Fantasy football WR tiers for 2025: Ranking best fantasy options
USA TODAY Sports has compiled a tiered list of the wide receivers to add to fantasy football teams ahead of the 2025 season, starting from the top, most elite tier and trickling down to top FLEX player options.
Here's how this year's wide receivers field is looking:
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Fantasy football WR tiers for 2025
Rather than numbering the tiers, this list will divide up wide receivers by the role they could play on a fantasy football team: potential league-winners, good-to-great WR1s, fringe WR1/WR2 options, solid WR2s and top FLEX players.
Here's how everything shakes out among the top 35 fantasy wide receivers:
When it comes to fantasy wideouts, these two players are in a league of their own.
Chase won the receiving triple crown last season with his 127 catches for 1,708 yards and 17 touchdowns. In standard leagues, that was worth a whopping 16 fantasy points per game. In PPR leagues, that number surges to 23.7 fantasy points per game. Chase was putting up the kind of ridiculous fantasy-point numbers on a weekly basis that other elite wideouts only did in their best weeks.
For Jefferson, last season cemented his status as a quarterback-proof wide receiver. He had a fifth-straight 1,000-yard season to open his career, tallying 1,533 total, and matched a career high with 10 touchdowns. Regardless of who's throwing the football – Kirk Cousins, Josh Dobbs, Nick Mullens, Sam Darnold and this year, J.J. McCarthy – Jefferson is producing at a consistently high level.
The next tier is a group projected to be the top target-getters on their respective teams who have proven a proclivity for production in fantasy football.
Nacua is officially the Rams' top wide receiver after Los Angeles released veteran Cooper Kupp earlier in the offseason. Nabers broke out as a rookie last year despite turmoil under center in New York and should benefit from more consistency there this year.
St. Brown has had two straight seasons as a first-team All-Pro receiver and had a career-high 12 scores last season. Collins was a Pro Bowler last year and had a second-straight 1,000-yard season despite missing five games. And Lamb is riding a four-year 1,000-yard streak despite missing his starting quarterback for more than half of last season.
The next tier of players is a group that might have top wide receiver potential.
It includes a couple of second-year receivers looking to fully establish themselves after strong debuts, plus a couple of elite players who will attempt to bounce back after relatively disappointing seasons.
Rounding out the group is a handful of players coming off breakout performances who will be trying to prove last year wasn't a flash in the pan.
The biggest question marks here are Wilson, who is the only wideout playing with a brand-new quarterback (Justin Fields) in this tier, and London, whose quarterback (Michael Penix Jr.) is in his second year and still looking to prove himself.
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Many of the players in this tier are No. 2 wide receivers for their respective, pass-happy teams. Others are guys with solid potential who have not had a long enough history of consistent, outstanding production to be considered among those in the fringe-WR1 tier.
The two biggest names here are Harrison and McMillan, the former being a popular breakout pick this year and the latter being the top name among rookie standouts.
Making up the final tier are players who may have much higher ceilings than a WR3/FLEX designation but also have lower floors thanks to the questions associated with each name.
How long will Rice be suspended for his involvement in a high-speed crash and recent guilty plea? How will Ridley fare with a new, rookie quarterback throwing him the football? Will Godwin bounce back from a gruesome ankle injury? How much will Hunter play on offense? Is Jennings going to continue his holdout with the 49ers in hopes of a new contract, and if not, will his production decline with Brandon Aiyuk's return?
Is Addison going to eclipse 1,000 yards for the first time while he still competes for targets with Jefferson? How will Meyers deal with a new QB and significantly higher competition for targets? How much will Waddle benefit from a bounce-back from his quarterback in Miami? How will Williams fit into the Lions' new offensive coordinator's scheme, and is he the team's true No. 2 receiver? Is Jeudy going to be as productive without clarity on which of Cleveland's five quarterbacks will be throwing him the ball?
All of the above are some of the important questions that will only be answered once the regular season gets underway in a few weeks.
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