2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team PPR Mock (1st Pick)
Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 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?
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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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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
1.01 - Ja'Marr Chase, WR, Cincinnati Bengals
Especially with full PPR scoring that starts three wide receivers plus a flex, Chase is the easy choice at 1.01. Posting career highs in his age-24 season, Chase led the NFL in receptions (127), yards (1,708) and touchdowns (17) in 2024 to become the fifth triple crown winner since the league merger. He was both remarkably consistent — 16 games with at least five catches and/or 50 yards — and dominant — one third (three of nine) of all 40-point PPR outings for wide receivers.
2.12 - 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
3.01 - Bucky Irving, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
If you rostered Irving in 2024, you realize how good he was, especially over the second half of the season. Irving was the RB7 from Week 10 on when he averaged 15.5/87.9 rushing, 3/27.3 receiving and scored five total touchdowns.
4.12 - DK Metcalf, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers
Metcalf started 2024 with a bang — three 100-yard games in the first four weeks with a total of 24/366/2 receiving during that stretch (as fantasy's WR7 through Week 4). While he missed a couple of weeks in the middle of the season, he only reached 60 receiving yards in three of his other 11 games and was outside the top 40 wide receivers in fantasy points per game from Weeks 5-18. While both Jonnu Smith and Pat Freiermuth could be the second- and third-most productive pass catcher on the team in 2025, Metcalf is the clear WR1 (and top pass catcher) in the offense and a rebound from last year's non-rookie low of 7.2 targets per game should occur.
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5.01 - James Conner, RB, Arizona Cardinals
Conner turned 30 in May and is entering his ninth NFL season. While he played 16 games last year, he has exceeded 13 games only three times in his career. That said, he's been highly productive in his four seasons in Arizona. During that four-year span, he has finished no worse than RB14 on a points-per-game basis (half-PPR scoring) and only three running backs have scored more touchdowns — Derrick Henry (53), Joe Mixon (49) and Austin Ekeler (48) — than Conner (44).
6.12 - RJ Harvey, RB, Denver Broncos
Following the 2025 NFL Draft, Harvey's draft pedigree (second round), landing spot, and existing competition made him a post-draft fantasy football winner. Only Boise State's Ashton Jeanty had more 10-yard runs (63, 16.8%) than Harvey (54, 23.4%) last season, and he should considerably more involved as a receiver, especially given Sean Payton's historical ranking in running back targets. More competition has been added to the mix with Denver's recent signing of J.K. Dobbins, who has averaged 5.2 YPC for his career and should earn a sizable workload, when healthy. I expect Harvey to still see the largest share of the workload, but I view him more as a high-end flex option than a low-end RB2 following the Dobbins' signing.
7.01 - 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.
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8.12 - 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. Fields is dealing with a dislocated toe, but he is considered day to day.
9.01 - Jaylen Warren, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers
Warren has been efficient with his touches — career 4.8 YPC and 7.0 Y/R — and could see a slight year-over-year bump in workload with rookie Kaleb Johnson replacing Najee Harris. A talented receiving back, Warren's receiving work dipped in 2024 (3.1 targets and 2.5 catches per game) from 2023 (4.35 targets and 3.6 catches), but last year's quarterback duo of Russell Wilson and Justin Fields ran 105 times combined. I'm not going out on a limb to say that Aaron Rodgers will run much less than that, and therefore Warren should be the recipient of more dumpoffs.
10.12 - Tucker Kraft, TE, Green Bay Packers
While Luke Musgrave missed most of 2024, 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).
11.01 - Rashid Shaheed, WR, New Orleans Saints
Yes, his 2024 season was cut short to a season-ending knee injury (meniscus). And yes, he'll likely be catching passes from rookie Tyler Shough. But Shahid is one of my favorite values at wide receiver. Shaheed appeared in only six games, but he had 20 catches for 349 yards (17.5 Y/R) and three touchdowns on 41 targets, added six carries for 29 yards and returned a punt for a score. He was the PPR WR17 (WR27 on PPG basis) through Week 6. He has added some weight this offseason to help him hold up better against contact.
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12.12 - 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?
13.01 - 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 handcuff for Bijan Robinson and less of a standalone option who can provide RB3/flex production.
MORE: 2025 Atlanta Falcons Fantasy Football Projections
14.12 - Trevor Lawrence, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars
Lawrence missed seven games last season, but there are reasons for optimism heading into his age-26 season. Despite Shane Waldron's role as passing game coordinator, I trust Liam Coen to get the most of Lawrence. Brian Thomas Jr. is one of the league's best young receivers and Travis Hunter is a significant upgrade opposite him.
15.01 - Pittsburgh Steelers DST
16.12 - Jake Elliott, K, Philadelphia Eagles
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