James Cook III Fantasy Football Outlook (2025)

By Andrew Erickson (FantasyPros), Wed, Aug 13th 2025, 7:35am EDT

James Cook tied a bow on his 3rd season with weekly RB1 finishes in more than half of his games, en route to his 2nd consecutive 1,000-yard campaign. Cook was RB8 overall and RB10 in PPG as he took a massive touchdown leap (2 rushing TDs in 2023 to 19 in 2024). Concerns about Josh Allen taking all the red-zone TDs were overblown. The scores helped boost Cook's production as he played fewer than 50% of the snaps. Even so, we have a 28-game sample of Cook in Joe Brady's offense. He has averaged 15.5 points per contest - good for low-end fantasy RB1 production. Cook signed a new contract with the Bills (4-year, $48M deal with $30 guaranteed), ending his holdout