2015 Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Round 6

Scoring: This mock draft is based on standard-scoring fantasy football leagues for the 2015 season only (i.e., not keeper or dynasty leagues). Passing touchdowns are worth four points while rushing and receiving touchdowns are worth six points. In addition, one point is earned per 25 passing yards, 10 rushing yards and 10 receiving yards.

Mock Draft Start Date: Saturday, May 9th
Mock Draft End Date: Friday, May 22nd

Four of our site's contributors — Kevin Hanson, Brendan Donahue, Sean Beazley and Dan Yanotchko — will make picks for three teams of this 12-team mock. The mock will go 12 rounds with no kickers or team defenses selected.

Although this is a slow draft, we will post picks as they occur, along with comments from Kevin Hanson, as opposed to waiting for the entire mock draft to be completed.

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Here are the Round 6 results of our 2015 Fantasy Football Mock Draft:

6.01 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 3): Matthew Stafford, QB, Detroit Lions

No quarterback underachieved expectations more last season than Stafford, who finished as the QB15 in 2014. Even with the free-agent signing and breakout season from Golden Tate (99/1,331/4), Stafford threw for only 4,247 yards, a four-year low, and 22 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. With better health from Calvin Johnson, who missed a few games and was a decoy in others, Stafford should post better numbers in 2015.

6.02 - Kevin Hanson (Team 3): C.J. Spiller, RB, New Orleans Saints

Spiller's free-agent landing spot certainly does not maximize his opportunities for the volume of his workload as part of the team's three-headed rushing attack. That said, I have faith in Sean Payton's ability to utilize Spiller correctly (or at least much better than Doug Marrone had) to maximize his production on a per-touch basis. While Spiller may never rush for 1,000 yards again, he should be productive as this team's RB3/flex option.

6.03 - Sean Beazley (Team 3): Greg Olsen, TE, Carolina Panthers

Posting career highs of 84 catches for 1,008 yards last season, Olsen has now finished with at least 69 receptions and 816 yards while finishing as a top-seven fantasy tight end in each of the past three seasons. Over that three-year span, Jimmy Graham (3,086) is the only tight end with more yards than Olsen (2,667) and only Graham (256) and Jason Witten (247) have more receptions (226). Olsen has never had more than eight touchdowns in any season of his career, but he has at least five scores for seven consecutive seasons. In addition, Olsen is extremely durable and has played all 16 games in seven consecutive seasons.

6.04 - Sean Beazley (Team 2): Rashad Jennings, RB, New York Giants

Dealing with multiple injuries, Jennings played in just 11 games in his first season with the Giants and had a total of only three carries in Weeks 14 and 15. Although he had 20-plus touches in six of his first eight games, rookie Andre Williams led the team in carries (217) last season. Williams will steal some goal-line opportunities and Shane Vereen will steal some of his passing-down work, which limits the weekly upside of the soon-to-be 30-year-old Jennings. On a positive note, the Giants used the ninth-overall pick on Ereck Flowers, one of the best run-blocking offensive linemen in this year's draft class.

6.05 - Brendan Donahue (Team 3): Charles Johnson, WR, Minnesota Vikings

Possessing an impressive combination of size (6-2, 215) and athleticism (sub-4.4 forty), Johnson was reunited with Norv Turner in Minnesota after being released by the receiver-deficient Browns last offseason. In the final six games of the season, Johnson was on the field for all but 19 of the team's offensive snaps. And over his final seven games, Johnson posted 25 receptions for 415 yards and two touchdowns. With a full offseason and the continued development of rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, things should only be better for Johnson in 2015 and beyond.

6.06 - Brendan Donahue (Team 2): Travis Kelce, TE, Kansas City Chiefs

Kelce's offensive snaps jumped to 86.7 percent (Weeks 11 to 17) after being on the field for only 52.3 percent of them through Week 10. That said, he still managed to finish with 67 receptions, 862 yards and five touchdowns. With good health, the sky is the limit for Kelce in 2015 and I was hoping he would make it one more pick to me at 6.07.

6.07 - Kevin Hanson (Team 2): Vincent Jackson, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The good news is that V-Jax eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark for the fourth consecutive season and sixth time in the past seven years -- the exception was his holdout-shortened 2010 season. The bad news is that Jackson had just two touchdowns, the lowest of his career since his three-catch rookie season (2005). With Peterson and Miller at running back, Green and Matthews at wide receiver and Gore at flex, Jackson will essentially be a bye-week fill-in at WR/flex. I'll be hoping that he has one of his few boom weeks during those weeks.

6.08 - Kevin Hanson (Team 1): Isaiah Crowell, RB, Cleveland Browns

On a positive note, the coaching staff wants to lean on the rushing attack and the Browns have one of the better run-blocking offensive lines when center Alex Mack is healthy. On a less positive note, the coaching staff's allocation of carries was unpredictable on a weekly basis as the guy with the "best practice" during the week got the most carries. Ultimately, I expect Crowell to be the most productive Browns running back in 2015, but the team's coaching staff will keep us guessing on a week-to-week basis.

6.09 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 2): Martellus Bennett, TE, Chicago Bears

Bennett set career highs across the board in 2014 with 90 receptions, 916 yards and six touchdowns. Finishing as a top-five scorer among tight ends, Bennett led the position in receptions and his 916 yards ranked third behind Rob Gronkowski and Greg Olsen. With the Bears trading Brandon Marshall to the Jets, Bennett has the potential to post even better numbers this season.

6.10 - Dan Yanotchko (Team 1): Tre Mason, RB, St. Louis Rams

While Mason didn't get his first carry until Week 6, he averaged 18.11 touches per game from Week 9 on. Unfortunately for Mason, the team used the 10th-overall pick on stud running back Todd Gurley. Mason may have a few games early this season as the featured back while Gurley rehabs from his ACL injury, but once Gurley is fully healthy, it's his job.

6.11 - Brendan Donahue (Team 1): Chris Ivory, RB, New York Jets

Although he averaged a career-low 4.1 YPC, Ivory once again rushed for more than 800 yards and set a career high with six touchdowns in 2014. The Jets signed Stevan Ridley in free agency and traded a seventh-round pick for Zac Stacy, but Ivory should lead the team's backfield in both workload and fantasy production. More productive than most probably realized, Ivory finished as a top-20 fantasy running back last season.

6.12 - Sean Beazley (Team 1): Drew Brees, QB, New Orleans Saints

After three consecutive 5,000-yard seasons, Brees fell just shy of that mark with 4,952 yards, which tied Big Ben for the NFL lead, in 2014 and threw (only) 33 touchdowns, which ties a seven-year low. For the first time since signing with the Saints in 2006, Brees finished outside the top-five fantasy quarterbacks (sixth) in 2014. Brees has thrown at least 650 pass attempts in five consecutive seasons and he led the league in pass attempts per game (41.2) last season, but a transition to a more run-based offense has begun in earnest.

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