FFT on CBSSN: Sleepers, Breakouts & Busts You Need to Know! (08/18 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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We kick things off with quick updates on (0:24) NFL injuries and trades, including De’Von Achane and Brian Robinson Jr. But the main event is all about helping you win your league with our top (10:52) sleepers, breakout (22:50) stars, and busts (33:00) for 2025. From Jordan Love and Keon Coleman to Bo Nix and Breece Hall, we’re breaking down the players who could make — or break — your fantasy season. The crew debates each pick by position and reveals who they're planting their flags on. Don’t miss our takes on rising talent, red flags, and undervalued upside plays across the board. Plus, we close the show with your #AskFFT (41:15) questions.... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:29.0 | Terms and conditions apply. Are the Bears back? Are the Jets done? We have Sleepers, Breakouts, and Bust for you here on Fantasy Football today. |
| 0:48.5 | Presented by BEDMGM, the sports book born in Vegas. I'm Jamie Eisenberg. That's Dave Richard. That's Heath Cummins. Got a lot to cover on a busy Monday coming off a busy preseason weekend and a lot of fantasy drafts still coming up. So let's get right to it. The Bears are they back. Are they back? I mean, listen, we were panicked. It was Caleb Williams stinks and they are, you know, maybe DeAndre Swift and maybe DJ Moore and maybe, maybe, maybe, |
| 1:14.8 | Caleb Williams look great against the bill's backups. He absolutely did. I'm not |
| 1:18.7 | ranking them as a top 12 quarterback anymore. I actually moved DJ Moore down in my rankings. |
| 1:23.2 | Mo Dounzae up. But no, I wouldn't say they're back. They haven't been back in a really long time. I didn't really move Caleb Williams down, but I never had him in the top 12. So I think that QB15 range is about the right spot. You should expect a second year quarterback in his first year in a new offense to maybe have some struggles early in the preseason and in training camp. And it looks like he's starting to work through some of that. |
| 1:45.9 | I don't, like I said, Dave said, I don't think he's a top 12 quarterback, but he certainly has the upside to be a lot better than a top 12 quarter. So after watching that, again, it was against Bill's backups. You were there. You saw a joint practice you went there last week. So you got to see a little bit more of ones versus ones. and Caleb had his ups and downs as he's kind of had all. |
| 2:01.2 | He actually had way more ups than downs in the practice. Now, he didn't take a lot of chances downfield. There were a couple times when he did, and he connected. I remember a deep post to Romo Dunzee that O'Donzee leaped up for. That was great. He had a great connection with Loveland. That was kind of like the one that we saw in the preseason game, but he didn't have any turnovers. He wasn't really that much off target. He just kept it kind of short. It's almost like his instructions that day, Jamie, were take what the defense gives you. And there's a lot of that in the National Football League. And when that happens, that leads to a high completion rate. You get a lot of yards as a result. Sometimes |
| 2:34.9 | you get extra yards because receivers make plays after the catch. And we know Chicago has a lot of |
| 2:39.5 | guys that can do that. They can make plays after the catch. And those numbers do rack up. It was a |
| 2:43.7 | good practice, I would say, for Caleb Williams. Why DJ Moore down? Why Roma Dunzae? |
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