2025 Fantasy Football Fallers After the Byes
We know the upcoming season’s schedule the minute the previous season ends. Not the order, but the opponents. Two games against each division opponent, playing a couple divisions once each, then a couple more games based on finish.
The order matters, but the opponent is the key information. Of course, there’s one more thing we don’t know, and we won’t know it for a couple months, until the NFL schedule comes out in May: The bye weeks. If your team has an early bye, you mourn the long unending stretch of games that awaits them afterward.
If it’s a late bye, well, that messes up the fantasy football playoff drive. But what the byes are is the one thing every team runs into over the course of the season, the one time a team can well and truly take a step back and make some significant changes. To that end, every year you see a handful of players see a dramatic shift in fantasy scoring before and after the bye.
A guy who gets elevated in role suddenly goes from a fantasy bench guy to a starter. Another guy gets phased out and only remains a fantasy name because of reputation. There are any number of reasons a player sees a big jump or fall in fantasy production around the bye.
Today, let’s look at some of the biggest post-bye fallers in fantasy football last year, and what that might mean for 2026. Thursday, we looked at the biggest risers. (PPR scoring; players needed at least three games on each side of the bye and 100-plus total fantasy points to qualify.
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