Garrett Wilson 2025 Season in Review

Garrett Wilson finished 2025 as the number 62 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — but the number that actually matters? He was the number 14 wide receiver in PPR per game among qualifiers. That gap tells the whole story in one breath. Wilson played just seven games for a Jets team that finished three and fourteen, and when he was on the field, he produced like a clear weekly starter. This wasn't a decline. This wasn't a role loss. This was a top-fifteen-per-game receiver chained to an offense that finished 29th in total offensive expected points added, with a quarterback room posting the worst adjusted net yards per attempt among qualified starters. Wilson didn't get muffed by his own play — he got muffed by the situation around him and a season that ended early.

Now let's dig into the numbers. In seven games, Wilson caught 36 balls for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns on 59 targets — just over 8 targets a game on an offense that couldn't sustain anything. His average target share was 35 percent. His average air yards share was 56 percent. Read those again — 35 percent of the targets, 56 percent of the air yards. That is alpha-receiver, every-route-matters usage, the kind of workload that normally belongs to top-ten fantasy wideouts. Average separation of 3.06 yards and average cushion of 6.49 yards say he was still winning his routes. And the consistency was real on the high end: Wilson averaged 14.2 PPR per game with four outings of 22.5, 24.4, 20.2, and 19.1. The drag came from a 4.3-point dud against the Broncos and a zero-catch shutout against the Browns in Week 10 — the kind of variance you get when your quarterback room posts a completion percentage below expected and takes 60 sacks as a team.

The defining shape of Wilson's year isn't one highlight — it's that he scored 4 touchdowns in 7 games on a team whose red-zone touchdown rate was just 52.9 percent, 29th in the league. He was finding the end zone at a clip his offense didn't deserve. The Week 4 deep touchdown at Miami — Justin Fields, second and ten from the 23, shotgun, dropping it deep right for a 23-yard score down 14 in the fourth quarter — is the cleanest snapshot of what Wilson still is: a receiver his quarterback trusts to win one-on-one when the offense needs a play. That's the year in a sentence. Elite usage, real production per game, season cut short.