Fantasy Football Mock Draft: Half-PPR, 12-Team, Early Pick (2024)

NFL teams are beginning summer practices. It’s not long before preseason action begins. Now is the time to prepare for your fantasy football drafts. We’ll have you covered with our fantasy football draft rankings and 2024 Fantasy Football Draft Kit to help you dominate your leagues. Here’s a look at a fantasy football mock draft using our FREE mock draft simulator. You can check out the full fantasy football mock draft results below, and we dive into a few of the picks.

Fantasy Football Mock Draft

Here’s a half-PPR fantasy football mock draft. We pick from the No. 3 spot. Here is the full draft board and results from our draft analyzer.

Full Fantasy Football Mock Draft Board

Fantasy Football Mock Draft Pick Review

Here are our thoughts on a few of the notable picks from this fantasy football mock draft.

Jaylen Waddle (WR – MIA)

Waddle had the worst season of his short career last year, finishing as the WR21 in fantasy. His high-leverage usage dried up as Tyreek Hill gobbled it all up. Waddle was outside the top 50 wide receivers in the NFL in deep targets (54th) and red zone looks (56th). Waddle was the WR27 in expected fantasy points per game. While all of those metrics don’t paint a pretty picture, Waddle is still one of the most talented wide receivers in the NFL, and this remains a consolidated passing attack that will run through Hill and Waddle. Waddle ranked fifth in yards per route run and sixth in first downs per route run last season (per Fantasy Points Data). Bet on supremely talented players to bounce back. Always.
– Derek Brown

Christian Watson (WR – GB)

I hate to break it to the Dontayvion Wicks and Jayden Reed hives, but when Watson was on the field last year, he remained the Packer’s WR1. In Weeks 5-13, Watson led the team in target share (17.7%), air-yard share (36.7%), YPRR (1.79), end zone targets (14), first-read share (22.3%), and FD/RR (0.081). Hamstring woes have plagued Watson for the last two years, but Green Bay investigated further into it this offseason with the hopes of getting their stud third-year wide receiver right for 2024. If Watson can finally enjoy a fully healthy season, he can fulfill the potential we have seen in spurts over the last two seasons.
– Derek Brown

Mark Andrews (TE – BAL)

An ankle injury in Week 11 ended Mark Andrews’ regular season prematurely, but before he went down, he was having a characteristically productive season, ranking fourth among tight ends in fantasy scoring. Andrews’ yearly finishes in fantasy points per game (0.5 PPR) since his second-year breakout in 2019: TE4, TE4, TE1, TE3, TE4. Over that fruitful five-year run, he’s averaged 4.9 receptions, 60.6 receiving yards and 0.5 touchdowns per game. Andrews should once again be a prominent contributor in the Baltimore passing attack in 2024 and should be one of the first five tight ends to come off the board in fantasy drafts.
– Pat Fitzmaurice