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Happy Thanksgiving newsletter readers! I truly appreciate you taking a little bit of time out of your holiday (or your Thursday, to our international crowd) to read today’s newsletter, getting you ready for the big day of NFL action! This is such a special holiday, combining the things that are most important to us: family, food, and football! No matter how you’re spending your November 27th, I hope you get a chance to sit in front of a TV and enjoy at least some of this thrilling slate of NFL action!

Roger Goodell must be doing backflips looking at today’s schedule. Typically, there is at least one dud game on Turkey Day (usually it takes place in Detroit). When the league office has to set this schedule out months in advance, and two of the home teams are locked in, it’s nearly impossible to get three great games (and another great one tomorrow), but they certainly nailed it this year. Packers @ Lions kicks things off with a great divisional rivalry. Then, the Chiefs and Cowboys meet in a game where both teams desperately need a win to keep their playoff hopes in sight. Then, Joe Burrow likely returns for the Bengals with a chance to keep their playoff hopes alive against the surging (kind of) Ravens. Then tomorrow, the Bears and Eagles face off in Philly with the NFC’s two seed on the line! 

Unfortunately, with four outstanding games scheduled on Thursday and Friday, that leaves the rest of the week 13 schedule a bit underwhelming. Houston will travel to Indianapolis in a critical game for AFC South supremacy. Sam Darnold gets to welcome his old team, the Vikings, to the Pacific Northwest for a heaping helping of revenge for the team that let him go. Denver @ Washington and the Giants @ Patriots are your primetime games, and both are hovering around a touchdown spread. 

It’s crunch time in the fantasy football season. Some playoffs are starting as early as this week, with most leagues getting going in just two weeks from now. Trade deadlines have either passed, or they’re approaching very soon, so make sure your team is ready for a deep playoff run with all of the tools and analysis we provide at Dynasty League Football. Check out the DLF Expert Rankings to see where your players stand according to our experts. You can also plug your league into the My DLF League Sync Tool where you can see your rosters, all of your league mates’ rosters, available players on the waiver wire, and scores for all of the rosters.

If you have some holes in your starting lineup, open up the rankings, and you’ll easily be able to find the best available players for you to pick up. League sync also works for the Trade Analyzer Tool, to help you find a fair trade offer to send out to your league mates. Wins in November and December just mean more in dynasty fantasy football, so win the week with the advanced, analytical tools available at DLF!

In my first and most important dynasty league, I made a trade to acquire Nico Collins at last week’s trade deadline. Luckily, it was after his week 12 dud, so he wasn’t in my starting lineup, but now that he’s on my team, I’m interested if I made a good deal. I gave up a 2026 2nd and a 2027 1st for Nico Collins. It’s an IDP league, so we also swapped Nick Bosa for Maxx Crosby in the deal (I got Crosby). Let’s dive into the valuations, and see if the Texans’ star wide receiver is worth a buy for a 2026 championship run.

Collins took a few years to really get going with the Houston Texans after they selected him in the third round of the 2021 NFL Draft. With his slow start and low draft capital, his dynasty outlook was bleak heading into the 2023 season. That’s when he broke out, catching 80 passes for 1,297 yards and eight touchdowns, all career-highs, to finish as the WR12 in PPR leagues. From that point on, he was a perennial top 20 dynasty pick, topping out at 7.25 in December of last year. He saw a dip in November’s ADP data, dropping to 17.25 overall, WR11 off the board. The DLF Expert Rankings are a bit higher on him than the ADP, ranking Collins as the WR10 and 13.83 overall. 

The recent dip in ADP could be attributed to bad vibes around the Texans’ offense, but that hasn’t held back Collins. In weeks 9-11, he had three straight games with at least seven catches and double-digit targets. He took a step back in week 12, but that could be attributed to a minor foot injury he was nursing on a short week. He should be well rested this week after the mini-bye. He’ll also be reunited with CJ Stroud for a great matchup against the Colts. The schedule is tough down the stretch, but he’s the best weapon the Texans have on offense.

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5 PLAYERS WHO CAN HELP YOU WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2025

Fantasy championships aren’t won in September. They’re won in the dark corners of week 17, when one monster performance can erase a season’s worth of bad beats and send you home with the belt. Volume beats talent, matchups beat projections, and the margins are thinner than a waiver-wire claim at 4:03 a.m. on a Wednesday in November.

These five players have the week 17 dream spots you want on your bench right now. Their early playoff schedules range from “ugh” to “please let me survive,” but the championship-week payoff is as juicy as a perfectly cooked turkey leg.

Jacoby Brissett, QB ARI

Brissett is the human equivalent of a fire extinguisher: you don’t want to need him, but when the kitchen’s on fire in week 17, he’s going to put it out with gasoline and touchdowns. He’s been on a run no one expected since taking over for the “injured” Kyler Murray.

Weeks 15 and 16 are brutal — Houston and Atlanta both rank top-five in pressure rate and bottom-five in fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. Starting him in those weeks is the fantasy equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight.

But week 17? Cincinnati has been the league’s most generous host to opposing quarterbacks all season, giving up the highest fantasy PPG, the most 300-yard games, and more deep balls than the NFL combine. Acquire Brissett to use as your QB2 in superflex or as insurance in standard one-quarterback leagues. If your starter gets you to the title game and has a bad matchup in the finals, Brissett might just hand you the trophy with a 350-yard, four-touchdown confetti bomb.

Trey Benson, RB ARI

Benson’s 2025 season so far: flashed as James Conner’s running mate and eventual replacement before immediately suffering a knee injury that has kept him out since week four. A bellcow workload was snatched from us before it even began. Arizona has been cobbling it together with Michael Carter, Emari Demercado, and Zonovan Knight – not exactly terrifying for opposing defenses.