Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 11 (2025)

Andrew Ball's fantasy football risers, fallers, sleepers, and busts heading into Week 11 of the 2025 season. He identifies players with rising and falling fantasy values.

Welcome back to another edition of Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers as we head into Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season!

The stock of two of fantasy football's biggest busts is on the rise, while former mid-round wide receivers aren't living up to expectations. Plus, it's about that time of the year when we see more rookies emerge.

Let's look around the league and take stock of who's rising, who's falling, and where things might be headed next as we enter Week 11 of the 2025 season.

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Week 11 Fantasy Football Risers

TreVeyon Henderson, RB, New England Patriots

The last time I wrote this article, we were entering Week 5. TreVeyon Henderson, alongside all of the New England running backs, was a faller due to the division of labor. It took almost a month and a half and three injuries, but we finally got the Henderson breakout game that we've been anticipating since the start of the season.

Terrell Jennings handled New England's first four running back touches against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday before he departed with a knee injury. Head coach Mike Vrabel was left with no choice but to hand the backfield keys to the rookie Henderson. The second-round pick took full advantage.

.@TreVeyonH4 IS STILL RUNNING

📺 CBS pic.twitter.com/0PrhqW5xrQ

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) November 9, 2025

Henderson scored on a 55-yard run and the above 69-yard scamper against the Buccaneers, who are considered one of the best run defenses in football. Granted, his other 12 carries went for a total of 23 yards, but you can't teach that kind of speed, and coaches shouldn't be able to keep it off the football field.

Henderson won't be an every-down back when Rhamondre Stevenson (toe) returns. He may not even be an every-down back on Thursday, whether Stevenson is active or not. Sunday was a product of circumstance. However, through the eyes of everybody (and hopefully Vrabel), Henderson has done enough to earn at least half of the timeshare once Stevenson returns to the playing field. You can't put the rookie back in the box.

Jameson Williams, WR, Detroit Lions

Jameson Williams has at least 66 yards and a touchdown in three of his last four games and just put together the best game of his season: six catches, 119 yards, and a score.

But that's the life of a boom-or-bust wide receiver, and it's a story we've seen before, right? It may be different this time around. We can point to a shift in Detroit's offensive philosophy.

Offensive coordinator John Morton isn't calling plays anymore. Head coach Dan Campbell took over those duties. It just happened to coincide with Williams' best game, a player he's repeatedly given glowing reviews? It's hard to look past that being a coincidence.

The Lions designed a play to hit Jameson Williams in space over the middle.

Speed. Space. See ya pic.twitter.com/1KmGVR2YCX

— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) November 9, 2025

Patience can be a frustrating practice. By now, Williams was likely out of lineups or on benches. After all, his one other game in this stretch was a zero-catch goose egg. But if a fantasy manager survived spending a mid-round selection on Williams, they could be in for an exciting end to the season.

Chris Olave, WR, New Orleans Saints

A quarterback change in a lost season gave a feeling of doom and gloom for the rest of Chris Olave's season. Maybe there was nothing to worry about.

Tyler Shough threw the football with a ton of confidence on Sunday afternoon: 19-of-27 for 282 yards and two touchdowns in his second road start. Without his preferred target (in the small sample size), Rashid Shaheed, now a member of the Seattle Seahawks, he was looking toward Olave, just as Spencer Rattler did.

Well, maybe not quite as often as Rattler, but eight targets is nothing to complain about, especially when it turns into 104 yards (a season-high mark) and a touchdown.

Olave was a PPR merchant through the first five games of the season. He didn't hit double-digit yards per reception in any of those games. Since then, he's been over 16 yards per reception in four of five games. That makes him more reliable in any format.

Shough will have his bad games, as any rookie quarterback does. But head coach Kellen Moore will make sure Olave gets his targets and touches. He's a top-15 wide receiver for the rest of the season.

Woody Marks, RB, Houston Texans

Lost in the Jonathan Taylor, De'Von Achane, Jahmyr Gibbs, and TreVeyon Henderson hubbub, Woody Marks quietly put together an impactful and promising Week 10.

The fourth-round rookie picked up his first start of his young career, but it was much more than just happening to be on the field for the first carry. Marks dominated touches and snaps compared to his veteran counterpart, Nick Chubb. The latter saw a season-low 10 snaps and six touches. Marks earned 16 touches on 60 (80%) of the offensive snaps.

His 81 yards and a touchdown led to an RB1 finish. It is important to note that the Texans trailed from 11 minutes remaining in the first quarter until 30 seconds left on the clock. An earlier report said that Houston coaches view Marks as the passing-down running back. However, he also played all four of the snaps inside the 5-yard line. This seems like more than the product of the game script.

Regardless, Marks has at least 13 opportunities in all but one game since late September. It doesn't always lead to the best results, which is, in part, due to the state of the Houston offensive line. But that kind of volume is worth a flex start, at worst. If he is taking control of the backfield, he's in the RB2 range for the rest of the season.

Other Fantasy Football Risers:

• Juwan Johnson
• Aaron Jones Sr.
• Luther Burden III
• Marcus Mariota
• Kimani Vidal
• Alec Pierce
• Dalton Schultz

Week 11 Fantasy Football Fallers

Rachaad White, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Rachaad White lost his starting job to Bucky Irving last season in part because he wasn't an efficient runner. He has other great running back qualities, like catching the football out of the backfield, but picking up ground yardage consistently isn't his forte.

The Tampa Bay coaching staff may be having déjà vu. This time, it's Sean Tucker running with a better purpose, and he now has back-to-back games of double-digit touches. He became the first running back to run for more than 50 yards on the New England defense this season. White hasn't topped 40 rushing yards in three weeks.

White is still heavily involved in the passing game. He has 20 catches in his five starts since starting for the injured Irving. That will help keep him in the flex conversation until Irving returns. But those early down touches could begin to slip more, and that is worrisome for White's weekly ceiling.

Kyle Monangai, RB, Chicago Bears

Fresh off a what was close to a 200-yard effort in Week 9, the hope was that Kyle Monangai would have more opportunities in the timeshare with D'Andre Swift. Head coach Ben Johnson even hinted as much, telling reporters that the Bears would ride the hot hand.

The rookie was not on a hot streak against the Giants (despite being given ample drives to do so). It's not that he was bad; Monangai averaged four yards per carry, and he scored a touchdown (that honestly saved him from a completely disastrous day). But he saw his lowest snap percentage since he became a consistent contributing member of the backfield back in Week 7. Swift out-touched Monangai 18 to seven.

Week 10 may have been the last game that Monangai had standalone value. Chicago's upcoming schedule is brutal against fantasy football running backs. Only two of the Bears' final eight opponents are in the top half of the league in average points allowed to the position. None of the teams is in the top 10.

Monangai may fall in the same category now as our favorite insurance running backs (i.e., Tyler Allgeier and Brian Robinson Jr.) as long as Swift stays healthy.

Jordan Addison, WR, Minnesota Vikings

In reality, all of the Minnesota pass-catchers can be discussed under the Jordan Addison umbrella. But T.J. Hockenson has played his way out of fantasy football lineups, and Justin Jefferson isn't coming out of lineups, so we settle on discussing Addison.

The biggest worry about Addison entering the matchup with the Baltimore Ravens was a potential lack of volume. J.J. McCarthy had averaged 22 pass attempts in his first three starts, which was last in the NFL by a wide margin. With Jefferson dominating the target share, it would leave few opportunities for Addison.

Well, McCarthy's attempts nearly doubled (42), and Addison had three catches for 35 yards. It wasn't actually for a lack of targets -- Addison had 11, just one behind Jefferson's team-leading 12 -- but he and McCarthy connected on just three of them. As a whole, McCarthy completed fewer than 50% of his attempts. And that's not a blip. He's sporting a 52.3% completion percentage this season.

Here's a trend that might blow some minds...

JJ McCarthy has faced 22 situations of 3rd or 4th and short (3 or less) this season

(One fumbled snap + a defensive offsides -- let's set those aside)

6 called runs -- 5-for-6 converting 1st downs

14 called passes -- *0…

— Phil Mackey 🎙 (@PhilMackey) November 11, 2025

That's single-digit PPR points for Addison in both of the games he's played with McCarthy under center. Four of Minnesota's next six opponents are some of the worst defenses against fantasy football wide receivers. However, until Addison and McCarthy link up with regularity, he can't be in starting lineups.

Courtland Sutton, WR, Denver Broncos

Courtland Sutton is still viewed as the No. 1 wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. But the numbers since Week 6 don't tell that story.

Those numbers place Sutton as the WR48 in that span, and Franklin just outside the top 24. Franklin (nine) more than doubled Sutton's targets (four) in Week 10.

Some of the past matchups can explain Sutton's bust weeks. He was shadowed by Sauce Gardner, and the Houston secondary is top five against fantasy football wide receivers. The others, not so much. He was the definition of "fine" against a terrible Dallas defense (four catches for 67 yards) and didn't take advantage of a divisional matchup against an average Las Vegas secondary.

There are two big issues with Sutton moving forward: Bo Nix has regressed as a quarterback in his second season, and the Broncos defense is good enough to lead Denver to wins. It's difficult to be a WR1, let alone a WR2, with that working against you.

Other Fantasy Football Fallers:

• Daniel Jones
• Bo Nix
• Rashid Shaheed

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