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Adam Koffler's fantasy football risers, fallers, sleepers, and busts heading into Week 13 of the 2025 season. He identifies players with rising and falling fantasy values.
Another week in the books. For most, just two more weeks are left in the fantasy football regular season. Some of us are locked into the playoffs, while others are fighting for their lives to get into the big dance.
In our Week 13 Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers article, we'll take a look at whose stock increased and whose decreased the most coming out of Week 12.
Are the biggest risers becoming "must-starts?" Are the biggest fallers becoming "must-sits?" Here's who's rising and falling heading into Week 13.
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Week 13 Fantasy Football Risers
Kyle Monangai, RB, Chicago Bears
It took 11 games, but it appears the seventh-round rookie has finally overtaken veteran D'Andre Swift.
Monangai had a 57% RB opportunity share in Week 12 on a 54% snap share. The snap share was his highest of the season with Swift active.
Additionally, the rookie runner has scored a touchdown in three consecutive weeks, while Swift hasn't found the end zone since Week 8.
It feels like Ben Johnson has found his ideal split for the backfield, so expect Monangai to get more goal-line opportunities in the weeks ahead.
Former Bears great Matt Forte believes Monangai has earned the right to be on the field.
Matt Forte shares what has stood out to him about Kyle Monangai.
"I see the selflessness in him, saying, 'I'm going to go out here and earn the right to be on the field,'" Forte says of Monangai. pic.twitter.com/7FRwHAHmHK
— 670 The Score (@670TheScore) November 25, 2025
Swift will undoubtedly still play a role in Chicago's offense, but it won't be as lucrative as it was early in the season.
With 12+ touches in each of his last two games and three touchdowns in his previous three games, Monangai is a startable RB2 or flex in Week 13 vs. Philadelphia.
Wan'Dale Robinson, WR, New York Giants
Robinson has been a target machine with Jameis Winston under center in the last two weeks.
In Week 11, he had a 31% target share. In Week 12, a whopping 41% target share. Wan'Dale turned his 14 Week 12 targets into 156 yards and a touchdown, getting loose on multiple plays downfield.
DOUBLE PASS TD. JAMEIS TO WANDALE.
NYGvsDET on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/Wsxp1H7vpH
— NFL (@NFL) November 23, 2025
Per Underdog's Hayden Winks, Robinson ranked fifth in WR usage in Week 12 (18.5 expected fantasy points), behind just Michael Wilson, Rashee Rice, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Robinson is a back-end WR1 on the year despite scoring just three touchdowns on 102 targets, thanks in large part to his career-best 12.03 yards per catch.
With double-digit targets and massive target shares in four of his last six games, expect the train to continue rolling along, despite who's under center for the New York Giants.
John Metchie III, WR, New York Jets
Metchie III started his 2025 season with the Philadelphia Eagles after two seasons in Houston. He was then traded to the Jets ahead of the 2025 trade deadline.
It took him a couple of games to get acclimated, but it appears he's finally done so. In Week 12, Metchie went 6-65-1 on seven targets.
He played on 86% of the snaps and operated as a top-2 receiver alongside Adonai Mitchell. Metchie has caught 9-of-10 targets in his last two games, while Mitchell has caught just 3-of-13.
In Week 12, the Jets went with Tyrod Taylor over Justin Fields at quarterback. That led to 17 completions, a number Fields hit in just three of nine starts this season.
Per Fantasy Points Data, Metchie led the team with a 31.3% first-read target share and 2.17 yards per route run last week.
Next up is a friendly matchup against a Falcons secondary that has been vulnerable through the air. Metchie makes for a startable WR3/4 in Week 13.
Kenneth Gainwell, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers
Even with Jaylen Warren active in Week 12, Gainwell still totaled 122 yards on 16 touches. That comes after a 105-yard, two-touchdown performance on 16 touches in Week 11.
But it's Gainwell, not Warren, that has the more fruitful role for fantasy football. He has 14 targets to Warren's just two in the last two games.
Considering a target is worth roughly 2.55 times a carry in full PPR leagues, that's a significant difference in opportunity share for the two running backs.
Per Fantasy Points Data, Gainwell is seventh in expected fantasy points per game in the last two weeks (18.5), while Warren is just 37th (9.1).
In addition to being a spectacular receiver, Gainwell is also a menace in pass protection.
Great job by Kenneth Gainwell in 3rd down pass pro here. #Steelers pic.twitter.com/NeKOL2UBCh
— Alex Kozora (@Alex_Kozora) November 24, 2025
Expect his role to only increase as the Steelers look to protect the quarterback and utilize a legitimate weapon in the passing game.
Start him as an RB2 in full PPR leagues in Week 13 vs. Buffalo.
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Week 13 Fantasy Football Fallers
Stefon Diggs, WR, New England Patriots
Diggs has been a part-time player for much of the 2025 season. As a result, he's had some up-and-down performances throughout the year. Week 12 was one of those down weeks.
Diggs saw just three targets, turning them into two catches for 20 yards. That comes after a 105-yard performance on 11 targets.
Mack Hollins has recently been a mainstay in the Patriots' passing attack. So has Hunter Henry. The difference in Week 12 was the return of Kayshon Boutte.
Boutte played 80% of the snaps, which led to just a 48% snap share for Diggs.
There will be weeks that Diggs goes off, but they've been few and far between this season. He's caught fewer than four balls or totaled fewer than 40 yards in half of his games this season.
D'Andre Swift, RB, Chicago Bears
Swift played a season-low 45% of the snaps in Week 12. He also touched the ball a season-low nine times.
Some of that was due to a costly fumble, but some of it was also due to Monangai producing on his touches.
It's taken over half of the season, but it appears Swift has finally lost a stranglehold on the RB1 job in Chicago.
Chicago Bears Round 7 rookie RB Kyle Monangai appears to be overtaking D'Andre Swift through 12 weeks of football https://t.co/C5XDiBTRgw pic.twitter.com/ojP606nE7p
— Jacob Gibbs (@jagibbs_23) November 23, 2025
Swift probably won't find himself fully in the dog house after his fumble, as he's put the ball on the ground just twice this season.
However, he might find himself in a role similar to the one he was in a few years ago in Detroit under Johnson, when he played 40-45% of the snaps in any given game.
Josh Downs, WR, Indianapolis Colts
Downs has been phased out of the Colts' offense for the past two weeks. To say his stock is "down" would be an understatement (pun fully intended).
Despite back-to-back competitive games, the Colts' primary slot receiver has played on just 45% of the team's offensive snaps. His eight targets trail Michael Pittman Jr., Alec Pierce, and Tyler Warren.
He's now firmly the fourth option in the passing attack. Some other fourth options on other teams include guys like Jahan Dotson, Ryan Flournoy, and Jordan Whittington, all unstartable players in fantasy football.
So far this season, Downs has scored double-digit fantasy points in just half of his games and has eclipsed 15 points just twice.
Last season, he scored double-digit fantasy points in 9-of-14 games and went over 15 points seven times.
The Warren effect?
Ricky Pearsall, WR, San Francisco 49ers
Pearsall returned to the field in Week 11 after missing six games due to a knee injury. He immediately played 75% of the snaps, but saw just two targets in his return.
Last week, he still played 75% of the snaps and saw just four targets. He caught just two of those targets for six years.
Pearsall is likely still ramping up to 100% health, but it's clear, like Downs, that he's fourth in the pecking order behind George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey, and Jauan Jennings.
The 49ers do have a bye upcoming in Week 14, so it's possible Pearsall is close to 100% coming out of the bye, but you can't trust him in Week 13 against a tough Browns secondary.
Look elsewhere for your WR3/4 or flex play this weekend.
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