Fantasy Football Risers and Fallers - Week 15

December 10, 2025

Adam Koffler's fantasy football risers, fallers, sleepers, and busts heading into Week 15 of the 2025 season. He identifies players with rising and falling fantasy values.

If you're reading this, you're likely in the fantasy football playoffs. Congratulations! You're one step closer to being crowned a champion.

As we do each week, let's take a look at whose stock is rising and whose stock is falling coming out of the previous week.

Three of the four risers heading into Week 14 hit (Christian Watson, Jakobi Meyers, Bucky Irving), but one did not (Adonai Mitchell). That's the name of the game. Here's whose stock is rising and falling heading into the fantasy football playoffs (Week 15).

Week 15 Fantasy Football Risers

Harold Fannin Jr., TE, Cleveland Browns

Shedeur Sanders has unlocked Fannin. You read that right. Shedeur has unlocked Fannin.

Since Sanders took over as the starter for the Browns in Week 12, Fannin has a 24% target share, 0.26 targets per route run, and 2.43 yards per route run (per Fantasy Points Data).

And in Week 14, the rookie tight end had his coming-out party with career-highs in receptions (eight), yards (114), and targets (11).

SHEDEUR TO FANNIN. WOW

TENvsCLE on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/UujURrsI0j

— NFL (@NFL) December 7, 2025

For the first time all season, Fannin has touchdowns in back-to-back weeks.

He's also played 90% of the snaps in each of the last three weeks, something he hadn't done all year, leading up to Week 12 when Sanders took over.

David Njoku went down with a knee injury in Week 14. So now Fannin most likely has the tight end room to himself in Cleveland.

He'll face a Bears team allowing the sixth-most receptions to opposing tight ends in Week 15.

Blake Corum, RB, Los Angeles Rams

It's hard to ignore how good Corum has been the last two weeks.

He's rushed 19 times for 209 yards and three touchdowns. That's 11 yards per carry. His average for the season is now up to 5.45 yards per carry. Good things happen every time he touches the football.

Blake Corum rumbles 48 yards for the TD!

LARvsAZ on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/aroS7jo0iI

— NFL (@NFL) December 7, 2025

He's still only playing around one-third of the offensive snaps, but his RB opportunity share rose from 33% in Week 13 to 46% in Week 14 (before Ronnie Rivers entered the game).

The Rams are rolling right now. They're 7-1 and averaging 32 points per game in their last eight games.

On paper, their matchup against the Lions in Week 15 looks tough, but Detroit has allowed 29.3 points per game in its last three contests.

With Corum running how he has been, expect the Rams to continue deploying a near 50/50 split between him and Kyren Williams moving forward.

With the Rams being 5.5-point favorites with a massive 30.2 implied point total, the second year back out of Michigan can be started with confidence as an RB2 in Week 15.

Kyle Pitts Sr., TE, Atlanta Falcons

Kirk Cousins loves him some Kyle Pitts. The pair's chemistry has developed significantly in the past two weeks after a lackluster Week 12 performance.

In Weeks 13 and 14 (without Drake London), Pitts has been Cousins' go-to receiver. Per Fantasy Points Data, he has a 32.6% first-read target share, a 39.4% air yards share, and has earned 0.32 targets per route run.

Cousins' second option, Darnell Mooney, has an 18.6% first-read target share, a 23.7% air yards share, and has earned just 0.17 targets per route run in those same two games.

Pitts is averaging 6.5 receptions for 86 yards on nine targets in his last two games. He has basically become a full-time wide receiver for Atlanta with London out.

There's a chance London returns to the lineup, but that chance gets smaller and smaller as the Falcons continue to lose games as the season grows older.

Until that point, Pitts is a locked-and-loaded high-end TE1.

Devin Neal, RB, New Orleans Saints

The Saints' rookie running back has seen his opportunity share increase in each of the last three games with Alvin Kamara (knee/ankle) on the shelf.

In Week 12, when Kamara was injured, Neal got 14 opportunities. He saw fewer carries (seven) than Taysom Hill (10).

Then in Week 13, Neal had a 74% RB opportunity share, and Hill had just one rush attempt. In Week 14, that number rose to 80% (20 touches).

The Kansas rookie showed that he could shoulder the load for the Saints' rushing attack, which likely helps his case for just as much work in Week 15.

The sentiment from Saints writers and coaches alike says it all. This guy deserves his flowers, and he deserves more work going forward in a lost season.

Rewatching the Saints-Bucs game. Devin Neal deserves a lot of credit. Really stepped up in crucial spots.

— Chris Rosvoglou (@RosvoglouReport) December 8, 2025

Kellen Moore on #Saints RB Devin Neal: He's always ready to play... I love his energy, I love his juice... He's a really productive player.

— Tina Howell (@TinaM_Howell) December 8, 2025

Favorable matchups against the Panthers, Jets, and Titans are ahead for Neal and his fantasy managers looking to make a run in the fantasy football playoffs.

Other Fantasy Football Risers:

• Luther Burden III
• Woody Marks
• Isaac TeSlaa
• Jayden Reed

Week 15 Fantasy Football Fallers

Romeo Doubs, WR, Green Bay Packers

Doubs remained a starter in Week 14, but it wasn't pretty. He played 81% of the snaps, but trailed Watson, Reed, and Luke Musgrave in targets.

Watson has been ramping up and appears to be Jordan Love's most trusted pass-catcher at the moment.

Reed came back after missing most of the season and got six touches on just a 45% snap share right out of the gates.

Doubs, meanwhile, went catchless for the first time (in a full game) since Week 7 of his rookie season.

He has fewer than five targets and 25 yards in four of his last five games.

Things won't get much easier for Doubs in Week 15, facing off against Pat Surtain II and the Denver Broncos, who allow the 1oth-lowest percentage of fantasy points to opposing outside wide receivers.

Quinshon Judkins, RB, Cleveland Browns

Judkins continues to get volume, but he's been highly inefficient since the Browns' bye in Week 9.

Since then (five games), Judkins is averaging just 3.24 yards per carry.

He's only scored a touchdown in one of those five games, which happened to be the game the Browns beat the lowly Raiders.

In trailing game scripts, Judkins still gets carries early on, but then gets phased out of the offense in favor of Dylan Sampson and Jerome Ford.

In Week 14, with the Browns trailing most of the second half, Sampson and Ford combined for 11 opportunities to Judkins' 17.

If he's not scoring touchdowns, he's most likely not returning fantasy value. That's unfortunately likely to continue in Week 15 when the Browns travel to Chicago to take on the Bears.

Cleveland enters that game as a 7.5-point underdog with an implied total of just 16.5 points.

If you have another hot option, say Corum, Neal, or Kyle Monangai, it might not be a bad idea to roll with them over Judkins this weekend.

DJ Moore, WR, Chicago Bears

We've said (and thought) it all season. The Bears have too many mouths to feed on offense.

But Rome Odunze has a stress fracture in his foot, and he missed Week 14. So Moore performed well, right?

Wrong!

Despite running a team-high 32 routes, Moore earned just three targets (8.6% share, 0.09 targets per route run). With -4 yards, he had a -0.13 yards per route run.

Per Fantasy Points Data, his average depth of target was just 3.7 yards. Moore is firmly behind Burden and Colston Loveland in the pecking order.

Heck, he might be behind Cole Kmet and Olamide Zaccheaus as well.

.@AdamHoge on DJ Moore's limited usage for Bears: "This has to be a big talking point. You're paying DJ Moore too much money to not have him be a significant factor." pic.twitter.com/j6mfXXZ2qB

— 670 The Score (@670TheScore) December 8, 2025

He's now scored under five fantasy points in four of his last five games.

Simply put, Moore is less, and he's just not getting it done. The dream is probably over (at least with Ben Johnson at the helm in Chicago).

Khalil Shakir, WR, Buffalo Bills

Speaking of low average depth of target, Khalil Shakir. In his last four games, Shakir has just 61 air yards (9.2% share).

Per Fantasy Points Data, he has just a 61% route participation rate during that stretch, with just a 16.5% target share and 18.8% first-read target share.

He's taken off the field more than his fantasy managers would like in positive game scripts, which the Bills find themselves in quite often.

The only way he's paying off (most games) is by taking a short screen or slant to the house, which is hard to count on.

Now Dalton Kincaid is back in the mix, which could dilute his target share even more than it has been.

Shakir has scored over 15 fantasy points in just three of 13 games this season. He'll be hard to trust in the fantasy football playoffs.

Other Fantasy Football Fallers:

• Justin Jefferson (just wants to win)
• Evan Engram
• Adonai Mitchell
• Troy Franklin

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