2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Half-PPR Mock (7th Pick)
Updated: Friday, August 29, 2025The best way to become good at something is to practice. So, what should you do if you want to draft a better fantasy football team?
Practice, of course!
Leading up to the start of the 2025 NFL season, we will use the fantasy football mock draft simulator to complete fantasy football mock drafts. And we will do so using a variety of scoring formats — point per reception (PPR), half-PPR, standard scoring and even 2-QB leagues — and league sizes. The goal is to provide you with a good representation of the team that you may be able to draft given your league settings while also providing the rationale of why we made the picks we did.
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That said, nothing beats practicing yourself so (check out the simulator) and complete a mock in a matter of minutes.
Half-PPR Mock Draft: 12 Teams, 7th Pick
Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6
Embed from Getty Images1.07 - Malik Nabers, WR, New York Giants
Maybe Jaxson Dart will develop into a franchise quarterback, but New York's 2025 quarterback situation (Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and Dart) is an upgrade over what they had last year no matter who is starting. Despite missing a couple of games and the state of the team's quarterback play, Nabers finished his rookie campaign as fantasy's WR7. With a league-high 10 games with double-digit targets and more targets than all receivers not named Ja'Marr Chase, Nabers never finished with fewer than four catches, seven targets or 41 yards in any game in 2024.
2.06 - Jonathan Taylor, RB, Indianapolis Colts
Like with Derrick Henry, a concern with Taylor is the lack of receiving volume. That said, he should get more targets (and fewer rushing touchdowns vultured) from Daniel Jones than Anthony Richardson. Taylor, who missed Weeks 5-7, had only 12/59/1 receiving on 21 targets over the final 10 games of the season. But his rushing numbers over that span were elite — 231 carries for 1,082 yards, both of which were second to only Saquon Barkley, and seven touchdowns.
3.07 - Tee Higgins, WR, Cincinnati Bengals
While he would be a WR1 elsewhere, Higgins will continue to benefit from being the 1B to Ja'Marr Chase. While he has missed exactly five games in back-to-back seasons, Higgins finished second (behind Chase) among all wide receivers in fantasy points per game in 2024.
4.06 - Davante Adams, WR, Los Angeles Rams
Adams, who was traded midseason from the Raiders to the Jets, still managed to extend his streak of 1,000-yard, eight-TD seasons to five. Even though he turns 33 on Christmas Eve and won't dominate targets the way he had at previous stops, he should have (or come close to having) another 1,000/8 season with good health from Matthew Stafford (back).
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5.07 - Tony Pollard, RB, Tennessee Titans
After five years with the Dallas Cowboys, Pollard handled 301 touches for 1,317 yards and five touchdowns for the Titans in 2024. The Memphis native has now rushed for 1,000-plus yards and racked up 1,300-plus YFS in three consecutive seasons. In addition, he has 300-plus touches in back-to-back seasons. As much as the coaching staff may have wanted to not overwork Pollard this year, Tyjae Spears (high-ankle sprain) will miss (at least) the first four games.
6.06 - Zay Flowers, WR, Baltimore Ravens
Flowers finished his second NFL season with 74 catches for a career-high 1,059 yards and four touchdowns in 2024 while scoring the 24th-most fantasy points overall but the 33rd-most on a PPG basis among WRs who played at least eight games. Offensive coordinator Todd Monken recently said that the Ravens have to "get him the ball more."
7.07 - Chris Olave, WR, New Orleans Saints
There are a few concerns with Olave (his concussion history and the team's quarterback situation), but he's an excellent fantasy value if his health cooperates. Excluding two games with single-digit snaps, Olave played six full games in 2024 and finished those contests with 30/382/1 on 42 targets — that's equivalent to an 85/1082/3 pace. Olave eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in his first two seasons as well.
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8.06 - Justin Fields, QB, New York Jets
The same year (2022) that Fields threw for 2,242 yards, 17 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, he finished as fantasy's QB6 in points per game and overall. Of course, it was the elite rushing production (160/1143/8) that outweighed his anemic passing stats that year. Even before the Steelers benched him in favor of Russell Wilson in 2024, Fields was the QB6 in fantasy points per game through his six starts.
9.07 - Zach Charbonnet, RB, Seattle Seahawks
Kenneth Walker has played 41 games through three seasons including no more than 15 in any season. In other words, Charbonnet will likely get the multiple opportunities this season as Seattle's lead back. In eight games that Walker has missed, Charbonnet has averaged 18.5 touches (15.5 carries and 3.0 receptions) and 94.9 yards from scrimmage per game while scoring seven touchdowns.
10.06 - Austin Ekeler, RB, Washington Commanders
Ekeler missed five games in his first season with the Commanders, but he was efficient with his touches — 4.8 yards per carry (six-year high) and 10.5 yards per reception (five-year high). While he averaged nearly three catches per game (2.9), that was a six-year low and that makes sense playing with a dual-threat quarterback (Jayden Daniels). The biggest beneficiary of Brian Robinson Jr.'s trade to the San Francisco 49ers will be rookie Jacory Croskey-Merritt, but it could lead to a few extra touches for Ekeler as well. Either way, he's undervalued when comparing my rankings and projections to his current ADP.
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11.07 - David Njoku, TE, Cleveland Browns
Even though Njoku averaged a career-low 7.9 yards per reception in 2024, he averaged career highs in targets (8.8) and receptions (5.8) and his 45.9 YPG were the second-most of his career. While the quarterback situation creates uncertainty (when will the Browns transition from Joe Flacco to the rookies?), Njoku is a clear top-two option in the passing game along with Jerry Jeudy.
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12.06 - Tucker Kraft, TE, Green Bay Packers
Kraft took a big step forward in his second season as he finished with 50 catches for 707 yards and seven touchdowns on 70 targets. Other than a one-target outing against Chicago in Week 11, Kraft had at least two catches in every other game last season. He had only four games with more than five targets, but he's been extremely efficient on his targets (14.1 Y/R and 10.1 Y/TGT). Kraft is one of my favorite tight end targets, and he could take another step forward in year three.
13.07 - Tyler Allgeier, RB, Atlanta Falcons
With a new coaching staff in place (and one of the league's most talented backfield mates), it made sense that Allgeier set career lows across the board in 2024. He finished his third campaign with 150 touches (137 carries and 13 receptions), 732 yards from scrimmage and three total touchdowns in 2024. He's become more of a pure handcuff for Bijan Robinson and less of a standalone option who can provide RB3/flex production.
14.06 - Kyle Williams, WR, New England Patriots
Even if he's behind Stefon Diggs, Demario Douglas, and Kayshon Boutte to start the season, I'm betting on the talent with my final (non DST/K) pick and that Williams could earn a larger role as the season progresses.
15.07 - Buffalo Bills DST
16.06 - Chase McLaughlin, K, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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