2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team PPR Mock (5th Pick)

Updated: Thursday, June 19, 2025

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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, 5th Pick

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

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1.05 - CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dallas Cowboys

Lamb played several weeks dealing with a shoulder injury before shutting it down with a couple of games to go. While his (and Dak Prescott's) injuries factor in, his numbers were down considerably from 2023. Lamb set career lows in yards per reception (11.8) and target (7.9) and his per game averages dropped from 7.9/102.9/0.7 (2023) to 6.7/79.6/0.4 (2024). When everything's clicking, however, Lamb is as productive as any receiver in the league.

2.08 - Derrick Henry, RB, Baltimore Ravens

Father Time may be undefeated, but Henry carried the ball 325 times for 1,921 yards, the second-best (by far) of his career, and a league-high 16 touchdowns in his age-30 season. In addition, he averaged a career-best 5.9 YPC — a half-yard more than his previous high. Yes, his receiving volume was (and will continue to be) low, but Lamar Jackson limits opposing defenses from being able to stack the box to slow him down. Henry was top four across all scoring formats (including full PPR). Repeating his 2024 numbers may be unlikely (although he has some extra motivation for 2,000 rushing yards), but it's possible that concerns about his age and a lack of work as a receiver could once again lead to a draft-day discount.

3.05 - 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 like he had at previous stops, he should have (or come close to having) another 1,000/8 season.

4.08 - Jalen Hurts, QB, Philadelphia Eagles

In the same year that Saquon Barkley rushed for over 2,000 yards, Hurts set a career low as a full-time starter in pass attempts per game (24.1). In fact, that was a drop of 7.5 per game from his 2023 average (31.6). He finished 2024 throwing for only 2,903 yards, 18 touchdowns and five interceptions.

Even with Barkley's rushing greatness last season, Hurts extended streaks of 150-plus carries (three seasons), 600-plus rushing yards (four) and double-digit rushing scores (four). Over the past four years, Hurts has compiled 611/2,779/52 rushing in 62 games, equivalent to 9.51 fantasy points per game from rushing stats alone. In addition, only two players (both running backs) — Derrick Henry (51) and Josh Jacobs (42) — come within 10 rushing touchdowns of Hurts (52) during that span, per Stathead. (Josh Allen is tied for fourth (40) with Joe Mixon and Jonathan Taylor.)

5.05 - 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).

6.08 - 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 a high-end WR3, especially with some uncertainty around Hill and Jonnu Smith.

7.05 - Calvin Ridley, WR, Tennessee Titans

Ridley has back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns including his first in Tennessee last season. 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).

8.08 - 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.

9.05 - Javonte Williams, RB, Dallas Cowboys

Speaking in reference to his devastating 2022 knee injury, Williams has recently said that he feels "completely like myself." Williams averaged 4.4 yards per carry in 21 games before the injury and although he played in 33 games over the past two seasons, he averaged only 3.6 YPC during that span. Williams and fifth-round rookie Jaydon Blue should be the two primary options in an almost completely revamped backfield, and there is upside for one or both.

10.08 - Jonnu Smith, TE, Miami Dolphins

Smith had only 78 yards through the first four games of the season, but he finished the year with 88 receptions for 884 yards and eight touchdowns on 111 targets, all of which ranked top four among tight ends in 2024 and career highs for the 29-year-old tight end. From Week 5 on, he led the Dolphins in all four receiving categories. That said, Smith wants a new contract, skipped mandatory minicamp, and has been the subject of a trade rumor.

11.05 - Bhayshul Tuten, RB, Jacksonville Jaguars

Even if Travis Etienne Jr. and/or Tank Bigsby start the season ahead of Tuten on the depth chart, it doesn't take much imagination to see what Liam Coen can do for a talented Day 3 rookie running back (see Irving, Bucky), especially with no connection to the previous regime's running backs.

12.08 - Jaylen Wright, RB, Miami Dolphins

We've seen multiple running backs be productive in this offense during the same season, so the upside of a potential RB3/flex type season isn't impossible. But Wright would have tons of upside if De'Von Achane (5-foot-9, 188 pounds) were to miss any time.

13.05 - Roschon Johnson, RB, Chicago Bears

Barring any major additions to the backfield before the season, Johnson offers some intrigue as a late-round option as the RB47 in my full-season PPR projections.

14.08 - Detroit Lions DST

15.05 - Wil Lutz, K, Denver Broncos

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