RosterWatch Podcast Episode 860 - Week 15 Fantasy Football Preview - December 13, 2025

December 13, 2025·51 min·5 clips

Alex Dunlap and Cody Carpentier preview the first weekend of fantasy football playoffs with top plays for every game.

Week 15 is already a pressure slate. Alex Dunlap and Cody Carpentier open by sorting the main board through fantasy playoffs, DFS lineup construction, player props, and the premium tools they use when the slate gets this annoying. The board is not clean, and Chiefs-Chargers is the first proof. The matchup stops being about star names pretty quickly and turns into an offensive-line problem: no Trey Smith for the Chiefs, both Chiefs tackles out, and the Chargers missing Joe Alt with Trey Pipkins likely out too. A total of 41 still feels awkward. They talk through the under, then spend more time on sack props because the injuries up front make that market feel more useful than another tidy fantasy checklist. The running back take stays conditional. A back who averaged four and a half yards per carry last week is still playable if he is on your roster, but the pass-blocking setup keeps pulling the discussion back toward caution. Then Bills-Patriots changes the temperature. New England is a one-and-a-half point home underdog, which becomes circuit-ticket material because New England and Denver are both home dogs on 10-game win streaks. Weird enough to stop on. The Patriots side runs through Travion Henderson, Ramondre Stevenson, and the messy job of guessing how that backfield splits. Stefan Diggs is the live wire. His previous 10-for-146 game against Buffalo matters, but the hangup is whether he can get there again, especially with Christian Benford moving from limited to DNP late in the week. Nobody tries to make it clean. The read circles, corrects itself, and keeps refusing the easy answer because the matchup will not give one. Later, Tennessee-San Francisco gives them a different kind of uncomfortable play. Christian McCaffrey is the comparison point, but the useful number is San Francisco allowing heavy running back targets and receptions, while Pollard and Spears have 68 targets combined, 34 apiece. Spears stays parked in the background. You would have to be in a pickle to play him. Pollard gets the nod because Tennessee is expected to get pushed around, which leaves running back target leakage or one long Tony P touchdown as the path. Thin basket, but it is there. The closing joke lands because it is basically the thesis: playoff fantasy sometimes asks you to trust Tony Pollard in the exact spot you hate.

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A fast, useful Week 15 preview for fantasy, DFS, and props.

The episode treats Week 15 as a practical fantasy and betting workroom, with Alex Dunlap and Cody Carpentier moving game by game through playoff pressure, DFS builds, player props, and injury context that can move a slate quickly.

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