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Fantasy Football Mock Draft 2023, 12-team PPR: Tyreek Hill or Travis Kelce?

By Cody Williams

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 09: Tyreek Hill #10 of the Miami Dolphins celebrates a first down New York Jets during the second quarter at MetLife Stadium on October 09, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 09: Tyreek Hill #10 of the Miami Dolphins celebrates a first down New York Jets during the second quarter at MetLife Stadium on October 09, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) /
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Fantasy Football Mock Draft 2023, Dameon Pierce, Houston Texans
Dameon Pierce, Houston Texans. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) /

Fantasy Football Mock Draft Round 6

  • Team 12 (6.01): George Kittle, TE, San Francisco 49ers
  • Team 11 (6.02): Mike Williams, WR, Los Angeles Chargers
  • Team 10 (6.03): Trevor Lawrence, QB, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Team 9 (6.04): Brandon Aiyuk, WR, San Francisco 49ers
  • Team 8 (6.05): Dallas Goedert, TE, Philadelphia Eagles
  • Team 7 (6.06): James Conner, RB, Arizona Cardinals
  • Team 6 (6.07): Isiah Pacheco, RB, Kansas City Chiefs
  • Team 5 (6.08): Dameon Pierce, RB, Houston Texans
  • Team 4 (6.09): Michael Pittman Jr., WR, Indianapolis Colts
  • Team 3 (6.10): D’Andre Swift, RB, Philadelphia Eagles
  • Team 2 (6.11): Darren Waller, TE, New York Giants
  • Team 1 (6.12): Kyle Pitts, TE, Atlanta Falcons

People are going to overlook the Houston Texans in fantasy football this year. In the case of Dameon Pierce, you shouldn’t be doing that.

Yes, he was only the RB27 last season in PPR formats, but that was also while being limited to 13 games. That bumps up to RB21 if you look at the fantasy points per game played metric. More importantly, we can’t underestimate how much more simply competent the Texans could be with a promising young quarterback in C.J. Stroud in addition to a new coaching regime that should be an upgrade.

Pierce has shown he can be an effective RB2 in fantasy that could only be better with the improvements around him to open up more space to work. He’s being far too overlooked and could be a sleeper in this range if you have the chance to grab him.

Fantasy Football Mock Draft Round 7

  • Team 1 (7.01): Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints
  • Team 2 (7.02): Deshaun Watson, QB, Cleveland Browns
  • Team 3 (7.03): Dak Prescott, QB, Dallas Cowboys
  • Team 4 (7.04): Christian Kirk, WR, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Team 5 (7.05): George Pickens, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers
  • Team 6 (7.06): Marquise Brown, WR, Arizona Cardinals
  • Team 7 (7.07): Mike Evans, WR, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  • Team 8 (7.08): Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Miami Dolphins
  • Team 9 (7.09): Evan Engram, TE, Jacksonville Jaguars
  • Team 10 (7.10): Jahan Dotson, WR, Washington Commanders
  • Team 11 (7.11): David Montgomery, RB, Detroit Lions
  • Team 12 (7.12): Javonte Williams, RB, Denver Broncos

Particularly in this range for a 12-team league, I’m more than willing to bank on some upside projections for players, and George Pickens might be the captain of that team of players.

Even with the preseason hype he had as a rookie, you probably didn’t totally realize that Pickens actually ended his first NFL season with 52 catches for 801 yards. Yes, the four touchdowns were disappointing, but he was racking up big plays.

Now coming into year two, the talk is that the Steelers are going to open up the offense more for Kenny Pickett and that plays right into Pickens’ skill set as a deep threat and one-on-one matchup nightmare. He should absolutely be able to give us 1.5x production if that transpires as planned, which would give us a 1,200-yard receiver. Not bad for the seventh round.

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