Draft day is all about finding value and avoiding costly mistakes – and Average Draft Position (ADP) is one of the best tools to help you do both. By comparing where players are being drafted to their projected production, fantasy football managers can spot potential steals and sidestep landmines. To give you a winning edge for 2025 drafts, we’ve gathered 30 players experts draft and avoid at ADP from our collection of Featured Pros experts. This list highlights the players our analysts are targeting at their current ADP, as well as the ones they’re avoiding, so you can make smarter picks and build a championship-ready roster.
Players Experts Avoid at ADP
Who is a player you’re AVOIDING in drafts based on his current ADP (top-150) and why?
Travis Hunter (WR, CB – JAC)
“Travis Hunter is going off the board as pick 64 in FFPC. I am avoiding him at that cost. I understand the upside, but he is a better best-ball play than a redraft play for me. Too many good players that I am more confident in for weekly consistency in this range. You are drafting starters at pick 64, and he is not someone I feel confident in starting Week 1.”
– David Heilman (Sports Gambling Podcast Network)
Brandon Aiyuk (WR – SF)
“This was easy. Avoid Ashton Jeanty at all costs with his first-round ADP. I’m kidding, of course. I just wanted to get it on the preseason overreactions. It has to be Pearsall’s teammate – Brandon Aiyuk. His status remains vague, but we know he will miss time. It has been posited that Aiyuk could be out until as long as Week 10, but the 49ers are reportedly eyeing a Week 6 return. I just can’t draft the guy, even if he has a WR49 ADP.”
– Zach Greubel (Gridiron Experts)
Jonathan Taylor (RB – IND)
“Jonathan Taylor – The Colts are currently projected for the seventh-fewest points in the NFL. As a non-pass-catching back, Taylor essentially has one path to paying off his mid-2nd round ADP – touchdowns, something that may be hard to come by for his offense. Taylor was a hero during the fantasy playoffs last year – averaging 30.3 Half-PPR points per game. This finish, which came on the back of an unsustainable 31.67 rushes per game against three of the worst teams in the league last year, potentially distorted many people’s view of what was otherwise a fine, but not special, season from Taylor (RB19 per game in weeks 1-15). JT is a special player who certainly could prove me wrong, but other RBs going behind (ex. Bucky Irving, Chase Brown) seem to have more outs to fantasy success.”
– Charlie Sisian (The Fantasy DC)
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