Ja'Marr Chase 2025 Season in Review

Ja'Marr Chase finished 2025 as the number 4 wide receiver in total PPR scoring and the number 3 wide receiver in PPR per game among players with at least six games. The wild part? He did it while the Bengals went 6 and 11, missed the playoffs, and started Joe Flacco for more than half the year after Joe Burrow went down. Chase wasn't just Cincinnati's best receiver — he was Cincinnati's offense, full stop. Sixteen games, a target on every other dropback that mattered, and a stat line that held up through a quarterback carousel and a defense that finished 29th in points allowed expected points added. Whatever this team needed to score, it ran through Chase.

Now let's dig into the numbers. The volume was absurd: 185 targets in 16 games, 125 catches, 1,412 yards, 8 touchdowns, and a 32 percent average target share. Stop on that — nearly a third of every Bengals pass attempt, all season, aimed at one guy. He converted that into 313.6 PPR points, 19.6 a game, with a receiver air conversion ratio of 1.03, meaning every air yard thrown his way turned into more than a yard of real production. And the consistency is where the per-game rank gets its teeth. Chase cleared 17 PPR points in eleven of sixteen games and put up four games over 25, with his rough weeks coming almost entirely against elite secondaries or in blowouts where Cincinnati abandoned the script. This wasn't boom-or-bust — this was a high floor with a ceiling that showed up roughly every third week.

The play that captures the season isn't a clean Burrow connection — it's the Week 5 score against Detroit. Fourth quarter, third and 14, Bengals down 28 to 10, Jake Browning at quarterback, ball at the Cincinnati 36. Browning drops back, throws deep left, and Chase hauls in a 64-yard touchdown — 42 in the air, 22 after the catch, on third and long, with the backup, down three scores. That's the entire season in one snap. It didn't matter who was throwing. It didn't matter what the score was. Chase was getting his. Eight touchdowns, four of them salvage jobs in losses, and a top-three per-game finish on a sub-.500 team. That's the portrait of a true number one.