If you lost your fantasy league in 2025, there's a pretty good chance you had at least one of the players, maybe multiple of the guys we're going to talk about in this video.

Because I want to break down the players that lost the most fantasy leagues this year, arguably based on where they went, the worst picks in fantasy football and how we can learn from these mistakes.

And let's start with the first one, Mr. Justin Jefferson.

Oh, this one hurts. Justin Jefferson

was the model of consistency in the NFL. Setting records, it felt like every single week for the

most catches and yards through this many games in his career. I mean, heck, coming into this

season, he was averaging 99 catches, 1,486 yards, and eight touchdowns per season, and that includes

years back when he was an inexperienced rookie putting up big numbers. So heading into 2025,

even though he was going to have this new, very raw, inexperienced quarterback in J.J. McCarthy,

we said, heck, he's been there before with these bad quarterbacks and he's paid off.

However, it did not pan out this year because Justin Jefferson finished as the wide receiver

32 in fantasy points per game, 11.4 fantasy points per game. And if it wasn't for a pretty nice

week 18 game where he finally had a nice performance, a week 18 game that didn't even help most

of you as your fantasy seasons were over, he would have been averaging less than 11 points per game. Justin Jefferson was the fifth most common player

on last place. You're talking about your toilet bowl champions, your last pace fantasy punishments.

He was on 10.8% of those teams. And again, it makes sense. Jefferson was taken in the first round.

Not only in the first round, but on average, he was taken as a top five pick in fantasy draft. When he doesn't even finish as a top 30 player at his position, that's going to hurt. Now, the interesting thing is Jefferson was still highly targeted. 30% target share was seventh in the NFL, 141 targets over eight per game. That was sixth best in the NFL. He remained healthy. So the obvious reason as to why he struggled was, well, just the quarterback situation, whether it was J.J. McCarthy, who dealt with multiple injuries and did not look all that good when he was healthy. Max Bromner, who was arguably the worst quarterback that stepped on a football field this year. Carson Wentz, who was out there for a couple of weeks, at least gave life to this offense, but even during those weeks, you saw Jordan Addison have some bigger games than Justin Jefferson. And man, it got really ugly towards that middle part of the season when J.J. McCarthy came back and then Max Brosmer had to take over for some games from weeks 10 through 17, the second half of the year into the fantasy playoffs and the championship game, Justin Jefferson only averaged 7.3 fantasy points per game, 37 yards per game. It was like he was basically a waiver wire player, but you had to continue to start him every single week because he was Justin Jefferson. It was the worst possible situation. Like you almost would have rather knock on when you don't want to wish injury upon anybody, but you almost would rather he was injured so you could put him on your bench and put somebody else more productive in the lineup. Now the biggest thing, you're getting the volume, but the poor quarterback play basically led to Justin Jefferson not being all that productive because his targets just weren't on par. Specifically, if we look at the catchable target rate for Justin Jefferson, you would see that he only saw 67% of his targets being catchable.

So 33%, one third of the targets that came Justin Jefferson's way were not even catchable.

It was pointless.

It was as if he should not have even had those targets.

So what does that basically mean?

It was great that he was getting 141 targets this year, but basically 50 or so of those targets were pointless. It's like he didn't even have them. That's why he had such a bad season. Obviously, J.J. McCarthy struggled, but basically it just came down to the accuracy on those targets. And also the fact that the offense wasn't sustaining drives, so they weren't getting to the red zone, which led to less touchdown production for a guy who was averaging eight touchdowns per season. It's not going to help when you only have two touchdowns this year. So obviously everything went wrong. The quarterback situation was atrocious. Now, again, this was a player who was taken as a top five overall pick ahead of guys like Christian McCaffrey this year, ahead of guys like Amonrae St. Brown, even Derek Henry, who had nice to great season. So what is the takeaway here?

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