Rank ‘Em: Which Teams Can Produce Teammate Fantasy WR1s in 2025?

Last year, the top-12 PPR wide receivers came from 12 different teams (well, 11.5, given Davante Adams split his time between the Raiders and Jets). In 2023, same thing.

That makes sense, right? There are 32 teams, so having a single team produce multiple top-12 fantasy football wide receivers would seem to be statistically unlikely.

Except … until the last couple years, that’s not how it has generally played out. In the last 10 years, 10 sets of teammates have finished as fantasy WR1s (11 if you count Adams and Garrett Wilson last year, which I don’t, but you could). In the last 20, 23 have done so. Roughly once per season, you look at the fantasy wide receiver results, and you’ll see some team’s abbreviation twice in the top 12.

In other words, maybe we won’t see a pair of teammates finish as fantasy WR1s in 2025, but the chances are some pair will do it. So who will it be? Below, I’m ranking all 32 teams by their chances of putting up a top fantasy in 2025, best to worst.

Chances of WR1 Teammates in 2025

Tier 1: Wouldn’t Be a Surprise

1. Cincinnati Bengals: Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins

The Bengals had to extend Chase and Higgins this offseason or risk a quarterback-and-fanbase revolt. Chase’s talent is a known quantity. While there are injury concerns around Higgins — he’s missed five games apiece each of the last two years — he was WR6 in PPR points per game last year, and the Bengals offer the advantage of (1) a bad defense and (2) not many targets behind the top two.

2. Los Angeles Rams: Puka Nacua and Davante Adams

Speaking of per-game producers last year, Nacua was WR3 at 18.8 PPR points per game, and that was with one mid-game injury and another mid-game ejection. And Adams dealt with injury and a team change and was still WR10. If they and Matthew Stafford all stay healthy, this won’t be a big ask.

Tier 2: Not a Big Shock, But There Are Questions

3. Miami Dolphins: Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle

The talent isn’t the question. Hill is only a year removed from a borderline-historic season, and Waddle was a monster early on. The question is whether they still have it. After all, Hill is 31 now, and Waddle went from 1,356 yards in 2022 to 1,014 in 2023 and 744 in 2024. Are they still who we thought they were?

4. Jacksonville Jaguars: Brian Thomas Jr. and Travis Hunter

Bold to name sophomore and rookie receivers? Maybe. But after Thomas finished as WR4 last year, and after the Jaguars traded a king’s ransom to move up to pick Hunter, the situation is set up for them, especially given the next-best targets behind them are … Dyami Brown and Brenton Strange.

5. Minnesota Vikings: Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison

Jefferson is on the short list of candidates for best receiver in football. Jordan Addison has 10 touchdowns in each of his two NFL seasons. The Vikings offense will go as far as J.J. McCarthy can take it.

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Tier 3: If Things Break Right

6. Philadelphia Eagles: A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith

This one would have looked better if the Eagles had in fact traded Dallas Goedert away around the draft, but now it looks increasingly likely Goedert will stay on the team for the season. Still, Brown (WR6) and Smith (WR9) both finished as WR1s in 2022, and they could do it again.

7. Detroit Lions: Amon-Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams

St. Brown is a known quantity. Williams had a slow development into being a relevant NFL receiver, but last year he had a very quiet 1,001 yards and 8 total touchdowns. The Lions picked up his fifth-year extension, but they also drafted Isaac TeSlaa and have Sam LaPorta around. Williams has the talent to break out even further, but it’s a hard road.

8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin

This one looked much more doable before the draft. After all, Evans is as reliable a 1,000-yard producer as there is in the game, and Godwin looked like he was set up for a career year last year before injury, finishing behind only Ja’Marr Chase for best PPR PPG scorer at the position. Assuming Godwin is healthy, this is an elite duo … but the arrival of first-round pick Emeka Egbuka to play alongside Evans, Godwin and Jalen McMillan means this is a “too many cooks” situation.

Tier 4: Probably Not, But If You Squint

9. Kansas City Chiefs: Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy

Rice looked like he was set up to be a WR1 performer through three games last year, with 17.3, 18.5 and 29.1 PPR points before a knee injury ended his season a few minutes into Week 4. Assuming he’s healthy, and assuming he doesn’t get suspended, he’s got huge upside. As for Worthy, he got better as the season went on, and given the Chiefs’ other weapons are 35-year-old Travis Kelce, almost-28-year-old Marquise Brown, a fourth-round rookie and an underwhelming backfield, there’s a path to these two dominating the work.

10. Seattle Seahawks: Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Cooper Kupp

We know JSN’s upside after his breakout last year. So this comes down to whether we believe in Cooper Kupp bouncing back after injuries have cost him 18 games across the last three seasons. Even with the injuries, he’s topped 700 yards in six straight years.

11. Washington Commanders: Terry McLaurin and Deebo Samuel

McLaurin had his best season last year, and while Samuel hasn’t been the same since his WR3 season of 2021, the Commanders specifically targeted him this offseason, and their targets behind McLaurin/Samuel are Noah Brown, Luke McCaffrey and the combined-64-years-old-by-Week-1 Zach Ertz and Austin Ekeler.

12. Pittsburgh Steelers: DK Metcalf and George Pickens

One of the keys to having teammates finishing as WR1s is a lack of other options, and boy do the Steelers have that in a big way. It’s Metcalf, Pickens and … whatever is left of Robert Woods? Obviously the team needs a quarterback, but it sounds like it’s just a matter of time on Aaron Rodgers.

13. Chicago Bears: DJ Moore and Rome Odunze

The Bears have the opposite problem of the Steelers — Moore and Odunze have plenty of talent, but they also have Luther Burden III at receiver, Colston Loveland and Cole Kmet at tight end and D’Andre Swift out of the backfield. There probably won’t be enough targets for Moore and Odunze to get to the WR1 ranks, but if the team concentrates its looks around the best receivers, they could get there.

14. Houston Texans: Nico Collins and Jayden Higgins

We know Collins can do it. Higgins, the second pick in the second round last week, is less of a known quantity, especially considering the Texans also snagged his college teammate Jaylin Noel a round later. But this is not a very deep offense.

Tier 5: I Guess You Could Imagine It?

15. Baltimore Ravens: Zay Flowers and Rashod Bateman
16. Las Vegas Raiders: Jakobi Meyers and Jack Bech
17. San Francisco 49ers: Jauan Jennings and Ricky Pearsall
18. Los Angeles Chargers: Ladd McConkey and Tre Harris

It’s more of a conversation of whether these teams can produce one WR1 than if they can produce two. But this is a nice mix of guys who have done it over short stretches — like Flowers and McConkey — guys who had breakouts last year — like Jennings and Bateman — and young guys with upside — like Bech, Pearsall and Harris. It won’t happen, but you could sort of imagine it.

19. Green Bay Packers: Matthew Golden, Jayden Reed, Romeo Doubs, Dontayvion Wicks

Could two Packers finish as WR1s? I mean, sure, if a meteor strikes about half a dozen other relevant targets in the offense. Right now, there are far too many mouths to feed.

Tier 6: Maybe If They Make a Trade Before Week 1

20. Dallas Cowboys: CeeDee Lamb and Jalen Tolbert

Lamb’s about as safe a pick to finish as a WR1 as there is in football. Tolbert … had his third-year breakout last year that only produced 610 yards. But the Cowboys have cap space and could be eying guys like Tyreek Hill or a Green Bay castoff. If that happens, this becomes much more interesting.

21. Carolina Panthers: Tetairoa McMillan and Adam Thielen

Thielen was actually pretty good last year when he was healthy, but he missed seven games, and he’s 35 in Week 1. McMillan has plenty of upside, but the Panthers don’t have two reliable targets.

22. Atlanta Falcons: Drake London and Darnell Mooney

London had his breakout last year (and the Falcons just picked up his fifth-year option). Mooney had his best season since 2021 last year. But that was still only 5 touchdowns and under 1,000 yards. The Falcons probably aren’t adding anyone, but they’d need to to qualify.

Tier 7: Hard to Envision a Path

23. New York Giants: Malik Nabers, Wan’Dale Robinson and Darius Slayton
24. Buffalo Bills: Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman and Joshua Palmer
25. New Orleans Saints: Chris Olave, Brandin Cooks and Rashid Shaheed
26. Tennessee Titans: Calvin Ridley and Tyler Lockett
27. New York Jets: Garrett Wilson and Josh Reynolds
28. Arizona Cardinals: Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael Wilson
29. Denver Broncos: Courtland Sutton, Marvin Mims Jr. and Devaughn Vele

There are some WR1 possibilities in here. Guys like Nabers, Garrett Wilson, Harrison, Sutton and Olave-if-healthy. But it is extremely hard to draw up any realistic scenario where there are two guys on a roster in this space who can produce enough to be a big fantasy factor.

Tier 8: Impossible to Envision a Path

30. New England Patriots: Kyle Williams, Stefon Diggs and DeMario Douglas
31. Indianapolis Colts: Michael Pittman Jr., Alec Pierce and Josh Downs
32. Cleveland Browns: Jerry Jeudy and Cedric Tillman

The quarterback situations in Cleveland and Indianapolis aren’t good enough to produce WR1s, even if the receivers were good enough to justify it … and they aren’t. Meanwhile, the Patriots might have the talent, but Williams is a third-round rookie, Diggs is going to miss time in his ACL recovery and Douglas has 3 touchdowns in two seasons.