We might be in that grey area of the fantasy football calendar, between the Super Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine, and you might be tempted to think there’s nothing to talk about, but that just isn’t the case. We’re weeks away from free agency. Between that and the NFL Draft, the fantasy football landscape will be shaken up plenty. If you were drafting right now, some of the values you could get will look crazy in a few months. Diving into a fantasy football mock draft now helps you gain a sense of perspective for how others value players now and in the coming months. This is a mock draft for a 12-team standard league. Here are some of our favorite picks.
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5.12: DeVonta Smith (WR – PHI)/6.01: Emeka Egbuka (WR – TB)
We double-tap wide receiver here with DeVonta Smith and Emeka Egbuka. Both picks are slightly speculative but with good reasoning. DeVonta Smith could become a true alpha if A.J. Brown continues to trend towards a trade away from the Eagles. Even if he doesn’t, Smith has more often than not been a good value selection in fantasy football, averaging 1,004 yards and 6.25 touchdowns per season.
Egbuka, meanwhile, had a fantastic first half of the season before hitting the proverbial rookie wall as the Buccaneers limped towards the finish line. Mike Evans is potentially moving on after 11 years in Tampa, opening up more potential plays for Egbuka. Second-year wide receivers have been strong bets plenty of times before now.
7.12: Harold Fannin Jr. (TE – CLE)/8.01 Braelon Allen (RB – NYJ)
At the end of the seventh round, we take Harold Fannin Jr. to lock in our TE1 and make another bet on a second-year player. Quarterback is still very much a concern in Cleveland, but Todd Monken is one of the better offensive play-callers in the league. He should help Fannin take the next leap, after a promising rookie season where he had 72 receptions for 731 yards and six touchdowns.
Running backs tend to dry up somewhat by this part of the draft, but there’s one glaring value in Braelon Allen, who surely needs to be drafted higher. Consensus opinion is that Breece Hall‘s time in New York is over, but for some reason, there is no hype around Allen, who has 410 yards on 110 career carries along with 21 career receptions. Allen was expected to be a bigger factor in the Jets’ offense this year, but he managed only four games before getting injured. That injury could be helping us scoop some value.
9.12: Kenneth Gainwell (RB – SEA)/10.01: DJ Moore (WR – FA)
In round nine, we select Kenneth Gainwell, who is coming off 114 rush attempts and 85 targets in an outlier season for the Steelers. The 85 targets are slightly less helpful here than in PPR formats, but this late in the draft, that level of touches isn’t to be sniffed at. It seems fair to say Gainwell’s value is tied to Aaron Rodgers returning to the Steelers, but this value is good enough that we can take the gamble.
In round 10, we add DJ Moore, who could be on his way out of Chicago in the coming weeks. Moore has earned at least 80 targets in every one of his eight years in the league and has been over 100 in six of them. Last season wasn’t a great year for him, but there’s every chance a wide receiver-hungry team could make better use of him in 2026.
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