Navigating your fantasy football draft can be tricky, especially when certain players come with more risk than reward. To help you dodge potential pitfalls, we’ve gathered insights from our collection of Featured Pros to highlight the biggest 2025 draft landmines to avoid. These are the players our fantasy football experts believe are overvalued, injury risks or simply unlikely to live up to their average draft position (ADP) this season. Before you make a costly mistake on draft day, check out who the pros are steering clear of-and why.
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Fantasy Football Draft Landmines to Avoid
What one WR inside the top 50 overall in our consensus ADP do you plan on avoiding in all or most of your drafts relative to their price and why?
Amon-Ra St. Brown (WR – DET)
“Amon-Ra St. Brown has been a stalwart of Detroit’s passing offense, but a career-best touchdown rate buoyed last year’s production while his usage quietly slipped. After ranking in the top five among receivers in targets per route run in 2022 and 2023, the ranking fell to 17th in 2024. He should maintain his role as the team’s primary receiver. But the emergence of Jameson Williams and Sam LaPorta, coupled with the coaching brain drain, set St. Brown up for a season where he can fall well short of his top-five price tag.”
– Dave Kluge (Footballguys)
Rashee Rice (WR – KC)
“Rashee Rice. He was terrific in 2023 and before ripping up his knee in 2024, but there are headwinds now. Rice is facing a suspension. He’s coming off a serious knee injury. And the target outlook isn’t quite as bright. When he broke out in 2023, the Chiefs’ other receivers were Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Justin Watson and Skyy Moore. They have a former first-round draft pick, Xavier Worthy, who had 50 catches in his last eight games (including the playoffs and excluding Week 18, when he played one snap), and the dangerous Marquise Brown. I have a hard time believing that Worthy’s emergence doesn’t change the target distribution in Kansas City.”
– Pat Fitzmaurice (FantasyPros)
Michael Pittman Jr. (WR – IND)
“With Anthony Richardson, Michael Pittman Jr. isn’t very useful, even as a WR3/Flex option. He is not someone you can trust at all.”
– Alejandro Orellana (Estadio Fantasy)
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