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Matt's wide receiver (WR) fantasy football start 'em, sit 'em picks for Week 14 of 2025. His WR lineups advice for Week 14 fantasy football start/sit decisions.
Look, when healthy and available, you are starting Rashee Rice, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Drake London, George Pickens, CeeDee Lamb, Ja'Marr Chase, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Nico Collins, Davante Adams, and Puka Nacua. Those are the 10 receivers you live by the sword and die by the sword with. After that, it's complicated.
Last week alone, we saw Dontayvion Wicks, Jameson Williams (St. Brown injury), Devaughn Vele, and even Adonai Mitchell graced the top 12 in wide receiver fantasy production. Needless to say, fantasy points can come from the least expected sources on any given week. So this week, we will talk about some of those mid-tier producers who will be instrumental in your push for the fantasy postseason.
Here are the RotoBallers Week 14 starts and sits at the wide receiver position.
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Week 14 Starts - Potential Fantasy Football Booms
Chris Olave - WR, New Orleans Saints at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Is it really fair to call Chris Olave a mid-tier fantasy receiver this season? No one is giving him the respect he deserves. Yet, when you look at the leader board, Olave has quietly inserted himself as the WR11 in fantasy points per game, averaging 15.3 per contest and topping 14 fantasy points in six of his previous seven games.
Since Week 6, Olave has averaged 16.8 fantasy points per game and has averaged 8.7 targets per game. Olave's 115 targets are third behind only Chase and Trey McBride this season. In those previous seven contests, Olave has secured 40 receptions for 537 receiving yards, the ninth-most, averaging 13.4 yards per reception.
Chris Olave has New Orleans on the board
NOvsMIA on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/dysuoSQbxu
— NFL (@NFL) November 30, 2025
Back in Week 8, the last time Olave faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Saints receiver was targeted 12 times, hauling in eight of those targets for 63 receiving yards. 14.3 fantasy points may be Olave's floor this week, considering that Tampa Bay has been allowing 44.40 fantasy points per game over their last four contests. In fantasy, volume is king, and with no real threat to Olave's target share, the probability of a WR1-type performance against this Buccaneers defense is too good to pass up.
Zay Flowers - WR, Baltimore Ravens vs Pittsburgh Steelers
After an offseason of hype, many felt that Zay Flowers had the potential to be a solid WR2 with weekly WR1 upside. That hasn't exactly been the case thus far, as Flowers's 11.9 fantasy points per game in PPR scoring rank 35th.
It's not from the lack of trying; Flowers has seen five or more targets in all but one game this season (Week 3). It's the fact that Flowers has yet to top more than five receptions in a game since Week 8. In Flowers' last six games, Flowers has averaged 4.3 receptions per game, resulting in an average of 57.3 receiving yards per contest.
Now, last week's two for six yards would have looked a lot better had that touchdown reception not been negated by a questionable offensive pass interference call. Has that play stood, that would have been Flowers' first touchdown reception since the opening week of the season.
Zay Flowers' touchdown was called back due to OPI 😲 pic.twitter.com/gytt2qcGBN
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) November 28, 2025
When facing the Steelers, there is a good chance someone is coming away with a receiving touchdown. This season, the Steelers have surrendered 20 receiving touchdowns, which ranks 10th. The last time Flowers took to the field against Pittsburgh, he did manage to find the end zone in that contest, so the law of probability would suggest he is due.
Jerry Jeudy - WR, Cleveland Browns vs Tennessee Titans
Another receiver in the same boat as Flowers in failing to live up to those lofty offseason fantasy expectations has been Cleveland Browns receiver Jerry Jeudy. After finishing the 2024 campaign with 90 receptions and 1,229 receiving yards, Jeudy has been a ghost of the version we witnessed last season, with 421 receiving yards on 35 receptions through 12 contests. That equates to a drop of 14.2 fantasy points per game (WR24) to 6.8 (WR68).
There is hope for those willing to grasp at straws. Jeudy has been targeted 80 times this season by Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel, and Shedeur Sanders. Those 80 targets are the 26th-most in the NFL this season. Since Sanders stepped under center, Jeudy has acquired a 23% target share, so there is something there.
We've seen receivers exceed weekly expectations, and right now, there aren't many receivers with lower expectations than Jeudy at this juncture. Besides the healthy target share, Jeudy has one of the better matchups this week, as the Titans have been allowing 40.50 fantasy points per game over the last four weeks. Last week, Jakobi Meyers was the latest to victimize the Titans' pass defense, hauling in six passes for 90 yards and a touchdown.
Week 14 Sits - Potential Fantasy Football Busts
Rome Odunze - WR, Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers
After a promising start to the 2025 season, one in which Rome Odunze had averaged 19.9 fantasy points per (WR3), things have hit a bit of a snag since the Bears' Week 5 bye. Since returning from the bye week, Odunze has averaged just 8.3 fantasy points per game (WR41)and finished with 8.5-plus fantasy points in two of those eight contests.
Over the last three games, Odunze is averaging 5.7 fantasy points (WR73) and has just seven receptions on 21 targets for 102 yards. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see a pattern developing, and it's not one that fantasy managers can risk with those births in the postseason on the line.
With a date with the Packers on the horizon, it's hard to imagine things turning around this week. In the previous contests in which Odunze faced this Packers defense, the then-rookie had just two receptions for 18 yards. Green Bay has continued that dominance, allowing less than 30 fantasy points per game this season to the wide receiver position and a stifling 16.60 over the last four weeks, the second-fewest.
A.J. Brown - WR, Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Chargers
After producing 7.6 fantasy points in the previous two contests, A.J. Brown has seemingly returned to form, averaging 30.1 fantasy points over his last two outings. Against the Bears and Cowboys, Brown had caught 18 passes for 242 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
As much as we want the old Brown to be back, it's important to note that 37.2% of his total fantasy production this season came against two teams in the bottom eight in terms of fantasy points allowed this season, as both the Bears and Cowboys have allowed more than 35 fantasy points per game to the position.
Before the Chargers took on the Raiders in Week 13, Los Angeles had allowed just 2743 receiving yards on 23 receptions in the previous four weeks. Those 22.10 fantasy points per game over that period were the third-fewest. Los Angeles ranks eighth in interceptions (11), sixth in sacks (34), and second in passing yards allowed per game (168.3).
It's hard to sit Brown coming off two monster performances, but he should be considered more than a WR2 at best this week. If you have to start him, you may need to insert some upside elsewhere in the lineup.
Terry McLaurin - WR, Washington Commanders at Minnesota Vikings
After missing four weeks, Terry McLaurin returned in Week 8 and produced 14.4 fantasy points, then he ended up on the injury report and missed the next three Commanders contests. In Week 13, McLaurin once again returned to the lineup and was instrumental in the Commanders' passing attack, catching half of his 14 targets, resulting in a touchdown and 96 receiving yards.
Marcus Mariota threw for 294 yards and added 55 yards rushing against arguably the best defense the NFL has to offer, so matchups aren't exactly something that should cause hesitation in fantasy managers thrusting McLaurin back out there again this week, but I do have my reservations, especially after seeing how the Vikings held Smith-Njigba in check last week.
We have a series of boxes to check when evaluating the Vikings' ability to shut down opposing wide receivers this season. On the season, Minnesota is allowing a league-low 22.85 fantasy points per game and is surrendering the fifth-fewest passing yards per game (178.4), which is the first box.
The second box is for looking at recent production. In the last four weeks before Week 13, Minnesota had allowed 35 receptions, 454 receiving yards, and one touchdown. That works out to 22.22 fantasy points per game. Last week, in the final box, Smith-Njigba, the league's top receiver, was limited to two receptions for 23 yards on four targets. Even if you add Cooper Kupp's three catches for 24 yards, you only get 9.7 fantasy points.
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