The 2025 fantasy football season is in the rearview mirror. Now is the time to reflect on the season and soak up all of the information we can before diving into another year.
The 25 Statistics series is back, and it’s hard to believe that this will be the seventh edition of me covering the WR position. The goal of this article is to give some insight into the position as a whole, point out some statistical outliers, and have some fun along the way. From targets to TDs to yards per route run and everything in between, here are 25 WR stats that stand out from the 2025 season.
Note: Unless otherwise noted, all scoring is ½ PPR scoring per the Ballers Consistency Charts.
1. We always start this article at the top, and this year, that means talking about Puka Nacua. However, his 310.5 fantasy points do NOT register as a top-ten all-time performance, as Julio Jones’ 313.1 in 2015 is the cutoff. For reference, Ja’Marr Chase ranks third all-time with the 339.5 he put up while winning the WR triple crown last season.
You can see the top ten list in the table below.
2. Since he missed a game, you might also wonder about Puka’s fantasy points/game average. They came in at 19.4, also just shy of cracking the all-time top ten. Jaxon Smith-Njigba once again came in second at just 17.7 fantasy points/game. Nobody else even topped 16.0, with Ja’Marr the next closest at 15.7.
3. Puka didn’t quite have a top ten fantasy season of all time, but let’s not diminish it. His 70.5% success rate, according to Pro Football Reference, ranked third all-time (min 100 targets). The only WR to top him was Michael Thomas, at 72.8% in 2018 and 70.8% in 2019.
4. Let’s talk targets, arguably the most valuable raw stat when identifying top fantasy receiving options. Ja’Marr Chase led with 185 targets. That is ten more than he saw while leading the league last season, and the most since Cooper Kupp saw 191 in 2021, though unlike Chase in 2025, Kupp did not miss a game that season.
5. Chase inflated his season-long target total when Joe Flacco targeted him 23 times in Week 7. That is tied with three other players for the third most ever in a game, including Garret Wilson’s performance in Week 5 last season.
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6. Speaking of Garrett Wilson (remember him?), his 33.7% target share was the second highest in the league. Of course, he only played seven games, so Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s league leading 35.8% target share over a full 17 games is much more impressive.
7. Alec Pierce was the most efficient WR with his targets, averaging a league-high 11.9 yards/target. If we raise the minimum threshold to 100 targets, Jameson Williams and JSN tied for the lead with 11.0 yards/target.
8. JSN’s Seattle Seahawks threw to WRs 64% of the time, tied for the fourth-highest rate in the league. The Los Angeles Chargers led the way, targeting WRs 68% of the time, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just behind them at 67%.
9. On the other end of the spectrum, we find the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers, who all targeted WRs at just a 45% rate.
10. Targets alone don’t score fantasy points, so who converted the most into receptions? Once again, we find Puka Nacua. His 129 receptions in 2025 tied Antonio Brown for the seventh most all-time. That’s the most since Justin Jefferson caught 128 in 2022, while Ja’Marr Chase caught 127 last season. Trey McBride caught 126 this season, but all of his outstanding numbers are reserved for the TE edition of this article.
11. Puka had the most raw receptions, but it was Stefon Diggs who converted targets to receptions at the highest rate. His 83.3% easily led the league, with rookie Luther Burden checking in next at 78.3%. Puka was no slouch, coming in third with a 77.7% reception rate.
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12. Receptions are great, but nothing scores more fantasy points than TDs. Nobody caught more than Davante Adams in 2025, even though he played just 14 games. His 14 receiving TDs were three more than Tee Higgins and Amon-Ra St. Brown, who tied for second with 11 apiece.
13. According to PFF, ALL 14 of Adams’ TDs came as end zone targets. He also led the league with 27 end zone targets, eight more than Trey McBride (again, make sure to check out the TE edition of this article) and ten more than George Pickens.
14. A less fun stat…Justin Jefferson was fourth with 14 end zone targets, but converted just two of them into TDs. Thanks, “Nine” and Max Brosmer.
15. It’s wild that nearly a quarter (24.3%) of Adams’ targets were end zone targets. Even wilder…Isaac TeSlaa saw an insane 42.3% end zone target rate, easily leading the league.
16. Another favorite stat in fantasy football circles is yards per route run (YPRR). Not surprisingly, Puka Nacua led here as well, with a 3.71 YPRR on 462 routes. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, once again, was right behind him at 3.62 YPRR on 495 routes. Both are very impressive numbers, and I was going to compile a table to prove it, but Borg already tweeted it out weeks ago.
WRs with 3.0+ YPPR* over the last 20 years per @PFF
*min. 250+ routes run pic.twitter.com/VoSotctqr2
— Kyle Borgognoni (@kyle_borg) January 7, 2026
(fun bonus fact: A.J. Brown isn’t in Borg’s tweet because his 2.99 YPRR in 2024 fell just short)
17. Third in YPRR? Rookie Luther Burden III!. He ran about half as many routes as Puka and JSN, but his 2.71 YPRR as a rookie puts him in very good company.
18. What about those BIG plays? Tyquan Thornton led qualified WRs with an insane 27.8-yard average depth of target (aDOT). However, Alec Pierce saw an exact 20.0 yard aDOT on more than twice as many targets as Thornton. Pierce also topped 1,000 receiving yards, finished as the WR23 in fantasy football, and is set to get paid this offseason.
19. The longest catch of the season belongs to Tutu Atwell, who caught an 88-yard bomb from Matthew Stafford in Week 4.
TUTU ATWELL 88 YARDS FOR THE RAMS LEAD!
INDvsLAR on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXnxV pic.twitter.com/L9no7EuZtD
— NFL (@NFL) September 28, 2025
It accounted for 46% of his yardage on the season and was his only TD.
20. The other 80+ yard receiving TDs this season belong to Rashid Shaheed (87), KaVontae Turpin (86), Jordan Addison (81), and DK Metcalf (80). None of them finished as top 24 fantasy WRs, with DK the closest at WR26.
21. After the catch, it was once again Puka Nacua leading the way. His 666 yards after the catch not only led all WRs – they were the sixth-most all time. That number is both impressive and a bit disturbing.
22. However, Puka averaged only 5.2 YAC/rec. The leader in that category was KaVontae Turpin. His 8.2 YAC/rec led the league, followed by Rashee Rice at 7.8 and Khalil Shakir at 7.5, respectively.
23. Turpin was a stud if your league awards points for return yards (my main league does, and it is very fun). His 1,814 kick return yards were the second most ever, trailing only Arizona Cardinal legend MarTay Jenkins and his 2,186 in 2000.
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24. Troy Franklin tied a league record with three converted two-point conversions. He’s the seventh player ever to rack up a trifecta of two pointers, with Alshon Jeffery doing it most recently in 2017.
25. Travis Hunter’s rookie season was cut short, but his three passes defended were the most for a WR since Troy Brown broke up five in 2004.
Bonus #FootClan WR Stats