Terry McLaurin

Terry McLaurin finished 2025 as the number 56 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — but the number 35 wide receiver in PPR per game among players who suited up at least six times. That gap tells you everything: this was an availability problem, not a talent problem. McLaurin played just ten games for a five-and-twelve Washington team, and when he was on the field, the offense funneled him work like he was still the alpha. But seven missed games torpedoed any shot at a useful season total, and the games he did play came inside a passing attack that produced minus 5.3 expected points added on the year. McLaurin got muffed by injuries and by a quarterback room cycling through Marcus Mariota and others while Jayden Daniels was unavailable. Steady mid-range production when active — zero of the massive weeks fantasy managers needed.

Now let's dig into the numbers. McLaurin caught 38 balls for 582 yards and 3 touchdowns on 60 targets across his ten games — a 23 percent target share and a 37 percent share of his team's air yards. Genuinely elite alpha usage. The role never wavered. He averaged 11.4 PPR points per game, and the consistency was the story: his ten games ranged from a low of 4.7 to a high of 22.6, with seven landing between 7 and 16 PPR points. That's a steady floor profile, not boom-or-bust — he cleared 14 points just three times all year and never hit 25. The deeper issue: just 93 yards after the catch across the entire season, which is why the ceiling stayed capped even with target volume that screamed top-twenty wide receiver. Deebo Samuel led Washington with 72 catches for 727 yards, and that's only because McLaurin missed seven games — the per-game role was still his to lose. Ten games at 11.4 a pop simply can't compete with healthy receivers stacking seventeen.

The defining beat came Week 13 against the Broncos — fourth and three at the Denver three-yard line, two minutes and fifty seconds into overtime, Washington down 20 to 27. Mariota took the shotgun snap, looked short left, and found McLaurin for the touchdown. It was his biggest fantasy day of the year: 22.6 PPR points on seven catches for 96 yards and a score, in a game Washington still lost. That's the McLaurin 2025 experience in one snapshot — elite usage, a clutch red-zone target, a loss on the scoreboard, and a fantasy line that was good but never spectacular.