2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Half-PPR Mock (6th Pick)
Updated: Friday, August 1, 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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Half-PPR Mock Draft: 12 Teams, 6th Pick
Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6
1.06 - Jahmyr Gibbs, RB, Detroit Lions
In this mock, Bijan Robinson and Saquaon Barkley went 1.02 and 1.03, respectively, but a case could be made for Gibbs to be the RB1. Especially with Ja'Marr Chase (1.01), Justin Jefferson (1.04) and CeeDee Lamb (1.05) all off the board as well, this was an easy choice. Gibbs set or tied career highs across the board in rushing (250/1,412/16, 5.6 YPC) and receiving (52/517/4, 9.9 Y/R) in his second season. Gibbs was also top five among running backs with a minimum of 17 targets in yards per route run (1.67) and YAC per reception (11.5), per PFF. Gibbs was especially good when David Montgomery missed the final three regular-season games (RB1 overall), but he was also the RB3 (RB4 on a PPG basis) from Weeks 1 to 15 when Montgomery was also active.
2.07 - A.J. Brown, WR, Philadelphia Eagles
Brown missed four games in 2024 and the Eagles averaged a league-worst 26.35 pass attempts per game (down from 33.12/G in 2023, 21st). Despite that, he still finished with 67 receptions for 1,079 yards and seven touchdowns. While there were some quiet games, Brown's 2024 per-game averages of receptions (5.2) and yards (83.0) weren't that much lower than his career averages (5.7/86.8). Even with their potent rushing attack, it's possible that they throw more often than 26 times per game in 2025, which would make Brown a bargain here as the 10th receiver off the board.
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3.06 - Tee Higgins, WR, Cincinnati Bengals
Higgins will continue to benefit from playing as the 1B to Ja'Marr Chase, with elite quarterback (Joe Burrow) and for an offense that should need to keep up with its leaky defense. While he has missed exactly five games in back-to-back seasons, Higgins finished second (behind only Chase) among all wide receivers in fantasy points per game in 2024.
4.07 - 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.)
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5.06 - Courtland Sutton, WR, Denver Broncos
Despite a slow start in 2024, Sutton set career highs in targets (135) and receptions (81) and finished with the second 1,000-yard season of his career. From Week 8 through the end of the season, Sutton had 60/804/6 on 88 targets while performing as fantasy's WR7 (10th on a PPG basis). Including their playoff loss, he had five-plus receptions, eight-plus targets and 50-plus yards in 10 of his final 11 games. Per NextGen Stats, only Calvin Ridley (44.58%) had a higher share of his team's air yards than Sutton (43.94%) in 2024.
6.07 - Aaron Jones Sr., RB, Minnesota Vikings
Playing a full 17-game slate in his first season as a Viking, Jones set a career high in rushing yards (1,138), attempts (255) and attempts per game (15.0). In addition, he exceeded 50 catches for the third time in the past four seasons and has averaged at least 2.7 receptions per game for six consecutive seasons. Given his age (turns 31 in December) and the addition of Jordan Mason, it's likely that the Vikings scale back his workload some (as training camp reports suggest), but he remains a solid RB2 in fantasy.
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7.06 - Chris Olave, WR, New Orleans Saints
There are a few concerns with Olave (his concussion history and the team's quarterback situation), but he's an excellent fantasy value if his health cooperates. Excluding two games with single-digit snaps, Olave played six full games in 2024 and finished those contests with 30/382/1 on 42 targets — that's equivalent to an 85/1082/3 pace. Olave eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in his first two seasons as well.
8.07 - Rome Odunze, WR, Chicago Bears
There were a lot of reasons to buy Odunze heading into 2024, even though he fell short of expectations. Going into 2025, it's still my goal to be overweight Odunze. Ben Johnson has appreciated the young receiver's work ethic and approach. Johnson previously said of Odunze, "the way he approaches the meeting room, the walk-throughs, the on-field, the drill work, it's very much like a seasoned pro, some of the best that I've been around."
9.06 - Justin Fields, QB, New York Jets
Normally if I draft a top-four quarterback in a home league, I won't draft a second quarterback. That said, Fields has enormous upside and I couldn't resist here. 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.
10.07 - David Njoku, TE, Cleveland Browns
Njoku is a nice value at this point, and I considered pairing him with Tyler Warren with my next pick as an upside option.
11.06 - 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 both he and the team have talked up having two starting running backs.
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12.07 - 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.
13.06 - Jaylen Wright, RB, Miami Dolphins
Multiple running backs can be productive in this offense during the same season, so a potential RB3/flex type season is possible. If De'Von Achane (5-foot-9, 188 pounds) were to miss any time, the sky's the limit. Either way, shifting some of the workload from Achane (to keep him fresh) would make sense. Albeit an overused narrative, Wright is in the #bestshapeofhislife as he has "lost a lot of body fat" and "gained a lot of muscle" this offseason.
14.07 - Houston Texans DST, DST, Houston Texans
15.06 - Wil Lutz, K, Denver Broncos
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