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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Biggest Rankings Movers in Week 5

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Week 5 rankings are live and it’s time to talk movers. In this episode, Jeff breaks down the biggest risers and fallers from his fantasy football rankings for the week. From players who popped in Week 4 to names trending in the wrong direction, he’ll tell you what it all means for your lineup decisions heading into Week 5.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:13.8

Yo, what's up?

0:15.8

It's Thursday, October 2nd.

0:17.8

I'm Jeff.

0:18.2

This is the rant week five officially here, starting tonight. And yesterday,

0:23.6

given all the craziness with Trey Benson and all that fun stuff and the Michael Carter stuff,

0:29.3

Amari D. Mercado, heck, a little Bam Knight thrown in there as well. I didn't get to do the biggest

0:35.9

rankings, risers, and fallers. so I figured I would do that today.

0:39.9

I do want to try and do that every single week because it does help to have a little bit of context as to why players are maybe moving up, maybe moving down, and then level setting our expectations for the week.

0:49.7

So that's what we're going to do on the podcast today.

0:51.9

We're going to start a quarterback.

0:53.5

I'm diving right in.

0:54.6

Patrick Mahomes is one of the biggest risers at quarterback for me this week, and a lot of it has to do

1:00.5

with what we saw last week. If we can get that kind of passing game in play here for the Kansas

1:05.4

City Chiefs, then it's on like Donkey Kong. And it is against Jacksonville, and I realize

1:10.1

Jacksonville has been producing fantasy points, but I'm not overly intimidated by the matchup from a real football standpoint. Xavier Worthy is healthy. You have a decent wide receiver core from there. You also have Travis Kelsey. And hopefully this week we do see continued usage here for Breschard Smith.

1:28.8

Now, I'm not getting too crazy with Bershart Smith. And in fact, I want to address him when we get

1:34.0

to the running back position. I'm not going to get too crazy, but I am looking for more involvement

1:39.7

out of him. So anyway, Patrick Mahomes on the upswing for sure. So was Justin Fields. Now, Justin Fields

1:49.0

has been excellent in two games and beyond atrocious in one. So, I mean, in baseball, I guess

1:56.9

that's a good batting average, but I'm not willing to hitch my wagon to this horse

2:01.4

outright and do something crazy. Like, for example, and this is probably the most common

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