll be back, Zac Taylor couldn’t bring himself to say the words but we all know what is implied in “anticipating” a return.
Ian Rapoport reports an MRI revealed a low-grade sprain to Baker Mayfield’s shoulder. Rapoport notes that this is “good news with an eye toward next week,” suggesting Mayfield could miss at least one game with the injury.
Running Back
Packers listed Josh Jacobs (knee) as limited on Monday’s estimated practice report. Jacobs fought to play in Week 12’s game against the Vikings but was ultimately scratched before kickoff. The veteran running back said last week that he was hoping to miss only one game at most, so it’s safe to assume he’s trending in the right direction for Thursday’s game against the Lions.
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
Chiefs WR, Rashee Rice (hamstring) was listed as limited on Monday’s estimated practice report. We never like seeing wide receivers dealing with hamstring issues considering the nature of the position, but there likely isn’t reason to be concerned ahead of the team’s Thanksgiving matchup against the Cowboys. As things currently stand, Rice’s hamstring issue is nothing more than something to monitor on a short week. Running back Isiah Pacheco was listed as a full participant, making it likely he returns from a three-game absence in Week 13.
Cardinals HC Jonathan Gannon did not have an update on Marvin Harrison Jr. (appendicitis) to start the week.
Packers listed Matthew Golden (wrist) as limited on Monday’s estimated practice report. Golden didn’t play in Week 12’s game against the Vikings despite being listed as a limited participant all week.
Packers WR Jayden Reed (foot/shoulder) was limited in Monday’s practice.
Packers listed WR Romeo Doubs (wrist) as a full participant on Monday’s estimated practice report. Doubs played through the same wrist injury in Week 12’s win over the Vikings and was removed from the injury report by the end of last week.
Tight End
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.