Fantasy Football Mock Draft - 12 Teams, 12th Pick

- Updated: Wednesday, July 19th

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. While we may not be able to draft a "perfect" fantasy football team, the more we practice, the better our teams will be.

Starting on June 10th, we began drafting (at least) one fantasy football team per day using the 2017 Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator and we will continue to do so up until the start of the 2017 NFL season.

Each day, we will switch things up -- e.g., PPR vs. standard scoring, league size, draft slot, 2-QB leagues, auction leagues, etc.

In addition, we will centralize links to our daily fantasy football mock drafts for an easy way to keep track of our mock drafts.

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Details of today's mock draft: With that said, here are the results of today's mock draft:

1.12 - Devonta Freeman, RB, Atlanta Falcons: Despite getting 57 fewer touches year-over-year, Freeman finished as a top-six fantasy running back in 2016. Setting career highs in efficiency (4.8 YPC and 8.6 Y/R), Freeman now has back-to-back seasons with 1,000-plus rushing yards, 1,500-plus YFS, 50-plus receptions and 13-plus touchdowns.

2.01 - Jay Ajayi, RB, Miami Dolphins: There were four 200-yard rushing games last season and Ajayi had three of them. (Le'Veon Bell had the other.) Getting double-digit carries every week starting in Week 5, only Bell (243) had more carries than Ajayi (242) from Weeks 5 to 17 last season. Only Ezekiel Elliott (1,219) rushed for more yards than Ajayi (1,197) during that span.

3.12 - Demaryius Thomas, WR, Denver Broncos: Thomas set five-year lows across the board: 90 receptions, 1,083 yards and five touchdowns, not bad for "five-year lows." Before last season, however, Thomas had averaged 100/1,447/10 in his previous four seasons. Even if he doesn't post another 100/1,400/10 season, it's reasonable to expect an improvement over last year's numbers.

4.01 - Allen Robinson, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars: Based on talent, A-Rob should bounce back in 2017. It'd be reasonable, however, to expect ~100 fewer pass attempts from Blake Bortles, who threw the third-most pass attempts last season behind only Drew Brees and Joe Flacco, as the team relies on its defense and ground game.

5.12 - Golden Tate, WR, Detroit Lions: Despite his slow start last year, Tate extended his streak of 90-catch seasons to three as he finished the year with 91 catches for 1,077 yards and four touchdowns. Failing to exceed 41 yards in his first five games, Tate had five-plus catches in 10 of his final 11 games and only Larry Fitzgerald and Jordy Nelson had more receptions than Tate (74) from Weeks 6 to 17.

6.01 - Greg Olsen, TE, Carolina Panthers: As steady as it gets, Olsen has finished with three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons and played all 16 games every year except his rookie season. Olsen has finished as a top-seven fantasy tight end in five consecutive seasons.

7.12 - Ameer Abdullah, Detroit Lions: After missing all but two games last season due to a Lisfranc injury, Abdullah goes into the 2017 season as the Lions starting running back. On a per-touch basis, Abdullah was off to a good start last year -- 18/101 (5.6 YPC) rushing and 5/57/1 (11.4 Y/R) receiving -- and there is definitely some fantasy breakout potential in 2017.

8.01 - Paul Perkins, RB, New York Giants: Entering the season as the starter, Perkins should easily exceed his 127 rookie touches and he offers upside as my RB4.

9.12 - Corey Coleman, WR, Cleveland Browns: An explosive athlete when healthy, the Browns will be counting on Coleman to take a big step forward in his sophomore campaign with 1,000-yard receiver Terrelle Pryor now in Washington.

10.01 - Quincy Enunwa, WR, New York Jets: In a breakout season, Enunwa had 58 catches for 857 yards and four touchdowns in 2016 and finished as a top-45 fantasy receiver. By default, Enunwa moves into the team's No. 1 receiver role with the team cutting Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker this offseason. The quarterback situation is a mess, but the Jets should be trailing (and therefore throwing) often.

11.12 - Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys: One of the biggest surprises of the 2016 season, Prescott finished with 17-plus fantasy points in 12 of 15 games (excluding Week 17 when most starters sat the majority of the game).

12.01 - Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Pittsburgh Steelers: Since 2010, Roethlisberger has missed multiple games in more seasons (four) than he has not (three). Leading such a high-powered offense, he should finish in the top-12 in terms of per-game production, but Big Ben has finished as fantasy's QB18 and QB20, respectively, over the past two seasons and he has very pronounced home-vs.-road splits.

13.12 - Josh Doctson, WR, Washington Redskins: With Washington losing DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon to Tampa and San Francisco, respectively, and signing Pryor in free agency, there should be plenty of opportunity for Doctson in 2017.

14.01 - Julius Thomas, TE, Miami Dolphins: After two disappointing seasons in Jacksonville, the reunion with Adam Gase is certainly a positive for Thomas, who had 12 touchdowns in each of his final two seasons with Denver and Adam Gase (and Peyton Manning). In fact, Thomas (33) has the eighth-most receiving touchdowns over the past four seasons.

15.12 - Pittsburgh Steelers DST

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