2025 Fantasy Football WR Rankings
By Kevin Hanson (@EDSFootball)
Updated: Tuesday, February 11th
With Super Bowl LIX now behind us, it's officially the offseason for all 32 NFL teams.
Player movement in free agency as well as the 2025 NFL Draft will impact these rankings, but this early look is the order in which I'd personally select players given what we currently know.
Note: These rankings are based on half-PPR scoring. We will soon add rankings for non-PPR and (full) PPR rankings as well.
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1. Ja'Marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals
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. 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%. It's unclear whether impending free agent Tee Higgins will be back in 2025, but the only (minor) concern as he enters a contract year is the potential of the front office dragging their feet on an extension.
2. Justin Jefferson, Minnesota Vikings
Sam Darnold created some modest concerns entering the season, 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. He was consistent throughout the season with 80-plus yards and/or a touchdown in 14 of 17 games. It's appears likely that Darnold will be playing home games outside of Minnesota in 2025, but Jefferson is essentially QB-proof in Minnesota's QB-friendly offense.
3. 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. It was already clear that the (passing) offense runs through Nacua, but Cooper Kupp has tweeted that the Rams are seeking to move him this offseason.
4. CeeDee Lamb, Dallas Cowboys
Lamb played several weeks through 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 a potential bargain as the fourth receiver off the board.
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 in 2024, and he's tied with Davante Adams for the most 5-catch games (49) since 2021, per Stathead.
6. Malik Nabers, New York Giants
New York's quarterback situation is a mess, but will it be any worse in 2024 than the trio of Daniel Jones, Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito were last season? Probably not. Despite missing a couple of games, Nabers finished his rookie season as fantasy's WR7 and only Ja'Marr Chase was targeted more often in 2024. Consistently peppered with targets including a league-high 10 games with double-digit targets, Nabers never finished with fewer than four catches, seven targets or 41 yards in any game in 2024.
7. Nico Collins, Houston Texans
Collins has missed seven games over the past two seasons, but the soon-to-be 26-year-old receiver has averaged 85.3 YPG, 15.6 Y/R and scored a total of 15 touchdowns over that span. 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. Given the uncertain status of Stefon Diggs (knee, free agency) and Tank Dell (knee) for 2025, the emerging superstar could make a jump into the top tier of fantasy receivers.
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 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).
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 leading to low passing volume overall.
10. Drake London, Atlanta Falcons
London set career highs across the board — 100/1,271/9 on 158 targets — 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. While two of the three games went into overtime, 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.
11. 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, and his six touchdowns tied a career low set as a rookie. After voicing his frustration ("I'm out, bro") at the end of the season, Hill has since taken that back, but the biggest concern with him will be Tua Tagovailoa's availability given the vastly different splits with/without him.
12. Tee Higgins, Cincinnati Bengals
Where will Higgins play in 2025? While it seems clear that he, Joe Burrow and Ja'Marr Chase want to keep the band together for another season, Higgins will likely command north of $30 million per season on the open market and the Bengals will need to pay Chase, who's entering a walk year. While he would be a WR1 elsewhere, he benefits from being the 1B to Chase as both receivers finished top two in fantasy points per game in 2024.