Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 13, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- Nov 26, 2025
- 6 min read
Updated: Nov 27, 2025
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.
Baker Mayfield has a low-grade sprain on his shoulder, per @AdamSchefter. Teddy Bridgewater will get the majority of first-team reps this week in practice, per HC Todd Bowles. The team is still hopeful Baker can play in Week 13.
Colts QB Daniel Jones has a fracture in his fibula, per @RapSheet. Jones will continue to try and play through it and was listed as a full participant in practice.
QB C.J. Stroud remains in concussion protocol despite practicing on Wednesday, per HC DeMeco Ryans. He’s expected to continue progressing and could clear protocol ahead of Sunday’s game vs. the Colts, per @AaronWilson_NFL.
Running Back
Bucky Irving started the 2025 campaign with strong performances, averaging 18.0 PPR points per game over the first four weeks. He wasn’t as effective a runner compared to 2024, but his 19 receptions were tied for the third most among running backs. Foot and shoulder injuries have held him out for half the season, but he is slated to return this week. He was a full participant in practice Wednesday.@pffnatejahnke.bsky.social
Rico Dowdle broke out in Weeks 5 and 6, running 53 times for 389 yards and scoring two touchdowns while Chuba Hubbard was injured. The Panthers went back to a two-man rotation for two weeks before giving Dowdle control of the backfield. He handled at least 20 touches in each game from Weeks 9-11, averaging 19.5 PPR points per outing during that stretch (eighth best among running backs). Last week, Carolina turned Chuba Hubbard into its passing-game back. The Panthers ran only 43 offensive plays, and they were playing from behind for all of them. Dowdle ran six times for 38 yards and caught four passes for 36 yards. The Panthers play the Los Angeles Rams this week. The Rams have allowed the third-fewest fantasy points to running backs this season.@pffnatejahnke.bsky.social
Alvin Kamara suffered a sprained MCL in Week 12 and didn’t return. The Saints already signed another running back, Evan Hull, to the 53-man roster, so it appears the team expects Kamara to miss this week at a minimum. Devin Neal has been the Saints' primary RB2 since Kendre Miller landed on injured reserve, taking over as the third-down back and assuming general backup duties. However, tight end Taysom Hill will likely get more carries inside the 10, capping Neal’s TD upside. @pffnatejahnke.bsky.social
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
Wan’Dale Robinson totaled 156 yards and a TD on nine receptions against Detroit in Week 12. He saw 45 percent of the Giants’ air yards and was targeted on a lofty 35 percent of his routes. Jaxson Dart’s likely Week 13 return is a hit to Robinson’s fantasy prospects. That’s mostly because nothing is better for a receivers’ prospects than a quarterback like Jameis Winston. The Giants have averaged 312 air yards per game in games Winston starts this season. With Dart under center, they averaged 233 air yards per game. @dennycarter.bsky.social
Adonai Mitchell (NYJ) is a screaming (positive) regression play entering Week 13. All the guy does is get open and command high-value targets. If he could ever hold on to everything he drops he would be an every week starter. Mitchell is an athletic freak, he gets targeted at a high rate and piles up air yards. He’s been targeted on 29 percent of his pass routes over the last two games after being traded from the Colts to the Jets. @dennycarter.bsky.social
Saints WR Chris Olave left practice early today due to a back issue, per @Kat_Terrell. He was officially listed as a limited participant.
WR Drake London is “doubtful” for Week 13, per HC Raheem Morris.
Cardinals HC Jonathan Gannon did not have an update on Marvin Harrison Jr. (appendicitis) to start the week.
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.
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.
Tight End
Last week against the Raiders, with Shedeur Sanders drawing his first start, Harold Fannin drew a target on a whopping 43 percent of his pass routes. He ran a route on 67 percent of the Browns’ drop backs while David Njoku was stuck at 27 percent -- usage that could suggest the Browns are ready to see what they have in their young players for 2026 and beyond. @dennycarter.bsky.social
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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