Game Info
Kickoff: Sunday, December 7, 2025, 1:00 PM ET
Location: M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, MD
Network: CBS
Pittsburgh Steelers
Quarterback
Aaron Rodgers: SIT, QB2 (Startable in Superflex)
Aaron Rodgers took a huge sack from Joey Bosa and left the game against the Bills with a crimson mask, but returned and finished with his usual uplifting smile and joyful disposition.
The good news is his fractured left wrist is no worse for wear after getting beaten up by the Bills. But he’s thrown for fewer than 250 yards in seven straight games and not had a multi-touchdown game since Week 8. The Ravens’ defense’s early-season struggles against quarterbacks are long gone, with more interceptions and passing touchdowns allowed since their Week 7 bye. The Steelers added a “weapon” for Rodgers by claiming recently released Adam Thielen, but that’s nowhere near enough to counter the matchup and inadequate play to consider A-A-ron anything more than a back-end QB2 for Superflex.
Running Back
Jaylen Warren: FLEX, RB3
Kenneth Gainwell: START, RB2
Despite scoring 10 or more fantasy points in five of his last seven, Jaylen Warren has been mostly mediocre. Since Week 10, Warren has handled 14 more carries, but Kenneth Gainwell has been the more efficient and explosive runner. Gainwell averaged 5.7 yards per carry to Warren’s 4.5, with a 4.2% to 1.9% difference in explosive run rate. Warren does have the edge inside the five, handling 66.7% of the work, but Gainwell’s outtargetting him 17 to six. The lowly Pittsburgh offense, paired with the shared workload, keeps both in the low-end RB2/FLEX range. I like Gainwell a little more this week against the Ravens, who give up nearly five catches per game to running backs.
Wide Receiver
DK Metcalf: FLEX, WR4
Calvin Austin III: SIT
Adam Thielen: SIT
There’s not much to say about DK Metcalf at this point in the season that you don’t already know. He’s a highly volatile boom/bust WR3 who’s been a whooooole lot of bust lately. He has the game-breaking athleticism to go nuclear any given Sunday, but the Steelers offense isn’t conducive to those kinds of performances. He still has a nearly unmatched ceiling, but you have to consider him more of a FLEX than a WR3 at this point. Adam Thielen is an intriguing name to keep an eye on with the lack of pass catchers in Pittsburgh, but you can’t risk starting him with less than a week on the team.
Tight End
Darnell Washington: SIT
Jonnu Smith: SIT
Pat Freiermuth: SIT
You can’t reliably start any of these guys any week in fantasy, but you can absolutely enjoy watching Darnell Washington make plays every time he graces the field.
Darnell Washington is our biggest offensive weapon.
Steelers football. pic.twitter.com/jtaktSYnST
— Obviously (Not) Tomlin (@Tomlin_Sense) November 30, 2025
Defense/Special Teams
Pittsburgh Steelers: STREAMER (two weeks)
The Steelers are a risky streamer if you want to gamble on Lamar Jackson continuing to play poorly, but not one I’d recommend. If you do chance it, they face the Dolphins in the first round of the fantasy football playoffs.
Baltimore Ravens
Quarterback
Lamar Jackson: START, QB1
In a game Lamar Jackson was expected to feast, a Thanksgiving famine left fantasy managers wanting more. Jackson failed to score a touchdown in his third straight game, the longest scoreless streak in his career. The two-time MVP completed 17/32 passes for 246 yards, rushed six times for 27 yards, and turned the ball over three times. Jackson threw one interception and lost two fumbles, one of which brought back memories of the tuck rule, Lamar losing the ball while trying to pull it back in on a pass attempt. Jackson admittedly doesn’t look right, but I’m giving him a bit of a mulligan in this one. Jackson could have just as easily had three touchdowns, and none of this doom-and-gloom, sky-is-falling talk would have been breathed into the atmosphere. He slightly overthrew a wide-open Tez Walker, but Walker should have come down with it and walked into the end zone. Jackson lost a second touchdown when a 44-yard TD pass to Isaiah Likley was reversed after replay revealed he fumbled before breaking the plane, the ball going out of the end zone for a touchback (sidebar: I don’t think that’s a dumb rule). And a third potential touchdown was negated by a questionable flag from a push-off call from Zay Flowers on a 36-yard missile from Jackson. I’m comfortable starting Lamar in almost all scenarios.
Running Back
Derrick Henry: START, RB1
Derrick Henry has four touchdowns in his last three games, propelling the stud running back to three straight games with 17+ fantasy points. The Steelers have given up the eighth-fewest points to the position this season, but have recently been beaten up on the ground. Pittsburgh is one of three teams allowing over 150 rushing yards per game in their last three games. But wait, there’s more.
Derrick Harmon is OUT again this week with the knee injury.
A big blow for the Steelers run defense. Harmon was drafted especially with the wild card loss to the Ravens in mind.
— Brooke Pryor (@bepryor) December 2, 2025
Per Steelers ESPN beat reporter Brooke Pryor, defensive tackle Derrick Harmon will miss a second straight game, a week after allowing 249 yards on the ground to the Bills. King Henry is inching ever so close to fun fact status and could wind up the Week 14 RB1 overall.
Wide Receiver
Zay Flowers: START, WR1
DeAndre Hopkins: SIT
Rashod Bateman: SIT
Zay Flowers should have had a 36-yard touchdown reception on Thanksgiving, but it was washed away by a pass interference call. Naturally, Lamar’s recent struggles have negatively impacted Flowers’ fantasy output. But with more than a quarter of Baltimore’s target share and a top 10 fantasy matchup in Pittsburgh, I’m calling my shot. Flowers blooms back into the top 12 in Week 14. (I’m sorry). Rashod Bateman and DeAndre Hopkins aren’t on the fantasy radar, however.
Tight End
Mark Andrews: START, Borderline TE1
Isaiah Likley: START, Borderline TE1
Mark Andrews was unable to take advantage of the best matchup in fantasy for tight ends, but Isaiah Likley kinda did… at least before this happened.
Isaiah Likely fumbles a would-be touchdown through the endzone to result in a touch back pic.twitter.com/IF13ouE4GQ
— JM Football (@JomboyMediaFB) November 28, 2025
Likely still had a solid performance, catching five of six targets for 95 yards, but was inches away from a monster game. Both are borderline TE1s against a Steelers defense that allows the sixth-most points to tight ends. Andrews is the safer yin to Likely’s upside yang (shoutout to my good friend and TE guru Andrew Cooper).
Defense/Special Teams
Baltimore Ravens: START
The Ravens’ defense has completely flipped the script from earlier this season, but just got baked, roasted, and smoked by the Bengals on Thanksgiving. It was the first time since Week 5 that Baltimore has allowed over 20 points in a game, and I’m firing them up against a hobbled Aaron Rodgers and the pitiful Pittsburgh offense.