Brock Bowers 2025 Season in Review

Brock Bowers finished 2025 as the number 11 tight end in total PPR scoring — and the number 2 tight end in PPR per game among players with at least six games. That gap tells the whole story. When Bowers was on the field, he was one of the two most productive tight ends in football. He just only played 12 games for a three-and-fourteen Raiders team that finished dead last in offensive expected points added. He was the engine of a passing game with no other answers — Tre Tucker led the team in receiving yards with just 696, and Bowers sat right there at 680 despite missing five games. Elite role, disaster roster, availability tax. The number 2 per-game rank is the headline. The number 11 total rank is the asterisk.

Now let's dig into the numbers that explain it. Bowers turned 86 targets into 64 catches for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, averaging 14.7 PPR per game. His average target share was 23 percent and his average air yards share 25 percent — alpha-receiver workloads, not tight-end workloads, on a team where Geno Smith was sacked 55 times and the offense ranked 30th in passing expected points added at minus 107.6. His receiving expected points added came in at plus 23.3, a clear positive on a unit deeply negative everywhere else. On consistency, this was a steady floor with one true ceiling spike — eight of his 12 games landed between 8.8 and 15.3 PPR, three more in the 14-to-23 range, and the week 9 Jacksonville game erupted for 43.3. Strip that outlier and he still averages roughly 12 PPR a game on a bottom-three offense, which is why the per-game rank held. The floor was the story. The ceiling game was the bonus.

The defining moment came in that overtime loss to the Jaguars in week 9: 12 catches, 127 yards, 3 touchdowns. Two minutes left, second and four at the Jacksonville 27, Raiders down 20 to 16 — Geno Smith hit Bowers on a short middle route and Bowers turned it into a 27-yard touchdown. Nine air yards, 18 after the catch, worth plus 3.25 in expected points. That play was the season in miniature: a tight end used like a number one receiver, creating after the catch because nothing else on the offense could create anything at all. Three of his seven touchdowns came in that single game. The other four were scattered thin across a roster that simply couldn't finish drives.