2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Half-PPR Mock (9th Pick)
Updated: Saturday, August 23, 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, 9th 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 Images1.09 - Malik Nabers, WR, New York Giants
Nabers finished his rookie campaign as fantasy's WR7 despite poor quarterback play. 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. Going into the 2025 season, Nabers is my WR4 and seventh overall in my top 200 fantasy football cheat sheet. This team turned out stacked at WR, so perhaps I could have started RB (Derrick Henry) here, but I can start up to four receivers (three starters plus flex).
2.04 - Drake London, WR, Atlanta Falcons
London set career highs across the board — 100/1,271/9 on 158 targets (29.3% team target share) — and he finished with 50-plus yards in 14 of 17 games. Only Justin Jefferson and Ja'Marr Chase (15 each) had more such games. London closed the season with 22/352/2 on a league-high 39 targets in that three-week span that Michael Penix Jr. was under center.
MORE: 2025 Atlanta Falcons Fantasy Football Projections
3.09 - 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.
4.04 - Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints
Yes, Kamara turned 30 on July 25th and has missed multiple games in four consecutive seasons. And yes, an offense led by rookie Tyler Shough (or Spencer Rattler) could lead to more downs than ups for the offense as a whole. And yes, his days of off-the-charts production (5.0 YPC, 8.7 Y/R, minimum of 81 catches, and 58 TDs in 60 games) in his first four seasons are a thing of the past. That said, he has averaged 279.5 touches, 61.8 receptions, 1,344.3 yards and 6.8 touchdowns per season over the past four years despite missing 13 games. In 2024, Kamara finished as fantasy's RB10 overall (and as the RB6 on a per-game basis).
MORE: 2026 New Orleans Saints Mock Draft Roundup
5.09 - 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 a running back 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.
6.04 - Calvin Ridley, WR, Tennessee Titans
Ridley has back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns including his first in Tennessee last season and he led the NFL in player share of a team's air yards (44.58%), per NextGen Stats. Team reporter Jim Wyatt said of Ridley that "it seems like he's even more eager to work, and to embrace helping Ward, and the rookies around him" [compared to last season]. While it would be reasonable to expect ups and downs for a rookie quarterback, the rookie version of Ward should still be better than Will Levis (12 starts in 2024) and Mason Rudolph (five).
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7.09 - Jakobi Meyers, WR, Las Vegas Raiders
Meyers has finished as a WR2 (top 24) in both of his seasons in the desert — WR24 in 2023 and WR23 in 2024, respectively, despite sub-par quarterback play and trailing Brock Bowers in targets last season. While his upside is relatively limited, he's a reliable option who will almost certainly outperform his ADP.
8.04 - Emeka Egbuka, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Egbuka's landing spot (behind Mike Evans and Chris Godwin) after the 2025 NFL Draft appeared to be better for his dynasty outlook than redraft. Since then, however, Egbuka has continued to impress during offseason workouts — Baker Mayfield called him the "real deal" on the New Heights podcast. Godwin's and Jalen McMillan's lack of availability to begin the season should allow Egbuka to hit the ground running.
9.09 - Michael Pittman Jr., WR, Indianapolis Colts
Considering the team's quarterback struggles and the fact that he played with a fracture in his back, Pittman's 2024 season was incredibly solid (69/808/3 on 111 targets in 16 games). Before that, he eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in two of his previous three seasons. His 2025 outlook will be shaped by which quarterback earns the most starts. With Daniel Jones entering 2025 as the starter, Pittman's outlook has improved and he's a good value compared to his current ADP.
10.04 - 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.
MORE: 2025 Washington Commanders Fantasy Football Projections
11.09 - 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. I expect to be overweight Fields in 2025, especially in best ball formats.
12.04 - 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).
MORE: 2026 Green Bay Packers Mock Draft Roundup
13.09 - 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.
14.04 - Roschon Johnson, RB, Chicago Bears
See Swift, D'Andre (above).
15.09 - Detroit Lions DST
16.04 - Wil Lutz, K, Denver Broncos
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