Week 4 of the 2025 fantasy soccer season featured numerous massive performances from a few of the prime gamers within the NFL and solely a handful of disappointing performances.
Who have been the large winners and losers?
Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft provide their analyses.
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Greatest accidents and what’s subsequent
1. Bijan Robinson, RB, Atlanta Falcons: Robinson was electrical within the Week 4 win over Washington, scoring a season-high 28.1 factors, whereas showcasing his elite dual-threat capacity. Johnson completed with 181 complete yards and a landing on 21 touches, discovering the top zone on a 14 yard rush. Plus, Johnson caught 4 passes for 106 yards. Johnson now has two video games this season with over 24 factors, and he’ll stay a top-3 RB when the Falcons return from the bye in Week 6 versus the Payments. — Bowen
2. Omarion Hampton, RB, Los Angeles Chargers: Hampton’s 27.5 factors in Sunday’s loss to the Giants have been a season-best for the rookie, and he has now posted back-to-back video games with 24 or extra factors. Hampton displayed his big-play capacity within the run sport, breaking one for a 54-yard rating. Plus, Hampton is being utilized on screens and as an beneath outlet for quarterback Justin Herbert within the cross sport. Hampton caught all 5 of his targets for 37 yards right here, giving him a complete of 11 receptions for 96 yards over his previous two video games. With the entire quantity, plus the dual-threat utilization, Hampton will probably be a RB1 in my Week 5 ranks for the matchup versus Washington. — Bowen
3. Kenneth Gainwell, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers: In a considerably shocking improvement, Gainwell earned the beginning for the Steelers’ early-morning sport in Dublin, Eire, after Jaylen Warren (knee) was scratched regardless of placing in restricted practices through the week. Gainwell thrived because the Steelers’ clear go-to working again, taking part in 77% of the offensive snaps, dealing with 19 of the staff’s 29 speeding makes an attempt, scoring a pair of speeding touchdowns and totaling a career-best 31.4 PPR fantasy factors. Rookie Kaleb Johnson, in the meantime, performed 21% of the snaps and had seven complete touches, marking the fourth consecutive week that Gainwell has at the least tripled Johnson’s quantity in both division. Gainwell now has 5 explosive runs (10-plus yards) and is clearly a major a part of the Steelers’ speeding sport plan. Make sure that he’s rostered within the 64.4% of ESPN leagues by which he stays accessible when the staff returns from its Week 5 bye. — Cockcroft
4. Quentin Johnston, WR, Los Angeles Chargers: In Sunday’s upset loss to the Giants, Johnston posted his second sport of 20-plus factors this season (23.9), catching eight of a team-high 13 targets for 98 yards and a landing. Johnston has now recorded at the least one landing seize in three of 4 video games performed this season, and he has seen a complete of 23 targets in his final two. With the vertical aspect he brings to the Chargers offense, along with the numbers he can produce after the catch on over routes and crossers, Johnston has carved out an outlined function on this route tree. He’ll stay an upside WR3/Flex for the Week 5 matchup versus Washington. — Bowen
5. Drake London, WR, Atlanta Falcons: The star of the early phases of the Falcons’ shocking, 34-27 win over the Washington Commanders, London scored nearly as many PPR fantasy factors in Week 4 (25.0) as he did in his first three video games mixed (29.9), thanks largely to a five-yard landing catch close to the top of the primary quarter and a 43-yard catch early within the second. He dominated targets on this sport, which was an encouraging signal heading into the Falcons’ bye week and their powerful Week 6 matchup towards the Buffalo Payments. — Cockcroft
6. DK Metcalf, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers: Metcalf posted season-high 23.6 factors within the Week 4 win over the Vikings. With the short passing sport on the prime of the Steelers’ name sheet, Metcalf caught all 5 of his targets for 126 yards, which included an 80-yard rating on slant route. Catch and go. Massive time open subject juice there. Metcalf has now scored a landing in three straight video games, but it surely was the explosive performs on this one which boosted his numbers. The Steelers head into the bye subsequent, however they return in Week 6 with a matchup versus the Browns protection, which can preserve Metcalf on the WR2/Flex line. –Bowen
7. Woody Marks, RB, Houston Texans: Rostered in solely 33.2% of ESPN leagues, Marks dropped a career-high 27.9 factors in Sunday’s win over the Titans. Marks, who out-touched veteran Nick Chubb 21 to fifteen, completed with 119 complete yards and two scores, plus we noticed the upside he brings as a cross catcher (4 receptions, 50 yards, one landing). Even in a backfield share with Chubb, it’s clear that Marks brings extra juice and play-speed to the sphere. The rookie out of USC ought to be a precedence waiver-add this week. — Bowen
8. Emeka Egbuka, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: He has been a rookie sensation, scoring touchdowns in three of 4 video games, posting a 25% goal share, and totaling a rookie class-leading 71.1 PPR fantasy factors, which ranks sixteenth amongst rookie extensive receivers via his first 4 profession video games since at the least 1940. Egbuka continues to be the go-to man for Baker Mayfield, which ought to proceed to be the case for Week 5 towards the Seattle Seahawks, as Mike Evans (hamstring) is predicted to overlook a number of weeks. — Cockcroft
9. James Prepare dinner, RB, and Josh Allen, QB, Buffalo Payments: They have been the celebrities of a sport that, for 52 minutes, was far nearer than it ought to’ve been. Prepare dinner managed his eighth consecutive sport with a speeding landing, and fourth consecutive sport with at the least 20 PPR fantasy factors. His speeding rating got here from one yard out, and for the reason that starting of final season, he now has 10 such touchdowns from inside three yards of the top zone, a exceptional quantity for a teammate of the plenty-capable-in-his-own-right Allen. Allen, in the meantime, scored 24.86 factors, his eleventh sport in his previous 15 full (that means excluding Week 18) by which he totaled 20-plus. Each ought to once more ship top-shelf numbers in Week 5 in a divisional sport towards the New England Patriots. — Cockcroft
10. Quinshon Judkins, RB, Cleveland Browns: Judkins had a career-best 21.5 factors within the Week 4 loss to the Lions. Sure, Judkins as soon as once more noticed No. 1 quantity, carrying the ball 21 occasions 82 yards and a landing. He’s the clear lead again in Cleveland. Nevertheless, Judkins additionally had his finest receiving numbers as a professional, catching all 4 of his targets for 33 yards. With a bump in cross sport utilization, Judkins ought to be ranked as an RB2 forward of the Week 5 sport versus the Vikings. — Bowen
1. Justin Herbert, QB; Ladd McConkey, WR, Los Angeles Chargers: Within the upset loss to the Giants, Herbert had a season-low 12.52 factors, finishing solely 56% of his passes, whereas he threw two interceptions versus a New York protection that created stress. McConkey caught one in every of six targets for 11 yards (2.1 factors), and he has posted double-digit factors in just one sport this season (Week 1). With the bump in quantity for Johnston, plus the presence of Keenan Allen, McConkey’s numbers have taken a success to begin the season, and he’ll proceed to slip within the rankings — regardless of the pre-season hype. I’ll have McConkey as a WR3 for the Week 5 matchup towards the Commanders protection. — Bowen
2. A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith, WR, Philadelphia Eagles: They have been remarkably quiet in Week 4, scoring 2.7 and 4.9 PPR fantasy factors, and every has now been held beneath 5 factors in two of 4 video games thus far this season. Simply as was the case final yr, the Eagles’ working sport is buzzing behind Saquon Barkley and Jalen Hurts, minimizing the necessity to rely closely on the staff’s prime two extensive receivers. To date, the Eagles have run 123 offensive performs with a lead, and a whopping 61% of them have been speeding performs. — Cockcroft
3. Trey Benson, RB, Arizona Cardinals: With Benson assuming the lead function in Arizona for an injured James Conner, we anticipated a bit bit extra within the Thursday evening sport versus Seattle, proper? Benson did handle to put up 10.4 factors, due to bringing in 5 receptions, however he totaled simply 19 yards within the cross sport, whereas he carried the ball eight occasions for 35 yards. I’ll preserve Benson in my lower-tier RB2 ranks as a result of optimistic Week 5 matchup versus the Titans protection, however I’m not bought but. — Bowen
Malik Nabers, WR, New York Giants
What we all know: He left Sunday’s sport within the second quarter after his proper knee buckled instantly earlier than he jumped in an try to make a catch. Preliminary experiences had the Giants fearing that he has a torn ACL.
What’s subsequent: Nabers is scheduled for an MRI on Monday morning, which may affirm the season-ending damage. Nabers’ absence can be devastating to a Giants offense that simply put in rookie Jaxson Dart at quarterback. The staff’s offensive method may now dramatically shift to make finest use of Dart’s speeding capacity, however he’ll additionally have to make do leaning extra closely upon extensive receivers Wan’Dale Robinson and Darius Slayton and tight finish Theo Johnson. — Cockcroft
Lamar Jackson, QB, Baltimore Ravens
What we all know: Jones left the sport in a 3rd quarter with a hamstring damage, and he didn’t return to the sport. Earlier than exiting, Jackson handed for 147 yards with a landing and interception, whereas including 48 yards speeding on six carries (10.68 factors).
What’s subsequent:If Jackson is down for the Week 5 sport versus the Texans, backup Cooper Rush would get the beginning at quarterback. If Rush is beneath middle, it’s time to downgrade Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews and Derrick Henry towards the Houston protection. — Bowen