Fantasy Football WR Half PPR Draft Rankings

Last update . May 27 . 12:57 PM EDT


#	Player	TM	BYE	FF Pts	ADP12	ADP10	GC	DIF	Rec	RecYdsReceiving	RecTD	Rec1D	RuAtt	RuYdsRushing	RuTD	Ru1D	Fum
1	Ja'Marr Chase Draft Note Chase was the overall WR1 in 2024 at nearly 20 points per game. In 2025, with Burrow missing significant time, he finished WR5 overall and WR4 per game, which is still elite. The underlying metrics remain at the top of the position: 98th-percentile route grade, 91st-percentile YPRR, and a 94th-percentile ESPN YAC score that reflects his elite run-after-catch ability, which shows up in his 84th-percentile PFF YAC per reception as well. He's going as the WR1 overall, and the entire bet is Joe Burrow's health–Chase with a functional Burrow is the best receiver in fantasy football.	CIN	6	264	1.03	1.03	1	0	115	1420	10.7	71.1	3	16	0.0	0.7	1
2	Puka Nacua Draft Note Nacua led all receivers in ESPN OVERALL score (100th percentile) and was 99th in OPEN, and his PFF route grade (100th percentile) and YPRR (3.71, 100th percentile) were both the best in the entire sample. He backed it up: 129 receptions, 1,715 yards, 10 touchdowns, and a WR1 overall finish at 19.3 points per game in 2025. He also had a 91st-percentile contested catch rate and 86th-percentile YAC per reception, making him effective at every phase of the route. The only flag on his profile is the durability history–he played 11 games in 2024 before returning for a full 2025–and Matthew Stafford's age. Both are real risks, but Stafford was elite last season (91st-percentile EPA) and Nacua's separation ability means he doesn't require elite quarterback play to produce. He's going as the overall WR2, and the metrics make it very difficult to argue with.	LAR	11	251	1.04	1.04	2	0	114	1432	6.2	71.2	12	96	1.0	4.0	1
3	Jaxon Smith-Njigba Draft Note Every meaningful receiver metric points in the same direction with JSN. He led all wide receivers in ESPN OPEN score (100th percentile) and ranked 98th in OVERALL, and his PFF route grade (99th percentile) and YPRR (3.62, 99th percentile) were both at the top of the sample. The production matched: 119 receptions, 1,793 yards, and 10 touchdowns in 2025–a WR2 overall finish at 18.1 points per game. He also added an 82nd-percentile contested catch rate, which tells you he's not just a soft-route slot receiver who needs clean looks to function. Sam Darnold is a minor concern at quarterback–93rd percentile CPOE sounds great until you see the 14 interceptions–but Darnold got the job done last year and JSN is the rare receiver whose separation ability is good enough to overcome questionable quarterback play. He's going as the WR3 overall, and the metrics justify it.	SEA	11	249	1.05	1.05	3	0	75	1533	9.3	63.2	6	32	0.0	1.3	1
4	Amon-Ra St. Brown Draft Note Consistency is St. Brown's defining trait. He's finished WR3 overall in back-to-back seasons–15.4 and 15.5 points per game–without a single significant injury. He does it with a 99th-percentile ESPN OPEN score and a 98th-percentile PFF route grade, getting open against coverage as cleanly as anyone in football. The 95th-percentile YPRR backs up the separation, and 11 touchdowns last season in an offense that doesn't lack for weapons (Jahmyr Gibbs, Sam LaPorta, Jameson Williams) shows just how embedded he is in Detroit's red zone plan. Going as the WR4 with a late-first/early-second ADP, he's priced fairly for a player who should be drafted with confidence that he’ll deliver WR1 production.	DET	6	231	1.08	1.08	4	0	110	1288	8.0	66.2	2	10	0.0	0.4	1
5	Drake London Draft Note London's profile creates a genuine tension between the eye test and the numbers. His ESPN OPEN score (31st percentile) and OVERALL (33rd percentile) suggest he rarely beats coverage cleanly–and yet his PFF route grade is 97th percentile and his YPRR is 92nd percentile, both among the best in the league. In 11 games last season he averaged 13.8 points per game–WR7 on a per-game basis–with 68 receptions for 919 yards and seven touchdowns. His 27th-percentile avoided tackle rate tells you he's not elite at extending plays after the catch, which further concentrates his value in volume and red zone usage. He's going as the WR8 in an offense that also features Bijan Robinson and Kyle Pitts, and the upside is a top-5 finish.	ATL	11	218	2.05	2.07	7	2	90	1296	7.4	60.7	0	0	0.0	0	1
6	Justin Jefferson Draft Note Jefferson proved last year that he's not entirely quarterback-proof. After a WR2 finish at 16.2 points per game in 2024, he crashed to WR28 overall and WR38 per game with J.J. McCarthy at quarterback–grinding out 1,048 yards but scoring just two touchdowns in 17 games. The underlying metrics weren't the problem: his 85th-percentile route grade, 80th-percentile YPRR, and 84th-percentile YAC per reception all suggest the talent is intact, and his 69th-percentile ESPN OPEN score reflects a legitimate separator. The issue was a Minnesota offense that couldn't consistently put him in the end zone. Two touchdowns on 140 targets is brutal luck, bad scheme, or bad quarterback–probably a combination of all three. Kyler Murray is a meaningful step up. He's not elite–his 2025 EPA and CPOE were both in the middle of the pack–but he brings improvisation, mobility, and a demonstrated ability to find receivers on broken plays that McCarthy never could. Murray also arrives with a full cast: Jordan Addison and Jauan Jennings as complementary weapons, T.J. Hockenson at tight end, Aaron Jones in the backfield. Jefferson is going as the WR6, and the bet is that moving from one of the worst quarterbacks in the league to a serviceable one is enough to restore the red zone production that turned 2025 into a disaster. With Jefferson's tools and Murray's resourcefulness, a top-ten finish is a reasonable base case and a top-5 finish is within reach.	MIN	6	197	1.12	2.02	6	0	89	1211	5.4	58.2	0	0	0.0	0	1
7	CeeDee Lamb Draft Note Lamb's 2025 was defined more by what didn't happen than what did. He finished WR18 overall and WR10 per game in 12 healthy games–the per-game production was solid, but three touchdowns in 14 appearances and a missed stretch of games suppressed the overall finish. The raw tools remain among the best at the position: a 94th-percentile ESPN OPEN score makes him one of the premier separators in the league, and his 94th-percentile YPRR confirms the efficiency when he does get the ball. The concern is that his ESPN CATCH score (39th percentile) and a 25th-percentile drop rate (9.6%) suggest he wasn't catching everything thrown his way last season–unusual for a player of his caliber and worth monitoring. Sharing the target tree with George Pickens also compressed his red zone usage; Pickens caught nine touchdowns to Lamb's three. Dak Prescott at 89th-percentile EPA keeps the volume high, and Lamb is going as the WR5. If the touchdowns normalize even partially–six or seven would be a reasonable expectation–he's a WR1a in a pass-heavy offense with one of the league's better quarterbacks.	DAL	14	187	1.09	1.09	5	-2	81	1169	5.1	54.8	0	0	0.0	0	1
8	Nico Collins Draft Note Collins presents one of the most counterintuitive statistical profiles at the position. His ESPN OPEN score is 9th percentile yet his PFF route grade is 94th percentile and his YPRR is 93rd percentile. He's a 6'4" boundary receiver who wins through size, physicality, and positioning rather than through obvious separation, and his 80th-percentile contested catch rate confirms that conclusion. Defenders don't leave him open; he catches the ball anyway, and hi 86th-percentile drop rate shows he makes the most of it when the ball arrives. He's put up 14.9 and 12.7 points per game over the last two seasons and finished WR7 and WR10 per game, respectively. At the WR11, he's priced fairly for a player who has delivered back-to-back top-ten per-game seasons.	HOU	8	183	2.11	3.03	8	0	68	1105	6.1	49.4	1	9	0.4	0.4	1
9	George Pickens Draft Note Pickens' first season in Dallas was something of a revelation. After three years of inconsistent production in Pittsburgh–peaking at a WR20 finish in 2023–he stepped into a pass-heavy offense with a functional quarterback and immediately became one of the best wide receivers in fantasy football, finishing WR4 overall at 15.3 points per game. The numbers behind the finish are legitimately elite: 93 receptions, 1,429 yards, and nine touchdowns on 137 targets. His PFF metrics match the production: 95th-percentile route grade, 93rd-percentile YPRR (2.35), 78th-percentile contested catch rate, and a 92nd-percentile avoided tackle rate among qualified receivers. The natural question heading into 2026 is the CeeDee Lamb dynamic. It's worth addressing directly with the data. In the 12 games where both Pickens and Lamb were healthy last season, Pickens averaged 5.7 catches, 83 yards, and 0.33 touchdowns on 8.3 targets per game, or 13.3 fantasy points per game, which is WR1 production. Lamb's comparable line in those games was 6.2 catches, 89 yards, and 0.25 touchdowns on 9.7 targets, or 13.5 points per game. They were essentially co-WR1s in one of the highest-volume passing offenses in the league, separated by less than half a point per game. When Lamb missed time, Pickens typically went nuts, scoring 29.4, 27.3, 24.9, and 25.1 fantasy points in four of those weeks, so his ceiling is among the highest at the position. Dak Prescott's 89th-percentile EPA and 76th-percentile CPOE mean the Cowboys' passing attack is both high-volume and efficient, and with Brian Schottenheimer running the offense, that pass-heavy identity should remain intact. Pickens is going as the WR10 in the early second round, and for a player who finished WR4 last year in a co-starring role, that price looks quite fair.	DAL	14	183	3.01	3.05	10	1	75	1102	6.0	51.2	0	0	0.0	0	1
10	Chris Olave Draft Note Olave's bounce-back in 2025 was one of the bigger production stories at the position–100 receptions, 1,163 yards, and nine touchdowns after missing eight games in 2024. His 95th-percentile ESPN OPEN score is the foundation: he's among the purest route-runners in the league, winning against coverage cleanly and consistently. The 83rd-percentile YPRR backs it up. The significant limitation is YAC–a 15th-percentile ESPN YAC score and 29th-percentile PFF YAC per reception confirm he's strictly a separator who relies on yards after separation rather than yards after the catch. He needs touchdowns and volume to sustain WR1 production, and the nine touchdowns in 2025 were a high-water mark that may face regression. The Jordyn Tyson arrival cuts both ways. It could draw some of Olave's targets and reduce his volume in a Saints offense that isn't swimming in passing yardage, or it could provide a secondary threat that reduces the coverage attention Olave faces and opens up easy opportunities. Tyler Shough entering Year 2 with Kellen Moore is a modest positive. Going as the WR15, Olave is a WR2 whose ceiling requires touchdowns that aren't guaranteed to repeat.	NO	8	179	3.06	3.10	12	2	78	957	7.6	48.2	0	0	0.0	0	1

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Fantasy Football WR Draft Rankings for 2023

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Is the team’s strategy more run-heavy or pass-heavy?

Who is the team’s quarterback or running back? What does the supporting cast at wide receiver look like?

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Wide receivers hold a pivotal role in the dynamic landscape of fantasy football. Their significance stems from their potential to amass substantial points through receptions, yards gained, and touchdowns scored.

In point-per-reception (PPR) leagues, wide receivers who excel at catching passes become even more essential, acting as reliable sources of steady points. Their ability to turn routine receptions into valuable yardage and additional points can often tip the scales in closely contested matchups.

in the NFL, the opportunities for wide receivers to rack up yardage and touchdowns have expanded. This shift places a premium on securing a mix of reliable starters and potential breakout candidates among wide receivers.

Additionally, with the propensity for injuries among running backs, having a robust corps of wide receivers provides a cushion to navigate through bye weeks and unexpected setbacks.

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