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Kyle Williams is a fantasy football sleeper and value in 2025 fantasy football rookie drafts. Read the fantasy football outlook for the new Patriots wide receiver.
DRAFT PICK: 3rd Round (#69 Overall Pick)
TEAM: New England Patriots
ROOKIE DRAFT ANALYSIS: Kyle Williams could take over the WR1 role in New England almost immediately. His biggest competition is a 31-year-old Stefon Diggs, who will turn 32 in November and tore his ACL last season.
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Not only is Williams a talented route runner with an impressive release package, but he blows Diggs out of the water with his after-the-catch abilities. It's hard not to imagine a player who produced so much after the catch won't be asked to handle plenty of screens and designed targets in his first year.
He's also a fantastic athlete -- he ran a 4.41-second 40-yard dash, and his speed and acceleration show up well on tape. In his first season at quarterback, Drake Maye impressed on film despite an absolute lack of receiving group and offensive line talent, so Williams is in a quality situation.
Rookie Wide Receiver Kyle Williams arrives for OTA’s
-#patriots #newenglandpatriots pic.twitter.com/hM7ou3b71i— Patriots on CLNS Media (@PatriotsCLNS) May 20, 2025
Williams wins impressively and in many different ways off the line of scrimmage, and he's a menace with the ball in his hands. The suddenness of his releases is impressive. He'll be ideal for timing routes in which he's tasked with creating quick separation.
A lot of what's suppressing his value is that people still don't think he's a top-3 prospect from this year's class, but if he finished as the second-best rookie WR from 2025, I wouldn't be surprised. He's my second-favorite rookie WR, situation-inclusive, after the Jacksonville Jaguars' Travis Hunter.
That means he should have great production in Year 1, and his value will skyrocket when he does
- John Johnson
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