What the Heck Happened!? Analyzing the Biggest Busts of 2025 (04/06 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We discuss what went wrong for some of the biggest busts of 2025 and what needs to go right for them in 2026. This list includes Justin Jefferson, Jayden Daniels and Saquon Barkley. First, we've got a lot of news and notes (3:45) including an update on Rashee Rice plus what the Eagles and 49ers offenses could look like ... Getting into the biggest busts of 2025, we start with Brian Thomas Jr. (13:10). The targets and efficiency were much worse. Were injuries to blame? Can he bounce back? What about Nico Collins (24:15)? Just how big of a bust was he, anyway? And Justin Jefferson (31:55) was kind of an easy one to analyze and seems like a good candidate to bounce back ... Saquon Barkley (39:00) was certainly a bust, but was it mostly because he had such a big workload in 2024? What were the other contributing factors? When should you draft him? Ladd McConkey (46:40) did not come through for Fantasy managers in 2025 and we'll tell you what we may have missed when we evaluated him a year ago. We also discuss Jayden Daniels (1:00:00) and talk about which of these six players is most likely to bounce back in 2026 ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:03.0 | What a play! |
| 0:04.0 | Can you believe this? |
| 0:06.0 | It's a no idea. |
| 0:08.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:10.0 | Off to the races and he stays on his feet. |
| 0:13.0 | It's just going to go the distance. |
| 0:15.0 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:19.0 | Monday, April 6 Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:22.8 | Monday, April 6th. |
| 0:25.2 | You know, we're going to do a lot of looking ahead this month, |
| 0:26.8 | looking ahead to the NFL draft. |
| 0:28.1 | It's just a few weeks away. |
| 0:34.1 | But today we're looking back at six of the biggest busts in fantasy football from 2025. |
| 0:39.7 | Brian Thomas Jr. went from wide receiver 14 per game to wide receiver 46 per game. |
| 0:45.0 | Justin Jefferson was wide receiver 2 overall, wide receiver 6 per game. Well, this past year, |
| 0:50.9 | he was wide receiver 30 per game and wide receiver 20 overall. Lab of Conkie was even worse. |
| 0:55.4 | Nico Collins averaged two and a half fewer fantasy points per game. |
| 0:58.1 | Jaden Daniels, it was a mess. |
| 1:00.7 | He only played a full snapshot in four games. |
| 1:05.8 | And Sequin Barclay went from the number one running back per game to running back 15 per game. |
| 1:10.7 | So today we are going to attempt to answer, hey, what happened? Yeah, exactly. Welcome to the show. It's fantasy football |
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