Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 17, 2025

This is it! You're in the championship! Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 17 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.

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Week 17 Schedule

Thursday (X-mas) Football

Dallas Cowboys at Washington Commanders 1:00pm ET

Detroit Lions at Minnesota Vikings 4:30pm ET

Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs 8:15pm ET

Saturday, December 27th

Houston Texans at Los Angeles Chargers 4:30pm ET

Baltimore Ravens at Green Bay Packers 8:00pm ET

Sunday, December 28th

Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Miami Dolphins 1:00pm ET

Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns 1:00pm ET

Arizona Cardinals at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pm ET

Jacksonville Jaguars at Indianapolis Colts 1:00pm ET

Seattle Seahawks at Carolina Panthers 1:00pm ET

New England Patriots at New York Jets 1:00pm ET

New Orleans Saints at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET

New York Giants at Las Vegas Raiders 4:05pm ET

Philadelphia Eagles at Buffalo Bills 4:25pm ET

Chicago Bears at San Francisco 49ers 8:20pm ET

Monday Night Football

Los Angeles Rams at Atlanta Falcons 8:15pm ET

Week 17 Must Starts

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

Top 12 QB - Week 17 (pictures not updated, check rankings)

Running Back

Top 12 RB - Week 17 (pictures not updated, check rankings)

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.

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Wide Receiver

Top 12 WR - Week 17 (pictures not updated, check rankings)

Tight End

Top 12 TE - Week 17 (pictures not updated, check rankings)

Kicker

Top 12 K - Week 17 (pictures not updated, check rankings)

Defense/Special Teams

(See rankings below for updates)

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.