Rome Odunze dismissed lingering foot injury concerns, refocusing attention on a profile that commanded a 23.7% Target Share and 36.0% Air Yards Share. He faces direct target competition in Chicago’s passing attack from tight end Colston Loveland, who earned a 16.4% Target Share, and second-year playmaker Luther Burden.
Capitalizing on volume will dictate his ceiling, making efficiency numbers like his 1.72 Yards Per Route Run the true barometer for his fantasy output. Odunze is PlayerProfiler’s WR28 in seasonal leagues and WR19 in dynasty at just 24.2 years of age.
Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze (foot) made ...
Across 12 games in 2025, Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome ...
Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze (foot) had a ...
Chicago Bears rookie Zavion Thomas paired a 100th-percentile 4.28 40-yard dash with a modest 16.6-percent College Target Share at LSU, showing that speed and production do not always correlate. Cronin reported that Thomas has taken “ample reps as a punt returner this spring and showed that he can be more than a special teams star with his skill set on offense.”
If he secures the coaching staff’s trust, Thomas’ elite speed would compliment Luther Burden III and Rome Odunze. At this best in the NFL, Thomas will be a boom-bust horizontal threat. Potentially commanding snaps in the high-octane Bears offense is enough to warrant stashing Thomas in fantasy football dynasty leagues. If the buzz continues throughout training camp, he will also become an attractive final round best ball option.
Caleb Williams overcame his rookie struggles to elevate his efficiency from 6.3 Yards Per Attempt in 2024 to 6.9 in 2025, securing a finishing spot as the fantasy QB7 in points per game. Now fully adjusted to Ben Johnson’s terminology, he commands a top-two ranking in total Air Yards with 4,901, flashing the elite downfield aggressive mindset required for top-tier fantasy output.
Williams admitted to feeling as if he was “drowning” while learning the playbook last summer. Despite the occasional run-heavy game plan, Williams’ Top-10 Explosive Play Rating in 2025 locks him in as a high-upside QB1 for fantasy football best ball and dynasty formats.
Rome Odunze commanded a 23.7-percent Target Share and recorded 661 receiving yards with 6 touchdowns in 12 regular season games last year before a foot stress fracture derailed his late-season momentum. The sophomore receiver admits his altered foot structure is a permanent “new normal,” raising direct durability questions.
With DJ Moore traded to Buffalo, Chicago will likely pivot to rookie Luther Burden as the offense’s primary target if Odunze loses his signature explosiveness. Watch the Odunze and Burden ADPs flip in both best ball and dynasty start-up drafts.
Luther Burden‘s ADP just won’t stop rising and HC Ben Johnson talking up his “electric” offseason will only make Burden less attainable. While a blistering 8-catch, 138-yard performance in the Week 17 fantasy championships proved what he can do, he remains locked in a target squeeze with established weapons like Colston Loveland and Rome Odunze.
Burden is the ultimate baked-in breakout. He wowed as a sophomore at Missouri, he wowed down the stretch in Chicago, and D.J. Moore is now in Buffalo. His breakout is so inevitable that every fantasy gamer is eager to pound, pushing Burden to fantasy football unaffordability in both best ball and dynasty.
The Chicago Bears drafted Zavion Thomas at No. 89, securing a verified field stretcher who ran a 4.38-second 40-yard dash (90th-percentile) and posted an elite 18.7 Breakout Age (97th-percentile). Thomas earned a massive 25.2% Target Share and a quarterback-friendly 112.5 Targeted Passer Rating, proving he possesses the rare combination of high-volume command and the game-breaking 107.5 Speed Score to erase pursuit angles in the blink of an eye.
In dynasty formats, Thomas joins a group of speculative WRs in the late 2nd/early 3rd round of rookie drafts behind Rome Odunze and Luther Burden.
