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C.J. Stroud

C.J. Stroud

QB - Houston Texans

Height: 6' 3"Weight: 218 lbsAge: 24College: Ohio State

Week 17 Outlook

HOU @ LAC
Sat 4:30pm ET
60°
Matchup (?)
Week Rank (ECR) QB #19
Projection 15.1 pts

Roster %

 
Yahoo
56%
 
ESPN
57%
 
FanDuel
 
DraftKings

Availability



Recent Articles
Fantasy Football Week 17 Rankings, Grades & Start/Sit Advice (2025) photo

Welcome to Week 17, and welcome to Quick Grades, your weekly companion for start/sit clarity. We’ve combined consensus rankings and projections with The Primer’s matchup analysis to assign letter grades for every fantasy-relevant player, then added concise notes to illuminate … read more »

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Fantasy Football Start/Sit Advice: Safe & Risky Picks (Week 17) photo

Let’s take a look at some of the players with the largest standard deviation between high and low expert ranks in FantasyPros ECR. Which players are the safest starts, and who poses the biggest risk to your fantasy football lineup … read more »

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Let’s Stream Defenses: Week 17 (2025 Fantasy Football) photo

This is it – the fantasy football finals. If you’re reading this, congratulations on making it! Hopefully you’ve been stashing or starting a defense with good matchup this week, but if not there should be some reasonable options on the … read more »

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FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE HERE. You’ve put in the work. You grinded for 16 long weeks. And if you have made it this far…pat yourself on the back. Getting to your fantasy football championship is no easy feat. Let’s … read more »

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The Primer: Week 17 Saturday Edition (2025 Fantasy Football) photo

Welcome to Week 17. Known to the initiated as FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK! In case you’re wondering, yes, the Primer will be here next week as well to help everyone who still has active fantasy leagues and delayed championship weeks. … read more »

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 17) photo

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5 Fantasy Football Smash Starts: Week 16 (2025) photo

Smashing starts right into the fantasy football semi-finals. With only a couple of weeks of the fantasy season to go, fantasy start sit decisions are more important than ever. Last week, we selected players who may have been on the … read more »

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FantasyPros publishes approximately 7.7 million pieces of weekly fantasy football content to help you win your league and eventually take home fantasy gold. It can be difficult to read such a vast amount of content, which is why we’ve rounded … read more »

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Fantasy Football Boom Starts & Bust Sits (Week 16) photo

It’s time for the semi-finals of the fantasy playoffs, so we need to make informed lineup decisions in this do-or-die spot. The best way to do so is to focus on the matchup, consider the game script and compare your … read more »

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The Primer: Week 16 Edition (2025 Fantasy Football) photo

If you’re reading this, hopefully that means that you’re moving on to the next round of the Fantasy Football playoffs. If you’re not, well, at least I hope this helps with betting props, setting DFS lineups, or avoiding a last-place … read more »

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Start em or sit em? Fantasy football start or sit decisions can be excruciating. While it feels great to make the right call and cruise to fantasy glory, it hurts just as much when you have someone erupt while on … read more »

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Fantasy Football Quarterback Streamers & Waiver Wire Pickups (Week 16) photo

Week 15 of the 2025 NFL season is in the books. Hopefully, your team pulled out the victory. However, the only easy win was last week’s win. So, let’s look at the top streaming quarterback options for Week 16. More … read more »

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Let’s Stream Defenses: Week 16 (2025 Fantasy Football) photo

The fantasy football semifinals are here, and if you’re reading this, congratulations on making it! I’ve been banging the drum of planning ahead for the last several weeks, but sometimes plans have to change. So before we get to this … read more »

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Beyond the Waiver Wire: Fantasy Football Moves to Make (Week 16) photo

FANTASY FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS ARE HERE LFG. Week 15 and the first round of fantasy football playoffs are in the books. Focus moves to the semi-finals. This means we’re zeroing in on what really matters: playoff stashes, injury fallout, drop candidates, … read more »

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Top 5 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Priority Pickups (Week 16) photo

Our analysts combine to provide rankings for weekly fantasy football waiver wire targets. We’ll help you prioritize your bids for the week ahead. Check out our full expert consensus fantasy football waiver wire rankings and all of our fantasy football … read more »

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Advice: Pickups to Target, Stash & Drop (Week 16) photo

The finish line is in sight, friends. Win two more games and walk away a fantasy football champion. It’s been a wild season. Never could I have imagined that at any point I would be putting Michael Wilson ahead of … read more »

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Doing your weekly waivers in fantasy football can be more stressful than performing life-saving surgery on a loved one without any professional tools or medical knowledge. While that might be a slight exaggeration, deciding which players to add off the … read more »

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Fantasy Football Waiver Wire Rankings & Pickups (Week 16) photo

Our analysts combine to provide rankings for weekly fantasy football waiver wire targets. We’ll help you prioritize your bids for the week ahead. Check out our full expert consensus fantasy football waiver wire rankings. And also be sure to check … read more »

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With the injury to Patrick Mahomes, fantasy football managers are left with a void on their roster. Let’s check out the extent of the injury and players you can target on your fantasy football waiver wire this week. And also … read more »

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