Fantasy Football Today - FFT Express - Heath Cummings' 2025 fantasy football ALL-BUST team revealed: Do not waste early picks on these players
Episode Date: August 29, 2025Heath Cummings reveals his 2025 Fantasy Football All-bust Team, highlighting the players he thinks you should avoid drafting or wait to draft this season. At quarterback, Heath highlights Josh Allen (...:20) and Baker Mayfield (1:15) as players who are going too early in drafts. At running back, Heath warns managers about taking some older running backs (1:50). The wide receiver group (4:20) features Marvin Harrison Jr., along with Jameson Williams and Ricky Pearsall, all poised to make a big impact for fantasy managers. Rounding out the team, Heath selected Sam LaPorta (8:35) at tight end as his breakout pick for the position. Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday Shop our store: shop.cbssports.com/fantasy SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179 FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1 SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837 FOLLOW FFT DFS on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=1c5030a3b1a64be2 Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr Follow the brand new FFT TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Don't want to have too many of these players on your roster.
It's Heath's all-bust team right now on FFT Express.
Welcome, everybody.
Heath's going to give us some players that are going too early
according to CBS Sports average draft position.
Let's start with the quarterbacks.
Who's making the all-bust team?
I got a lot of hate for this last year,
so I'll just do it again.
We do it every year.
Josh Allen's being picked 16th overall
as the number one quarterback in CBS drafts.
we wouldn't draft any quarterback in the top 24 picks.
And so Lamar Jackson at 17 is also not a very good value.
But Allen specifically because we don't have him as the number one
quarterback is the one who makes the all busts team.
It's nothing about him.
He's incredible in his current offensive environment.
It's not conducive to him putting up the 29, 30-point seasons that we have seen from
in the past.
Josh Allen is not your number one quarterback.
As you said, Lamar Jackson is.
and when do you have
Jayden Daniels is my number one quarterback
I have Daniels, Lamar, and Alan
back to back to back and I have them all ranked
right where Daniels is being picked
so right at right around pick 30
how could I forget
I don't know we've talked about it like 17 times
anyone else on your all bus team
at the quarterback position I would say
Baker Mayfield is the other one
that's definitely being drafted to
Baker Mayfield is
QB7 and he is going 50A 7th overall okay yeah why is Baker Mayfield on your list
touchdown regression probably both in terms of passing touchdowns and rushing touchdowns
and he like I know he finished in that group of difference making quarterbacks I think
he's a very good starting quarterback but you don't want to draft anyone that's going to be in
that QB 7 through 12 range before round 7 running backs on the all bust team
It's the old guys for me.
Alvin Camara's ADP has fallen a little bit.
He's all the way down to 29 in CBS drafts.
And that's half-P-R and full-P-R.
In full-P-R, I'm still not taking him until the four-five turn.
I'm worried about the age.
I'm worried about the injuries.
I'm worried about the efficiency.
And I'm worried about the fact that Kellyn Moore has presided over a drop-in targets
for Austin Echler, for Ezekiel Elliott, and for Sequin Barclay.
It wasn't all Kellyn Moore, but it has happened every time he's taken over a team.
I think we might see a small drop in targets for Alvin Kamara.
I'm sorry, you can keep on going.
Yeah, the other two are two more old guys.
James Connor has a round four ADP.
I'm fine with him in round five, but again, another older running back with injury history.
And the Cardinals keep saying to a man,
Trey Benson's going to get more work this year, even when Connor's healthy.
He might see a slightly reduced workload for him.
And then Aaron Jones has a round five ADP, another team that's talking about
Jordan Mason. I wouldn't be surprised if Jordan Mason leads this team in rush
attempts. Jones will still be the past catching back. He'll still have maybe 12 carries a game,
but he's not a round five pick. So you did not put Barclay, who's 28, he's not exactly old,
McCaffrey, 29, Henry, what, 31, didn't have the older first round running backs there. Did
you give any thought to that? I gave thought to Henry. Like, I'm the high guy at CBS on Sequin
Barclay and i don't think i've drafted them on a real team yet i have him fourth he's going third i
i'm not going to call that a bust mcalfrey i'm about four or five spots behind where he's being
drafted i'm almost a round behind on henry who's going ahead of christian mcalfrey and cbs adp at pick
seven i would not take derrick henry in the first round okay i would take a commercial break so when we
come back we will talk about wide receivers on the all bus team tight ends on the all bus team but so
far don't draft the quarterback in the second round draft them in the middle of the third
round if those elite three get there and try to avoid james connor in the fourth round and avoid
aaron jones we never draft me heath dave jamie we just never draft erin jones it seems
let someone else do it alvin camara i didn't ask you when you would take camara i don't
if you said that i'm sorry i did i'd say it four five turn four five turn you did or you did not say
it i did damn it all right let's take a break and we'll come back and get the wide
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team for heath. This is much more difficult using cbs adp because they're all going lower not almost
all going lower than where I have them.
I don't have Marvin Harrison Jr.
As a top 24 wide receiver, he is going at least a round earlier than I think he should.
And sometimes he goes at the end of round three.
I wouldn't take Harrison until the end of round five.
I've not seen anything to suggest that his role or target share is going to increase.
It seems that the passing game still functions through Trey McBride with Harrison making big plays
downfield.
He's better in non-PPR than he is in full PPR, but wide receivers are less valuable in
that format he's better and best bowl but i do not think that he's going to have what i was hoping
for for most of the summer like an increase in shorter easier targets okay marvin harrison
jrador anyone else i will just say that i don't have it ranked this way tyree kills adp is
very close to where i have him ranked but if you were talking about a guy who might get drafted in
round three that i am very very nervous about it's tyree kill i'm nervous about the whole dolphin
situation. You have the Tua injury concerns. You have the fact that Hill as an older wide receiver
was hurt last year and has been hurt throughout most of training camp is currently working his
way back towards week one. And you have the fact that it seems like several people in the
Dolphins organization don't really like Tyreek Hill. So that makes me a little bit nervous,
but I understand why he's being drafted where he is because of the upside. The wide receiver
who's ADP is, I mean, he's being drafted later. Michael Pittman has now been steamed up to round
eight in CBS drafts and I do not understand why at all he's up 17 spots over the last week
somebody must have taken them in round two or something if you see if you're going through your
draft and you get to round eight and you say oh michael pitman it's time for him to come off the board
no it's not don't do that uh the dolphins desperately need to get off to a good start they really
need some good vibes they have a pretty favorable schedule in their first five games i
I seriously doubt they're going four in one.
Actually, do you know if they're favorite in week one at Indianapolis?
I would say they've almost surely are.
Yeah, I don't know.
People really hate the dolphins, but I could see them being favored in four of their first five games.
At Indianapolis, New England, at Buffalo, Jets, at Carolina.
They've got a chance to at least get off to a good start, and they really, really need it.
Because, yeah, it's like a house of cards there.
Let me throw out one more name.
The dolphins are one and a half point.
underdogs in week one yeah exactly but um i mean that's telling you something right ethicals but
anyway uh the um the malik neighbors so he's had three injuries he appears healthy now but he's got
this lingering toe injury that they haven't ruled out surgery at some point the back he said
was just preventative precautionary rather the shoulder i guess not a big deal uh they got the
hardest schedule in football so that to me seems to say that there's a good chance they're going to
lose some games and go to Jackson Dart at some point.
I don't know that Malik Neighbors would be wide receiver 4 if Jackson Dart were the starting
quarterback in week one.
Russell Wilson has not really been that good for wide receivers.
I mean, Jerry Judy was better last year than he was with Russell Wilson.
Cortland Sutton was better last year than he was with Russell Wilson.
So I look at that.
I get a little nervous about neighbors at 4.
Yeah, wide receiver 4.
Wide receiver 4.
But not much far, not much far off.
from four overall yeah i don't know i think it's interesting to think about where he would be
if jackson dart was the starting quarterback because i think what we've seen from dart in the
preseason we would all think that dart's still a big upgrade over what malick neighbors had last
year and on a per game basis he was what wide receiver seven last year and we've got the puka
injury chris godwin was ahead of him last year we're not drafting him ahead of him
t higgins was ahead of him last year we're not drafting him ahead of him so i think like i
I understand. If Malik neighbors
misses time with an injury, we
will all say, well, we should have seen that
coming. But if he's healthy, I don't
really see much of a bust case.
Who's on the all busts team at
tight end? It's got to be Sam Leporta.
And it could be any tight end
from that next tier that
Sam Leport is in for me, with
Nijoku, with Kelsey, with
Hawkinson, that is getting drafted in round
five. But Loporta is the only one
actually being drafted in round five.
So as you talked about, we don't really
draft tight-ins in that range. It's definitely a great or late strategy, as Jamie came up with.
And so I don't want to use a round five pick on the porta. He would be the all-bust tightened.
Boy, I really hope that the CBS ADP is accurate for Bowers and McBride. I've just been nervous
about taking them, but if I could really get Bowers at the two three, at the two-three turn and
McBride at the three-four turn, oh my gosh, they would be just such layups.
I hope that works out for people, but I don't think it will necessarily.
But, you know, look, ADP is more indicative.
ADP is ADP.
It is ADP.
It is not, their ADP is not the same on different sites.
And I do think, like I mentioned that the half PPR factors into that.
It's anywhere where catches count for anything.
So I think in half PPR, Kittles much closer to McBride,
and both Bowers and McBride get, take a little hit in that format.
Thank you, Heath Cummings.
We will be back tomorrow with another edition of Fantasy Football Today Express.
See you later, everyone.