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Ranking Week 5 fantasy football winners and losers and injury impacts from Sunday
Eric Moody breaks down Jonathan Taylor's impressive fantasy season and why managers should look to get running backs playing behind a good offensive line. (1:17)
Week 5 of the 2025 fantasy football season featured a number of big performances and a handful of disappointing ones.
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1. Jonathan Taylor, RB, Indianapolis Colts: Another week, another three-touchdown, 30-plus PPR fantasy point performance for Taylor, who has suddenly moved into second place at his position (121.3) behind Christian McCaffrey (123.9) for the season. Taylor scored 31.6 points in his latest dominant effort, this one against the Las Vegas Raiders, despite his not touching the football over the final 17 minutes of the game. Put aside his past injury questions, as he's running about as well as anyone currently and is a locked-in RB1. — Cockcroft
Fantasy Football Week 5 breakouts: Get Ryan Flournoy, Kendrick Bourne, Mason Taylor, more on Waiver Wire radar
Week 5 of the Fantasy Football season looked a lot different than anything we saw through the first four weeks of the season. On the Fantasy side, we received more data on how each offense plans to utilize its personnel. Our expectations for backfield touches, targets in the pass game, snap shares, and overall usage are often not met, and that's when we have to pivot.
In Week 5, several players jumped on the Fantasy Football radar. This could be the start of something special for some of these players, and you'll want to get well ahead of your Week 5 Fantasy Football waiver wire by putting these players on your radar. For more on every player we discuss below, you'll want to make sure to check out Jamey Eisenberg's in-depth waiver wire column on Monday afternoon.
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NFL DFS, 2025: Best FanDuel, DraftKings picks, lineup advice, player pool for Week 5 from a daily Fantasy pro
The 2025 NFL season continues Sunday with 13 games, but only 11 will be included on the main slate for many DFS sites since there's an early game in London and 'Sunday Night Football' in the evening. The Week 5 NFL schedule is headlined by Broncos vs. Eagles and Seahawks vs. Buccaneers, but daily Fantasy players will also have a close eye on Lions vs. Bengals, which has the highest over/under on the slate at 49.5 and features potential NFL DFS picks such as Jahmyr Gibbs, David Montgomery, Jameson Williams, Chase Brown and Ja'Marr Chase.
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