2025 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: 12-Team PPR Mock (9th Pick)

Updated: Sunday, August 10, 2025

The 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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That said, nothing beats practicing yourself so (check out the simulator) and complete a mock in a matter of minutes.

PPR Mock Draft: 12 Teams, 9th Pick

Starting positions: 1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 TE, 1 Flex (RB/WR/TE), 1 K, 1 DST; Bench spots: 6

1.09 - Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR, Detroit Lions

St. Brown has been a model of consistency — year in and year out, week in and week out. ARSB has 90-plus catches in all four seasons, 1,161-plus yards in the past three seasons, and double-digit touchdowns in back-to-back seasons. He had five-plus catches in 14 of 17 games last season and his other games were four, three and two catches. Only Ja'Marr Chase (15) had more such games in 2024, and he's tied with Davante Adams for the most five-catch games (49) since 2021, per Stathead.

2.04 - Brian Thomas Jr., WR, Jacksonville Jaguars

Among the top 10 receivers in fantasy points per game, seven of them missed multiple games in 2024. While Thomas was 11th on a per-game basis, he played a full season and finished fourth in fantasy points. As injuries sidelined Jacksonville's other top 2024 pass catchers (Evan Engram and Christian Kirk), Thomas stepped up down the stretch with all six of his double-digit target games occuring in the final six weeks of the season. During that span, he had the second-most targets (70) behind only Ja'Marr Chase (75) and ranked top five in catches (45), yards (593) and touchdowns (five). While Engram and Kirk are no longer in Jacksonville, the Jags upgraded their No. 2 receiver opposite Thomas by trading up to draft Travis Hunter, last year's Heisman Trophy and Biletnikoff Award winner (among many other awards). Hunter's presence may cut slightly into his target domination, but secondaries will have to give Hunter more defensive attention than they would have to their pre-draft No. 2 wideout(s).

MORE: 2025 Jacksonville Jaguars Fantasy Football Projections

3.09 - Mike Evans, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Evans, who will turn 32 in August, extended his remarkable streak of 1,000-yard seasons to 11 (albeit just barely: 1,004 yards) in 2024. While he missed three games last season, Evans remains one of the most dominant red-zone weapons in the league — 24 receiving touchdowns over the past two seasons and double-digit scores in four of the past five years.

4.04 - Kenneth Walker III, RB, Seattle Seahawks

Walker has missed multiple games in each of his three NFL seasons including six missed games last year. While he averaged only 3.7 yards per carry and 4.4 yards per touch, both career lows, his PFF elusive rating (113.5) was a career high and the third most among all running backs with at least 100 carries in 2024. Walker should benefit from the new coaching staff's heavy use of outside zone and there is plenty of upside if his health cooperates.

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5.09 - 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 at his WR4 (flex) draft position in this mock.

6.04 - D'Andre Swift, RB, Chicago Bears

Heading into the draft, the Bears were one of the teams that many projected to take a running back early. Chicago drafted a running back but not until the seventh round (Kyle Monangai, 233rd overall). Barring any trades that shake up this backfield, there is plenty of potential value to unlock by rostering Swift or Roschon Johnson.

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7.09 - 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 WR19 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.

8.04 - Jaylen Warren, RB, Pittsburgh Steelers

Warren has been efficient with his touches — career 4.8 YPC and 7.0 Y/R — and could see a year-over-year bump in workload with rookie Kaleb Johnson replacing Najee Harris. A talented receiving back, Warren's receiving work dipped in 2024 (3.1 targets and 2.5 catches per game) from 2023 (4.35 targets and 3.6 catches), but last year's quarterback duo of Russell Wilson and Justin Fields ran 105 times combined. I'm not going out on a limb to say that Aaron Rodgers will run much less than that, and therefore Warren should be the recipient of more dumpoffs.

9.09 - David Njoku, TE, Cleveland Browns

Even though Njoku averaged a career-low 7.9 yards per reception in 2024, he averaged career highs in targets (8.8) and receptions (5.8) and his 45.9 YPG were the second-most of his career. While the quarterback situation creates uncertainty, Njoku is a clear top-two option in the passing game along with Jerry Jeudy.

10.04 - J.K. Dobbins, RB, Denver Broncos

Injuries have derailed Dobbins' career. Since the Baltimore Ravens selected him 55th overall in the 2020 NFL Draft, Dobbins has played only 37 total games. His 13-game campaign with the Chargers in 2024 was only his second season playing more than eight games, and he rushed for 195/905/9 (4.6 YPC) and added 32/153/0 (4.8 Y/R). Even though I have RJ Harvey ranked ahead of Dobbins, he will be a weekly flex option with upside as long as his health cooperates.

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11.09 - Brock Purdy, QB, San Francisco 49ers

Purdy had a down year in 2024 but still finished as the QB10 on a points-per-game basis (18.6). Compared to career rates (in parenthesis), Purdy's 65.9% completion rate (67.5%), 4.4 TD% (6.0%), and 8.5 Y/A (8.9) were all lower in 2024. That said, he is the QB7 based on my projections vs. his QB11 draft position in this mock.

12.04 - Braelon Allen, RB, New York Jets

Comments from the new coaching staff and Detroit's history of multiple productive running backs (Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery) suggest a breakout opportunity for Allen, who won't turn 22 until January. The Athletic's Zach Rosenblatt mentioned "[t]he RB room might be more 1A-1B than 1-2" as one of 10 lessons from training camp. Rosenblatt noted Allen "looks bigger, faster and stronger" and "has been one of the stars of camp so far, showing a level of explosiveness and downhill running ability the Jets have been lacking."

MORE: 2025 New York Jets Fantasy Football Projections

13.09 - Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys

Prescott played only eight games in 2024 and has now missed five-plus games in three of the past five seasons. Prescott went from finishing as the QB3 in 2023 to the QB21 last season in fantasy points per game. It's clear that the trade for George Pickens will make a significant impact to the offense, and his skill set is an ideal complement opposite CeeDee Lamb. Describing himself as "a chill guy" who is "staying humble," Pickens is entering the final year of his rookie contract and should be motivated to show the best version of himself in 2025.

14.04 - Keenan Allen, WR, Los Angeles Chargers

Returning on a one-year deal, Allen had 70/744/7 on 121 targets over 15 games for the Bears last season. Before that, he hauled in a career-high 108 receptions for 1,243 yards and seven touchdowns on 150 targets over 13 games with the Chargers in 2023. There's no way he approaches his 2023 numbers, but he will immediately operate as the team's WR2 behind Ladd McConkey and could perform as a fantasy WR3/WR4 in 2025.

15.09 - Buffalo Bills DST

16.04 - Wil Lutz, K, Denver Broncos

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