DeVonta Smith

DeVonta Smith finished 2025 as the number 20 wide receiver in total full-point-per-reception scoring and the number 29 wide receiver in points per game — and that gap tells you most of what you need to know about his fantasy year. Smith played all 17 games as the verified number one receiver on an Eagles team that went 11 and 6 and won the NFC East. Durable. Available. On the field every week. But the per-game rank exposes the other side: this was a complementary-target profile in a run-leaning, Saquon Barkley-anchored offense, and the week-to-week volatility punished anyone who needed a steady wide receiver two.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Smith caught 77 passes on 113 targets for 1,008 yards and just 4 touchdowns — a clean thousand-yard season, but only four trips to the end zone for a number one receiver. The efficiency held up: roughly 13 yards a catch, a 68 percent catch rate from Jalen Hurts, who posted a completion percentage above expected of plus 3.1 and threw 25 touchdown passes. The problem was consistency. Smith averaged 11.9 points per game, but the game log is a roller coaster — four games in single digits below 5 points, another four below 10, against three monster outings north of 16. Boom-or-bust, not steady floor. And in a Philadelphia offense that ranked top three in the league in red-zone touchdown rate at 74 percent, Smith caught only four scores all year, while Hurts ran for 8 himself and Barkley added 7 on the ground. The touchdown equity simply wasn't there — and that's the entire gap between a top-15 wide receiver and the number 29 finish per game.

The season's identity play came in Week 7 at Minnesota, a 28-to-22 Eagles win where Smith went for 9 catches and 183 yards with a score on a deep middle touchdown from Hurts that flipped the game. That afternoon was his ceiling. When Philadelphia let it rip downfield, Smith was the beneficiary — the 52-yarder against Denver, the 41-yarder against Dallas, the 36-yard touchdown at Green Bay all came on deep shots, not a steady diet of underneath volume. That's the verdict in one line: Smith is a downfield separator in a run-first offense. The weeks the Eagles took deep shots, he smashed. The weeks they didn't, he got muffed.