2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Super Flex Half-PPR Mock (4th Pick)
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Super Flex Half-PPR Mock Draft: 12 Teams, 4th Pick
Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Super Flex (QB/RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6
1.04 - Jalen Hurts, QB, Philadelphia Eagles
There are a clear elite four (fantasy) quarterbacks in two mini tiers — Josh Allen with Lamar Jackson, then Jayden Daniels with Jalen Hurts. With Allen, Jackson and Daniels taken 1-2-3 in this Super Flex mock, it made sense to take Hurts here. Even though Joe Burrow went 1.05, I would have taken Ja'Marr Chase in that slot if I were picking one spot later. With a 2,000-yard season from Saquon Barkley, it's not surprising that Hurts set a career low as a full-time starter in pass attempts per game (24.1). The passing numbers were down, but Hurts' elite rushing production continued. He extended streaks of 150-plus carries (to 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.
MORE: Jalen Hurts 2025 Fantasy Football Outlook
2.09 - 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.
3.04 - De'Von Achane, RB, Miami Dolphins
Achane's year-over-year carries nearly doubled (103 to 203), but the yardage total increased by only 107 yards from 2023. The rushing efficiency dropped even more than most had expected (from his unsustainable rookie levels), but his receiving role was elite as he paced the position with 78 receptions for 592 yards and six touchdowns.
MORE: 2025 Miami Dolphins Fantasy Football Projections
4.09 - 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.
5.04 - George Kittle, TE, San Francisco 49ers
Kittle finished 2024 with 78 receptions for 1,106 yards and eight touchdowns, all of which rank either second or third in his career. Injuries to Brandon Aiyuk and Christian McCaffrey led to greater consistency from Kittle — 40-plus receiving yards in 13 of 15 games played. Only Bowers had more (14 of 17 games). While Kittle always finishes the year with excellent overall numbers, previous seasons featured more boom-or-bust weeks. For example, his number of 40-yard games were considerably lower in previous seasons — 10 in 2023, six in 2022, and eight in 2021. Among tight ends, Kittle has either led or shared in the lead in PFF's yards per route run metric in all but one season (2022) from 2018 to 2024.
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6.09 - 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).
7.04 - Tetairoa McMillan, WR, Carolina Panthers
McMillan lands in an ideal spot to command a dominant target share, as his top pass-catching competition includes Adam Thielen, Xavier Legette, Jalen Coker, and Ja'Tavion Sanders. Drawing some comparisons to Drake London, McMillan is a big wideout (6'4" and 219 pounds) with the body control, catch radius and ball skills to win vertically and in contested-catch situations.
8.09 - Jerry Jeudy, WR, Cleveland Browns
Jeudy finished his age-25 season with 90 catches on 145 targets for 1,229 yards and four touchdowns in what was, by far, the best statistical season of his career. Topping the depth chart along with Cedric Tillman and Diontae Johnson, who's on his fifth team in 18 months, there's a chance that Jeudy outperforms this draft position despite the team's uncertainty at quarterback.
9.04 - Bryce Young, QB, Carolina Panthers
Young was benched after a terrible start through the first two weeks last season (only 225 passing yards, 4.01 Y/A, no touchdowns and three interceptions). He didn't start again until Week 8, but he played much better, especially over the final three games (64.8%, 7.0 Y/A, seven touchdowns and no interceptions). After Carolina's Week 11 bye, Young was the QB8 in fantasy PPG (21.2) through the end of the season. I considered taking Young several picks earlier than this, so I'm thrilled to get him here.
MORE: Bryce Young 2025 Fantasy Football Outlook
10.09 - Trey Benson, RB, Arizona Cardinals
The split in workload between James Conner (283) and Benson (69) was wider than expected in 2024. The gap will definitely be narrower this season, but by how much? Benson has added weight (seven pounds) while also claiming to be more explosive, and Conner, Benson and the team have talked up having two starting running backs. And with Conner being my pick at 6.09, Benson offers some insurance for when/if Conner misses any games.
11.04 - Jordan Addison, WR, Minnesota Vikings
While he missed a couple of games in 2024, Addison posted slightly better per-game numbers in 2024 (4.2/58.3) than 2023 (4.1/53.6). He has scored 19 touchdowns through two seasons. Addison will serve a three-game suspension to start the season, but he should perform as a WR3 (top-36) when active and he's my WR5.
MORE: 2025 Minnesota Vikings Fantasy Football Projections
12.09 - 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 — and we've since learned of Godwin's second ankle surgery this spring, which puts his availability for Week 1 in jeopardy.
13.04 - Geno Smith, QB, Las Vegas Raiders
It's obvious that Smith is an upgrade over the trio of Aidan O'Connell, Gardner Minshew and Desmond Ridder, all of whom made starts in 2024, and a more competent passing attack with benefit Brock Bowers, Jakobi Meyers, and the team's pass catchers. While Smith's best fantasy season (2022, QB5 — eighth on a PPG basis) was his first in Seattle with Pete Carroll, he's been a mid-tier QB2 (or worse) the past two seasons. Smith has upside in super flex formats and since I waited until the ninth round to draft my QB2, I don't mind grabbing a third QB here in Round 13.
MORE: 2026 Las Vegas Raiders Mock Draft Roundup
14.09 - Baltimore Ravens DST,
15.04 - Woody Marks, RB, Houston Texans
Especially given the uncertainty around Joe Mixon, Marks is a frequent late-round target of mine. He's especially good as a receiver and he totaled 261 catches for 1,546 yards through five collegiate seasons with the Mississippi State Bulldogs (2020-23) and USC Trojans (2024). He had his best season as a rusher (198/1133/9) last year.
16.09 - Chris Boswell, K, Pittsburgh Steelers
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