2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team Non-PPR Mock (7th Pick)
Updated: Saturday, August 9, 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?
Practice, of course!
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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Non-PPR Mock Draft: 12 Teams, 7th Pick
Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6
1.07 - 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. Repeating his 2024 numbers may be unlikely (although he has some extra motivation for 2,000 rushing yards).
2.06 - Jonathan Taylor, RB, Indianapolis Colts
Like with Henry, a concern with Taylor is the lack of receiving volume, especially with Anthony Richardson (or Daniel Jones) under center. Taylor, who missed Weeks 5-7, had only 12/59/1 receiving on 21 targets over the final 10 games of the season. But his rushing numbers over that span were elite — 231 carries for 1,082 yards, both of which were second to only Saquon Barkley, and seven touchdowns. One additional concern with Taylor is that he has missed at least three games in three consecutive seasons.
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3.07 - 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 fourth (behind Chase, Justin Jefferson and Chris Godwin) among all wide receivers in fantasy points per game (non-PPR) in 2024.
4.06 - 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 the way he had at previous stops, he should have (or come close to having) another 1,000/8 season.
MORE: 2025 Los Angeles Rams Fantasy Football Projections
5.07 - Jameson Williams, WR, Detroit Lions
Between injury and suspension, Williams' career got off to a slow start, but he broke out in 2024 with 58 catches for 1,001 yards and seven touchdowns. He also added 11 carries for 61 yards and another score. While Amon-Ra St. Brown commands a dominant target share, the speedster is a big play waiting to happen (career 16.8 yards per catch).
6.06 - Calvin Ridley, WR, Tennessee Titans
Ridley has back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns including his first in Tennessee last season and he led the NFL in player share of a team's air yards (44.58%), per NextGen Stats. 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).
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7.07 - Tyrone Tracy Jr., RB, New York Giants
Tracy took over as the starter last season and finished 2024 with 192 carries for 839 yards and five touchdowns with 38 catches for 284 yards and a touchdown. He had only 14 touches in his first four games, but he was fantasy's RB16 (tied for RB21 in PPG) from Weeks 5-18. With the team using an early Day 3 pick on Arizona State's Cam Skattebo, Tracy becomes more of a flex/RB3 option than a back-end RB2, but that's what this team needs with the Derrick Henry/Jonathan Taylor duo at the top.
8.06 - 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.
9.07 - Jakobi Meyers, WR, Las Vegas Raiders
Meyers has finished top 30 in both of his seasons in the desert — WR21 in 2023 and WR29 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 draft position.
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10.06 - 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.
11.07 - 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).
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12.06 - Tyler Warren, TE, Indianapolis Colts
Tight end is a position where rookies have historically struggled to make immediate impacts, but a pair of rookie tight ends — Sam LaPorta (2023) and Brock Bowers (2024) — have led the position in fantasy points in back-to-back seasons. Viewed by many as the most well-rounded tight end in this draft class, Warren's all-around skill set could outweigh the potential limitations of a mediocre offensive environment with subpar quarterback play. If you draft multiple tight ends, Warren is a high-upside TE2 who could pay huge dividends.
13.07 - Brock Purdy, QB, San Francisco 49ers
While I don't typically draft two quarterbacks, I have both Purdy and Justin Fields ranked as top nine fantasy quarterbacks. Purdy had a down year in 2024 but still finished as the QB10 on a points-per-game basis (18.6).
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14.06 - Kyle Monangai, RB, Chicago Bears
Given how productive the duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery have been for Ben Johnson in Detroit, it's worth throwing a late-round dart on Monangai, who has earned some praise from Chicago's new head coach. Johnson recently said that he's "been very pleased with where" Monangai is at and that "he's a guy that we're going to be able to trust this fall."
15.07 - Buffalo Bills DST
16.06 - Chase McLaughlin, K, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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