Jared Goff - 2025 Fantasy Football Busts and Overvalued Draft Picks

Jared Goff is a potential fantasy football bust and overvalued draft pick to avoid in 2025. Read the fantasy football outlook and draft advice for the Detroit Lions quarterback.

RotoBaller Ranking: QB13

Fantasy Draft Analysis: Some quarterbacks need to hit an outlier season to produce a top-end fantasy quarterback season, and Jared Goff is an extension of that same argument. Except for Goff, you must have MORE of an outlier season for Goff to even repeat what he did last season. In 2024, Goff put up 4,629 passing yards and 37 touchdowns in Detroit’s prolific offense and parlayed that to a QB6 finish.

Goff’s rushing floor is non-existent. Goff’s last season with over 100 rushing yards was in 2018, and he has exactly zero rushing touchdowns in three of the last four seasons.

There’s reason to believe that the passing efficiency could worsen with offensive architect Ben Johnson now the Chicago Bears' head coach. The Lions are going to be an above-average offense with the most conservative projection, and the team may pass a little more than the 551 passing attempts that put them in the middle of the pack amongst NFL teams.

Goff is certainly overdrafted as a standalone fantasy quarterback, but if he falls in drafts and you can pair him with a rushing quarterback flier. I don’t hate the bet, but I’m just not drafting Goff, and I won't be content with him as my lone starter for my fantasy team.

Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jamo and Tim Patrick putting in offseason work together 💪

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- Kevin Tompkins

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