Zay Flowers - 2025 Fantasy Football Busts and Overvalued Draft Picks

Zay Flowers is a potential fantasy football bust and overvalued draft pick to avoid in 2025. Read the fantasy football outlook and draft advice for the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver.

RotoBaller Ranking (half-PPR): WR23

Fantasy Draft Analysis: Zay Flowers was expected to take on a bigger role in the Ravens' offense in 2024. As the team's clear WR1, he was highly touted as a huge value in fantasy drafts. And while he improved from 53.6 receiving yards per game in 2023 to 62.2 in 2024, he scored two fewer touchdowns.

This was despite Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson throwing 17 more touchdown passes in 2024 than in 2023. Flowers' share of receiving TDs plummeted from nearly 21 percent to just over 9.7 percent. A significant increase in Jackson's production should have led to a more productive Flowers season.

Only one I am not with you on is Zay Flowers, not a bad player, but he is not a red zone target, he is the WR1, but doesn’t receive WR1 like volume, he will be a solid flex at best, not expecting a major leap for him, WR30 in PPG for the past two years.

— Marc Gartenberg (@marc_gartenberg) June 27, 2025

Being a 5-foot-9, 183-pound receiver doesn't make you much of a red zone threat. Thus, it's no surprise that Flowers had fewer reception TDs than Mark Andrews, Rashod Bateman, and Isaiah Likely last season. Size and strength matter a lot more in short-yardage situations than they do on other parts of the field.

So Flowers, despite being ranked as the WR30 by ADP, doesn't seem like a good bet to draft. In the later rounds, you're looking for players who have solid chances of beating their ADP, not guys with obvious ceilings and limitations that won't help you win a championship.

- John Johnson

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