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Playoff Schedule Strength

Weeks 15-17 — the weeks that decide most fantasy seasons — ranked by how much each opponent gave up to TEs in 2025. Rank 1 faces the most generous defences.

Read this first. These are 2025-season defensive ratings applied to this season's schedule. Defences change through injury, scheme, and regression, so this is a rough guide, not a forecast — a tiebreaker between players you already rate closely, never a reason to reach. Why, in one lesson →

#	Team	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17	Opp PPR allowed
1	CAR	CIN	PIT	SEA	17.4
2	BAL	PIT	CLE	CIN	16.5
3	MIN	DET	WAS	NYJ	14.9
4	ATL	WAS	TB	NO	14.7
5	LV	DEN	TEN	ARI	14.9
6	IND	TEN	CIN	CLE	15.7
7	NO	TB	ARI	ATL	14.3
8	LA	DAL	SEA	TB	14.3
9	LAC	SF	MIA	KC	14.0
10	BUF	CHI	DEN	MIA	14.3
11	TEN	IND	LV	PIT	14.0
12	PHI	SEA	HOU	SF	13.9
13	NYJ	ARI	NE	MIN	14.1
14	GB	MIA	CHI	HOU	13.9
15	JAX	HOU	DAL	WAS	13.5
16	CIN	CAR	IND	BAL	13.3
17	KC	NE	SF	LAC	13.3
18	NE	KC	NYJ	DEN	13.3
19	DAL	LA	JAX	NYG	13.1
20	PIT	BAL	CAR	TEN	12.9
21	NYG	CLE	DET	DAL	12.7
22	CLE	NYG	BAL	IND	12.5
23	ARI	NYJ	NO	LV	12.6
24	SEA	PHI	LA	CAR	11.7
25	HOU	JAX	PHI	GB	11.7
26	TB	NO	ATL	LA	11.9
27	WAS	ATL	MIN	JAX	11.9
28	DET	MIN	NYG	CHI	11.7
29	CHI	BUF	GB	DET	11.3
30	DEN	LV	BUF	NE	10.9
31	MIA	GB	LAC	BUF	10.2
32	SF	LAC	KC	PHI	9.9

“Opp PPR allowed” is the mean PPR points those three opponents gave up to TEs per game across the 2025 regular season, computed from our own game logs. Teams are ranked on the mean of their three opponents' defensive ranks.