Joey Pollizze's 5 early-round fantasy football wide receiver draft targets for 2025. His must-draft wide receivers include Nico Collins, Drake London, George Pickens and more.

I considered recycling a player from the 2025 surprises piece (Trevor Lawrence), the All-Breakout Team (Bryce Young) or the All-Renaissance Team (Jordan Love), but you already know they're solid picks,

Nico Collins missed time last year, but could he break out to a star level as a fantasy football producer in 2025?

Houston Texans wide receiver Nico Collins made his preseason debut on Saturday against the Panthers and hauled in two of three targets for 13 yards and a touchdown. He also almost connected on a deep pass from quarterback C.

C.J. Stroud is essential to the Houston Texans success, and weapons like veteran wide receiver Christian Kirk will help maximize him.

Against the Bears on a Sunday night in week of 2024, Nico Collins was purposely poked in the face on the final play of the first quarter by Bears CB Tyrique Stevenson. Naturally, Collins responded to get Stevenson's fingers out of his face.

This offseason, Collins said, he worked a lot on his footwork and with his hands. As a bigger-bodied receiver at 6-foot-4 and 223 pounds, he watched film of players like Jones, Larry Fitzgerald ...

That’s an easy target for C.J. and Nico has showed up every time that we needed him.” On ad-lip, off-script scramble plays, Collins and Stroud combined for 102 yards, per Next Gen Stats.

C.J. Stroud found Nico Collins for a touchdown pass on his second drive Saturday in Houston's preseason win over the Carolina Panthers.