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Adam Koffler's fantasy football risers, fallers, sleepers, and busts heading into Week 14 of the 2025 season. He identifies players with rising and falling fantasy values.
It's the final playoff push! For most, there's just one more week before the fantasy football playoffs commence in Week 15. It's time to lock in that playoff spot.
For one last time in the fantasy football regular season, let's take a look at whose stock is rising and whose stock is falling coming out of the previous week.
As always, we'll try not to highlight outlier performances without merit. Instead, we'll aim to discuss those players who have staying power in the coming weeks. The Same thing goes for the fallers; their outlooks don't look so great in Week 14 and beyond.
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Week 14 Fantasy Football Risers
Adonai Mitchell, WR, New York Jets
Mitchell had nine catches on 16 targets in eight games with the Colts this season. Then he was traded to the Jets in the Sauce Gardner trade.
Since that point, he's caught 11-of-25 targets in his first three games with his new team. In Week 13, Mitchell led all pass-catchers with a 50% first-read target share (per Fantasy Points Data).
little magic from Tyrod ➡️ 26-yard gain for AD Mitchell
📺: #NYJvsBAL on CBS | @paramountplus pic.twitter.com/5SY966lucy
— New York Jets (@nyjets) November 23, 2025
Over the last two weeks, no wide receiver had a higher air yards share (64.2%) than Mitchell. His role with the Jets is elite with Garrett Wilson on the sidelines.
Wilson might return this season, but he's definitely out in Week 14, which will be his fourth game missed after being placed on IR with a knee injury.
Until that point, Mitchell should be viewed as a WR2 from now on, especially with an upgraded passer in Tyrod Taylor under center.
Start him with confidence at least until Wilson returns to the lineup.
Jakobi Meyers, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars
Meyers, like Mitchell, has only been on his new team for a few weeks now, and like Mitchell, Meyers appears to be the WR1 in town.
Even with Brian Thomas Jr. returning and Brenton Strange back to full speed, it was still Meyers operating as the team's WR1 in Week 13.
Per Fantasy Points Data, Meyers led all Jags pass-catchers with a 35.3% first-read target share and a 0.138 first downs per route run. Those are elite numbers.
Meyers' 2.63 yards per route run in four games with the Jaguars ranks 11th among wideouts since Week 10.
In Week 13, Parker Washington left early with a hip injury. With his status up in the air in Week 14, Meyers further solidifies his place in the pecking order.
Up next is a favorable matchup against a Colts secondary that will be missing Gardner.
Christian Watson, WR, Green Bay Packers
Some, including myself, thought it might be a lost season for Watson as he returned from ACL reconstruction surgery.
He has slowly ramped up this season since returning in Week 8, but he's earned more targets every week.
That culminated in his first-ever (yes, his first-ever) double-digit target game in Week 13.
Watson also has three touchdowns in his last three games.
LOVE TO WATSON. 51 YARD TOUCHDOWN
GBvsDET on FOX/FOX One/Tubi
Also streaming on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/ByBYFLCTsN— NFL (@NFL) November 27, 2025
Watson has been quietly very consistent since his return, averaging 60.5 yards per game in six games.
In the last two weeks in particular, Watson's utilization has been elite. Per Fantasy Points Data, he has a 32.7% target share (37.1% first-read) and a 52.8% air yards share while averaging 0.36 targets per route run.
That's with Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks in the mix.
Matthew Golden has been out, but he hasn't shown the ability to command targets consistently.
Meanwhile, Jayden Reed is also slated to return (sometime soon), but still hasn't received medical clearance and will need time to ramp back up.
For now, Watson is the home run hitter in Green Bay, and it appears Jordan Love is going to look his way on multiple deep shots per game.
Bucky Irving, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
After missing nearly half the season, Bucky returned in Week 13. He played just 52% of the snaps, but dominated touches in the backfield.
He paced Sean Tucker and Rachaad White with a 73.1% in his first game back. Todd Bowles made it sound like he'd be eased in, but that wasn't the case at all.
Irving picked up right where he left off, totaling 81 yards and a score on his 19 touches. He looked like his old self, showing patience and making guys miss.
Bucky Irving is back in the end zone!
AZvsTB on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/q3j5PMZoev
— NFL (@NFL) November 30, 2025
The Buccaneers have a very favorable rest-of-season schedule, so Bucky fantasy managers are certainly thrilled to see 19 touches in his very first game back after missing eight weeks of action.
There's much more to come in matchups against the Saints, Falcons, Panthers, and Dolphins to round out the fantasy football season.
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Week 14 Fantasy Football Fallers
Troy Franklin, WR, Denver Broncos
Heading into the team's bye in Week 12, it appeared Franklin had taken over as the Broncos' WR1 (ahead of even Courtland Sutton).
Things changed in Week 13. Franklin saw just three targets on just 53% of the snaps. Rookie wideout Pat Bryant earned seven targets on a 70% snap share, surpassing Franklin in the pecking order.
Bryant has slowly been earning more and more snaps, and it ultimately culminated in him surpassing Franklin in the pecking order last weekend.
Does it stick? It's impossible to know for sure, given Sean Payton's history of mixing things up, but Bryant didn't do anything to "lose" footing per se.
Franklin's three targets in Week 13 (7% target share) were a season low, trailing not one, not two, not three, but six other Broncos in the game.
Travis Etienne Jr., RB, Jacksonville Jaguars
Etienne is still very much the "starter" in Jacksonville, but he's been losing his footing a bit.
His touches have trended down over the last few weeks, and he's been ceding goal-line work to rookie Bhayshul Tuten. Offensive coordinator Grant Udinski explained why:
#Jaguars OC Grant Udinski on what makes Bhayshul Tuten an effective goal-line option: https://t.co/qZw2tHxoPE pic.twitter.com/OVwyo3feYq
— The Coachspeak Index (@CoachspeakIndex) December 1, 2025
Etienne is still going to get his touches, but Tuten isn't going away. If anything, the rookie will continue to earn valuable work as the season goes on.
That spells danger for Etienne, who thrives on volume and high-value touches (receptions and goal-line opportunities) to return fantasy value.
You're likely still starting Etienne in Week 14 vs. the Colts, but he's not as securely inside the top-15 RBs as he was earlier in the season.
Oronde Gadsden, TE, Los Angeles Chargers
Gadsden looked like a league-winner in the middle part of the season.
From Weeks 6-9, he averaged 94.3 yards on 6.8 targets per game. Since then, in his last three games, he's averaged just 27 yards on 4.3 targets per game.
The difference? Joe Alt and Quentin Johnston, apparently. QJ missed a game and wasn't fully healthy during Gadsden's hero stretch.
Alt has been out since Week 10, when Gadsden started to come back down to earth.
Oddly enough, the Chargers are running the ball more without Alt, but that's come as a result of a couple of positive game scripts.
Those positive game scripts might come to an end in the coming weeks against Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Dallas.
For now, Gadsden looks like a faller, but that could shift if Justin Herbert (left hand surgery) doesn't miss any time.
If he does miss time, and the Chargers are forced to start Trey Lance, look elsewhere for a tight end in Week 14.
Emeka Egbuka, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Egbuka's targets have still been there (eight in each of the last two games), but the Buccaneers are starting to get healthy.
Chris Godwin Jr. returned in Week 12 and is slowly ramping up. Irving returned last weekend and immediately got 19 touches.
Mike Evans is also on the cusp of a return to the lineup. Egbuka is great, there's no doubt about that, but his share of the opportunity pie is set to take a hit.
In Godwin's two games back, Emeka averaged just 3.5 catches for 37 yards. Baker Mayfield trusts Godwin in key situations.
Despite running just 36 routes in the last two games (compared to 67 for Egbuka), Godwin had four receiving first downs, while Egbuka had just two.
At this point, he's more of a boom-or-bust type player, with fewer than double-digit fantasy points in six of his last seven outings.
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