Welcome to Week 14 of the 2025 Footballguys Roundtable. Our intrepid panel of fantasy pundits discusses and debates four topics every week. We split the conversation into separate features.
This week's roundtable features these four topics:
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Matt Waldman: These contributors delivered fantasy value last week, well beyond their year-long ranking.
Which receiver would you add to your roster if you had a need?
Josh Fahlsing: I sleepwalked through the past week and somehow missed the chance to add Vele to a contending team that needs help at wide receiver. I'm not happy about it, so that makes him my answer. Adding Vele to my roster doesn't exactly make my socks roll up and down, but he has produced in the past and suddenly finds himself the running mate to Chris Olave for a New Orleans offense destined to be playing from behind.
Vele has found himself on the field more over the past three weeks, averaging an 88 percent snap rate during that time. If he can maintain that role, he can be a player who could help a fantasy manager in a pinch over the next few weeks.
Andy Hicks: Adonai Mitchell is the only player from the list who ticks all my boxes.
- He is by far the highest draft pick listed.
- He is not a supplementary receiver.
- He has been heavily targeted for multiple weeks.
- His quarterback consistently looks for him.
- He is the only player listed who has more than 100 yards in a game.
Week 13 represents just one week. With Tyrod Taylor almost assured of starting the rest of the season, Mitchell clearly emerged as his number one target. After strong target numbers in the two weeks prior, this week finally delivered the production to match.
Mitchell is still finding his feet. He has only been with the team for a few weeks. He spent training camp with the Colts.
With more opportunities, he should continue to improve. Given his pedigree when entering the league as the 52nd overall pick, he now has the opportunity to be the number one target for an NFL franchise, in the absence of Garrett Wilson -- not as the fourth or fifth one week and then the beneficiary of a game script in another.
Colton Dodgson: The early bird gets the worm, so shout-out to Andy for beating me to Adonai Mitchell. There's some upside with Jalen Coker, too. Bryce Young was more efficient than he's been all season in Carolina's upset win over Los Angeles in Week 13. He was only asked to throw 20 times, so the efficiency metrics were either going to look great or abysmal with such a small sample.
To Young's credit, his 0.61 expected points added per dropback was the highest total of any quarterback on the week. Both of his fourth-down touchdown passes were impressive. He flashed in significant moments. One of those touchdowns went to Jalen Coker, who paced the Panthers in targets on the day.
Coker only earned six targets, but relative to Carolina's league-low 35.5 percent pass rate in Week 13, that's a 30 percent share. The efficiency and downfield usage are indicators that Coker can still make the most of limited opportunities in run-heavy game plans.
He averaged 4.1 yards per route run on 18 routes and 14.2 air yards per target when Carolina took run-first to the extreme in Week 13. While the pass rate might not drop as far as it did, the Panthers' 53.8 percent pass rate is the 11th-lowest in the league this season.
That's a variable Coker's consistency. If he can continue maximizing his opportunities in the low-volume iteration of this Panthers offense, he's an interesting asset whom I'd be willing to stash.
Jason Wood: How could the answer not be Adonai Mitchell?
Waldman: Catching and route running have been problematic early in his career, and it got him a ticket out of Indianapolis. I can definitely see how he might be a false positive.
Wood: That may prove true long-term, but short-term, he's the clear answer. Mitchell has played 85 percent of the snaps for the Jets in each of the last two weeks and, along with John Metchie III, appears set to finish the season as a full-time starter on a team with nothing left to do but evaluate the roster for 2026 roles.
Beyond the obvious role change, Mitchell has draft pedigree (second round) and the size–speed combination (6-foot-2, 205 pounds) to profile as a potential alpha receiver.
Joseph Haggan: Adonai Mitchell should continue to produce. With Garrett Wilson still on IR, the Jets do not have a legitimate top receiving threat.
As Jason and Matt mentioned, Mitchell had second-round draft capital with the Colts, though he could not crack the starting lineup. Luckily for his career, the Jets have zero depth.
To Matt's point, Mitchell has committed some ugly drops, but he has been a target hog. Mitchell has 25 targets over the last three games, and finally seemed to find his groove in Week 13 with 12 targets, 8 receptions, 102 receiving yards, and a touchdown.
To make it better, he had an improved catch rate of 66 percent. Mitchell should continue to see high volume, and even if/when Wilson returns, he has locked down the team's No. 2 receiver role.