Week 7 WR Advanced Stats: Which Wideouts Have the Best Catchable Target, First Down, and Touchdown Rates Halfway Through Fantasy’s Regular Season?

Kevin Szafraniec
October 23, 2025

Kevin Szafraniec uses RotoViz’s Advanced Stats Explorer to uncover under-the-radar trends at the wide receiver position from the first seven weeks of the 2025 NFL season.

Normally in this space, I like to focus on target volume, air yards, and evasion rates when looking for trends at the wide receiver position. But as the first half of the fantasy regular season comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to take a look at which wideouts have been seeing the highest quality of catchable targets in 2025, as well as who has led the pack in turning their opportunities into first downs and touchdowns.

Before we get into the latest information available in the Advanced Stats Explorer, just a few quick reminders about the article.

Early in the offseason, I updated my deep dive into the past six years of wide receiver data available in the Advanced Stats Explorer and broke it down into four separate articles: Routes and Targets, Intended Air Yards, Yards After the Catch and Evasion, and Catchable Targets, Drops, First Downs, and Touchdowns.
When working through the six-year sample, I found that the 90th percentile and above generally included most of the top 24 wide receivers for each metric in any given season. The 75th percentile and above included the top 55 to 60 WRs in any given metric per season. Given that these two cohorts easily apply to a normal 12-team fantasy league, they will be referenced often throughout the article.

Our current sample of wide receivers to earn a target in 2025 rose to 178 in Week 7, up from 171 in Week 6.

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