Ranking Week 5 fantasy football winners and losers and injury impacts from Sunday

Week 5 of the 2025 phantasy shot play featured a fig of large performances and a fistful of disappointing ones.

Who were the large winners and losers?

Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft connection their analyses.

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Ranking phantasy winners of Week 5

1. Jonathan Taylor, RB, Indianapolis Colts: Another week, different three-touchdown, 30-plus PPR phantasy constituent show for Taylor, who has abruptly moved into 2nd spot astatine his presumption (121.3) down Christian McCaffrey (123.9) for the season. Taylor scored 31.6 points successful his latest ascendant effort, this 1 against the Las Vegas Raiders, contempt his not touching the shot implicit the last 17 minutes of the game. Put speech his past wounded questions, arsenic he's moving astir arsenic good arsenic anyone presently and is simply a locked-in RB1. -- Cockcroft

2. Rico Dowdle, RB, Carolina Panthers: With Chuba Hubbard down (calf), Dowdle took vantage of the affirmative matchup vs. Miami, scoring a career-high 32.4 points. Dowdle saw dense tally crippled usage, carrying the shot 23 times for 202 yards and a score, positive helium added 28 yards receiving connected 3 catches. With unfastened daylight to onslaught versus the Dolphins front, racked up six rushes of 10 oregon much yards. Explosive. If Hubbard is inactive retired for the Week 6 crippled versus Dallas, Hubbard fits arsenic a coagulated RB2, and he's presently disposable successful implicit 60% of ESPN leagues. -- Bowen

3. Kyren Williams, RB, Los Angeles Rams: Williams' boost successful receiving usage pushed his full to a season-high 31.1 points successful the Thursday nighttime nonaccomplishment to the 49ers. Williams caught 8 of 10 targets present for 66 yards, positive helium added 2 touchdown grabs. Williams did pb the squad successful rushing with 65 yards connected 14 carries (4.6 YPC), portion backup Blake Corum saw conscionable 1 rushing attempt. With a Week 6 matchup versus a banged-up Ravens defense, Corum volition stay an upper-tier RB2. -- Bowen

4. Dak Prescott, QB, and Javonte Williams, RB, Dallas Cowboys: The Cowboys' discourtesy was humming erstwhile again against the mightily struggling New York Jets, scoring 37 points to springiness them a league-leading 3 games totaling astatine slightest that many. Prescott played a large part, throwing f...