Matt OkadaYahoo Fantasy ContributorMon, December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM UTC·10 min readWith all but one Week 13 game in the books (Monday Night Football), we've learned a little bit more than we knew last week. Or, in some cases, thought we knew. Players impressed, players disappointed and there is fantasy football fallout to unpack.
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Once again, I've compiled the full weekly fantasy stock report below. These are the most notable risers and fallers coming out of Week 13. Invest accordingly!
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Bucky Irving, Bucs
In his first game back from a massive eight-week absence, Bucky Irving scored 15.1 fantasy points on the back of 81 yards (19 touches) and a rushing touchdown. That makes double-digit fantasy points in all five games he’s played in 2025. And he should theoretically only get more efficient and explosive the further he’s removed from injury. Irving has an amazing schedule down the stretch and has quickly re-established himself not just as a fantasy starter, but a strong RB1 and a potential league-winner.
Kyle Monangai, Bears
The Chicago Bears, their offense and particularly their run game, have been firing on all cylinders lately, and it was particularly evident on Black Friday when Kyle Monangai and D’Andre Swift combined for 255 yards and two touchdowns on 40 carries vs. the Eagles. This duo has broken into the true Ben Johnson legacy tier, the successor to “Sonic and Knuckles” and other duos from Detroit backfields past. As the goal-line back and half of the committee in recent weeks, Monangai is now a must-roster fantasy asset and is startable as a flex in typically sized leagues.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementQuinshon Judkins, Browns
After a stretch of iffy games on either side of the Week 10 bye, rookie Quinshon Judkins has now scored 14+ fantasy points in consecutive games, with 156 scrimmage yards, two touchdowns and a two-point conversion. He’s the entirety of the Browns offense, which might mean more on a better team, but still comes with a strong RB2 floor based on volume alone. Importantly, he has great matchups with the Titans in Week 14, the Bears in Week 15 and the Bills in Week 16. He will likely be a borderline top-10 back over that stretch and could carry fantasy teams through the playoffs.
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Jakobi Meyers, Jaguars
Somehow, after all the turnover and turmoil, it looks like Jakobi Meyers might be the top wide receiver in Jacksonville. He’s logged six targets in three straight games and four of his last five, recorded 50+ yards in three straight and has now found the end zone in back-to-back games. He was the most productive receiver for the Jaguars by far on Sunday, mostly due to a brilliant 50-yard catch-and-run and then an immediate follow-up touchdown. With Brian Thomas Jr. busted to a historic degree, Travis Hunter out and Parker Washington banged up, Meyers might have a decent WR3 floor for the rest of the year (including two juicy games against the Colts).
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementA.J. Brown, Eagles
For anyone who bought into Philly’s Squeaky Wheel after his highly-publicized Twitch comments, congratulations on all the grease. A.J. Brown has seen 33 targets over the last three weeks, catching 25 of them for 291 yards and three touchdowns. He scored 21 fantasy points in Week 12 against Dallas and 30.2 against the Bears on Black Friday. And while he has a tough matchup on deck with the Chargers, he and Philly get the Raiders and Commanders in the ensuing two weeks. Brown is being force-fed the ball right now, and is far too talented to allow that volume to go to waste. He’s a borderline WR1 again, until proven otherwise (with probably one more inexplicable dud yet to come).
Chris Godwin Jr., Bucs
A quick look at Chris Godwin’s fantasy box score these last two weeks off of injury might be discouraging — just nine targets and five catches, even with Emeka Egbuka starting to fall off. But it was really nice to see him flash on Sunday, specifically taking his three catches for 78 yards, all of which hit for 20+ yards individually. He also dropped a would-be touchdown that would have made his Week 13 excellent, and should correct those kinds of fluke mistakes in the future. With Egbuka’s struggles and Godwin’s returning health, it’s not impossible he ends up being Tampa Bay’s WR1 (again) through December.
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Kyle Pitts Sr., Falcons
Kyle Pitts Sr. has been admittedly up-and-down all season, with Sunday marking his third double-digit fantasy outing, interspersed with more than a handful of 2-6 point games. But, all things considered, there aren’t many tight ends who can claim multiple games with eight or more targets (four now on the season), and at some point, the touchdown fortune has to swing Pitts’ way. He has a couple excellent matchups on the docket, including Seattle next week, and can be streamed in a pinch after an encouraging Week 13 with Kirk Cousins.
Brenton Strange, Jaguars
A tight end who’s been far less swingy, but just hasn’t had a full chance to break out for fantasy, is Brenton Strange. In six full games this season, Strange has topped 40+ receiving yards five times, and he finally scored his first touchdown of the year on Sunday against the Titans. He seems to be in the mix for Trevor Lawrence’s favorite looks once again, after returning from a six-game injury absence, and could get better as he gets healthier down the stretch. He also has two matchups against the Colts (one this coming week), that should make him a strong TE1 streamer consideration.
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Isiah Pacheco, Chiefs
If you held onto Isiah Pacheco through his injury, hoping he’d come back and justify his preseason draft capital, it’s time to give up. You can drop him — outside of deep leagues where you stash him as an attrition back — after he took his five touches for 33 yards against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving. This is Kareem Hunt’s backfield, and really it’s Patrick Mahomes’ offense, with very little consistent or explosive run game to speak of. Pacheco hasn’t hit 12+ fantasy points in a game all season and I don’t expect him to any time soon. He’s nothing more than a change-of-pace back and can be sent to the waiver wire if you need to make a move.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementSaquon Barkley, Eagles
This isn’t Saquon Barkley’s first appearance in the “Stock Down” section of this column, but it’s time for another reminder. He’s been bad. Not just, “Oh, he’s not quite MVP-caliber Saquon from 2024” … he’s scored single-digit fantasy points in three straight games and has only topped 12 points once in his last seven contests. He’s not seeing 20+ touch volume with any consistency and is not efficient enough to be an RB1 with the lighter workload. This is not uncommon for star running backs off massive seasons, but it’s to the point we need to consider benching him for less-heralded RB2s on a weekly basis. As an example, Judkins should get the nod over Saquon for at least the next couple weeks, and possibly the rest of the year.
Rico Dowdle, Panthers
Yeah, that whole “Rico Dowdle’s backfield” thing from a few weeks ago? That dream is disappearing fast. As Chuba Hubbard has gotten healthy, Carolina has gone right back to a full-blown committee. They were able to pull off an upset win over the Rams while giving Hubbard 19 opportunities (to Dowdle’s 20), and Hubbard was more effective as both a rusher and receiver on Sunday. We’re now likely looking at a hot-hand approach rest of season, and Carolina won’t be in a position to run the ball 38 times every game. That means only one of these backs will likely crack RB2 territory any given week, and it’ll likely be hard to predict which. Dowdle is still startable, he’s just not the borderline fantasy star he seemed to be back in the middle of the year.
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Ricky Pearsall, 49ers
Yikes. If you had held on to Ricky Pearsall through his long injury absence, waiting excitedly for a triumphant return after his hot start to the year, I have bad news. Three straight games with fewer than five targets, fewer than three catches, fewer than 20 yards and fewer than three fantasy points. And he’s heading into a Week 14 bye. You should drop him in shallower leagues, and while you can stash him away through the bye and into a great end-of-season schedule in deeper leagues, hoping that he gets healthy and bounces back … that’s largely blind hope at this point.
Emeka Egbuka, Bucs
We can’t turn our eyes away any longer. Emeka Egbuka is just not great anymore. Through his first five games, he averaged 17.98 fantasy points per game, scored five touchdowns and was torching defenses on the deep ball with ease. In the eight weeks since, he’s topped eight fantasy points just once, averaged just 7.7, scored just one touchdown and has been wildly inefficient even with a strong target share. With Godwin now getting healthy, Egbuka might even lose some of the volume that had kept him in the borderline WR3 conversation. Hindsight is 20/20, but he’s been benchable for the vast majority of the past two months. It’s time we started actually benching him.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJustin Jefferson (again), Vikings
As it turns out, Max Brosmer was not the answer to Justin Jefferson’s QB woes. Instead, he finished Sunday’s game with an abysmal two catches for four yards on six targets. That’s 1.4 fantasy points. He’s been in this section of the column recently, so I won’t recapitulate everything that’s gone wrong, but he’s not a WR1 … or a WR2. Heck, he’s rarely a WR3. An absolutely incredible stretch of matchups might bring some hope heading into the fantasy playoffs, but Jefferson needs a functional quarterback to produce, no matter how bad the opposing secondary is. Good luck if you’re relying on him down the stretch. You’re going to need it.
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Jake Ferguson, Cowboys
Around Week 7, at the tail end of CeeDee Lamb’s absence and a stretch of absolute dominance from Jake Ferguson, it looked like the Dallas tight end might have cracked the Trey McBride-Brock Bowers-George Kittle tier of true elites at the position. Alas. In the five games since, Ferguson has not hit double-digit fantasy points a single game, has scored a TD just once and is ultimately averaging fewer than six fantasy points per game (including a bagel in Week 8). George Pickens and Lamb are too voluminous and productive to allow a solid ceiling to a third pass-catcher, and Ferguson has plummeted to the bottom of TE1 range as a result. He can still be played as a streamer, but is more in the conversation with Pitts now than he is with McBride or Bowers.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementJustin Herbert, Chargers
Justin Herbert looked like Superman in the middle of the season, putting up more than 20 fantasy points week after week despite an embattled offensive line. But the constant pressure (and hits) have gotten to the Los Angeles QB — literally, he broke a bone in his non-throwing hand in Week 13 — and he simply cannot produce at a fantasy-friendly level behind this line. Herbert has fallen short of 15 fantasy points in three straight games, none of which were difficult matchups. He has the Eagles, Chiefs and Texans on his remaining schedule, and should not be played in any of those contests outside of 2QB leagues. You can stream him against Dallas in Week 16 (maybe), but that’s it. Otherwise, he’s out of starter territory until further notice.
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