Drafting the right players is key to winning your fantasy football league, but avoiding the wrong ones is just as important. Every year, certain players get overhyped, over-drafted or simply don’t live up to expectations.
To help you steer clear of potential landmines in your 2025 fantasy football draft, we asked our collection of Featured Pros to weigh in on which wide receivers they’re avoiding at their current average draft position (ADP). Whether it’s due to workload concerns, injury risk or inflated cost, these are the wideouts our experts believe carry more risk than reward. Before you make your next pick, make sure these names aren’t on your draft board.
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Players Fantasy Football Experts Avoid
What one WR inside the top 100 in our consensus ADP do you plan on avoiding in all your drafts relative to their price and why?
Jauan Jennings (WR – SF)
“Jauan Jennings is one wide receiver inside the top 100 I’m avoiding in all drafts this season relative to his ADP of 62. I like Jennings as a player; he’s shown flashes of WR1 ability, but that was before Ricky Pearsall emerged as the clear top option in San Francisco’s passing game. With Pearsall now commanding primary targets, and both Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle fully healthy, Jennings is unlikely to see consistent volume. In an offense that already spreads the ball around, his role feels more complementary than featured. At that price, I’d rather invest in a receiver with a more defined path to targets and weekly upside.”
– Lawrence Iacona (Gridiron Experts)
“Jauan Jennings at No. 62 overall seems aggressive. It’s cool that Jennings has developed into a useful pass-catcher in the middle part of his career. But I’m mildly skeptical of an age-27 breakout partly fueled by the absences of fellow wide receivers Brandon Aiyuk and Ricky Pearsall. And it’s not as if it was a massive eruption for Jennings. He was tied for WR26 in half-PPR fantasy points per game among wideouts who played at least eight games. After never averaging better than 1.38 yards per route run in his first three NFL seasons, Jennings jumped to 2.26 yards per route run in 2024. I’m buying the improvement. I’m just not buying Jennings as a comfortable every-week fantasy starter, which you need him to be at an early sixth-round price. Pearsall came on strong down the stretch last season. Aiyuk is on his way back from last year’s season-ending knee injury. George Kittle and Christian McCaffrey are going to draw ample targets. It’s just hard to see Jennings taking it up another notch with all that target competition. That’s a lot to ask of a former seventh-round pick who broke out at age 27.”
– Pat Fitzmaurice (FantasyPros)
Mike Evans (WR – TB)
“While there is still substantial upside, I find myself far below consensus on Mike Evans this year. A great exercise to consider when drafting is: Where do I imagine this player going in next year’s (2026) fantasy draft? I think the answer for Evans could be many, many rounds later (if he’s even still playing). Offensive coordinator Liam Coen has left, and Emeka Egbuka and Jalen McMillan are set to emerge and take much more volume from the aging Evans and Chris Godwin. Especially in full PPR leagues, I think the downside case for Evans is far more extreme than many think. While admittedly he could win your league for you if he hits, I don’t want to touch a potential landmine.”
– Benjamin Klotz (Touchdown Squad)
“Mike Evans is an all-time great whose consistency deserves laudation. It’s just that, at age 31, there’s no way I’m drafting him in the third round. Evans has produced as a high-end WR2 for four straight years, but was only averaging around 14 PPR points per game in 2024 until Chris Godwin got hurt. I would rather take a shot at a younger, breakout prospect at this point in the draft.”
– Lee Wehry (FantasyPros)
Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR – DET)
“Ready to get uncomfortable? Pass on Amon-Ra St. Brown in round one of a PPR draft. It feels wrong, but his trouble started last year. St. Brown went from sixth among wideouts in expected PPR points per game in 2023 to just 11th last year. He dipped from fifth among wide receivers in target share in 2023 to 10th. And now we get more Jameson Williams buzz throughout the offseason, potential for Sam LaPorta‘s usage to bounce back, plus the extra challenge of an offensive coordinator switch. No thanks on St. Brown over Malik Nabers, Puka Nacua and others in the back half of the first round.”
– Matt Schauf (Draft Sharks)
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