5 Wide Receivers to Target (2025 Fantasy Football)

When preparing for your fantasy football drafts, knowing which players to target and others to avoid is important. The amount of information available can be overwhelming, so a great way to condense the data and determine players to draft and others to leave for your leaguemates is to use our expert consensus fantasy football rankings compared to fantasy football average draft position (ADP). In this way, you can identify players the experts are willing to reach for at ADP and others they are not drafting until much later than average. Let’s dive into a few notable fantasy football players below. And you can check out which experts are higher or lower than our expert consensus rankings using our Fantasy Football Rankings Comparison Tools.

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Let’s dive into players Andrew Erickson likes more or less than the expert consensus rankings.

Players to Target

Wide Receivers

Andrew Erickson’s Rank	Player	ECR	Diff.
19	Tetairoa McMillan CAR – WR	28	9
20	Xavier Worthy KC – WR	27	7
21	Jaylen Waddle MIA – WR	29	8
31	Rome Odunze CHI – WR	35	4
34	Jayden Reed GB – WR	42	8

Tetairoa McMillan lands in an ideal situation to emerge as the alpha wideout in Carolina. Drafted with top-10 capital (8th overall) the former Arizona star joins a Panthers offense in need of a true WR1. McMillan brings size, production and opportunity to a WR room featuring an underwhelming Xavier Legette and a promising but undrafted Jalen Coker. T-Mac was just one of 3 WRs in the FBS in 2023 to hit 1,396 yards, 10 TDs, and 89 receptions. The others being fellow top-10 WR draft selections: Malik Nabers and Rome Odunze. If Bryce Young takes even a modest step forward and continues to fuel fantasy success for his No. 1 target, McMillan could be this year’s breakout rookie receiver.

Jaylen Waddle took a backseat in the Miami offense with Jonnu Smith and De’Von Achane vacuuming up the underneath targets. And the games that Tagovailoa missed further cratered Waddle’s numbers. However, Waddle is just 26 years old, and part of his down year was related to a lack of TDs. Given how the Miami Dolphins’ season ended, I can’t imagine they run back the same offense they deployed in 2024. If Tyreek Hill continues his downward trajectory or Miami moves on from the speedy WR, Waddle will benefit greatly. Jonnu Smith has already been traded, signaling that Miami will get back to featuring it’s top two wideouts and Achane as the focal points of the passing attack.

Xavier Worthy broke out down the stretch in 2024, posting at least four catches and 40+ yards in 10 straight games while scoring 12 total touchdowns (9 receiving, 3 rushing) on the year. From Week 11 on, he averaged over 2.0 yards per route run and 14.6 fantasy points per game – WR8 production over that span. He also ranked 10th in red-zone targets and finished the regular season as the WR21 from Weeks 11-17. With Rashee Rice facing an injury recovery and a multi-game suspension, Worthy is in line to step into a featured role in Kansas City’s offense. Worthy’s arrow is pointing way up, heading into 2025. If he reprises the “Rice” role in 2025 with his teammate out, the second-year WR should pick up right where he left off.