We’re right up against the NFL Draft in just a few days, but it’s never too early to participate in a fantasy football mock draft and put forth all the practice we can handle. Participating in mock drafts throughout different stages of the offseason gives us a good feel for positional value and how much players are moving up or sliding back in drafts.
We’ll be using a later draft slot, which will open things up for us in terms of the players available. With an early draft slot, we tend to know what players are available and can build to that, but the late round is a bit more fluid and unpredictable. If you want to try out some early drafts for yourself, make sure to use our FREE fantasy football mock draft simulator.
Let us see what kind of redraft roster we can build in a PPR format with a late-round draft pick (1.09).
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The lineup settings for this mock: 1-QB, 2-RB, 3-WR, 1-TE, 2-Flex and six bench spots. See the results and full draft board here.
1.09: Nico Collins (WR – HOU)
With Tank Dell likely sidelined for the majority of 2025 and the only meaningful target-earning competition being the incoming Christian Kirk, Nico Collins will dominate yet again in fantasy this season. He followed up an insane 3.10 yards per route run (YPRR) season with a season just slightly less efficient while missing five games. He only put up a 2.87 YPRR rate and earned a target on a whopping 28.3% of his routes.
Collins is as bankable a first-round wide receiver as it gets in fantasy football.
2.04: Brock Bowers (TE – LV)
What more can we say about Brock Bowers? When he was 18, he led the Georgia Bulldogs — with 13 other current NFL players — in every meaningful receiving category that season. All he did in his rookie season was break Sam LaPorta‘s rookie record for most receptions (86) by a rookie right end. He then bested Mike Ditka’s record for most receiving yards (1,076) and most receptions by a rookie regardless of position, beating Puka Nacua‘s 105 last season.
Bowers is good, folks. The best part? You don’t even need to select him in the first round. At least, not yet.
Brock Bowers just gave us the greatest rookie TE season ever that would have also battled for the greatest rookie WR season ever, got a QB/Coach upgrade, and for some reason can be drafted in the second round. pic.twitter.com/NgZ7ap99lC
— Wyatt ???? (@WyattB_FF) April 13, 2025
3.09: Terry McLaurin (WR – WAS)
4.04: Davante Adams (WR – LAR)
We round out the starting wide receivers with two veterans with massive upside in their respective offenses. Terry McLaurin is tied to an up-and-coming quarterback in Jayden Daniels, and besides Zach Ertz, no other pass-catcher is competing with him for targets. He had his best season as a pro with 1,096 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns. With Daniels only getting better, the efficiency bet for McLaurin to repeat his awesome 2024 in 2025 is very much in play and may have a little more room to grow.
As for Davante Adams, he joins the Rams – a move that couldn’t be a better one for him. Adams replaces Cooper Kupp and will now be schemed open by one of the best offensive gurus in the NFL in Sean McVay. The Rams are one of the most condensed teams in the NFL in terms of personnel, so as long as he’s healthy, he’s not coming off the field.
Yeah, Adams is entering his age-33 season in 2025, but he hasn’t fallen off by any significant degree in terms of per-route metrics. Adams’ YPRR came back up over 2.00 last season. He’s still stayed plenty strong in the target-earning department, earning a look on 25% of his routes. He’s as safe as it gets in the fourth round for a wide receiver that could earn 130-140 targets this season.
5.09: David Montgomery (RB – DET)
6.04: Aaron Jones (RB – MIN)
Time to grab some running backs, right? The great thing about waiting on running backs is that you can still get running backs you had to draft in the third round five seasons ago this late in 2025. David Montgomery and Aaron Jones are tied to excellent offenses, and both the Lions and Vikings should be among the top dozen scoring offenses, so touchdown equity won’t be a problem.
Kind of crazy that Justin Jefferson had the 2nd most receiving yards behind only Ja'Marr Chase yet he still didn't lead the Vikings in yards from scrimmage – Aaron Jones did
— Andrew Cooper (@CoopAFiasco) April 2, 2025
Montgomery and Jones are solid RB2 options that could easily hit spike weeks thanks to both backs’ utilization in the receiving game and solid standing in their offenses. And we didn’t have to pay a premium price in the draft for either.
7.09: Calvin Ridley (WR – TEN)
8.04: Jauan Jennings (WR – SF)
Two more receivers here that project to fill the Flex spot for our team. With Calvin Ridley, he’s going to have some growing pains with whoever is throwing him passes. That said, the volume he’ll be receiving as the unquestioned top receiver is off the charts. You just have to deal with some inefficient weeks, but the good weeks should outweigh the bad for Ridley.
This season, we’ll find out if Jauan Jennings’ 2024 was a fluke or not. The receiving corps of the 49ers could shake out to be much different than the last few seasons in San Francisco, with no Deebo Samuel, potentially no Brandon Aiyuk to start the season and some things up in the air with how targets shake out between Jennings, George Kittle, Ricky Pearsall and Christian McCaffrey.
Last season, Jennings was 14th among all wide receivers with at least 150 routes with a 2.26 YPRR and 14th in targets per route run (TPRR), earning a target on over 25% of his routes. Frankly, he wasn’t just “third-and-Jauan,” he was first and second as well.
Jennings is a massive value with some ambiguity in his target share entering this season. That said, in the eighth round, you can’t beat the value on a receiver in an offense that should be much better than last season’s iteration with better health. Thanks to his efficiency last season, the price is right to see if Jennings can give a worthy encore to this 2024 campaign.
9.09: Tyjae Spears (RB – TEN)
10.04: Austin Ekeler (RB – WAS)
11.09: Bo Nix (QB – DEN)
12.04: Marvin Mims Jr. (WR – DEN)
We’re getting some depth here at both running back and at wide receiver, but also nab our quarterback in Bo Nix. I was a bit surprised to see Nix had seven games of 35+ pass attempts last season and that he was also in the top three in deep balls (20+ yards) thrown after hearing ad nauseum that the deep ball wasn’t part of his game.
Twenty-nine touchdown passes and 430 rushing yards later, Nix was awesome last season, finishing as the fantasy QB7. He should, at the very least, provide some solid rushing floor in addition to averaging 21 fantasy points per game from Week 8 forward. We also added one of his wide receivers in Marvin Mims Jr., who came on at the end of last season. He needs to run more routes, though, as the next time Mims runs more than 50% routes per dropback will be the first time since the 2023 season.
13.09: Devin Neal (RB – Kansas)
14.04: Wan’Dale Robinson (WR – NYG)
15.09: Damien Martinez (RB – Miami)
We round out the squad with two rookie running backs and a wide receiver nobody believes can repeat his 2024 season. Wan’Dale Robinson earned a whopping 140 targets last season and caught 93 balls for just 699 yards. It was certainly one of the more unique wide receiver lines we’ve seen in a long time, but even if he drops down to 100 targets, that’s a massive win in the 14th round.
Everyone is talking about Malik Nabers getting a new QB in NY but what about … Wan’Dale Robinson?
2024:
140 targets (#10)
8.2 targets per game
#12 in routes run
93 catches (#10)
#24 in yards after catchUnderrated WR2 as a target earner. Just 24 years old pic.twitter.com/QQGe4EVqnT
— Skrip (@P2WFantasy) March 20, 2025
FantasyPros Draft Wizard Insights
The FantasyPros Draft Wizard gave us a B- grade and an 80/100 score. We stocked up on elite wide receivers, grabbed two solid running backs, a running quarterback and Brock Bowers. I mean, what’s not to like here? Austin Ekeler and Tyjae Spears provide solid depth at running back in addition to two rookie running backs. Marvin Mims and Wan’Dale Robinson are quality depth pieces at wide receiver.
I don’t typically take backups at quarterback and tight end, as these two positions will have plenty of bye week replacements available, and the odds are pretty good I’ll have to replace one or more of my bench players during the season. I do think this team would make a ton of noise in a 12-team league if this were the end of August.
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