Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson finished 2025 as the number 10 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — but only the number 19 wide receiver in PPR per game among players with at least six games played. Read those ranks together and you've got the headline: Wilson played all 17 games for a three-and-fourteen Cardinals team, and the volume he soaked up over a full season pushed him into the top ten by total points even though his per-game average tells a much more modest story. This was the year Wilson went from rotational option to a featured piece of a broken offense — the guy Jacoby Brissett kept looking for when the script went sideways, which in Arizona was most weeks. He cleared a thousand receiving yards, found the end zone seven times, and quietly became the team's clear number two target behind Trey McBride. The question isn't whether Wilson produced. It's what kind of producer he was.

Now let's dig into the numbers. Wilson turned 126 targets into 78 catches for 1,006 yards and 7 touchdowns — a 19 percent average target share, a legitimate every-down role, and a 31 percent average air yards share that pegs him as Arizona's downfield guy, not a possession piece. He averaged 13.0 PPR points per game, but that average lies. This was boom-or-bust, cleanly split. Through the first nine weeks Wilson cleared 10 PPR points exactly once. Then starting Week 11 he posted 33.5, 21.8, 6.6, 37.2, 16.4, 13.2, 19.9, and 20.9 — seven double-digit weeks in his last eight, including two genuinely massive games. The back half carried the entire fantasy value. The 7 touchdowns clustered late too, and McBride's 169 targets and 11 scores were always going to cap Wilson's ceiling in this offense.

The play that sums up the season came in Week 14 against the Rams. Arizona down sixteen in the third quarter, first and ten from the Rams' 43 — Brissett drops back and finds Wilson deep left for a 43-yard touchdown. One of two scores in that game, a 37-point fantasy explosion in a 17-to-45 blowout loss. That's the Wilson season in one snapshot: huge plays, real downfield juice, piling up targets and yards in games his team was losing badly. The fantasy points were real. The football context was bleak.