2025 Fantasy Football WR Rankings
Updated: Friday, August 29th
As we head into Labor Day weekend and the busiest part of fantasy football draft season, I have updated my positional rankings and overall top 200 fantasy football cheat sheet.
Note: These rankings are based on half-PPR scoring.
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1. Ja'Marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals
Posting career highs in his age-24 season, Chase led the NFL in receptions (127), yards (1,708) and touchdowns (17) in 2024 to become the fifth triple crown winner since the league merger. Chase had at least five catches and/or 50 yards in all but one game in 2024, but he also had several monster games. There were nine 35-point wide receiver performances league-wide in 2024, and Chase had three (one-third) of them. From Week 5 on, Chase had a 31.46% target share with a weekly minimum of 24.32%. He's the easy choice to select first overall in fantasy drafts this summer.
2. CeeDee Lamb, Dallas Cowboys
Lamb played several weeks dealing with a shoulder injury before shutting it down with a couple of games to go. While his (and Dak Prescott's) injuries factor in, his numbers were down considerably from 2023. Lamb set career lows in yards per reception (11.8) and target (7.9) and his per game averages dropped from 7.9/102.9/0.7 (2023) to 6.7/79.6/0.4 (2024). When everything's clicking, however, Lamb is as productive as any receiver in the league.
3. Justin Jefferson, Minnesota Vikings
Sam Darnold created some modest concerns entering 2024, but it was business as usual for Jefferson, who finished with 103 catches for 1,533 yards and a career-high 10 touchdowns on 154 targets. Jefferson was consistent throughout the season with 80-plus yards and/or a touchdown in 14 of 17 games. While Darnold will be playing his 2025 home games in the Pacific Northwest, Jefferson is essentially QB-proof in Minnesota's QB-friendly offense with second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy taking over. Jefferson has been dealing with a hamstring strain since the beginning of training camp, but he's expected to practice this week.
4. Malik Nabers, New York Giants
Perhaps Jaxson Dart will provide a real long-term upgrade, but New York's 2025 quarterback situation is both below average and yet also an upgrade over what they had last year. Despite missing a couple of games and the state of the team's quarterback play, Nabers finished his rookie campaign as fantasy's WR7. With a league-high 10 games with double-digit targets and more targets than all receivers not named Ja'Marr Chase, Nabers never finished with fewer than four catches, seven targets or 41 yards in any game in 2024.
5. Amon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit Lions
St. Brown has been a model of consistency — year in and year out, week in and week out. ARSB has 90-plus catches in all four seasons, 1,161-plus yards in the past three seasons, and double-digit touchdowns in back-to-back seasons. He had five-plus catches in 14 of 17 games last season and his other games were four, three and two catches. Only Ja'Marr Chase (15) had more such games in 2024, and he's tied with Davante Adams for the most five-catch games (49) since 2021, per Stathead.
6. Drake London, Atlanta Falcons
London set career highs across the board — 100/1,271/9 on 158 targets (29.3% team target share) — and he finished with 50-plus yards in 14 of 17 games. Only Justin Jefferson and Ja'Marr Chase (15 each) had more such games. London closed the season with 22/352/2 on a league-high 39 targets in that three-week span that Michael Penix Jr. was under center.
7. Nico Collins, Houston Texans
Collins has missed seven games over the past two seasons, but the now 26-year-old receiver has averaged 85.3 YPG (fifth best), 15.6 Y/R (eighth) and scored a total of 15 touchdowns (tied, 10th) over that span (among wide receivers with at least 100 targets). He has finished among the top three wide receivers in PFF's Y/RR metric in each of the past two seasons — 3.11 (second) in 2023 and 2.87 (third) in 2024, respectively. If Collins can stay healthy for a full season, the emerging superstar could truly make a jump into the top tier of fantasy receivers in 2025.
8. Brian Thomas Jr., Jacksonville Jaguars
Among the top 10 receivers in fantasy points per game, seven of them missed multiple games in 2024. While Thomas was 11th on a per-game basis, he played a full season and finished fourth in fantasy points. As injuries sidelined Jacksonville's other top 2024 pass catchers (Evan Engram and Christian Kirk), Thomas stepped up down the stretch with all six of his double-digit target games occuring in the final six weeks of the season. During that span, he had the second-most targets (70) behind only Ja'Marr Chase (75) and ranked top five in catches (45), yards (593) and touchdowns (five). While Engram and Kirk are no longer in Jacksonville, the Jags upgraded their No. 2 receiver opposite Thomas by trading up to draft Travis Hunter, last year's Heisman Trophy and Biletnikoff Award winner (among many other awards). Hunter's presence may cut slightly into his target domination, but secondaries will have to give Hunter more defensive attention than they would have to their pre-draft No. 2 wideout(s).
9. A.J. Brown, Philadelphia Eagles
Leading the league in books read on the sideline during games, Brown missed four games in 2024 but channeled his inner excellence to finish with 67 receptions for 1,079 yards and seven touchdowns. While there were some quiet games, Brown's 2024 per-game averages of receptions (5.2) and yards (83.0) weren't that much lower than his career averages (5.7/86.8). The only real concern with Brown from a weekly fantasy production standpoint is the potential for a big day from Saquon Barkley and the game script leading to low passing volume overall.
10. Puka Nacua, Los Angeles Rams
Injuries limited Nacua to only 11 games, but he set per-game career highs in receptions (7.2) and yards (90.0) as well as catch rate (74.5%). Over his final eight games, Nacua had 67/838/3 on 89 targets and only Cincinnati Bengals teammates Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins scored more fantasy points per game over that stretch. Among wide receivers with 35-plus targets, he has finished fourth (2.75) and first (3.56) in PFF's yards per route run metric in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Los Angeles replacing Cooper Kupp with Davante Adams is a positive for quarterback Matthew Stafford, but the projected target gap between Nacua and Adams should be less than it would have been with Kupp.
11. Ladd McConkey, Los Angeles Chargers
McConkey finished as a top-12 fantasy wide receiver (the WR16 on per-game basis among those who played at least eight games) in 2024 and he was especially productive from Week 8 on. Over his final 11 games including the team's playoff loss, he racked up 67 catches for 1,082 yards and six touchdowns on 87 targets.
12. Tee Higgins, Cincinnati Bengals
While he would be a WR1 elsewhere, Higgins will continue to benefit from being the 1B to Ja'Marr Chase. While he has missed exactly five games in back-to-back seasons, Higgins finished second (behind Chase) among all wide receivers in fantasy points per game in 2024.
13. Davante Adams, Los Angeles Rams
Adams, who was traded midseason from the Raiders to the Jets, still managed to extend his streak of 1,000-yard, eight-TD seasons to five. Even though he turns 33 on Christmas Eve and won't dominate targets the way he had at previous stops, he should have (or come close to having) another 1,000/8 season.
14. Garrett Wilson, New York Jets
Here are Wilson's target shares through his first three NFL seasons: 25.0%, 29.8%, and 26.1%, respectively. With Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers reuiniting midseason (Week 7), it's unsurprising that Wilson's splits were very different in 2024: 30.7% target share through Week 6 vs. 23.5% from Weeks 7-18 (well behind Adams, 30.7%). Passing volume, as a team, will be lower overall in 2025 with his former Ohio State teammate Justin Fields under center, but Aaron Glenn has talked about how the Jets are "going to give [Wilson] the ball as much as possible." The Athletic's Zach Rosenblatt's wrote after minicamp that "[i]t would not be a surprise at all if Wilson set a team record for targets and receptions in 2025." (Brandon Marshall currently holds those records — 173 targets and 109 receptions.)
15. Tyreek Hill, Miami Dolphins
Hill had a disappointing season as he set multi-year lows in receptions (81), receiving yards (959), touchdowns (six) and targets (123). Before 2024, Hill had 111-plus catches in three consecutive seasons, 1,239-plus yards in four consecutive seasons. Despite some end-of-season frustration ("I'm out, bro"), the biggest concern with Hill will be Tua Tagovailoa's availability given vastly different splits with/without him. The range of outcomes is wide, but the now 31-year-old receiver is a high-risk, high-reward WR2 in fantasy drafts.
16. DK Metcalf, Pittsburgh Steelers
Metcalf started 2024 with a bang — three 100-yard games in the first four weeks with a total of 24/366/2 receiving during that stretch (as fantasy's WR7 through Week 4). While he missed a couple of weeks in the middle of the season, he only reached 60 receiving yards in three of his other 11 games and was outside the top 40 wide receivers in fantasy points per game from Weeks 5-18. While both Jonnu Smith and Pat Freiermuth could be the second- and third-most productive pass catcher on the team in 2025, Metcalf is the clear WR1 (and top pass catcher) in the offense and a rebound from last year's non-rookie low of 7.2 targets per game should occur.
17. Mike Evans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Evans, who will turn 32 in August, extended his remarkable streak of 1,000-yard seasons to 11 (albeit just barely: 1,004 yards) in 2024. While he missed three games last season, Evans remains one of the most dominant red-zone weapons in the league — 24 receiving touchdowns over the past two seasons and double-digit scores in four of the past five years.
18. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle Seahawks
Smith-Njigba broke out in year two with 100 catches for 1,130 yards and six touchdowns and another five carries for 26 yards. While he finished as fantasy's WR10, a huge part of that was due to injuries at receiver. If we exclude receivers who played less than eight games in 2024 — Chris Godwin (16.1 PPG) and Rashee Rice (13.2), JSN only finished as fantasy's WR20 on a per-game basis. It's possible that his target share increases year over year with DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett in Pittsburgh and Tennessee, respectively, but will Sam Darnold's performance decline (significantly) outside of Minnesota?
19. Terry McLaurin, Washington Commanders
McLaurin has eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in five consecutive seasons, and he's been remarkably consistent — 77-87 catches and 1,002-1,191 yards in each of the past five seasons. Potential/likely touchdown regression following last year's spike (13, nearly double his previous career high) and a slow start following his hold-in are potential concerns. Beyond that, however, McLaurin is the top weapon in one of the league's best offenses (seventh in yardage and fifth in scoring in 2024) and Jayden Daniels should be even better in year two.
20. DeVonta Smith, Philadelphia Eagles
Smith missed four games in 2024 and while his numbers were down year over year, his per-game averages of 5.2 catches and 64.1 yards were very similar to the averages of his first three seasons (4.8/63.6). Smith finished the year as the WR17 on a per-game basis, and he should continue to be viewed as a mid-tier WR2 in fantasy.
21. Jameson Williams, Detroit Lions
Between injury and suspension, Williams' career got off to a slow start, but he broke out in 2024 with 58 catches for 1,001 yards and seven touchdowns. He also added 11 carries for 61 yards and another score. While Amon-Ra St. Brown commands a dominant target share, the speedster is a big play waiting to happen (career 16.8 yards per catch).
22. Marvin Harrison Jr., Arizona Cardinals
Especially when compared to other rookie standouts — Malik Nabers, Brian Thomas Jr., and Ladd McConkey, Harrison fell considerably short of the lofty expectations fantasy managers had for him entering the season. Even though Trey McBride led the team in targets, Harrison earned a 22.18% target share as a rookie. Although I project a WR2 upgrade for the Cardinals in my 2026 NFL mock draft, the team essentially returns an identical group of pass catchers in 2025. Per NextGen stats, only two other receivers had a higher share of their team's air yards percentage than Harrison (42.67%) although he tied fellow rookie receiver Keon Coleman for the lowest average separation (2.0). Harrison "added some muscle" this offseason and there is plenty of optimism for his second season to go much better.
23. Calvin Ridley, Tennessee Titans
Ridley has back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns including his first in Tennessee last season and he led the NFL in player share of a team's air yards (44.58%), per NextGen Stats. Team reporter Jim Wyatt said of Ridley that "it seems like he's even more eager to work, and to embrace helping Ward, and the rookies around him" [compared to last season]. While it would be reasonable to expect ups and downs for a rookie quarterback, the rookie version of Ward should still be better than Will Levis (12 starts in 2024) and Mason Rudolph (five).
24. DJ Moore, Chicago Bears
Moore posted a career high in receptions (98) in 2024 while posting career lows in yards per reception (9.9), yards per target (6.9) and ADOT (7.5). In fact, those numbers are much lower than his non-2024 career averages — 14.3 Y/R, 8.7 Y/TGT and 11.4 ADOT. With second-year improvements from Caleb Williams as well as improved coaching and play calling, we should see better overall numbers from Moore in 2025.
25. Jaylen Waddle, Miami Dolphins
Waddle set career lows across the board — 58/744/2 on 83 targets — in 2024.
- Per-game averages 2021-2023: 5.3/72.0/0.38 (12.3 fantasy points)
- Per-game average in 2024: 3.9/49.6/0.13 (7.5 FPPG)
Although he's coming off a career-worst season, there is upside with Waddle given his low-end WR3 ADP.
26. Xavier Worthy, Kansas City Chiefs
Worthy started his rookie season with a bang (two scores on three touches in Week 1) and closed the season strong. Over his final seven full games including the playoffs (excluding Week 18), Worthy had 45/518/5 receiving on 58 targets with an additional 12 carries for 63 yards and a touchdown. That's an average of 16.7 fantasy points per game. Worthy should pick up in year two where he left off, especially with Rashee Rice serving a six-game suspension.
27. Tetairoa McMillan, Carolina Panthers
McMillan lands in an ideal spot to command a dominant target share, as his top pass-catching competition includes Adam Thielen, Xavier Legette, Jalen Coker, and Ja'Tavion Sanders. Drawing some comparisons to Drake London, McMillan is a big wideout (6'4" and 219 pounds) with the body control, catch radius and ball skills to win vertically and in contested-catch situations.
28. Zay Flowers, Baltimore Ravens
Flowers finished his second NFL season with 74 catches for a career-high 1,059 yards and four touchdowns in 2024 while scoring the 24th-most fantasy points overall but the 33rd-most on a PPG basis among WRs who played at least eight games. Offensive coordinator Todd Monken recently said that the Ravens have to "get him the ball more."
29. Courtland Sutton, Denver Broncos
Despite a slow start in 2024, Sutton set career highs in targets (135) and receptions (81) and finished with the second 1,000-yard season of his career. From Week 8 through the end of the season, Sutton had 60/804/6 on 88 targets while performing as fantasy's WR7 (10th on a PPG basis). Including their playoff loss, he had five-plus receptions, eight-plus targets and 50-plus yards in 10 of his final 11 games. Per NextGen Stats, only Calvin Ridley (44.58%) had a higher share of his team's air yards than Sutton (43.94%) in 2024.
30. Rashee Rice, Kansas City Chiefs
While Rice will be suspended the first six games of the season, Rice was fantasy's WR4 through the first three weeks before sustaining last year's season-ending knee injury early in Week 4. Once he returns in Week 7, Rice could certainly perform as a top-12 wide receiver through the rest of the season. An early-season suspension makes it a little easier to address as NFL bye weeks don't begin until Week 5 and players are generally at their healthiest.
31. George Pickens, Dallas Cowboys
With a highlight reel littered with wow catches, Pickens has averaged 16.3 yards per reception over his three NFL seasons, which includes an 1,140-yard campaign as a 22-year-old. His talent and presence should take pressure off of CeeDee Lamb while improving Dak Prescott's odds to rebound from last year's disappointing numbers (PPG: QB21 in 2024 vs. QB3 in 2023).
32. Chris Olave, New Orleans Saints
There are a few concerns with Olave (his concussion history and the team's quarterback situation), but he's an excellent fantasy value if his health cooperates. Excluding two games with single-digit snaps, Olave played six full games in 2024 and finished those contests with 30/382/1 on 42 targets — that's equivalent to an 85/1082/3 pace. Olave eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in his first two seasons as well.
33. Rome Odunze, Chicago Bears
There were a lot of reasons to buy Odunze heading into 2024, even though he fell short of expectations. Going into 2025, it's still my goal to be overweight Odunze. Ben Johnson has appreciated the young receiver's work ethic and approach. Johnson previously said of Odunze, "the way he approaches the meeting room, the walk-throughs, the on-field, the drill work, it's very much like a seasoned pro, some of the best that I've been around."
34. Travis Hunter, Jacksonville Jaguars
One of the rarest prospects to enter the NFL, Hunter played 753 offensive snaps and 776 defensive snaps for the Colorado Buffaloes in 2024, per PFF. Even though Hunter "does not tire," as Jaguars GM James Gladstone notes, he appears destined for a full-time offensive role with (potentially) a lesser role on defense. That's good news for fantasy managers and barring a shift in focus at some point during the season, Hunter offers plenty of upside as a WR3.
35. Jerry Jeudy, Cleveland Browns
Jeudy finished his age-25 season with 90 catches on 145 targets for 1,229 yards and four touchdowns in what was, by far, the best statistical season of his career. Topping the depth chart along with Cedric Tillman, Jeudy led all wide receivers in routes run (714) in 2024, per PFF. Only Jeudy, Ja'Marr Chase (709), DJ Moore (669), and Garrett Wilson (653) exceeded 650 routes run. Even if he doesn't lead receivers in that category again, there is limited competition for targets from the team's other receivers.
Here are my top 75 fantasy wide receivers (half-PPR scoring) for 2025: