Helping decide who to play in fantasy football in week 18 between Carolina Panthers RB Rico Dowdle and Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Bucky Irving.

Week 17 of 2025 saw five players deliver some some of the best final-week performances in the past 10 seasons.

If your fantasy football league uses Week 18 for championship purposes, here are the defense and special teams rankings.

Every fantasy football postseason follows its own, difficult-to-foresee storyline. This year, having the right players from each week's early games -- and, in one case, the week's final game -- played a critical role in deciding league championships.

Yahoo analysts Matt Harmon, Justin Boone, Chris Allen and Joel Smyth go pick-by-pick in the potential first round for fantasy football in 2026.