2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Half-PPR Mock (8th Pick)

Updated: Friday, July 25, 2025

The 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.

> Our 2025 mocks will be centralized here: Fantasy Football Mock Drafts.

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, 10th Pick

Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6

1.08 - Malik Nabers, WR, New York Giants

Perhaps Jaxson Dart will provide a real long-term upgrade, but New York's 2025 quarterback situation is both below average and yet also an upgrade over what they had last year. 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.

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2.05 - Nico Collins, WR, Houston Texans

Collins has missed seven games over the past two seasons, but the now 26-year-old receiver has averaged 85.3 YPG (fifth best), 15.6 Y/R (eighth) and scored a total of 15 touchdowns (tied, 10th) over that span (among wide receivers with at least 100 targets). He has finished among the top three wide receivers in PFF's Y/RR metric in each of the past two seasons — 3.11 (second) in 2023 and 2.87 (third) in 2024, respectively. If Collins can stay healthy for a full season, the emerging superstar could make a jump into the top tier of fantasy receivers in 2025.

3.08 - 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.

MORE: 2025 Cincinnati Bengals Fantasy Football Projections

4.05 - Kenneth Walker III, RB, Seattle Seahawks

Walker has missed multiple games in each of his three NFL seasons including six missed games last year. While he averaged only 3.7 yards per carry and 4.4 yards per touch, both career lows, his PFF elusive rating (113.5) was a career high and the third most among all running backs with at least 100 carries in 2024. Walker should benefit from the new coaching staff's heavy use of outside zone and there is plenty of upside if his health cooperates.

5.08 - D'Andre Swift, RB, Chicago Bears

Heading into the draft, the Bears were one of the teams that many projected to take a running back early. Chicago drafted one but not until the seventh round (Kyle Monangai, 233rd overall). Barring any trades that shake up this backfield, there is plenty of potential value to unlock by rostering Swift or Roschon Johnson.

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6.05 - Jaylen Waddle, WR, Miami Dolphins

Waddle set career lows across the board — 58/744/2 on 83 targets — in 2024.

Although he's coming off a career-worst season, there is upside with Waddle as my flex/WR4.

7.08 - Rome Odunze, WR, Chicago Bears

There were a lot of reasons to buy Odunze heading into 2024, even though he fell short of expectations. Going into 2025, it's still my goal to be overweight Odunze. Ben Johnson has appreciated the young receiver's work ethic and approach. Johnson previously said of Odunze, "the way he approaches the meeting room, the walk-throughs, the on-field, the drill work, it's very much like a seasoned pro, some of the best that I've been around."

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8.05 - Kyler Murray, QB, Arizona Cardinals

While fantasy managers were hoping for more from Murray in 2024, his final numbers were still solid albeit not spectacular. Murray threw multiple touchdowns in only four games, but he had another four multi-score games when including rushing touchdowns. Even with more weekly inconsistency than you may like, Murray has upside as a back-end QB1, especially if Marvin Harrison Jr. and their connection take a big step forward in year two, as many expect.

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9.08 - Stefon Diggs, WR, New England Patriots

Diggs tore his ACL in the middle of his lone season with the Houston Texans, but he returns to AFC East to give Drake Maye a significant upgrade to the receiving corps, when healthy. That said, the days of 1,000-yard seasons (like the six consecutive he had from 2018-23) are likely over, especially in what should be low-volume passing offense.

10.05 - Tyjae Spears, RB, Tennessee Titans

Spears missed a total of five games (not consecutively) in 2024.The workload split between Tony Pollard (301 touches in 2024, 18.8/G) and Spears (114, 9.5/G) should be narrower in 2025 as long as his health cooperates.

11.08 - Ray Davis, RB, Buffalo Bills

Davis finished his rookie season with 130 touches including 17 receptions, 631 yards from scrimmage and six total touchdowns. If James Cook were to miss any time, Davis would become a weekly RB2.

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12.05 - Dalton Kincaid, TE, Buffalo Bills

Kincaid (PCL) missed multiple games in 2024 and his per-game numbers were down from his rookie season — 3.4 receptions (vs. 4.6 in 2023) and 34.5 yards (vs. 42.1). While his catch rate plummeted to 58.7% (from 80.2%), his average depth of target (ADOT) increased to 8.9 (from 7.0) and his Y/RR ticked upward to 1.55 (from 1.51), per PFF. The breakout many had expected did not materialize in his sophomore campaign, but will last year's disappointment lead to a buy-low overcorrection in drafts now that he's healthy again?

13.08 - Tyler Warren, TE, Indianapolis Colts

Tight end is a position where rookies have historically struggled to make immediate impacts, but a pair of rookie tight ends — Sam LaPorta (2023) and Brock Bowers (2024) — have led the position in fantasy points in back-to-back seasons. Viewed by many as the most well-rounded tight end in this draft class, Warren's all-around skill set could outweigh the potential limitations of a mediocre offensive environment with subpar quarterback play. If you draft multiple tight ends, Warren is a high-upside TE2 who could pay huge dividends.

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14.05 - Minnesota Vikings DST

15.08 - Caleb Williams, QB, Chicago Bears

Poised for a breakout season, Williams benefits from the trifecta of improvements in offensive coaching, protection and weapons. After completely revamping their interior offensive line in free agency, the Bears also used their first three draft picks on the offense — tight end Colston Loveland, wide receiver Luther Burden III, and offensive tackle Ozzy Trapilo. Williams is one of my favorite (later) quarterback targets.

16.05 - Ka'imi Fairbaim, K, Houston Texans

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