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We’ve passed the halfway point of the 2025 NFL season, which not only means that the playoff picture is starting to shape up in real life, but also that fantasy football leagues across the country are beginning to take shape as well.
While the resurgence of Jonathan Taylor and breakout seasons from players such as Daniel Jones and Caleb Williams have some fantasy managers riding, others aren’t feeling so great.
There are several instances of fantasy managers counting on players they drafted early to produce big points, only for those players to fail to deliver on a regular occasion.
We’re counting down the 10 biggest busts so far in this fantasy football season.
For the purpose of this exercise, we decided to set some ground rules.
First, if a player has missed the majority of the season due to injury, they are not on the list. That means that players such as Joe Burrow and Malik Nabers, both of whom were considered superstar fantasy players, are safe from the list.
Additionally, to add some objectivity to the ranking, we looked at ESPN’s preseason projections in typical PPR scoring leagues. We then broke those projections down into a 17-game average and compared them to the players’ average points per game to get a difference.
Players with the largest negative difference between their projections and actual production are the ones who made the list.
Lastly, we decided that a player can only truly be considered a bust if they were expected to be a major contributor or starter in most fantasy lineups. So while someone like Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Geno Smith would qualify for the list mathematically, he does not qualify because he was not expected to be a regular starter in a normal league.
So, without further ado, here are the 10 biggest fantasy football busts of the 2025 NFL season.
Some will tell you that Ashton Jeanty’s rough season is a lesson about drafting rookie running backs in the first round. Instead, we will simply tell you that the Las Vegas Raiders offensive line is atrocious, and when you factor in their inability to throw the ball downfield even a little bit, you begin to understand why Jeanty has struggled a bit.
The No. 6 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft has just one game over 100 yards rushing and has yet to find the end zone more than once on the ground.
When he does get the rare chance to reach the second level, you can see all the physical tools that make him an elite running back. Unfortunately, he hasn’t gotten that opportunity nearly enough to warrant the use of a first-round fantasy football draft pick.
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