Fantasy Football Rankings - Week 9, 2025
- Kev Wheeler
- Oct 28
- 4 min read
Updated: 7 days ago
Your fantasy football season is in make or break territory. Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 9 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 9 Schedule
Bye Week: CLE, NYJ, PHI, TB
Thursday Night Football
Baltimore Ravens at Miami Dolphins 8:15pm ET
Lamar Jackson (hamstring) said he feels 100% with no limitations for Thursday, per Cameron Wolfe.
Jaylen Wright inactive for Thursday.
Sunday, November 2
Los Angeles Chargers at Tennessee Titans 1:00pm ET
Atlanta Falcons at New England Patriots 1:00pm ET
Chicago Bears at Cincinnati Bengals 1:00pm ET
Indianapolis Colts at Pittsburgh Steelers 1:00pm ET
Carolina Panthers at Green Bay Packers 1:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers at New York Giants 1:00pm ET
Denver Broncos at Houston Texans 1:00pm ET
Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions 1:00pm ET
Jacksonville Jaguars at Las Vegas Raiders 4:05pm ET
New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Rams 4:05pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills 4:25pm ET
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Commanders 8:20pm ET
Monday Night Football
Arizona Cardinals at Dallas Cowboys 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
HC Glenn on if Justin Fields will remain starting QB, via @snyjets:
"I think you know what my answer's going to be on that. This is the bye week and we're going to focus on us. Listen, I have time to make that decision."
Drake Maye has had 200+ pass yards and a 100+ passer rating in 7 straight games
Not only is that the longest streak ever bya QB 23 or younger, but every QB with a streak of 7+ games in a season went on to win the MVP that year. @michaelfflorio.bsky.social
Jayden Daniels (hamstring) fully practices again Thursday.
Cardinals QB Kyler Murray is still limited with his mid-foot sprain.
Brock Purdy (turf toe) was limited again on Thursday.
Running Back
HC Canales on the Chuba Hubbard and Rico Dowdle rotation: "Chuba Hubbard has meant a lot to this team. Wanted to give him an opportunity following his calf injury. We cannot ignore the fact that Rico has been exceptional." @fantasynflnews.bsky.social
Woody Marks (calf) was added to the injury report on Thursday.
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
Ja'Marr Chase has 54 targets in three Joe Flacco starts, which is the most by a receiver over 3 consecutive games in NFL history. Isaac Bruce had the previous record of 53 targets from Weeks 15-17, 1995.
Once upon a time, Kayshon Boutte was the most impactful receiver on a college team that had Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr.
WR Terry McLaurin (quad) did not practice, we expect him to be OUT on Sunday.
Seahawks WR Cooper Kupp (heel) was downgraded to limited practice with a hamstring injury. WR Jake Bobo (achilles) was downgraded to limited practice
Puka Nacua was a full participant in practice Thursday. He said he's feeling "fantastic" and expects to play Sunday.
Nico Collins has officially cleared concussion protocol.
Brian Thomas Jr. (shoulder) limited in practice again Thursday.
Travis Hunter (knee) was limited on Thursday. He was not on the injury report Wednesday.
Ricky Pearsall (knee) did NOT practice again on Thursday.
Brock Bowers (knee), Jakobi Meyers (knee) fully practice again Thursday.
Tight End
Kicker
Defense/Special Teams
Broncos CB Patrick Surtain II, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, suffered a pec strain in the win over the Cowboys, per @rapsheet.bsky.social and @tompelissero.bsky.social. He’s considered week-to-week and he could land on IR.
News or Hype?
The best way to start our Week 8 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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