2025 Fantasy Football Busts

Anyone drafting Cooper Kupp in this range did not watch him last year. I wouldn’t even draft him in the 12th round. Kupp was so incredibly decrepit to close out the 2024 season that he barely played during the team’s victory over the Vikings in the playoffs, even before the game turned into a blowout. For the first time in Kupp’s career, he won’t be playing in a Sean McVay offense, and he won’t be catching passes throughout a full season from either Matthew Stafford or Jared Goff. His situation is a colossal downgrade, and he’s not even good anymore, so what in the world is he doing in the seventh or eighth round?

I’m out on Christian McCaffrey. Not only is he a 29-year-old with an extensive injury history; he has chronic Achilles tendinitis on both of his feet. He has missed 48.5 percent of his games since 2021, and he’s now 29. It’s wild to me that he’s being drafted in the first round.

Tyreek Hill is not the same electric player he once was. He has lost a step, but there are other factors as to why he’s so high on this busts list. Miami’s offensive line is in shambles, so Hill won’t get as many opportunities downfield as he did prior to 2024. Tua Tagovailoa’s health is also a potential problem. And then there’s the fact that Hill could easily be in jail sometime soon. There’s no reason to draft him in the second or early third round.

I highlighted Alvin Kamara in the Five Fantasy Football Players to Avoid Like the Plague in 2025:



In short, Kamara is an older player on a horrible team, so the Saints may lighten his workload in the fantasy playoffs.

I loved Chris Godwin last year. He was playing the Cooper Kupp role in Liam Coen’s offense, and he was highly productive because of that until he suffered a season-ending injury in garbage time of a Monday night game. There’s no guarantee Godwin is 100 percent, and even if he is, he’ll likely be in a diminished role of a new system. The Buccaneers also drafted Emeka Egbuka in the first round, perhaps indicating that they don’t trust Godwin’s health. This was confirmed in a recent report citing that Godwin may not be ready for Week 1. The Buccaneers didn’t know if he’d be available to start the season from a report in early July. This is a major red flag that echoes what transpired with Christian McCaffrey last year.

I don’t understand Tetairoa McMillan’s ADP. How is he going two rounds earlier than Travis Hunter when he’s the superior prospect? If McMillan were in a great offense, that would be one thing, but the Panthers are still the Panthers, and it’s very difficult to trust Bryce Young when the opposition is actually trying (unlike the Eagles, Chiefs, and Buccaneers in some late games last year.) Also, McMillan said in an interview

I already didn’t like Stefon Diggs because he was coming off a torn ACL. It seems unlikely that Diggs will be 100 percent at any point this season, and even if he is, he’ll be a receiver in his 30s playing in a run-first offense. There have been positive reports about Diggs, but it seems as though he’s returning from injury too early.

James Conner, a 30-year-old running back, told the media that he will be sharing the workload with Trey Benson in a 1A/1B fashion. This is obviously horrible news, and it’s coming straight from the horse’s mouth.

Mike Evans has been a great receiver for a long time, but that may be coming to an end soon. Evans is now 32 and has a history of hamstring injuries. Speed receivers turning 32 tend to regress rapidly.

It’s tough to back Breece Hall in the fourth round. He’s losing half of his snaps to Braelon Allen, and he seems to have lost his explosion from his first two NFL seasons. Hall could also be traded at the deadline.