25 Fantasy Football Stats to Know for 2025

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It can be difficult to read such a vast amount of content, which is why we’ve rounded up 25 of the most actionable, can’t-miss stat nuggets you absolutely need to know for the 2025 fantasy football season. In addition to our expert consensus rankings (ECR) and Real-Time ADP, you don’t have any excuses not to be prepared for your upcoming draft(s).

We’ve broken down this TL;DR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) article by each of the four main skill positions in fantasy football (quarterback, running back, wide receiver and tight end), with six stats per position, plus one bonus kicker stat (kickers are people, too). Click on each author’s byline to read the entire article. Good luck this season.

2025 Fantasy Football Stats to Know

Must-Know Quarterback Fantasy Football Stats

Jalen Hurts (QB – PHI)

Jalen Hurts is one of the “big five” fantasy quarterbacks for a reason. While he may have only had 18 passing touchdowns and 2,900 yards in 15 games last season, he rushed for 650 yards and 14 touchdowns. There is no reason to think the Eagles’ rushing and goal-line philosophy will change this season, making Hurts one of the most valuable dual-threat quarterbacks.

Hurts was second in fantasy points per dropback and fourth in yards per attempt in 2024. If the Eagles are forced to air it out more in 2025 because of a harder schedule and a slight dip in their defense, this ADP of 42 will look silly by the end of the year.

-Ryan Kirksey

Bryce Young (CAR)

It took an early-season benching to get there, but the results were fantastic. Bryce Young was truly a changed man under Dave Canales and behind a solid offensive line. After his return to a full-time starter in Week 8, Young averaged 18.6 fantasy points per game. The production was a bit inconsistent but featured three top-10 performances, including an overall QB1 week of over 35 fantasy points. Some of that inconsistency wasn’t Young’s fault. His receiving corps was unreliable and lacked a true No. 1 WR.

-Tera Roberts

Jared Goff (QB – DET)

Last year, Jared Goff had the best season of his career, finishing as the QB6, averaging 19.1 fantasy points per game. The veteran had over 4,600 passing yards for the third time in his career, with the last time coming in 2019 with the Los Angeles Rams. Furthermore, he set career highs in several categories, including completion rate (72.4%), passing touchdowns (37) and quarterback rating (111.8). Yet, fantasy players should temper expectations for Goff this season.

The veteran is due for touchdown regression. Last year, Goff posted a career-high 6.9% passing touchdown rate. By comparison, his previous career best was 5.9% while his career average is 4.8%. More importantly, the Lions lost Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears. Goff averaged 267.5 passing yards and 1.9 touchdowns per game over the past three years with Johnson calling the plays. By comparison, he averaged 231.8 passing yards and 1.4 touchdowns per game in his lone season in Detroit without Johnson.

More importantly, thanks to an elite offensive line, Goff wasn’t overly pressured last year. According to Fantasy Points Data, his 26.7% pressure rate and his -4.1% pressure rate over expectation were both the eighth-lowest among quarterbacks with at least 200 dropbacks. Unfortunately, Goff will play behind a rebuilt offensive line in 2025. The Lions lost Kevin Zeitler in free agency and Frank Ragnow to retirement this offseason. Second-round rookie Tate Ratledge and second-year sixth-round pick Christian Mahogany will take over as starters.

-Mike Fanelli

Justin Fields (QB – NYJ)

Justin Fields‘ fantasy value has always come from his legs, rushing for over 2,500 yards throughout his four-year career. Coincidentally, 2,500 is also about the total of his career high for passing yards in a season, when he threw for 2,562 in 2023. He’s never averaged more than 200 passing yards per game and has just 45 passing touchdowns in four seasons. Clips from training camp didn’t help matters, and now people are remembering why Fields is on his third team in three years.

-Michael Moore

Drake Maye (QB – NE)

Drake Maye started 12 games as a rookie. But if we exclude Week 18, when he only played three snaps before being pulled, Maye averaged 4.7 carries and 37.2 rushing yards per game. Over a full season, that would project to 632 rushing yards. I think Maye could best those numbers.

As a redshirt freshman at North Carolina, Maye had 698 rushing yards in 14 games — and remember that college quarterbacks have sack yardage deducted from their rushing yardage. Maye lost about 200 yards in sacks that year, so he was really closer to 850 rushing yards.

Also, Drake Maye had two touchdown runs last season. In his two seasons as a college starter, he had 16 touchdown runs in 26 games.

Maye was also competent as a passer last year, even though his offensive line and pass catchers were trash — a 67.2% completion rate and 6.7 yards per attempt. Those are solid numbers for a 22-year-old rookie with a terrible supporting cast. The Patriots still don’t have a great supporting cast for Maye by any means, but they have at least incrementally improved their pass-catching corps and offensive line.

-Pat Fitzmaurice

Patrick Mahomes (QB – KC)

Patrick Mahomes hasn’t been a top-six fantasy quarterback in fantasy points per game since 2022. Over the past two seasons, his passing prowess has suffered with 6.8 and 7.0 yards per attempt, and back-to-back finishes with fewer than 30 passing touchdowns and a 4.5% passing touchdown rate. His rushing production is a nice added value bump at this point that we should expect.

Mahomes has finished inside the top 12 of quarterbacks in rushing yards in each of the past five seasons (12th, 7th, 9th, 6th, 10th). We know that Kansas City will pass a ton. That is a given at this point, as they have ranked in the top three in neutral passing rate in each of the last four seasons. The worry for Mahomes has been that he has quietly struggled as a passer over the last two seasons.

Last year, among 40 qualifying quarterbacks, he ranked 29th in highly accurate throw rate and 19th in completion percentage over expectation (CPOE). His shortcomings as a deep passer have plagued him for the last two seasons, as he has been in the bottom 10 in CPOE and in the top 10 in off-target rate with deep passes, per Fantasy Points Data. Mahomes will have the volume and rushing equity to finish as a QB1 again this year, but unless his passing skills return to a top-shelf level, it’s tough to consider him as anything more than a low-end QB1.

-Derek Brown

Must-Know Running Back Fantasy Football Stats

Saquon Barkley (RB – PHI)

Last season, Saquon Barkley had 436 carries (including the postseason). Here’s a list of recent (since 2000) 400+ carry seasons by a running back and their performance the following season:

The defense rests.

-Joe Pisapia

Tyrone Tracy Jr. (RB – NYG)

Upon taking over the backfield in Week 5, Tyrone Tracy Jr. was the RB26 for the rest of the season in the second-lowest scoring offense in the NFL, including four weeks of RB1 production. The loss of Daniel Jones took the Giants’ offense from bad to putrid, but in his six games with Jones, Tracy tallied 516 rushing yards on 95 carries, good for nearly 5.5 yards per carry. He struggled to maintain that efficiency with Tommy DeVito behind center, but he looked the part, and the former receiver continued to excel as a pass-catcher with 284 receiving yards on the season.

-Chad Workman

Austin Ekeler (RB – WSH)

Austin Ekeler was the overall RB34 in PPR formats last year despite playing just 12 games. He averaged more PPR points per game last season than Sam LaPorta, Jaylen Waddle and Chris Olave, to name a few. Ekeler does not even need to improve on last year’s numbers to be considered a value.

Let’s consider the very real possibility that Ekeler does improve on those numbers. When Brian Robinson Jr. missed three games due to injury last season, here were Ekeler’s weekly finishes in PPR leagues: RB25, RB13, RB6. Again, he doesn’t even have to reach those thresholds to be a value.

-Mick Ciallela

Isaiah Davis (RB – NYJ)

The New York Jets have a trio of very talented running backs, led by Breece Hall (for now?), and sophomore running backs Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis. Hall is known for his breakaway speed and big-play ability. Allen is a 235-pound bruiser, while Davis makes plays as a runner and receiver with excellent vision and good hands in the passing game.

Davis had just 30 carries last season but managed an impressive 5.8 yards per carry (YPC), with eight of those runs going for 10+ yards, outperforming Hall (4.2 YPC) and Allen (3.6 YPC). Davis stood out even more in yards per carry after contact, averaging 3.6 compared to Hall and Allen, who both averaged 2.1. The Jets are planning to go with a committee approach in the backfield in a run-heavy offense, which will include dual-threat starting quarterback Justin Fields.

-Denis Sosic

Kyren Williams (RB – LAR)

Kyren Williams had 316 carries in 16 games last season. The only running backs who had more carries than Williams in 2024 were Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry.

But can we count on Williams to be a workhorse again in 2025? The Rams keep drafting running backs. First, it was Blake Corum with a third-round pick last year, then Jarquez Hunter with a fourth-round pick this year.

Williams also handled 82.6% of the Rams’ carries within five yards of the goal line last season — the second-highest percentage of any back in the league behind only Derrick Henry. Williams has been an effective short-yardage runner, but what if he starts ceding more of those close-in carries?

Williams went from averaging 5.0 yards per carry in 2023 to averaging 4.1 yards per carry last year. He also had a career-high five fumbles in 2025.

It’s possible Williams can be a top-10 fantasy running back for a third consecutive season. I just don’t want to bet on it.

-Pat Fitzmaurice

Kenneth Walker (RB – SEA)

When Kenneth Walker is healthy, he should be a dominant force in fantasy football in a new-look Seahawks offense that will place heavy emphasis on running the football. In 2024, Walker remained one of the league’s most elusive running backs, finishing the year as Pro Football Focus’ (PFF) fifth-highest graded running back with 61 forced missed tackles in just 11 games played. He had a league-leading forced missed tackle rate of 30%.

The No. 1 RB in Klint Kubiak offenses have the chance to be a true league winner. Last season, Alvin Kamara finished first in expected fantasy points with Kubiak running the offense. In 2021, as the coordinator for the Vikings, Kubiak coached both Dalvin Cook and Alexander Mattison to success. Cook was the RB4 in points per game (PPG) that season, and Mattison posted similar top-five fantasy numbers in his spot starts for Cook. Nearly 18 PPG were scored between the two.

-Andrew Erickson

Must-Know Wide Receiver Fantasy Football Stats

Jakobi Meyers (WR – LV)

Jakobi Meyers broke out in his second season with Las Vegas and year three in the NFL, surpassing the 1,000-yard mark for the first time in his career. Despite missing two games, he recorded 87 receptions on 129 targets for 1,027 yards and four touchdowns. His 21.6% target share when active tied Brock Bowers for first on the team. Myers led the Raiders in air yard share (32.8%), while averaging 5.8 receptions on 8.6 targets for 68.5 yards per game.

Without Davante Adams, Meyers took over as the clear No. 1 WR1, out-targeting Bowers 112 to 108 in 12 games together, seeing a team-high 23.6% target share and 34.8% air yard share, averaging 6.1 grabs on 9.3 targets for 72.9 yards from Week 4 on. Although Vegas added three receivers in Jack Bech (No. 26), Dont’e Thornton Jr. (No. 108) and Tommy Mellott (No. 213) in the 2025 NFL Draft, there’s little competition for targets outside of Meyers and Bowers, who should both benefit in an improved offense with stability under center.

-Sam Choudhury

Jaylen Waddle (WR – MIA)

Jaylen Waddle led the team in yards per target (1.74) and yards per reception (12.83); he simply needed the ball more often. Tua Tagovailoa ranked third in pass attempts per game (36.3) but missed five games in the regular season. Waddle averaged 4.79 more PPR points in games with Tagovailoa last year, and it’s not hard to imagine a bounce-back this year.

-Tom Strachan

Calvin Ridley (WR – TEN)

Some believe Calvin Ridley will be this year’s Terry McLaurin – a veteran having a career season thanks to a massive upgrade at quarterback. Last season, Ridley was significantly better with Mason Rudolph starting than with Will Levis. He averaged more PPR fantasy points per game (14.8 vs. 10.5), a higher yards per route run (2.46 vs. 1.81), and nearly twice as many receiving yards per contest (84 vs. 49.8) with the veteran quarterback. Imagine how well Ridley will play with Cam Ward under center and no meaningful target competition.

-Mike Fanelli

DeVonta Smith (WR – PHI)

DeVonta Smith has finished as a top-24 receiver in half-PPR points per game in three consecutive seasons.

Smith has been among the league’s most effective pass-catchers since being drafted in 2021. Among wide receivers with a minimum of 80 targets in 2024, he ranked 12th in receiving grade, 17th in yards per route run and second in catch rate. With defenses locked in on the Eagles’ other stars, Smith often capitalizes on favorable matchups to maximize his efficiency on a per-touch basis. This will remain the case in 2025.

Despite often inheriting a secondary role for the Eagles, Smith has earned steady volume throughout his young career. Per StatMuse, he’s seen an average of seven targets per game across four professional seasons. Interestingly, Smith ran a career-high 54.7% of his routes from the slot in 2024. This slight shift in usage may be conducive to more high-percentage looks in the short areas of the field and a subsequent increase in fantasy football production.

-Nino Lombardi

Jaxon Smith-Njigba (WR – SEA)

Last year, Jaxon Smith-Njigba replaced DK Metcalf as the Seahawks’ No. 1 wide receiver, ending the season as the WR9, averaging 14.9 PPR fantasy points per game.

However, he was the WR17 on a points per game (PPG) basis among wide receivers with nine games played. Furthermore, Smith-Njigba was the WR20 in PPG without the nine-game qualifier, averaging fewer fantasy points per outing than DeVonta Smith (15.3) and Stefon Diggs (15.2). Yet, the former Ohio State star was a heavily targeted player. He finished 12th in the NFL in targets (133), posting a 22.4% target share and a 23% target per route run rate last season.

Unfortunately, Smith-Njigba only had seven top-24 weekly finishes last year (43.8%). More importantly, the loss of Metcalf was negated by the addition of Cooper Kupp. Last season, Metcalf averaged 7.2 targets per game and a 21% target per route run rate. By comparison, Kupp averaged 8.1 targets per game and a 29% target per route run rate despite playing opposite Puka Nacua. Furthermore, there is a chance Sam Darnold turns back into a pumpkin after having success in 2024.

-Mike Fanelli

Brian Thomas Jr. (WR – JAX)

Overall, last year, Brian Thomas Jr. was a stud as the WR11 in fantasy points per game, ranking fifth in deep targets and 15th in red-zone targets. As good as those numbers are, they still underrate his upside in 2025 if he can continue what he did down the stretch last year.

In Weeks 13-18 last season, he was the WR2 in fantasy points per game. During that span, among 72 qualifying receivers, he was fourth in target share (31.6%), seventh in yards per route run (2.78), fifth in receiving yards per game (98.8) and 17th in first downs per route run (0.108), per Fantasy Points Data.

Thomas posted those numbers with Mac Jones tossing him passes. What do we think he’ll do in 2025 with Liam Coen at the controls and Trevor Lawrence back? It could be a magical season for Thomas.

-Derek Brown

Must-Know Tight End Fantasy Football Stats

David Njoku (TE – CLE)

David Njoku finished 2024 with 505 receiving yards and five touchdowns in 11 games, missing six contests due to knee and personal issues. He posted four games with double-digit targets, but was held to fewer than 35 receiving yards in five other contests. His per-route efficiency lagged behind his volume, ranking 32nd among tight ends in first downs per route and yards per route run.

-Jordan Woodson

Tucker Kraft (TE – GB)

Last year, Tucker Kraft stepped up as Green Bay’s clear present and future starting tight end. The South Dakota State alum finished as the TE14 in fantasy points per game in the Packers’ run-heavy offense. Green Bay loves its committee approach with the passing game, so it’s tough to see Kraft becoming a high-end target earner in this offense, but he has the talent to do so.

Last year, among 47 qualifying tight ends, Kraft ranked 20th in target share and 27th in first read share, but he posted top-12 marks in receiving yards per game (12th), yards per route run (seventh), missed tackles forced (third) and yards after the catch per reception (first). Green Bay did feed him an 18.5% designed target rate (second-best among tight ends), but he wasn’t the first option on many passing plays. Kraft proved he has the talent to take the next step and become a focal point if the Green Bay offensive design changes in 2025. Kraft is a wild card TE1.

-Derek Brown

Brenton Strange (TE – JAX)

Brenton Strange was on the depth chart behind Evan Engram last year. Yet, he flashed his potential when Engram was hurt, despite an unfriendly fantasy football environment. According to the data suite at Fantasy Points, 52 tight ends ran at least 150 routes in the 2024 regular season and playoffs, and Strange was tied for 15th in targets per route run (0.21), tied for 19th in yards per route run (1.56) and 15th in expected half-point per reception (half PPR) points per route run (0.38).

Interestingly, Strange was tied with Cade Otton in targets per route run and yards per route run. Liam Coen was Otton’s tight end as Tampa Bay’s offensive coordinator in 2024, and Strange is his starting tight end as Jacksonville’s head coach. Otton did his best work when the Buccaneers’ receivers were banged up. Still, Otton’s 2024 was a third-year breakout, and the Bucs had a loaded wide receiver corps.

-Josh Shepardson

Kyle Pitts (TE – ATL)

Kyle Pitts has consistently been a guy who’s loaded with talent, but the fantasy production hasn’t ever come. Last season, Pitts caught 47 passes for 602 yards and four touchdowns. His four touchdowns were a single-season high. However, the yardage, catches and targets were down from the previous year.

Those figures were already quite low, with 53 catches for 667 yards and three touchdowns. In 2024, Pitts averaged eight points per game, which ranked as the TE18. He finished with single-digit points in 10 games from Weeks 1 to 17. Pitts had just two games with more than 15 points.

-Richard Janvrin

Mark Andrews (TE – BAL)

Mark Andrews is one of the best tight end values this year with the talent to revisit top-three/top-five fantasy tight end status. Last year, Andrews was the TE7 in fantasy points per game, but it was heavily influenced by his 11 receiving scores as he ranked only 14th in receptions and ninth in receiving yards among tight ends.

His recovery from tightrope surgery impacted his early season effectiveness and usage. In Weeks 1-9, he was the TE16 in fantasy points per game, posting an 11.3% target share, an 18% targets per route run rate (TPRR), 1.77 yards per route run (YPRR), 32.1 receiving yards per game, a 13.9% first-read share and 0.110 first downs per route run.

After Week 9, every discernable per-route metric that we should care about improved for Andrews as he posted an 18.1% target share, a 24% TPRR, 2.31 YPRR, 48 receiving yards per game, an 18.9% first-read share and 0.127 first downs per route run as the TE5 in fantasy points per game, per Fantasy Points Data. Buy the dip on Andrews and enjoy another stellar year from the Baltimore stalwart.

-Derek Brown

Dalton Kincaid (TE – BUF)

On the surface, Dalton Kincaid‘s career trajectory is heading in the wrong direction. A first-round pick in 2023, Kincaid posted solid numbers as a rookie, catching 73 passes for 673 yards and four touchdowns. Those numbers dipped in 2024 when Kincaid, playing in 13 games, caught 44 passes for 448 yards and two touchdowns. He suffered knee and collarbone injuries during the season. Offseason reports have suggested Kincaid was hurt far more than what was reported, leading to some of his struggles to put up big numbers last season.

Another factor limiting Kincaid has been the presence of Dawson Knox. Kincaid had just a 57.5% snap share last season, the 32nd-most at tight end. On the plus side, his route participation was much better at 62.7%, good for the 17th-best mark, and he still posted some intriguing peripheral numbers.

Kincaid was eighth at the position in target share, sixth in air yards share, seventh in target rate and saw the second-most deep targets with 11. He also saw the second-most unrealized air yards while his catchable target rate was just 65%, putting him at 36th among tight ends. Kincaid’s 4.61 target quality rating was just 26th at the position, while his target accuracy of 5.9 landed him at 38th. In other words, Josh Allen didn’t give Kincaid enough to work with. Allen has acknowledged that and the need to improve chemistry. Kincaid has been lauded for the strength he’s added and his offseason work.

It will be difficult for Kincaid to be an elite tight end with his current snap share, but a part of that was likely due to his injuries last season. The added strength should help him stay on the field more, and the Bills’ lack of pass-catching additions suggests they plan to feature Kincaid this year. I suspect he will take more work from Knox this season, but even if his target accuracy improves, that should be enough to make him a fantasy TE1, with upside for much more. If he and Allen can connect on the high volume of deep targets, we may be in store for the third-year tight end breakout we used to see so often.

-Chad Workman

Must-Know Kicker Fantasy Football Stats

Jason Myers (K – SEA)

While the Seahawks haven’t had an elite offense the past few years, Jason Myers has consistently been a solid option for fantasy players. Last season, he was the fantasy K12, averaging 7.8 fantasy points per game. The veteran made 26 of his 30 field goal attempts, including one from 50+ yards in nearly half of his contests. Furthermore, Myers scored eight or more fantasy points in almost 60% of his games. The veteran has finished as a top-12 kicker in three consecutive years.

-Mike Fanelli

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