Which Wide Receivers Will Break Out In 2025? (Episode 890 with Matt Harmon, Evan Silva, Adam Levitan)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva welcome Yahoo & Reception Perception’s Matt Harman to the show to bring clarity to the breakout wide receivers with the most questions surrounding them, before Matt provides his favorite fantasy sleepers for the 2025 NFL season
In this episode, we discuss:
- Which second-year players are primed for a breakout?
- Is Tyreek Hill done?
- Can Garrett Wilson still produce with Justin Fields at QB?
- Where does Matt think Travis Hunter would have been drafted if he only played WR?
- What is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of Marvin Harrison Jr.’s breakout?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:38 - Ladd McConkey
8:20 - Marvin Harrison Jr.
14:03 - Rome Odunze
22:09 - Ricky Pearsall
27:34 - Tyreek Hill
33:46 - Stefon Diggs
38:18 - Tetairoa McMillan
40:58 - Travis Hunter
44:34 - Jayden Higgins
48:27 - Garrett Wilson
51:50 - Xavier Worthy
55:17 - Jameson Williams
58:19 - George Pickens
1:02:21 - Chris Olave
1:05:29 - Jauan Jennings
1:07:42 - Jayden Reed & Matthew Golden
1:13:33 - Matt’s Most Overrated Wide Receivers
1:17:10 - Matt’s Most Underrated Wide Receivers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 890 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.0 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:25.1 | As always, joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. |
| 0:28.0 | And although the wide receiver craze hit a bit of a speed bump last season, |
| 0:33.4 | or perhaps more accurately in iceberg, |
| 0:35.9 | the bottom line to me is wide receiver remains the key |
| 0:39.4 | to fantasy in many ways. Therefore, we are joined by a young man who has dedicated his very |
| 0:46.2 | existence to studying the hip swivel and release techniques of NFL wide receivers. |
| 0:51.9 | It is Matt Harmon of Yahoo Sports and Reception Perception fame. |
| 0:57.4 | Matt, great to have you back. How's it going, buddy? Yeah, always good to come on here every |
| 1:01.7 | summer. And yeah, if the wide receiver craze or, you know, whatever, stopped in fantasy |
| 1:06.9 | scoring last year, it never stops here around reception perception headquarters. So |
| 1:11.4 | I feel like there's more wide receivers to talk about than ever. So I'm excited to do it here |
| 1:15.7 | today. For sure. Silva, how's going today? It's going great. One of our my favorite guests |
| 1:21.5 | every year, Matt Harmon. I've been reading reception, listening to the shows, and really excited to pick your |
| 1:29.5 | brain about some of the most polarizing receivers in fantasy this year. On today's show, we are going |
| 1:36.4 | to go over the outlook on roughly 17 of the most interesting slash important wide receivers for |
| 1:43.0 | the 2025 fantasy football season. |
| 1:45.3 | Be sure to stay tuned until the end as Harmon will reveal his two most underrated and two |
| 1:50.9 | most overrated NFL wide receivers. If you have a fantasy draft coming up, and I know you do, |
| 1:57.3 | we can help our draft kit pro includes Silva's top 150, all our rankings, dynasty trade |
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