5 bold predictions for 2025

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The 2024 fantasy football season is over. It's time to turn the page to 2025. What better way to do that than with some spicy, bold predictions? Below are my top five riskiest fantasy picks for the 2025 fantasy season.

Malik Nabers will lead the NFL in receiving yards Kirk cousins bottom center for the New York Giants by 2025

The Giants did the right thing and moved on Daniel Jonesbut they still need to find a capable quarterback to bring into the building this offseason, because that's definitely not it Drew Slot, Tommy DeVito or Tim Boyle. It's especially important to find someone as early as possible since he now has a stud wide receiver on his rookie contract.

As a newcomer, Malik Nabers trailed only the second-most targets (170) in the NFL JaMarr Chase (175), but Chase had more than 500 receiving yards than Nabers in 2024. Since 2019, there have been ten instances of a player having more than 170 targets in a season, trailing only Nabers (1,204 yards) and Davante Adams in 2023 (1,114 yards) and 2022 (1,516 yards) had fewer than 1,700 receiving yards that season. Despite the terrible quarterback play, Nabers still joined Anquan Boldin and Puka Nacua as the only starting wide receivers in NFL history with more than 100 receptions and more than 1,200 receiving yards.

As crazy as the Atlanta Falcons Regardless of how things looked last season, the Giants might want to consider following their path. They could trade for Cousins ​​on the cheap and also use their early draft pick on a quarterback. Not only would Cousins ​​help with the rookies' growth, but these moves would also give the Giants two chances to have a competent quarterback they can slot under center in 2025.

Sesame Robinson should be selected at 1.01 in the 2025 fantasy football drafts

Sesame Robinson Didn't get off to an electric start to his second season, but has been on fire since week 6. No running back has scored more fantasy points per game since Week 6 than Robinson (22.8). Yes, he even exceeded Saquon Barkley in points per game from Weeks 6 through 18, despite having 43 fewer touches than Barkley during that period. Robinson has finished as a top-three fantasy scorer at the running back position in six of the last 12 weeks played and has scored more than 20 fantasy points in all but two of 12 games.

With more than twenty ball touches in each of the last six games, the Atlanta Falcons are finally starting to use Robinson as the workhorse he should have been. Robinson has been a touchdown scoring machine Michael Penix Jr. under center, Robinson has scored two rushing touchdowns in each of Penix Jr.'s last three games. started.

Barkley, Jahmyr Gibbs, JaMarr Chase And Justin Jefferson will likely all be considered at the 1.01 in 2025 fantasy football drafts, but I believe Robinson will be the safest of the bunch to pay off the 1.01 cost.

Dallas Cowboys RB Ashton Jeanty finishes as a top-10 fantasy RB in his rookie season

We are less than four months away from the verdict. With the twelfth pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys select Ashton Jeanty, RB, Boise State

For some strange reason the Dallas Cowboys ignored the running position last offseason. That has put them at a disadvantage this year and they cannot make that mistake again this season. In 2024, the Cowboys ranked 27th in the NFL in rush yards, 30th in yards per carry and last in rushing touchdowns with just six all season, no other team had fewer than eight.

The Cowboys were the only team to have zero rushes of more than 30 yards in 2024. To really understand how unexplosive their rushing attack was in 2024: 45 individual players in the NFL had multiple runs of more than 25 yards in 2024, while the Cowboys as a team had just one carry of more than 25 yards. Dirk Hendrik single-handedly had thirteen more carries of more than 25 yards than the Cowboys had as a team this year.

Ashton Jeanty can quickly transform the Cowboys offense. Jeanty had an absurd season Boise State with 374 carries, 2,601 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns in 14 games played in 2024. He provides the explosion the Cowboys lacked this year and has proven he can handle a huge workload over a full season.

Baker Mayfield In 2025 there will be a lot of red

There are few quarterbacks more fun to watch than Baker Mayfield for his gun-slinging mentality, and he had both a fantastic real-life and fantasy season. However, touchdown regression will undoubtedly affect Mayfield next season.

Mayfield had a 7.2 touchdown percentage in 2024, second-highest among the 36 qualified QBs, behind only Lamar Jackson. It is very risky to draft a quarterback high in fantasy drafts based on their high touchdown percentage from the previous season, especially if they are not elite at QB. Only two quarterbacks in NFL history have had more than 500 pass attempts with a touchdown percentage greater than seven in multiple seasons in their careers. Those two boys were Aaron Rodgers and HOF Dan Marino (Rodgers is the only one to do it in consecutive seasons.

Mayfield had not had a pass touchdown percentage higher than 5.6 in any season of his career before this year, and in 2023 he was just 4.9%. It's realistic to expect his pass-touchdown rate to drop back to his level in 2023, as the average among all qualified QBs was 4.8% in 2024. He was a solid fantasy asset in 2023, but the price tag of Not worth seven rounds, which is what he will probably cost 2025 Fantasy Drafts.

The San Francisco 49ers offense, including Christian McCaffrey, will bounce back from an injury-riddled season in 2024

The 49ers had an insane amount of massive injuries this year as a result of their offense Christian McCaffrey missed all but four games, WR Brandon Aiyuk missed the last 10 games due to an ACL tear, and LT Trent Williams missed the last seven games due to an ankle injury. That doesn't even include their first round rookie WR, Ricky Pearsallwho was shot in the chest before the season and could only break out at the end of the year. Or the other three 49ers running back McCaffrey, all dealing with injuries and missed time. Or Brock Purdy, who played, suffered an injury to his throwing shoulder in the second half of the year. It really was just a miserable season for the team's health.

Despite all that, the 49ers still racked up the fourth-most yards and passing yards in the NFL in 2024. They struggled to find the end zone consistently all year, but that's fair considering they lost their star RB1, WR1, and LT for much of the season. Kyle Shanahan will make the necessary changes to fix the issues within the offense, and getting key players back will be the icing on the cake for the 49ers to come back in a big way in 2025.