Tetairoa McMillan - 2025 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Undervalued Draft Picks

Tetairoa McMillan is a fantasy football sleeper and undervalued draft pick for 2025. Read the fantasy football outlook and draft advice for the Carolina Panthers wide receiver.

RotoBaller Ranking (half-PPR): WR29

Fantasy Draft Analysis: What a fantastic landing spot for Tetairoa McMillan. The eighth overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft will primarily be competing for targets with 34-year-old Adam Thielen and second-year man Xavier Legette.

Per Fantasy Points Data, Legette ranked 58th of 77 wide receivers (minimum 300 routes) with a 1.26 yards per route run, 52nd in first downs per route run (0.068), and 48th in expected fantasy points per game.

He also had seven drops on 84 targets (8.3%). Despite being a first-round pick himself, Legette's performance as a rookie doesn't exactly exude confidence in his future production. His loss is McMillan's gain. The Arizona product is an elite prospect, ranking in the 96th percentile in Marvin Elequin's Wide Receiver Prospect Model (which includes data since 2013).

Bryce Young also showed a ton of growth in the second half of last season. And he was chuckin' it around the yard, giving his receivers all sorts of opportunities to produce.

From Weeks 8 to 18, Young was fourth in air yards (2,699) and deep throw attempt percentage (14.1%), per Fantasy Points Data. To say he's a perfect fit for what Young wants to do would be an understatement.

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— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) July 24, 2025

There will be no shortage of chances for McMillan to shine as a rookie. Per Yahoo's Justin Boone, Carolina's wide receivers have the second-easiest strength of schedule in 2025. Add that to the fact that the Panthers threw to their wide receivers the seventh-most (66.3%) of any team last season in Dave Canales' first stint as the team's head coach.

The ingredients are ripe for a rookie-year breakout for McMillan.

- Adam Koffler

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