Draft These Target Hogs at WR in 2025

Late-round volume picks with Top 12 WR ceiling

Author

Joe Orrico
July 10, 2025

High Target Volume Produced Elite WRs Last Year…

  • Davante Adams

  • Drake London

  • Malik Nabers

  • Jerry Jeudy

2025 will be no different.
Draft WRs with a clear path to fantasy football GREATNESS:

The Data…

Last year’s Top 12 WRs:

  • 100% averaged 7+ targets/game

Top 5 WRs:

  • 100% averaged 8+ targets/game

Early-round WRs are obvious bets to hit those marks…
But who else can do it later in drafts?

Let’s dive in ↓

Jakobi Meyers
Only WR last year to average 9+ targets/game and not finish Top 15…

Why?
QB play.

Enter Geno Smith.

Who fed JSN in 2024…
And will now feed Meyers.

Courtland Sutton
Already averaged 8+ targets/game last year…

And that includes Bo Nix’s “throwaway” early games.

Weeks 8–18:

  • 18.0 PPG (WR7)

  • 9+ targets in 8 of 10 games

Zero target competition in Denver.

WR1 volume!

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Josh Downs
Last year with a healthy QB:

  • 15.8 Fantasy Points/Game

  • 8+ Targets/Game (Weeks 4–11)

In 2025

  • New QB Daniel Jones

  • Who LOVES short passes

Jones made Wan’Dale Top 10 in WR targets…

Downs is the new PPR goat.

Garrett Wilson
All he does is earn targets.

One of 12 WRs to average 9+ targets/game last year…
Despite competing with Adams, who hogged 32% of Rodgers’ passes.

Now?

  • No more Adams

  • Jets WR room full of non-earners

Round 3 smash.

DK Metcalf
Rodgers WR1 = Volume King.

Adams last year, Weeks 9–18:

  • 11+ Targets/Game

  • WR4 Overall

Now it’s Metcalf’s turn.

No true PIT WR1 competition.

Rodgers + Metcalf = WR1 volume incoming.

Tetairoa McMillan
Best WR in Carolina — not close.

Back-to-back college seasons with:

  • 1,300+ Yards

  • 130+ Targets

  • 15.0+ Yards/Rec

  • 8+ TDs

Bryce Young, Weeks 12–18:

  • 7th Most Pass Attempts

  • Top 6 Fantasy QB

McMillan is the alpha.
And Young can feed him.

That’s all for now—see you tomorrow or inside the Discord server.
– Joe 🫡