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The first two weeks of the 2025 NFL season are in the rearview mirror, providing us with enough NFL stats to better evaluate matchups and players from a fantasy football perspective. With Sunday’s NFL Week 2 action wrapped up, we can highlight some winners and losers in fantasy.
Let’s dive into our fantasy football winners and losers from Week 2. We’ll be focusing on their rest-of-season outlook and what their performance means for the next few weeks.
It was only a matter of time for Jacksonville Jaguars rookie running back Bhayshul Tuten. A fourth-round pick (104th overall), Tuten stood out in Jaguars’ training camp and people around the team knew his opportunity would come quickly. The Tank Bigsby trade opened the door to that shot and Tuten thrived in Week 2, receiving his first significant workload.
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Facing the Cincinnati Bengals, Tuten averaged 5.3 yards per carry (42 rushing yards) on eight carries and tacked on two receptions for 32 receiving yards, scoring his first NFL touchdown. What’s particularly notable is that Tuten’s longest run on Sunday went for 9 yards. So, he was consistently generating positive yards on each touch rather than just getting one big run.
Tuten isn’t quite on the RB2 radar yet, since he received just 18 offensive snaps (25.4 percent) and Travis Etienne played well (5.1 ypc, 89 scrimmage yards and 1 TD) on 47 snaps. However, Tuten has already made this a committee backfield and should eventually overtake Etienne in what’s proven to be a very effective ground game from Liam Coen.
Unfortunately, per ESPN‘s Adam Schefter, Joe Burrow will undergo toe surgery that will sideline him for at least three months. It’s a devastating blow for the Cincinnati Bengals and while quarterback Jake Browning has put up quality numbers when filling in, anyone with stock in this Bengals’ offense is also taking quite the hit.
We realize that Ja’Marr Chase still put up 165 receiving yards with 14 receptions on 16 targets in Week 2. However, let’s also note that Chase averaged only 4.8 receptions and 63.8 receiving yards per game with 1 touchdown when Browning started from Weeks 12-18 in 2023. In that same stretch, Tee Higgins averaged just 3 receptions and 65.6 receiving yards per game. The impact also includes running back Chase Brown, who is averaging just 2.4 yards per carry this season, as it’ll be even easier to stop the Bengals’ ground game.
Fortunately for fantasy football managers, the landscape at tight end is so much richer than it was a few seasons ago. Rookie tight end Tyler Warren is another breakout player through two weeks, but he’s not the only one who has proven to be a top-shelf tight end in fantasy moving forward.
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