{"id":100500,"date":"2025-08-21T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:32:08","slug":"essential-2025-fantasy-football-player-projections-for-every-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100500\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential 2025 fantasy football player projections for every position"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic has live updates from Thursday\u2019s NFL Preseason action.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2019t like our lists, you can make your own.<\/p>\n

Behold, the 2025 fantasy football player projections of The Athletic\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Underneath those tables, you\u2019ll find our fully customizable cheat sheet that you can modify to mirror your league\u2019s settings. Finally, we\u2019ve included Jake\u2019s rankings, which incorporate some additional context with the point projections. And it\u2019s all in one place. Convenient, right? What are you waiting for? Dive on in.<\/p>\n

Scoring settings and criteriaProjections (as of August 21)Customizable cheat sheet<\/p>\n

If you want to get your hands dirty and customize these projections based on your league settings, you can download Ciely\u2019s fully customizable, regularly updated cheat sheet and tinker to your heart\u2019s content. You can even fiddle with individual player projections if Jake\u2019s numbers aren\u2019t to your liking. Be sure to read these instructions<\/a> before you start futzing with the spreadsheet\u2019s different fields.<\/p>\n

2025 Fantasy Football Rankings<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that the projections produced by this model do not mirror Jake\u2019s player rankings; rather, they\u2019re 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:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

(Photo of Ja\u2019Marr Chase: Scott Taetsch \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic has live updates from Thursday\u2019s NFL Preseason action. Looking for a handy list of positional player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[27556,349,99],"class_list":["post-100500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-fantasy-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}