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Looking for a handy list of positional player projections and rankings to use at your fantasy football draft? Search no more, especially since if you don’t like our lists, you can make your own.
Behold, the 2025 fantasy football player projections of The Athletic’s senior fantasy writer, Jake Ciely. Scroll through the tables below to see how everyone compares against others at their position, complete with bye week information and recommended values for auction formats.
Underneath those tables, you’ll find our fully customizable cheat sheet that you can modify to mirror your league’s settings. Finally, we’ve included Jake’s rankings, which incorporate some additional context with the point projections. And it’s all in one place. Convenient, right? What are you waiting for? Dive on in.
Scoring settings and criteriaProjections (as of August 21)Customizable cheat sheet
If you want to get your hands dirty and customize these projections based on your league settings, you can download Ciely’s fully customizable, regularly updated cheat sheet and tinker to your heart’s content. You can even fiddle with individual player projections if Jake’s numbers aren’t to your liking. Be sure to read these instructions before you start futzing with the spreadsheet’s different fields.
2025 Fantasy Football Rankings
It’s important to note that the projections produced by this model do not mirror Jake’s player rankings; rather, they’re one of the many data inputs he uses in his evaluations. For example, while Christian McCaffrey dominates the running back projections, his injury history has Jake hedging and slotting him behind Bjian Robinson, Saquon Barkley and Jahmyr Gibbs in his rankings. You can see how the rest of the players stack up with his rankings below:
(Photo of Ja’Marr Chase: Scott Taetsch / Getty Images)
Aug 21, 2025
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