Fantasy Football Landmines: Christian McCaffrey, Travis Hunter (2025)

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.

Fantasy Football Draft Landmines to Avoid

What one RB inside the top 50 in our consensus ADP do you plan on avoiding in all or most of your drafts relative to their price and why?

Christian McCaffrey (RB – SF)

“Battle lines are drawn. I love comeback stories. I don’t like chalk. Our whole business is outthinking the room, right? So, I’m eschewing the selection of Christian McCaffrey in the top 10. Mid offensive line and obvious injury concerns. Workload? Explosiveness? I guess I can pile up receptions on hot routes. I’ll look elsewhere.”
– Mike Harmon (Swollen Dome)

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?

Travis Hunter (WR, CB – JAX)

“There is no way Travis Hunter can sustain playing both sides of the ball in the NFL without becoming a liability. Fatigue is going to catch up, and at some point, the Jaguars will have to limit his snaps, either by design or necessity. Sure, he may get a few gadget plays, but there will be drives where he is simply too tired to take the field, and a real NFL-caliber wide receiver like Parker Washington or Dyami Brown will be better suited for the job. If Hunter’s defensive skills prove more valuable to the team, they’ll pump the brakes on his offensive usage fast. The NFL hits harder than college, spending a fourth-, fifth- or sixth-round pick on a potential part-time receiver who might not crack 800 yards is a good way to end your fantasy football season before it begins.”
– Muntradamus (Beast Dome)