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2025 Fantasy Football RB Rankings - Week 5 Start, Sit Running Backs
The running back position is starting to get ravaged by injuries, and bye weeks only further complicate things. To assist your start-sit calls at RB, we're back with our Week 5 fantasy football running back rankings for 2025. Check out the running back rankings below to find out where key RBs like Woody Marks, Michael […]

49ers vs. Rams Start 'Em, Sit 'Em Thursday Night - Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey, Ricky Pearsall, Jauan Jennings, Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, Davante Adams
If you didn't get your fill of NFC West football last Thursday night, I've got some good news for you! In Week 5, we get the other two teams in the division as the San Francisco 49ers travel to face the Los Angeles Rams. For fantasy football, some of the game's elite performers are suiting […]

NFL Week 5 Predictions: Picks and Analysis for Every Football Game
Week 4 of NFL season is now in the books, and with it came a string of injuries, most notably to superstar Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, as well as elite receivers Malik Nabers and Tyreek Hill. Speaking of injuries, the Week 5 slate kicks off with a divisional matchup between the Rams and 49ers with […]

2025 Fantasy Football TE Rankings - Week 5 Start, Sit Tight Ends
Tight ends are always tricky, and bye weeks make the position even more scarce than usual. Use these Week 5 fantasy football tight end rankings as your guide for starts-sit calls at TE this weekend. In the full set of TE rankings below, you will see where key players on the start 'em, sit 'em […]

2025 Fantasy Football QB Rankings - Week 5 Start, Sit Quarterbacks
A spike week from a quarterback can carry a middling fantasy team to a win, so finding the top available option is key if you don't have a must-start stud. To assist with your start-sit calls, we're back with our Week 5 fantasy football quarterback rankings for 2025. Below, check out where Matthew Stafford, Daniel […]

2025 Fantasy Football FLEX Rankings - Week 5 Start, Sit
If you need assistance setting your Week 5 fantasy football lineups, you have come to the right place. Use these Week 5 fantasy football FLEX rankings as your guide to decide between players with similar outlooks at different positions. Below, you will see where key RBs, WRs, and TEs like Wan'Dale Robinson, Woody Marks, Emari […]

2025 Fantasy Football Kicker Rankings - Week 5 Start, Sit Kickers
Kickers can be tricky to navigate for fantasy football, but they can and often do decide the difference between a win and a loss in your matchup. Use our Week 5 fantasy football kicker rankings as your guide for start-sit calls. In the full set of Week 5 kicker rankings below, check out where key […]

Targets, Air Yards, Snap Counts Analysis - Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers for Week 5 (2025)
Welcome back to our fantasy football targets, routes, and snap counts analysis for Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season. Targets are paramount when it comes to evaluating pass-catchers for fantasy football. There are no air yards, receiving yards, receptions, or touchdowns without first earning a target. There’s a reason the biggest and most consistent target-earners […]

NFL Week 5 Fantasy Football Weather Report
Hello everyone, and welcome back to our Week 5 fantasy football weather report for the 2025 NFL season! The first few weeks of games brought us a ton of excitement and very limited weather issues. As a reminder, I will be here each and every week through the Super Bowl to discuss the weather forecasts […]

Start/Sit Chart - All Week 5 Fantasy Football Matchups and Player Ratings
Welcome to Week 5 of the NFL season, and to our fantasy football start/sit chart for all player matchups and all games. This weekly column provides readers with a chart of every player matchup, the opponent, our start/sit recommendation and the matchup rating projection confidence/startability score based on an array of metrics. Start/sit decisions will […]

NFL Pick 'Em Pool Picks (Week 5) - Targets, Avoids, Predictions for Pick'em Contests (2025)
Welcome back to our NFL Pick'em Pool Picks for Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season. The first wave of bye weeks is here, which will knock us down to 14 matchups this week. We have another international game again with the Vikings as they travel to London to face the Cleveland Browns, where rookie […]

Tight Ends Start 'Em, Sit 'Em and Fantasy Football Trends for Week 5 (2025)
The tight-end position is filled with dismay and sorrow every year. There are weekly disappointments consistently, and while four weeks is far too early to be calling anyone a bust, there are several tight ends who have yet to live up to their draft capital. Brock Bowers, Trey McBride, Travis Kelce, and Mark Andrews have […]

Offensive Line Rankings and Impacts - Fantasy Football Matchup Outlooks for Week 5
We've now got four games of data, and panic buttons are getting slapped like dad knees during a Chevy Chase marathon. The Browns and Texans pulled off a rare in-season offensive line trade, with Cam Robinson heading to Cleveland in exchange for a late-round pick swap. It's not all that different from what you're likely […]

Thursday Night Football Bets, Anytime TD Scorer, and Player Props - Week 5 Expert TNF Picks (2025)
Thursday Night Football heads to Inglewood, CA this week for another NFC West matchup between the 3-1 Los Angeles Rams and 3-1 San Francisco 49ers. The Rams controlled the then-undefeated Colts in a sound 27-20 home win, whereas the 49ers were handed their first loss of the season at home by the Jaguars. Kyle Shanahan […]

Fantasy Football Warning Signals for Week 5? Isiah Pacheco, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Khalil Shakir, more
Another week of fantasy football is in the books, and the next one is getting underway, so it is time to assess options and get those lineups set for Week 5. Determining which of your players might be set up for a bust week is an important first step in deciding who will start in […]

WR/CB Matchups to Upgrade and Downgrade - Week 5
Welcome back to our WR/CB Matchups for Week 5 of the 2025 fantasy football season. We have a decent sample of four weeks in the offensive and defensive advanced metrics. Injuries have taken a toll on the wide receiver and cornerback positions. For those unfamiliar, this weekly series looks at fantasy football matchups for wide […]

NFL DFS Lineup Picks for FanDuel, DraftKings - 49ers vs. Rams Thursday Night Showdown
Welcome back, RotoBallers! This is going to make for an interesting Thursday Night Football matchup. The 49ers just ruled out half their offense, including Jauan Jennings, Brock Purdy, and Ricky Pearsall. This should be a big spot for the Rams to take advantage of. The best part of the NFL schedule is that we have […]

Week 5 IDP Rankings for Fantasy Football (2025) - Defense Positional Rankings for LB, DL, DB
Many of us spend the first few weeks of every NFL season thinking the same thing: "This season is really weird. I've never seen anything like this.” Sometimes that comes in the form of the entire league pivoting from historic passing numbers to a run-centric formula; other years, it’s a rash of early injuries or […]

Sneaky Starts, Pivot Plays, and Waiver Wire Stashes for Week 5 Fantasy Football (2025)
This is the time of year when fantasy football managers are put to the test. We have our first week of byes with the Bears, Packers, Falcons, and Steelers on bye. Injuries are quickly piling up as well. This is one of those weeks where some fantasy managers may feel like their team is stacked, […]

Rest-of-Season Fantasy Football Rankings: Week 5 Updates for Top 200 (2025)
We're through four weeks, one whole month, and have seen the entire fantasy football landscape shift beneath our feet, so let's orient ourselves with an updated rest-of-season rankings sheet! Hopefully, you hit the start of bye-week season with a balanced squad that allows you to simply target the best free agents and trades, but we […]

Updated Waiver Wire Rankings for Week 5 (2025): Fantasy Football Pickups for Rachaad White, Michael Carter, Emari Demercado, Kendre Miller, Sean Tucker
Well the injuries have officially started piling up -- fantasy managers will be making roster tweaks with a lot of injury news starting to roll in (along with Week 5 byes arriving). And we're here to help sort through it all. Welcome to our updated waiver wire rankings for fantasy football Week 5 of the […]