Dynasty Rookie Draft Advice: Tai Felton (2025 Fantasy Football)

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Throughout the draft, we’ll take a closer look at fantasy-relevant prospects, giving you an overview of their strengths and weaknesses, and assessing their fantasy value in both redraft and dynasty formats. Here’s our dynasty rookie draft advice for Tai Felton.

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Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Draft Outlook

Fantasy Football Dynasty Rookie Draft Advice

The Vikings added a receiver to join Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison in Tai Felton, a 6-foot-1, 183-pound wideout out of Maryland with 4.37 speed. You have to like the production in Felton’s final season, where he put up 1,124 yards and nine touchdowns. This is a deep threat who can be a viable ancillary pass-catcher next to Jefferson and Addison. With that said, it’s hard to feel comfortable investing anything more than a fourth-rounder in dynasty drafts. It’s not a great landing spot for Felton’s fantasy value, but perhaps he can develop into an upside WR4 in fantasy. The only place where I’d draft Felton in other formats is in the last couple rounds of a large-field Best Ball tournament as a piece to a Vikings stack.

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DBro’s NFL Draft Scouting Report & Player Comp

Scouting Report:

Tai Felton excels against zone coverage as an underneath weapon for a passing attack. He has good bend, fluidity and quick twitch in his routes. He gains separation on slants, outs, comebacks and curls well. His short area quickness serves him well at the top of his stems.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Felton move inside to the slot in the NFL (76.8% perimeter in college). When he’s asked to stretch the field, things can go awry. His go routes lack nuance as he struggles to separate. His release package on go balls is limited. He doesn’t have the raw speed to stack corners and struggles at the catch point. Corners don’t have an issue living in his back pocket.
Felton isn’t a “my ball” winner at the catch point. This is where his play strength limitations can show up, with a 38.5% contested catch rate in college. He has had a 5.9% or higher drop rate in each of the last two seasons. I don’t think he has issues with his catch technique, but he does have lapses in concentration at the catch point at times.

Player Comp: Trey Palmer