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NFL WR Power Rankings: Top 10 Wide Receiver Corps for the 2025 Season: Bengals, Eagles, and more

Ja'Marr Chase - Fantasy Football Rankings, NFL DFS Lineup Picks

John breaks down the NFL's 10 best wide receiver groups for the 2025 NFL season. His NFL WR power rankings, including the Bengals, Vikings, Eagles, and more.

It's incredibly difficult to succeed as an NFL team without a good group of wide receivers. Even teams that have good quarterbacks, good defenses, and a solid running game will often falter in the playoffs if their wideouts can't get the job done.

On the flip side, teams that have good WR groups tend to finish each season with one of the NFL's better offenses, especially if they have good quarterback play. Teams understand that they need both to succeed -- that's why QB and WR salaries have exploded over the past decade.

That's not the whole picture, but it's a big part of it. Obviously, the offensive line and run game should be good as well, but it's remarkably difficult to lean on that and make a big run in the playoffs without the help of an elite defense and run game. So let's dive into the NFL's top-10 wide receiver groups for 2025!

Be sure to check all of our fantasy football rankings for 2025:

 

10. Kansas City Chiefs

It appears that Rashee Rice (knee), the team's obvious WR1 in 2024 before his season-ending injury, is fully healthy. So he'll join ranks with seasoned veteran and speedster Marquise Brown and second-year pro Xavier Worthy to form an excellent WR group for next season.

Worthy, Rice, and Brown, if they can all stay healthy, will represent the best overall WR group the team has had in quarterback Patrick Mahomes' career since the Tyreek Hill days. That includes depth -- he did have prime Hill, but the team didn't really have other options, so it could at least be close.

Worthy didn't have a stellar rookie season, though he did start to get things going in the last few weeks. No reason to count the Super Bowl performance he had -- he did virtually nothing before the Philadelphia Eagles substituted in their backups in the blowout game.

Still, if Mahomes can do a better job with his deep passes, Worthy could have a much better season. Brown will also be a legitimate stressor for defenses over the deep middle of the field. Mahomes should have at least a bit of a bump in his production thanks to his fully healthy group of solid wideouts.

 

9. Washington Commanders

Wide receivers Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel Sr. could help quarterback Jayden Daniels improve on his stellar rookie numbers. The biggest problem with the offense was that the team lacked a legitimate threat at the No. 2 pass-catcher position.

Tight end Zach Ertz still had at least a decent season, considering his age, but having a 34-year-old tight end as your de facto No. 2 WR is not a good idea in an NFL offense. Samuel struggled last season, likely due to a bout with pneumonia, but he's been the NFL's best yards-after-catch receiver over the past few seasons.

Samuel's tackle-breaking abilities and maneuverability after the catch were truly special, and if he can even muster 90 percent of the juice he had before, he'll make a much more formidable pass-catching corps in cahoots with McLaurin than the latter did with Dyami Brown and Olamide Zaccheaus last season.

Samuel is now 29 years old, and could be on the verge of losing a step, though, and the Commanders don't have much depth behind him. They drafted WR Jaylin Lane in the 4th round of the 2025 NFL Draft, but he wasn't a productive prospect in college, logging just 38 receptions for 466 yards and two scores last season.

 

8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Bucs would, of course, be higher on this list, but the injury to WR Chris Godwin (ankle) will likely slow him down quite a bit, at least at the start of the 2025 season. Mike Evans seems to be headed to the Hall of Fame, but he'll be 32 years old by Week 1 of this season.

The team also drafted WR Emeka Egbuka in the first round of this year's NFL Draft. I'm not particularly high on him, given that his basically slot-only skill set overlaps pretty heavily with Godwin's. Still, he's a nice depth piece for now and seems to be an upgrade over WR Jalen McMillan.

An uninjured Godwin and a younger Evans would have this team's WR group much closer to the top of this list.

 

7. Jacksonville Jaguars

This is one of my more speculative predictions heading into the 2025 season. The offensive-minded head coach, Liam Coen, traded up to draft WR/CB Travis Hunter to pair him with the transcendent athletic talent Brian Thomas Jr., and that means a lot to me.

Hunter could take a bit of time to develop, but his talent is absolutely off the charts. He's a highly explosive route-runner who's absurd at the catch point and won the Biletnikoff Award despite preparing for games as a cornerback. Two-way playing in the NFL just doesn't seem like a great idea, though.

Hunter won consistently on every type of route he ran in college. Obviously, things don't translate directly to the NFL that easily, but if he lives up to even 80 percent of his potential, the duo of he and Thomas will be monstrously difficult for NFL defenses to shut down.

Thomas broke out in a huge way last season, finishing as the rookie WR1 in points per game and easily besting the rest of the league's WRs to finish as the fantasy WR1 in the fantasy playoffs. He'll now get a massive upgrade in coaching with Coen's arrival. This team's passing offense is set to take a big step forward.

 

6. Detroit Lions

Amon-Ra St. Brown is already one of the NFL's best and most consistent separators. Jameson Williams' breakout season was also impressive, and now the team has two legitimate pass-catching threats at WR. We can't include Sam LaPorta in this analysis, else they'd be a bit higher on this list.

Williams is a threat to take the top off of the defense every game he plays in, and St. Brown has excellent strength and plays with great savviness. The duo, when healthy, will likely give defenses fits again next season, just as they did in 2024, when they combined for 2,264 receiving yards and 19 touchdown catches.

 

5. Houston Texans

The Texans drafted WRs Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel to pair with veteran Nico Collins and free-agent signee Christian Kirk. This room might take a while to come together, and if quarterback C.J. Stroud continues to struggle, it may not appear to be an impressive WR room.

But give it some time, and Higgins and Noel should morph into excellent NFL WRs in their own right. We could see a team with three genuinely good receivers, one of them being among the NFL's best -- Collins, obviously -- and that will help justify their No. 5 spot here.

 

4. Los Angeles Rams

This is another team that would be higher on the list if at least one of their top-2 wideouts were a bit younger. Obviously, the combination of WRs Puka Nacua and Davante Adams will serve as the core pass-catching duo for the Rams in 2025. Nacua is young, but Adams is now 32 years old.

Still, in Rams head coach Sean McVay's elite offensive schemes, it's easy to see that Adams could have a resurgent season after his inconsistent 2024. Nacua, meanwhile, should continue to dominate, as he always has, being such an elite receiver after the catch and at the catch point, with solid route-running chops as well.

Adams is a red zone monster, so we should see the team pass the ball a bit more near the goal line.

 

3. Minnesota Vikings

Justin Jefferson's greatness does a lot of the legwork here. Jordan Addison is a nice WR2, but he pales in comparison to Jefferson's consistently elite play. "J-Jettas," as they call him, once again eclipsed 1,500 receiving yards, despite having quarterback Sam Darnold, who isn't good, throwing him the ball.

Jefferson is a transcendent, Hall of Fame player who isn't anywhere close to being done in the NFL and is still well within his prime. He and Addison combined for 2,408 receiving yards and 19 receiving touchdowns in 2024, and both are still young.

 

2. Philadelphia Eagles

Wide receivers A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith had massive games in the Super Bowl, which they won in February. When the Kansas City Chiefs defense decided to try their best to shut down RB Saquon Barkley, they had a rude awakening -- the Eagles have one of the best WR groups in the NFL.

Brown and Smith will continue terrorizing NFL defenses. Next season, the Eagles have a tougher schedule, so we could see both of them put up better production as the passing volume seems set to increase.

 

1. Cincinnati Bengals

This shouldn't be that hard. WR Ja'Marr Chase, the Triple Crown winner from last season, and wideout Tee Higgins, the often elite producer who's often injured, sit atop the NFL as the best WR duo on any team. Given that virtually no team has a good WR3, because they just can't afford one, the Bengals have the NFL's best WR group.

Chase seems to be destined for the Hall of Fame, and Higgins logged 73 catches for 911 yards and 10 touchdowns in just 12 contests in 2024. Both earned massive contract extensions as a result. With quarterback Joe Burrow, the league's best passer, throwing them the ball again in 2025, both are set for more monster years.



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