Fantasy Football Landmines: Nico Collins, Tyreek Hill, Puka Nacua (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 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

Nico Collins (WR – HOU)

“This offseason, Nico Collins’ value has vaulted to WR7 (13th overall). He has yet to play a full 17-game season, and his No. 9 finish in 2023 is his career high. Last year was a down year for the Texans as a team. Collins still managed 68/1,006/7 in 12 games. That is a great pace, but it was slowed due to injuries, which should worry owners. This offseason, the Texans signed Christian Kirk and drafted Jaylin Noel & Jayden Higgins from Iowa State. While none of the new receivers are game-changers (yet), they will take targets from Collins. I am a huge Collins fan and hope the team rebounds, but at his current cost, I believe there are safer picks at wide receiver.”
– Adam Dove (The Fantasy Couriers)

Tyreek Hill (WR – MIA)

“Anything that contains ‘Tyreek Hill‘ and ‘top-12 wide receiver’ in the same sentence should scare fantasy managers away. Yes, Tyreek Hill is great, but do not forget how Hill was ready to get out of Miami at the end of 2024. This has the makings of a situation that could get ugly, and ugly fast, if Miami is not playing winning football. Not to mention, drafting Tyreek Hill as a top-12 wideout after being one of the biggest busts of 2024 is not a discount at all. Stay far away from Hill, at cost.”
– Ed Birdsall (Talking Points Sports)

“Tyreek Hill enters 2025 as one of the riskiest early-round picks in fantasy football. He finished last season as the WR33 in points per game, with just two 100-yard games alongside a healthy Tua Tagovailoa (11 games as the WR18 in points per gam) — a far cry from the elite production fantasy managers drafted him for. His efficiency cratered, with his yards per route run dropping to 1.75 — less than half his 2023 mark — all while battling a wrist injury. Now 31, Hill is approaching the dreaded age cliff for speed-reliant receivers, and a late-season sideline outburst only adds to the concerns about his role/stability in Miami. Early reports have indicated he is still working to rebuild his relationship with his quarterback. The game-breaking upside might still be there, but the red flags around health, chemistry and declining performance make Hill a logical bust candidate that should be avoided.”
– Andrew Erickson (FantasyPros)

“How many times will Tyreek Hill appear in this list? He’s a player you have to love in a best ball situation for season-long. He’ll post some solid numbers, and I believe he’ll top the down 2024 campaign. But I’m not sweating out the weekly efficiency of this offense with him as a back-end WR1.”
– Mike Harmon (Swollen Dome)

Puka Nacua (WR – LAR)

“As of right now, Puka Nacua is being drafted as the No. 7 overall player in ADP. But there are some serious questions. Will Davante Adams take over as the No. 1 WR in this offense? Can Nacua stay healthy for a full season? And will Matthew Stafford even be healthy to start the year? There are way better options in round one with far fewer question marks. Give me Nico Collins, De’Von Achane and Malik Nabers instead at the back half of round one.”
– Brady Auer (BA Sports Podcast)