Fantasy Football: Championship Game Round NFL Implied Totals

Updated: Thursday, January 23 at 5:57 PM ET.

While nobody is right 100% of the time, the Vegas sportsbooks are right more often than they are wrong.

A helpful tool to determine which players to roster or start (or at least to break a tie), especially in daily fantasy football leagues, is NFL implied totals (projected point totals for each team based on NFL odds).

Looking at the over-under alone is not enough. Although it's an obvious statement, the more points a team scores (or is expected to score), the more likely that fantasy points will follow.

NFL implied totals listed in the table below are calculated using AFC Championship Game and NFC Championship Game NFL odds from FanDuel Sportsbook and sorted from most to least projected points.

Rank	Team	Implied Total	Spread	O/U	Opponent
1	Philadelphia Eagles	27	-6.5	47.5	Washington Commanders
2	Kansas City Chiefs	25	-1.5	48.5	Buffalo Bills
3	Buffalo Bills	23.5	+1.5	48.5	Kansas City Chiefs
4	Washington Commanders	20.5	+6.5	47.5	Philadelphia Eagles

MORE: Championship Game Round NFL implied totals

2024-25 NBA Power Rankings: Week 14

Updated: January 23, 2025

Throughout the 2024-25 NBA season, we will update our consensus NBA Power Rankings from a variety of national sites.

Below you will find a table of our NBA Power Rankings for Week 14, ranked by their average ranking. The table also lists their respective rankings at various sites.

Previous: NBA Power Rankings: Week 13

Rank	Team	W-L	Avg.	Chg.	NBA	CBS	NBC	ESPN	ATH
1	Oklahoma City Thunder	36-7	1	-1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Cleveland Cavaliers	36-7	2	+1	2	2	2	2	2
3	Boston Celtics	31-13	3.4	+0.2	4	4	3	3	3
4	Houston Rockets	29-14	3.8	0	3	3	4	5	4
5	Memphis Grizzlies	29-15	4.8	-0.8	5	5	5	4	5

MORE: Full Week 14 NBA Power Rankings

2025 NBA Mock Draft Roundups (By NBA Franchise)

Leading up to the 2025 NBA Draft, we will round up NBA mock drafts by franchise for a more convenient way to view who's being mocked to a franchise.

Atlanta Hawks 2025 NBA Mock Draft Roundup 1.0

The following are recent mock draft picks for the Atlanta Hawks:

For the Win — Bryan Kalbrosky

13. Khaman Maluach, Duke

South Sudan's Khaman Maluach is having an excellent, efficient freshman campaign for Duke. He is raw but has a strong defensive presence as opponents are shooting just 50.4 percent at the rim with Maluach on the floor, per CBB Analytics, which ranks 98th percentile among all players. As a lob threat, per CBB Analytics, he leads all freshmen in alley-oops completed by nearly double any other player his class.

17. Nolan Traore, Saint-Quentin (France)

Based on his priors before this season, some team is likely to take a flier on Nolan Traore in the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft. But the reality is that the young French guard has simply not played very well so far this season and is likely not ready to make a positive impact in the NBA any time soon.

CBS Sports — Adam Finkelstein

14. Nolan Traore, Saint-Quentin (France)

Traore came into this draft cycle billed as a top-five pick but has not had a good season thus far in France. He's still a high-upside swing with solid size, very good speed, and real playmaking instincts for a lead guard. Defense, shooting and ball security are the swing skills that could impact his stock in the coming months.

21. Alex Karaban, Connecticut

Karaban is a smart and skilled forward who can provide some much-needed floor spacing for an Atlanta franchise that is gradually picking up some quality young assets.

MORE: Atlanta Hawks 2025 NBA Mock Draft Roundup 1.0

More NBA Franchise Mock Draft Roundups:

2025 NBA Mock Draft Roundups - By Prospect

Leading up to the 2025 NBA Draft, we will track where several top prospects appear in recent NBA mock drafts.

Cooper Flagg NBA Mock Draft Roundup

Here are some of the latest mock drafts in which Cooper Flagg has appeared:

For the Win — Bryan Kalbrosky

Round 1, Pick 1 — Washington Wizards

If there was any doubt about whether or not Cooper Flagg deserves the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, he silenced it. Flagg recently recorded 42 points, 7 assists, and 6 rebounds versus Notre Dame. He leads all Duke players in points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and steals per game this season. Since 2009, the only freshmen with a higher box plus-minus are Zion Williamson and Anthony Davis.

CBS Sports — Adam Finkelstein

Round 1, Pick 1 — Washington Wizards

Flagg continues to get better with each passing month for Duke and seems to have gained some separation from the field in the last few weeks because of it. Flagg's versatility and the totality of his overall impact have been off the charts, and if the shooting and self-creation keep trending in the right direction, he could end up being the runaway favorite for the No. 1 pick.

MORE: Read full Cooper Flagg 2025 NBA Mock Draft Roundup 1.0

More NBA Draft Prospect Roundups

2025 NFL Mock Draft

By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)
Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2025

College football's inaugural 12-team playoff will conclude with the Ohio State Buckeyes facing off against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Monday night.

Notre Dame's most likely first-round prospect is cornerback Benjamin Morrison, who is injured (hip) and therefore not playing next week. On the other hand, the Ohio State Buckeyes are loaded with (potential) first-rounders — both in this mock and on the roster but not yet eligible.

In fact, true freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith would almost certainly be the first Buckeye player drafted if he were eligible for this year's draft. Not eligible until 2027, he'd also likely be the first wide receiver off the board this year.

This mock includes three draft-eligible Buckeyes in the first round. Two other teams — Alabama and Georgia — also have three prospects in the first round.

The only team with more than three is Michigan (four).

With that said, here's how the first round could play out in three and a half months based on what we currently know.

Note: Draft slots 25-32 will be finalized based on the results of the playoffs.

Pick	Team	Prospect
1	Tennessee Titans	Cam Ward, QB, Miami (FL)
2	Cleveland Browns	Abdul Carter, EDGE, Penn State
3	New York Giants	Shedeur Sanders, QB, Colorado
4	New England Patriots	Travis Hunter, CB/WR, Colorado
5	Jacksonville Jaguars	Will Johnson, CB, Michigan

MORE: Full 2025 NFL Mock Draft

Way-Too-Early 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)
Updated: Tuesday, January 14th

With the 2024 regular season is behind us and the NFL playoffs underway, I have compiled my initial 2025 fantasy football rankings.

Obviously, plenty will change as we move towards the summer's fantasy football drafts — NFL free agency, the 2025 NFL Draft, injuries, etc. will impact these rankings. Some rookies are included in these rankings, but their landing spots could significantly alter where they're currently ranked.

In the near future, I will expand the rankings to include other scoring formats — full PPR and non-PPR — and include a top 200 overall.

For now, 200 players are ranked by position using half-PPR scoring.

FantasyPros tracks the accuracy of fantasy football rankings and Hanson's rankings have finished:

2024: 12th (out of 152 experts tracked)
2023: 15th (out of 167 experts tracked)
2022: 8th (out of 163 experts tracked)
2021: 6th (out of 172 experts tracked)
2020: 9th (out of 149 experts tracked)

2025 Fantasy Football QB Rankings

Rank	Player	Team
1	Josh Allen	Buffalo Bills
2	Lamar Jackson	Baltimore Ravens
3	Jalen Hurts	Philadelphia Eagles
4	Jayden Daniels	Washington Commanders
5	Joe Burrow	Cincinnati Bengals

MORE: Continue to full 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

2025 Fantasy Football RB Rankings

Rank	Player	Team
1	Saquon Barkley	Philadelphia Eagles
2	Bijan Robinson	Atlanta Falcons
3	Jahmyr Gibbs	Detroit Lions
4	De'Von Achane	Miami Dolphins
5	Jonathan Taylor	Indianapolis Colts

MORE: Continue to full 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

2025 Fantasy Football WR Rankings

Rank	Player	Team
1	Ja'Marr Chase	Cincinnati Bengals
2	Justin Jefferson	Minnesota Vikings
3	Puka Nacua	Los Angeles Rams
4	CeeDee Lamb	Dallas Cowboys
5	Amon-Ra St. Brown	Detroit Lions

MORE: Continue to full 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

2025 Fantasy Football TE Rankings

Rank	Player	Team
1	Brock Bowers	Las Vegas Raiders
2	Trey McBride	Arizona Cardinals
3	George Kittle	San Francisco 49ers
4	Mark Andrews	Baltimore Ravens
5	Sam LaPorta	Detroit Lions

MORE: Continue to full 2025 Fantasy Football Rankings

Fantasy Football QB Strength of Schedule

A fantasy football strength of schedule (SOS) helps fantasy managers determine which teams and players have favorable (or unfavorable) schedules for the 2025 NFL season.

Based on each team's opponents for the 2025 NFL season, we have tallied the average fantasy points allowed by each of those opponents to the position.

Note: Bye weeks and the actual dates of games will be announced in May, so these numbers include all 17 games. Following the release of the full schedule, we will update these rankings to include only Weeks 1 through 17.

While strength of schedule should never be the sole factor in determining who to draft/add, it could help potentially break a tie between two players that you may otherwise view as comparable.

Rank	Team	Player	Fantasy SOS
1	Arizona Cardinals	Kyler Murray	19.566
2	New Orleans Saints	Derek Carr	19.228
3	Los Angeles Rams	Matthew Stafford	19.191
4	San Francisco 49ers	Brock Purdy	19.183
5	Houston Texans	C.J. Stroud	19.114

Note: Fantasy SOS = Average fantasy points per game allowed of each team's 2025 opponents.

MORE: Full Fantasy Football QB Strength of Schedule

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2024 Fantasy Football Rankings: Divisional Round

By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)

Below you will find my fantasy football rankings for the Divisional Round of the 2024 NFL playoffs:

MORE: Full Divisional Round Fantasy Football Rankings

2025 NFL Strength of Schedule

Updated: January 6, 2025

While the 2024 NFL regular season has just concluded and we'll have to wait until May to know the timing/weeks of the 2025 NFL schedule, we now know all of the opponents each NFL team will face next season.

Which team has the most difficult 2025 NFL schedule? Or the easiest NFL schedule?

Using each NFL team's 2025 opponents, our NFL strength of schedule (SOS) tallies the win-loss records of each team's opponents and then uses that cumulative win-loss record to rank the difficulty or ease of each team's schedule.

2025 NFL Strength of Schedule Rankings

Rank	Team	Opp. Record	Opp. Win Pct.
1	New York Giants	166-123-0	0.574
2	Detroit Lions	165-124-0	0.571
2	Chicago Bears	165-124-0	0.571
4	Philadelphia Eagles	162-127-0	0.561

MORE: See where all 32 teams rank based on their 2025 NFL Strength of Schedule

College Football Playoff Bowl Games

With 12 teams making the College Football Playoff, there will be four first-round playoff games, four CFP Quarterfinal bowl games, two CFP Semifinal bowl games and then the national championship.

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Date	Bowl	Matchup
Dec. 20, 2024	CFP First Round Game	Notre Dame 27, Indiana 17
Dec. 21, 2024	CFP First Round Game	Penn State 38, SMU 10
Dec. 21, 2024	CFP First Round Game	Texas 38, Clemson 24
Dec. 21, 2024	CFP First Round Game	Ohio State 42, Tennessee 17
Dec. 31, 2024	Vrbo Fiesta Bowl	Penn State 31, Boise State 14
Jan. 1, 2025	Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl	Texas 39, Arizona State 31
Jan. 1, 2025	Rose Bowl Presented by Prudential	Ohio State 41, Oregon 21
Jan. 2, 2025	Allstate Sugar Bowl	Notre Dame 23, Georgia 10
Jan. 9, 2025	Capital One Orange Bowl	Notre Dame 27, Penn State 24
Jan. 10, 2025	Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic	Ohio State 28, Texas 14
Jan. 20, 2025	College Football Playoff National Championship	Ohio State 34, Notre Dame 23

MORE: 2024-25 College Football Bowl Schedule

2024 NFL Power Rankings: Week 18 Rankings

Updated: December 31, 2024

Throughout the 2024 NFL season, we will update our consensus NFL Power Rankings from a variety of national sites.

Below you will find a table of our NFL Power Rankings heading into Week 18, sorted by their average ranking. The table also lists their respective rankings at various sites.

Change is difference from last ranking: + number = improvement, - number = decline.

Previous iteration: Week 17 NFL Power Rankings

Rank	Team	W-L	Avg.	Diff	ESPN	NFL	ATH	CBS	USAT	FOX	YAH	PFT
1	Kansas City Chiefs	15-1	1.63	+0.8	1	1	3	1	2	2	2	1
2	Buffalo Bills	13-3	1.88	0	3	2	1	2	1	1	3	2
3	Detroit Lions	14-2	3.38	-0.8	2	3	4	3	3	4	4	4
4	Minnesota Vikings	14-2	3.63	+0.8	4	4	2	4	4	3	5	3
5	Philadelphia Eagles	13-3	4.5	-0.4	5	5	5	5	5	5	1	5

See full Week 18 NFL Power Rankings

2025 NBA Mock Draft

By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)
Updated: December 28, 2024

With six months to go until the 2025 NBA Draft, a lot can change — obviously! — from now until draft night.

That said, here are a few notes from my initial 2025 NBA mock draft:

Rutgers hasn't had an NBA draft pick since 2010 (Hamady N'Diaye, 56th overall), and there is a (strong) chance that they will have two top-three picks next summer. In addition, they have had only three first-round picks — James Bailey (1979, 6th), Roy Hinson (1983, 20th) and Quincy Douby (2006, 19th), so they could have their two highest draft picks ever in 2025.
Duke has three lottery picks including the number one pick overall. The last school to have three lottery picks in the same draft was Duke (in 2019) with Zion Williamson (1st), RJ Barrett (3rd) and Cam Reddish (10th).
Excluding foreign-born players on college basketball teams, there are a total of six prospects in my mock currently playing basketball outside the USA.

Note: The draft order used is based on Tankathon (as of 12/28/24).

Pick	Team	Prospect
1	New Orleans Pelicans	Cooper Flagg, Duke
2	Washington Wizards	Dylan Harper, Rutgers
3	Toronto Raptors	Ace Bailey, Rutgers
4	Charlotte Hornets	Tre Johnson, Texas
5	Utah Jazz	Egor Demin, BYU

MORE: Full 2025 NBA mock draft

Fantasy Football Start'Em, Sit'Em: Week 17

BY KEVIN HANSON (@EDSFootball)
Updated: Tuesday, December 24th

Most fantasy football leagues declare their champions in Week 17, so if you're reading this, congratulations on reaching your league's championship round and good luck in the upcoming week.

Below you will find some players that could be starts or sits in your league, but my fantasy football rankings will better help you determine if I would start Player X over Player Y.

Week 17 Fantasy Football Start'em

Sam Darnold, QB, Minnesota Vikings (vs. GB)

It may not be a great matchup against the Packers, who have allowed the second-fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks, but Darnold is the QB8 heading into the fantasy finale and scored 21.5 fantasy points (QB9) against them in Week 4. Darnold has been extremely consistent with at least 19 fantasy points in five of his past six games and only two quarterbacks — Joe Burrow and Jared Goff — have more games with 300-plus yards and two-plus touchdowns this season.

Bo Nix, QB, Denver Broncos (at CIN)

Like Darnold, Nix has vastly exceeded preseason expectations (low-end QB2 ADP). Interestly enough, Darnold (QB8) and Nix (QB9) rank just ahead of Patrick Mahomes (QB10) and Kyler Murray (QB11) in scoring. While Nix hasn't run as much recently (three or fewer rush attempts in five of his last six games), he ranks ninth among QBs in rushing yards (352) this season. His Championship Week matchup is favorable as the Bengals have allowed the fourth-most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks this season.

Bucky Irving, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (vs. CAR)

The Buccaneers are big favorites (-8.5) and currently have the largest implied total of the week. While injuries limited him to 10 snaps in Week 14, he has 16-plus touches in his other five most recent outings. In those games, he has finished as fantasy's RB6, RB3, RB1, RB17, and RB16, respectively, and the RB1 performance was against the Panthers. In that matchup, he finished with 25 carries for 152 yards and a touchdown along with three catches for 33 yards.

Continue reading our Week 17 Fantasy Football Start'Em, Sit'Em

Fantasy Football Waiver Wire: Week 17

By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)
Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

If you're reading this, chances are that you're one step away from a championship!

To maximize the potential that these players are available in your league(s), only players available in 50% or more of Yahoo! leagues are considered. In several cases, there are injury dependencies for these players that could make them more or less valuable in Week 17.

Where possible, it makes sense to drop players that you (or your opponent) won't consider starting and add players that have upside based on players in front of them who may be dealing with injuries.

Week 17 Fantasy Football RB Waiver-Wire Rankings

Below are my running back waiver-wire rankings heading into Week 17:

Rank	Player	Team	Roster %
1	Gus Edwards	Los Angeles Chargers	48%
2	Kendre Miller	New Orleans Saints	45%
3	Alexander Mattison	Las Vegas Raiders	48%
4	Ameer Abdullah	Las Vegas Raiders	23%

MORE: Full Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings

2024 NFL Draft Grades

Updated: April 28, 2024

The 2024 NFL Draft is now in the rearview mirror, and soon we will turn our attention to the 2025 NFL Draft.

Before that point, however, it's time for an initial reaction to what happened this past weekend. Who were the winners and losers of the 2024 NFL Draft?

While we believe that the best measurement of the success of a draft class is done after a few years, we've compiled draft grades from a variety of sites and used their grades to arrive a consensus GPA for all teams.

Rank	Team	GPA	NFL	ESPN	RING	USAT	FOX	CBS	PFF	SN	SI	TW
1	Pittsburgh Steelers	3.97	A	A-	A	A+	A+	A	A+	A+	A+	A+
2	Philadelphia Eagles	3.87	A-	A	A+	A	A-	B+	A+	A	A	A
3	Washington Commanders	3.84	A-	A-	A	A-	B+	A+	A	A	A+	A+
4	Los Angeles Chargers	3.77	A-	B+	A	A	A-	B+	A	A	A	A-
5	Chicago Bears	3.64	A-	B	A+	A+	A-	B	A	A-	A+	B+

MORE: Full consensus 2024 NFL Draft Grades