Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings, 2025

As we roll along this offseason, we are laying the groundwork for early best-ball drafts, dynasty leagues, and everything else under the fantasy sun as we gear up for the next NFL season.

The 2025 rankings have already been posted in full on the site, but we wanted to add some notes to each position.

These will move and be updated throughout the offseason as the landscape changes.

These rankings will include only a brief description for each player.

I will also provide more in-depth player write-ups, complete with full tiers, in our 2025 NFL Preview book, which is forthcoming.

These wide receiver ranks are based on full-PPR scoring.

Please check out the rankings for other formats.

2025 Fantasy Football Draft Rankings:

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Fantasy WR Rankings 2025:

1. Ja'Marr Chase
2. CeeDee Lamb
3. Puka Nacua
4. Amon-Ra St. Brown
5. Nico Collins

2025 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Rankings:

1. Ja’Marr Chase: He has finished as a WR1 in points per game in all four seasons to open his career, and his usage has changed from downfield maven to full field wideout. Chase was sensational again in 2024, leading the NFL in receptions (127), receiving yards (1,708), and touchdowns (17). With Tyler Boyd leaving the team last offseason, Chase received more work inside, playing a career high 32.2% of his snaps from the slot. That rate has gone up every year of his career.

2. CeeDee Lamb: A high end WR1 in three straight seasons, Lamb has had over 100 receptions in three consecutive years. Lamb once again carried the Dallas passing game, catching 101 passes for 1,194 yards and 6 touchdowns over 15 games. He averaged 6.7 receptions (6th) for 79.6 yards per game (8th) despite working for half the year with backup quarterback play. He was hurt by the absence of Dak Prescott, averaging a career worst 11.8 yards per catch. With Prescott off the field, Lamb averaged only 10.9 yards per catch. His depth of target went from 8.6 yards downfield with Prescott to 7.0 yards without him. Even with the addition of George Pickens, Lamb has plenty of targets to share. He missed two games and still had 73 more targets than the next closest wide receiver on the roster, accounting for 32.3% of the Dallas targets when he was on the field.

3. Puka Nacua: After returning in Week 8 from an early season knee injury, Nacua led all wide receivers in target rate per route (38.9%) and yards per route run (3.65). He averaged 7.5 receptions for 95.5 yards per game over that stretch with 3 receiving touchdowns. Nacua led all wide receivers with a target on 37% of his routes. That is the highest rate for a wide receiver running 100-plus routes in a season over the past 10 years. Nacua had a gaudy 41.1% of the team’s targets when he was on the field. Part of why Nacua’s target share jumped to all time highs was the decline of Cooper Kupp to close the season. Davante Adams should have a larger role than Kupp did to close the year, but Nacua can shed target share and still have a front-end percentage of looks. If there is one minor bugaboo with Nacua through two seasons, it is that he has yet to spike in the touchdown department, catching 9 touchdowns over his 28 games.

4. Amon–Ra St. Brown: St. Brown had another strong campaign in 2024, catching 115 passes for 1,263 yards and a career high 12 touchdowns. He picked things up to close the year, posting 92.4 per game over his final 8 games. St. Brown ended the season with 27% of the Detroit targets, fifth among wide receivers. Only CeeDee Lamb has more receptions (343) than St. Brown (340) over the past three seasons, with St. Brown finishing as the WR11, WR4, and WR5 in points per game.

5. Nico Collins: Collins has flirted with making the jump to elite fantasy WR1. We just need to get a full season from him. He caught 68 passes for 1,006 yards and 7 touchdowns over 12 games this past season. A midseason hamstring injury slowed him down from the blistering pace he opened the season with, but he still managed to post 2.87 yards per route run, third among wide receivers behind Puka Nacua (3.57) and A.J. Brown (3.04). When Collins was on the field, he was targeted on 28.3% of his routes with 33.4% of the team's targets. Collins missed five games but accounted for 39.4% of the team's targets in the red zone and 57.9% of the end zone targets when he was available. Both would have been top five rates for a wide receiver over the entire season.