4 Fantasy Football Mid-Round Draft Values (2025)

When we compete in large-field fantasy football best ball contests with hundreds of thousands of opponents, there are many ways to differentiate our rosters from the field, but one that consistently proves worthwhile is scooping up the best value players and building around them. Here are some of our favorite mid-round fantasy football draft values to target.

Fantasy Football Mid-Round Draft Values to Target

Round 6

Sam LaPorta (TE – DET)

2024 was a disappointing year for Sam LaPorta when it came to fantasy numbers, with LaPorta averaging 7.1 points over the opening seven weeks of the season. Reports suggest that LaPorta was playing through injuries at this stage in the season, and it would make sense if that were the case with LaPorta turning things around from Week 8 and averaging 13.2 points for the rest of the season. Getting a four-round discount on LaPorta compared to Trey McBride and Brock Bowers feels like too big of a gap, and in the sixth round, when wide receivers dry up, he’s an easy click.

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Round 7

Tony Pollard (RB – TEN)

The Titans look like a team that could be a potentially value-worthy offense if they can take a step forward this year. The addition of Cam Ward should represent a sizeable upgrade from the comedy turnovers that Will Levis used to stumble into. The Titans made the 10th fewest plays per game last year and ranked 27th in points scored, any improvements in those areas could help Tony Pollard who led this backfield with over 700 more yards than Tyjae Spears as well as being more explosive and more reliable in other metrics like yards per carry and big run rate.

Round 8

Darnell Mooney (WR – ATL)

Last year’s WR27, Darnell Mooney, is currently available in the eighth round of drafts, having averaged 12.1 points per game in PPR. Mooney also had five games where he scored 17 or more PPR points, as well as a 30-point game in Week 5 that led to him being WR3 that week. Mooney might be dealing with a change at QB in Michael Penix, but they seemed to play fine together in Weeks 16 and 17, with Mooney catching seven of his 11 targets for 119 yards.

Round 9

Justin Fields (QB – NYJ)

2024 started with promise for Justin Fields, who was the Steelers de facto starter with Russell Wilson dealing with a hamstring injury. Unfortunately for Fields, he wasn’t able to keep the starter role for the entire season with Mike Tomlin too set in his wishes to see Russell Wilson as their QB1. Fields was up and down for fantasy in his time as the starter, scoring over 18 points in three games and averaging 13.1 in the other three. Fields had career bests in completion rate (65.8%) and interception rate (0.6%), but he managed only a disappointing five passing touchdowns in six games and was very much playing things safe at times. However, Fields was one of only three QBs with multi-rushing-touchdown games last year. The other two were Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen. That upside is hard to ignore.