Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 15, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- Dec 9, 2025
- 4 min read
This is it! Your fantasy football playoffs have begun! Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 15 will guide you to make the correct decisions for the most important game this year. We need to stay Bayesian and adjust our 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 15 Schedule
Thursday Night Football
Atlanta Falcons at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8:15pm ET
Sunday, December 14th
Las Vegas Raiders at Philadelphia Eagles 1:00pm ET
Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs 1:00pm ET
Cleveland Browns at Chicago Bears 1:00pm ET
Baltimore Ravens at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pm ET
New York Jets at Jacksonville Jaguars 1:00pm ET
Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots 1:00pm ET
Arizona Cardinals at Houston Texans 1:00pm ET
Washington Commanders at New York Giants 1:00pm ET
Indianapolis Colts at Seattle Seahawks 4:25pm ET
Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints 4:25pm ET
Green Bay Packers at Denver Broncos 4:25pm ET
Tennessee Titans at San Francisco 49ers 4:25pm ET
Detroit Lions at Los Angeles Rams 4:25pm ET
Minnesota Vikings at Dallas Cowboys 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football
Miami Dolphins at Pittsburgh Steelers 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
The Colts are planning to bring QB Philip Rivers into their facility Tuesday to work out to see if he may join their practice squad, per Ian Rapoport & Mike Garafolo. They say this is real. Daniel Jones’ season is over, Riley Leonard will start, but Rivers may be an option.
This cannot be considered a serious organization.
Coach Dan Quinn noted Monday that Jayden Daniels is "sore" following Week 14 action, but added that there are no "long-term concerns" with the QB's left (non-throwing) elbow, Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post reports.
Running Back
Coach John Harbaugh said Justice Hill (neck) will be sidelined 3-to-4 weeks, Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic reports.
The Packers opened MarShawn Lloyd's (hamstring) 21-day window in which to return from injured reserve last Monday, Tom Pelissero reports.
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
Joint statement from the NFLPA and NFL:
“Tee Higgins was evaluated twice in game and cleared to return. After the game, in discussion with club medical personnel as part of a postgame evaluation, he notified the team he was experiencing symptoms and was immediately placed in concussion protocol.”
After missing Week 13 and watching these two blows he took on Sunday, we should probably look at how he was allowed to stay in the game.
Mike Evans (collarbone) was listed as a limited participant on Monday's practice estimate, Greg Auman reports.
Alec Pierce left the final drive of Sunday's loss at Jacksonville with an undisclosed injury, but was not in the concussion protocol despite a broadcast report saying he was being evaluated for a concussion, the Indianapolis Star reports.
Tight End
HC Dan Quinn confirmed that TE Zach Ertz suffered a season-ending injury in yesterday’s game. It will keep him out for the rest of the fantasy season, and it could potentially be the end of Ertz’s career. John Bates would be the tight end to pick up off the waiver wire, considering he’s played 88 snaps out of 11 personnel this season compared to just Sinnott's 31 and Yankoff's 11.
David Njoku was ruled out after leaving Sunday's loss to the Titans with a knee injury, Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal reports. He caught his lone target for one yard and a touchdown.
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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