It’s difficult to predict how players will perform season-to-season in the NFL. One year, you’re on top of the football world. The next, you’re down in the dumps, an afterthought in fantasy football. Yahoo analyst Matt Harmon takes you through 10 players who underperformed relative to expectations in 2025 and could use a reboot for this upcoming season.
Lamar Jackson was a consensus top quarterback in drafts last season but finished outside the top-15 at the position in points per game. Even when he was on the field, he wasn’t the same hyper-productive player. He had some of his least effective games in November of last year.
Jackson will play this season under a new coaching staff that includes offensive coordinator Declan Doyle. The 29-year-old will be a primary playcaller for the first time in his career but was the offensive coordinator under Ben Johnson last season. We should all expect the structure of Baltimore’s attack to resemble that of Chicago’s in 2025. That’s a solid change for Jackson at this stage of his career and fits some of the players in place. I still have questions about some of the non-Zay Flowers pass catchers, Jackson’s own current athleticism level as he enters his 30s next year and the ceiling of the offensive line. That may be enough to keep me from making Jackson a priority target as the QB2 overall in ADP, but I’m still open to a bounce-back season from the Ravens passer.
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Much like Jackson, most but not all of Jayden Daniels’ slip in 2025 can be chalked up to injuries. Daniels only played in seven games and left two early. He only cleared 20 points in two contests, however, and was not as hyper-efficient as he was as a rookie. The Commanders’ offense was severely limited by their wide receiver personnel beyond Terry McLaurin, who was also injured for much of the season.
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Daniels will get a fresh start with David Blough taking the controls from Kliff Kingsbury and set to install more pro-style concepts in the passing game. Daniels can play from under center and execute a passing game that works the intermediate middle of the field. I expect him to make this transition well and like some of the ancillary pieces like Antonio Williams and Chig Okonkwo, the team added to complement a hopefully healthy McLaurin. Daniels is one of my favorite quarterback targets this season, especially if he goes in the 60s.
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We’ve all spent many hours discussing, diagnosing and debating what went wrong in the Eagles passing attack last year and seemingly forgot that the running game took a step back. Saquon Barkley was a regression candidate no matter what but he was still drafted as a consensus early Round 1 selection despite that risk. He finished as the RB14 in both points per game and overall.
The touchdowns and explosive plays flowed like water in 2024 but dried up this past season. The hope is that a new offensive system under Sean Mannion can fix several woes but the team will go at it without legendary offensive line coach and run game coordinator Jeff Stoutland, for the first time in over a decade. I don’t have a strong feeling on Barkley’s 2026 outlook but he does feel like an underdiscussed character with so much fixation on the on-field dip and off-field drama surrounding the passing game in Philadelphia.
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The 2025 season was somewhere between bizarre and a nightmare for Bucky Irving. He dealt with injuries and setbacks that kept him off the field for a long stretch but even when he was available, he wasn’t a productive player. Out of 55 running backs who had 100-plus opportunities last season, Irving ranked 52nd in rushing success rate and 55th in EPA per rush. When he returned from injury, he saw his passing-down work cut for Rachaad White and goal-line work cut for Sean Tucker.
Frankly, I don’t have a strong take on whether Irving gets the reboot he needs in 2026. I believe he’s a talented back who flashed strong rushing chops as a rookie and the Bucs offensive line should play better and also have better health this season. However, Kenneth Gainwell could continue to eat away at Irving’s receiving work and Tucker was brought back as a restricted free agent. Irving could just come into camp and clearly establish himself as the lead back in the committee but there will be some split here and it appears he’s still rehabbing the shoulder injury that cost him time last year. He’s a boom-or-bust RB2 pick coming into the summer.
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