Everyone wants value at every draft pick in fantasy football. Even if you’re sitting at the sixth overall pick in the draft, the excitement of a player ranked fourth overall falling two spots makes us feel like we won the draft after a single pick.
Finding value in the right places is indeed the key to a good draft and setting up our teams for success, but it just won’t happen with every pick. This is why it’s important to recognize the tendencies of the site on which you are drafting and where value can be found throughout a fantasy football draft.
Today, we’re continuing our monthly series that will dive into fantasy football draft values on the Fantrax site. These are just some of the names that hold tremendous value in drafts right now based on FantasyPros’ expert consensus rankings (ECR).
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Fantasy Football Draft Values
Alvin Kamara (RB – NO) | Fantrax ADP: 50.9/ECR: 41
For full PPR formats, being able to grab Alvin Kamara around pick 50 or 51 is simply a steal. Even at almost 30 years old, Kamara is a gold mine in this type of format. Despite being on a bad offense, Kamara was one of the best picks in last year’s draft. He finished as the RB5 in fantasy points, averaging 19 per game.
Those 19 PPR points per game were due to several factors, but primarily because of a lot of usage from the Saints. Kamara was sixth in opportunity share (76%), seventh in snap share (73%) and first among all running backs in targets (89).
There is risk here, to be sure. Fantasy managers would be wise to expect some regression from Kamara in 2025. At 30 years old and coming off his most rushing attempts and receptions since 2021, some decline could be coming, and it might even be likely. However, that is already reflected in his current draft position, as the RB16 on the board on Fantrax and RB14 in ECR.
Last season, Kamara had 950 rush yards while catching 68 passes for 543 yards. He had eight total touchdowns. Even if the veteran loses some carries this year, he should still easily cross 300 total opportunities (including 60-75 targets) if he is healthy.
Rashee Rice (WR – KC) | ADP: 40.26/ECR: 29
Perhaps risk is the reason some of these top players are falling in early Fantrax drafts. Rashee Rice certainly has a legal issue hanging over his head, but so far, there has been no indication of suspension. He is also coming off a knee injury that forced him to miss all but a couple of games in 2024.
Early reports and videos out of camp show that Rice seems to have recovered nicely and is already running routes in mini-camp and organized team activities (OTAs). His camaraderie with Patrick Mahomes is unmatched, and if Travis Kelce continues his decline into 2026, there may be a significant number of targets coming Rice’s way.
Second-year wideout Xavier Worthy is a field-stretcher. He is the long pass man. At this stage of his career, Marquise Brown is a No. 3 and possession receiver. His burst is gone, and he is just dependable hands now. Skyy Moore and JuJu Smith-Schuster are just backups now and can’t compete with the talent level of the top three Kansas City receivers.
If we get the next stage of growth from his 102 targets and 79 receptions for 938 yards in 2023, Rice will look like a steal around pick 40 in Fantrax drafts.
Evan Engram (TE – DEN) | ADP: 109.8/ECR: 78
Anytime a player misses eight games with an injury, it’s going to impact his draft position the following year. Add in the fact that Evan Engram is moving from Jacksonville to Denver, and there is uncertainty about the new team and coach Sean Payton’s wide target tree for his receivers.
But that injury in 2024 masked what could have been an incredible season, and there is no doubt that Engram is moving to an offense that should be a massive upgrade over whatever it was that Jacksonville did in 2024.
Before his injury, Engram was third among tight ends in target share (25.1%), and he also had a 17% target share in the red zone. He was 13th at the position in air yards share and in the top 12 in fantasy points per game with 10 per contest. It was all a natural progression after he broke out with 143 targets and 114 receptions in 2023, and there is a chance the Denver Broncos can find that player in him again.
Last year, the Broncos’ top tight ends were Adam Trautman and Lucas Krull. It’s no wonder they only threw to tight ends 72 times in 2024. Now with a legitimate weapon at the position, I would expect Engram to get 90-100 targets just on his own in 2025.
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