CFF Burning Questions For 2025: Wide Receivers/Tight Ends
As we approach spring camps across the college football landscape, Purple Reign has looked at schools across the country and identified 40 Burning Questions at the wide receiver/tight end positions for the upcoming season. These are situations that need to be monitored throughout the college football offseason. As answers develop to these questions the College Fantasy Football world will begin to have the tools to refine their expectations for this year’s fantasy drafts.
Check out all the articles in this CFF Burning Questions For 2025 series here:
Alabama – Can Kalen Deboer’s offense create two 200 fantasy point WRs again?
During head coach Kalen Deboer’s two years at Washington both his WR1 and WR2 scored over 200 fantasy points each season. Outside of those two years the best a Deboer WR2 has performed is 126 fantasy points by Germie Bernard last season. That’s a large gap to overcome in fantasy production. This likely comes down to how many times the QBs are allowed to throw the ball. At Washington the QB1 had 555 and 554 pass attempts. Last season Jalen Milroe only threw the ball 320 times. It will be a tall order to imagine the eventual starting QB being given 500 passing opportunities, and I’d bet on somewhere in the 425-450 pass attempt range.
Appalachian State – Can we expect Dowell Loggains’ TE1 to reach the 40/400/4 landmarks?
This landmark refers to targets/yards/touchdowns. Head coach Dowell Loggains’ two years running the South Carolina offense saw his TE1 average 53 targets for 416 yards, and 5 TDs. This shows us that he can feature the TE prominently in the offense, and he did it with two different players during those years. But the TE position is a wide open position battle this spring after losing last year’s starter Eli Wilson. I’ll be watching if any of the tight ends are making waives in the spring, otherwise we might see the TE production being split between multiple players.
Auburn – Is it really a stretch for Cam Coleman to reach the 100 target mark?
True freshman Cam Coleman finished the 2024 season on fire, averaging 7.6 targets per game over the final three contests. He also put up 306 receiving yards and 6 TDs during that three game span. Head coach Hugh Freeze is known for his rushing oriented offense but the showcasing of Coleman at the end of last season brings optimism about what he can do in 2025. Since 2019 a Freeze WR1 has received 100+ targets twice, for an average of 131.5 targets/season. There’s plenty of room for Coleman to hit the 100 target mark even if he falls short of that average. I’ll be watching for news from spring camp about Eric Singleton potentially stealing targets away, as well as how the new QBs are connecting with Coleman.
Baylor – Can Josh Cameron put up 2018 David Sills numbers?
Josh Cameron finished 2024 as the team’s WR1, scoring 161 fantasy points. He comes back for 2025 along side returning QB Sawyer Robertson. When you review the coaching history of offensive coordinator Jake Savital you’ll see that he only had one WR score 200 fantasy points since 2018, and it was David Sills at West Virginia in 2018. Sills had 120 targets that season, which is 39 more than Cameron put up last season. This Baylor offense is balanced in terms of returning starters in the running game and passing game. Cameron will have to stand out in the spring as an unstoppable force for the secondary to contend with if he has a chance at getting near Sills’ 2018 stats.
Bowling Green – Can Arlis Boardingham get 85+ targets this season?
Arlis Boardingham has had two okay season at Florida where his best fantasy performance was in 2023 with 66 fantasy points. He now transfers down from the SEC to the Bowling Green where his athletic ability should shine against MAC defenses. We must forget the numbers that Harold Fannin put up last season as that was a historic performance for a fantasy TE. If you review the 2023-2019 seasons for head coach Scot Loeffler, his TE1 has averaged 72 targets/season. For Boardingham to reach 85 targets we’ll need to see that his playing skills are truly head and shoulders above MAC competition. Quotes from the coaching staff about him dominating in scrimmages will be high on my radar for news from spring camp.
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