While it’s important to know who to target as you prepare for your fantasy football drafts, it’s equally as important to know which fantasy football draft landmines you’re avoiding. Our analysts provide players they are avoiding in their fantasy football drafts. Here are a few players they consider overvalued or are otherwise avoiding this fantasy football draft season.
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Fantasy Football Draft Landmines to Avoid
Here are a few fantasy football draft landmines our analysts avoid.
Fitz’s Players to Avoid
Travis Hunter (WR/CB – JAC)
Hunter is a terrific football player, and we’re lucky we’ll get to watch him play on Sundays after a fabulous college football career that ended with a Heisman trophy.
But the two-way thing makes me nervous about making a fantasy football investment in Hunter (except perhaps in IDP leagues).
The Jaguars have said they plan to use Hunter primarily as a wide receiver but will also use him at cornerback. It’s possible Hunter plays less wide receiver and more cornerback than people are expecting in 2025.
If Hunter gets significant playing time on defense, he isn’t going to have a snap share of 90% or higher the way most top receivers do. His snap share could be closer to 70%.
And Jacksonville does not have a good group of cornerbacks. When the Jaguars face the Bengals and Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins in Week 2, or when they face the Rams with Puka Nacua and Davante Adams in Week 7, or when they face the Chiefs, 49ers, Texans or any other team with a quality passing game, are we sure Hunter is only going to play limited snaps at cornerback?
You’d have to squint pretty hard to see Hunter drawing enough targets to be a fantasy difference-maker as long as Brian Thomas Jr. is healthy. Thomas has quickly established himself as one of the best receivers in the league.
Hunter’s ADP of WR31, 62nd overall, is … um, let’s call it “ambitious.” As talented as he is, Hunter is a fade at that price.
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DBro’s Players to Avoid
Kyle Pitts (TE – ATL)
The Kyle Pitts hope and hype train is off the tracks. I can’t do it. Last year’s performance should scare everyone off, even at his depressed cost this season. Last year, Pitts was the TE20 in fantasy points per game.
Among 47 qualifying tight ends, Pitts ranked 24th in target share, 19th in receiving yards per game, 26th in yards per route run and 39th in first downs per route run, per Fantasy Points Data. There’s nothing statistically I can point to that gives me hope for 2025 and beyond. Pitts is off my draft board.
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Erickson’s Players to Avoid
DJ Moore (WR – CHI)
DJ Moore wrapped up a strange 2024 campaign as the WR16 in total points but just WR32 in points per game (11.1). On the surface, his 98 receptions for 966 yards and 6 touchdowns look fine, especially within the confines of a dysfunctional Bears offense. Still, he posted a career-low 1.44 yards per route run and a 25% bust rate, tied for the third-highest among top-24 wide receivers. That’s especially troubling considering Moore was supposed to be the clear alpha in a broken Bears passing game. While Moore did show signs of life after Thomas Brown took over play-calling duties – topping 5.5 receptions in every game down the stretch – his role shifted to a low aDOT (5.3). He saw plenty of volume (27% target share), but the high-value looks were going elsewhere.
Rookie Rome Odunze dominated air yards and end-zone opportunities, while current street free agent Keenan Allen (before his Week 18 absence) was quietly leading the team in targets since Week 11. Looking ahead to 2025, Moore’s situation has changed yet again. Allen is gone, but the Bears added two high-upside rookies with first and second-round draft capital: WR Luther Burden and TE Colston Loveland. Both are dynamic after the catch and will challenge Moore for volume in a Ben Johnson-led offense that should be significantly more efficient with Caleb Williams entering Year 2. That said, Moore’s career production profile doesn’t scream alpha WR1. Outside of his WR6 finish in 2023 (a year heavily influenced by a few monster games), Moore has never finished inside the top-15 WRs across his career. He’s a classic boom-or-bust weekly WR2 – capable of game-breaking performances but just as likely to disappear depending on game script and usage. Moore should be drafted as a volatile WR2/WR3 with spike-week appeal, but expectations should be tempered. Moore is fine at ADP, especially if he slips. But there may be better value elsewhere in the Bears’ passing game, particularly if Rome Odunze continues to command high-value touches or Burden emerges as a YAC weapon in the slot.
Moore’s ceiling remains intact, but his path to consistency looks as murky as ever.
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Joe’s Players to Avoid
Joe Mixon (RB – HOU)
At 28 years old, a bad offensive line and a crowded backfield that just added Nick Chubb, Joe Mixon is a pass for me. Mixon was solid last season, no doubt, but he does have a spotty track record when it comes to health, and the recent rookie draft class is very talented, not to mention cheaper than Mixon.
Mixon is the first of the “dead zone” running backs this year, where I prefer to pivot towards the cheaper rookies and not miss out on crucial wide receiver depth in that ADP range.
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