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At the conclusion of every fantasy football season, it’s a good exercise to look back at what circumstances led to your ultimate fate — whether you walked away with a first-place trophy or reigned supreme in your league’s Toilet Bowl.
Perhaps the most important aspect of that self-reflection is to look back at our worst picks. Why did we make them? What did we miss?
There were plenty of bad picks this year that didn’t pan out due to injury; San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey headlines them all. However, there were plenty of other disappointments who did stick around for the majority of the season but still didn’t pay dividends for our fantasy team.
Here’s a look at fantasy football’s worst picks, round-by-round, based on their average draft position and eventual PPG to close out the season.
Round 1: Breece Hall, RB, New York Jets
ADP: 4.3, RB2 off the board
PPG finish: RB18
The only thing more painful than not having your first-round pick available for most of the season (cough, CMC, cough) is having him available, only to receive middling production. Despite being a consensus top-five overall draft pick, Hall notched just two top-five finishes at his position all year.
Another year removed from the torn ACL that ended his rookie campaign, most hoped Hall would look like his former explosive self, but that wasn’t the case. Hall has now seen a decline in rush yards per carry in each of the past two seasons (5.8 as a rookie, 4.5 in 2023 and 4.2 in 2024) as well as yards after contact per attempt (4.13, 3.41, 3.02) and breakaway yardage percentage (43%, 40.4%, 26%).
Perhaps our first mistake was believing in the New York Jets? (Sorry, Jets fans.)
Honorable mention: Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Hill
Round 2: Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Arizona Cardinals
ADP: 18.3, WR9
PPG finish: WR43
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Publish date : 2025-01-02 19:23:00
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