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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Week 18 Preview: Who Claims the NFC No. 1 Seed? + SHOCKING Early Takeaways from 2026 Top 50 Rankings

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Most fantasy seasons might be over, but the NFL season isn't. Matt Harmon and Justin Boone get you ready with everything you need to know for Week 18. Boone provides his 6 pack of fantasy questions for Week 18 along with early takeaways from his 2026 top 50 rankings. Harmon opens up ‘The Fantasy Film Room’ to provide 3 rookies that will take the next step in 2026.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Big show for you here today. Justin Boone joins me to preview some things you do need to know in week 18

0:05.1

some big time matchups between some potential playoffs winning in the whole deal. We'll get into that.

0:10.9

We also talk a little bit of a look ahead to 2026. Boone's got his early rankings out. Of course he does.

0:16.8

We unpack those. We also talk about some rookies this year that are going to be year two players that we're excited about next season.

0:23.6

All that and more come up on today's show.

0:25.4

Let's get into it.

0:41.8

What's going on, everybody? I'm Matt Harmon.

0:42.6

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy forecast presented by Toyota,

0:45.6

the official automotive partner of the NFL,

0:47.5

who's all in, all season,

0:49.6

and joining me today to talk a little ball

0:51.6

because it's a hell of a day to talk ball.

0:53.5

It is my guy, Justin Boone. Boone, what's going on, buddy? Well ball because it's a hell of a day to talk ball it is my guy

0:54.5

justin boon what's going on buddy well you're getting a lot of nice messages this week from

1:00.0

listeners out there who won their leagues so that is cool that they're taking the time to do that

1:04.4

though i do agree with your sentiment that it's the people out there who are doing the work we are

1:09.2

here as like a guide as another data point that they can consider to help kind of lead them to where they're going. But they're the ones set in their rosters. They're the ones doing the work. So congrats to everybody out there who won. And yes, thank you for taking a little bit of time to send those messages. The other thing that I noticed today that I hadn't really noticed yet, Harmon, is I'm still

1:27.7

picking up like green fluff all over my desk, all over my office from wearing that stupid Grinch

1:33.2

costume before Christmas. So we might need to do like a deep clean here once the season's done to

1:38.4

make sure I get rid of like all the green hair that's all over my office here. But we'll have time.

1:43.6

We got another holiday coming up this week here. And then we'll have plenty of time during the playoffs. It quiets down a little bit in terms of fantasy content. And then, of course, once we get to February, and I'll be able to clean the office out entirely here. But those are the things going on with me. How about you, buddy? No, I feel the exact same.

2:00.9

There's always that kind of, it's a hangover period, right?

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