Tee Higgins 2025 Season in Review

Tee Higgins finished 2025 as the number 16 wide receiver in total PPR scoring and the number 15 wide receiver in PPR per game. That line tells the whole story: starter-caliber per-game production riding on a wild volume profile underneath. He played 15 games on a 6 and 11 Bengals team that cycled through Joe Burrow and Joe Flacco, and he turned 98 targets into 11 touchdowns — a touchdown rate that did the heavy lifting. With Ja'Marr Chase soaking up the alpha target share next door, Higgins's path to fantasy points ran through the end zone and the explosive play, not chain-moving volume.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because they explain everything. Higgins averaged 14.1 PPR points per game on just 59 catches for 846 yards — efficiency over usage, and a boom-or-bust ride week to week. His average target share sat at 18 percent while his air yards share hit 33 percent — when the Bengals threw to him, they threw it deep and into scoring territory. That's a downfield finisher, not a possession piece, and 166 total yards after the catch on the season confirms it. Almost everything came in the air. He cleared 20 PPR points three times, including a 33.1 monster against the Bears and a 27.2 against the Bills — but he also turned in five games under 10, including a 2.5-point dud at Minnesota and a 6.3 in Week 1 at Cleveland. Eleven touchdowns on 59 catches is nearly a 19 percent touchdown rate on receptions — the kind of number that props up a fantasy season but is hard to count on repeating. Strip the touchdowns and you've got a 56-yards-per-game receiver. Keep them and you've got a top-16 finisher.

The defining moment of Higgins's year wasn't a single play — it was the pattern of how he scored. Look at the touchdown chart and you see deep ball after deep ball: a 44-yard score from Flacco against the Bears, a 44-yarder against the Jets, a 42-yard third-and-five conversion against the Jaguars, a 25-yard third-and-six touchdown from Burrow against the Bills. Higgins lived on shot plays and red-zone targets, and with the Bengals' offense ranking 1st in red-zone touchdown rate at 75.8 percent, he was the primary beneficiary. That's the season in one sentence: low-volume, high-leverage, touchdown-dependent — exactly the profile that finished as the number 15 wide receiver per game.