Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 2, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- Sep 11
- 4 min read
Updated: Sep 14
Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 2 are likely to look very different between most Fantasy Football sites. Many analysts know not to overreact to what we saw in Week 1, but we definitely need to use some of the information to stay Bayesian and adjust or prior predictions. There is tremendous variance in football every week, we just don’t have relevant, applicable data to go from yet. We can use stats from last season, but every team has changed since then, some in very significant ways, on both offense and defense.
Justin Jefferson in his rookie season:
Week 1 - 3 targets, 2/26/0 receiving line, 4.6 PPR fantasy points
Week 2 - 3 targets - 3/44/0 - 7.4 pts
Week 3 - 9 targets - 7/145/1 - 27.5 pts
Full season - 125 targets - 88/1,400/7 - WR8
The first couple of weeks we tend to confuse outlier weeks as predictive indicators.
Week 2 Schedule
Thursday, 8:15 p.m., Prime Video
Washington Commanders vs. Green Bay Packers -3.5
MATCHUP TIME TV
Jacksonville @ Cincinnati 1:00 PM CBS Line: CIN -3.5
New York @ Dallas 1:00 PM FOX Line: DAL -5.5
Chicago @ Detroit 1:00 PM FOX Line: DET -6.5
Los Angeles @ Tennessee 1:00 PM CBS Line: LAR -5.5
New England @ Miami 1:00 PM CBS Line: MIA -1.5
San Francisco @ New Orleans 1:00 PM FOX Line: SF -3.5
Buffalo @ New York 1:00 PM CBS Line: BUF -6.5
Seattle @ Pittsburgh 1:00 PM FOX Line: PIT -3.5
Cleveland @ Baltimore 1:00 PM CBS Line: BAL -11.5
Denver @ Indianapolis 4:05 PM CBS Line: DEN -1.5
Carolina @ Arizona 4:05 PM CBS Line: ARI -7.5
Philadelphia @ Kansas City 4:25 PM FOX Line: PHI -1.5
Atlanta @ Minnesota 8:20 PM NBC Line: MIN -3.5
Monday, September 15, 2025
Tampa Bay @ Houston 7:00 PM ABC Line: HOU -2.5
Los Angeles @ Las Vegas 10:00 PM ESPN Line: LAC -3.5
Fantasy Football Weekly Rankings
When examining these fantasy football weekly rankings, take into consideration that I am 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
Running Back
The Philadelphia Eagles have traded for Jacksonville Jaguars running back Tank Bigsby, a source confirmed several media reports to PhillyVoice Monday night. This will devalue Bigsby and Will Shipley, but Travis Etienne and Bhayshul Tuten shoot-up our Rest of Season rankings.
In Week 1, Breece Hall didn’t play as much as he did last season, but he did rush 19 times for 107 yards and caught two passes for 38 yards. Hall led a two-man rotation with Braelon
Allen on early downs, and Isaiah Davis took the passing-down work. It was promising for Hall to see over half of the short-yardage and goal-line work combined, considering this is a situation where Allen typically excels. Hall can still be a fantasy starter playing 57.8% of New York's offensive snaps, but it will be much harder than in past years when he played a higher snap rate. https://bsky.app/profile/pffnatejahnke.bsky.social/post/3lydrmiriuk2w
Travis Etienne ran 16 times for 143 yards and caught three passes for 13 yards. Etienne was the clear early-down back, playing 70% of the snaps in those situations. While Allen seemed to be fourth on the depth chart, he ended up winning the third-down role, playing 80% of the snaps in those situations. https://bsky.app/profile/pffnatejahnke.bsky.social/post/3lydrmiriuk2w
Zach Charbonnet played more often in multiple situations compared to last season and led the team in carries, rushing yards and touchdowns. Walker played 57% of the early-down snaps, which was a step down from last season. Charbonnet took the two-minute drill snaps back and also took the goal-line snaps. https://bsky.app/profile/pffnatejahnke.bsky.social/post/3lydrmiriuk2w
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
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ first-round rookie Emeka Egbuka dominated in his first game, catching four passes for 67 yards and two touchdowns.
New England had four different receivers who all played significant snaps. Kayshon Boutte, Stefon Diggs and DeMario Douglas were the primary receivers in three-receiver sets, while Boutte and Mack Hollins were the primary receivers in two-receiver sets. This left Boutte as the Patriots' lead receiver, catching six passes for 103 yards. Boutte’s 2.64 yards per true route were the fourth-best among all wide receivers this week.
Kayshon Boutte has been a Top-18 fantasy WR in three of his last four games with Drake Maye.
Tight End
Kicker
Defense/Special Teams
News or Hype?
Week 2 rankings are still fairly narrative based, and I will try to include that information as the week progresses. I think the best way to start our Week 2 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.
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