Pat Fantasy Dog Pound said he is 'very comfortable' drafting Darnell Mooney after Atlanta declined to add another wideout. Mooney projects to play 60-75% of snaps opposite Drake London in Zac Robinson’s more pass-friendly scheme, giving him clear spike-week potential at a double-digit-round price. Pat likes Mooney as a cheap correlation piece with Michael Penix Jr. or Kyle Pitts and believes the market will eventually bake in the full-time role, pushing Mooney up a round or two.

Erik Beimfohr said Darnell Mooney is the classic late-round Best Ball unlock on DraftKings this season. The Falcons did almost nothing to their skill-position depth chart—still rolling with Drake London, Kyle Pitts and Bijan Robinson—and simply swapped in Michael Penix at quarterback. Beimfohr argued that baseline offensive competence alone should create more weekly passing volume than last year, giving Mooney a clear path to spike-weeks as the field-stretcher opposite London. Because the market is still anchored to Mooney’s disappointing 2023 in Chicago, he routinely slides past pick 100. Beimfohr admitted he was “terribly wrong” about fading Mooney last year but is now scooping him wherever he can, calling him “peak Best Ball Chaperone” value who can pay off handsomely without ever needing fourth-round draft capital.

Erik Beimfohr admitted he whiffed on Darnell Mooney last year but is now aggressively buying him whenever he slips past pick 100 on DraftKings. Beimfohr pointed out that Atlanta kept the exact same skill-position depth chart—Drake London, Mooney, Kyle Pitts and Bijan Robinson—then added Michael Penix Jr. to run Zac Robinson’s pass-friendlier system. Because the Falcons signed zero other wide-outs, Mooney is locked into every-down WR2 duties opposite London. Beimfohr likes him as a classic "Best Ball chaperone": he will never be a fourth-round pick next summer, yet can spike 3–4 usable weeks thanks to his field-stretching role and the overall upgrade from Desmond Ridder to Penix. At a triple-digit ADP you are paying for WR5 pricing but getting weekly WR3 upside on a team that projects to throw more under Raheem Morris.