{"id":348749,"date":"2025-09-07T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348749\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:50:10","slug":"rashod-bateman-start-or-sit-week-1-fantasy-football-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/348749\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashod Bateman start or sit: Week 1 fantasy football advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Sunday night with the Baltimore Ravens visiting the Buffalo Bills at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Ravens\u2019 Super Bowl hopes were dashed by this very Bills team in last year\u2019s AFC Divisional round and they\u2019re looking for some revenge to open the new year. Some experts believe that this is the best top-to-bottom roster in the entire league and one of the returning pieces that will be tasked with making plays for the offense is wide receiver Rashod Bateman. He enters the year with an ADP (average draft position) in the 57-63 range among wide receivers across multiple scoring formats according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/nfl\/adp\/wr.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FantasyPros<\/a>, making him a late-round flyer pick in most league\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Below, we\u2019ll go over Bateman\u2019s outlook in fantasy football for Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Football analysis: Ravens WR Rashod Bateman<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After years of dealing with injuries, Bateman finally experienced a breakout season for the Ravens in 2024 with 45 receptions for 756 yards and nine touchdowns. He proved to be one of the best big-play wideouts in the NFL last season as his 16.8 yards per reception ranked third in the league and he played a big factor in the offense boasting the <a href=\"https:\/\/sumersports.com\/teams\/offensive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top passing EPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Bateman signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45456848\/source-ravens-give-wr-rashod-bateman-3-year-3675m-extension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-year contract extension<\/a> with the organization this offseason, locking him in as one of Lamar Jackson\u2019s go-to weapons for the foreseeable future. His low ADP can be attributed to the presence of Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews, and DeAndre Hopkins as Baltimore\u2019s other pass-catching weapons, so it remains to be seen how many targets he can command for himself this year.<\/p>\n<p>Start or sit in Week 1 standard\/PPR leagues?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sit. Bateman could very well end up being a steal for fantasy managers this season, but I\u2019d take a wait-and-see approach in Week 1. This primetime showdown between two of of the AFC\u2019s top teams could be tight and it may come down to each offense\u2019s rushing attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,1999,62739,58209,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-348749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-fantasy-football","13":"tag-fantasy-football-start-sit-advice","14":"tag-fantasy-football-wide-receivers","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115162633106646585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}