2025 NFL Expected Touchdown Leaderboard for Player Prop Betting, Fantasy Football

We all love touchdowns.
Whether we're looking at player props when perusing the NFL betting odds or looking to buy low for season-long and daily fantasy football, touchdowns matter.
But touchdowns can be volatile, and touchdown regression is a powerful piece to the puzzle when analyzing the game.
To help track who has had a lot of touchdown luck -- or a lack of it -- I'll be posting my expected touchdown numbers each and every week here on FanDuel Research.
What goes into these numbers? A few things -- such as EPA metrics, yardage, and specific field location on each and every play of all NFL games.
Updated through Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season.
Most Expected Touchdowns in 2025
This table displays rushing plus receiving expected touchdowns (xTD) and actual touchdowns -- plus the differential between the two numbers.
Players with positive differentials have scored more often than the underlying data suggests they should have.
Players with negative differentials have been unlucky and should've scored more often, according to historical data based on their 2025 usage.
The table is sorted by xTD and lists running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends.
Surpassing Christian McCaffrey (6.2 xTDs, 3 TDs) atop the xTD leaderboard is Jonathan Taylor (6.4 xTDs, 7 TDs), who is now over-performing in the scoring column through Week 5.
George Pickens (4.8 xTD) is third in the league and has scored 5 times to date, and teammate Javonte Williams (4.5 xTDs and 6 TDs) joins him in the top-four of the leaderboard. That's quite an offensive duo.
The biggest underperformers thus far are McCaffrey (-3.2 touchdowns versus expectation), Tetairoa McMillan (-2.4), Chris Olave (-2.1), and Jakobi Meyers (-2.0).
Conversely, 10 players have 2.0 more touchdowns than expected through Week 5:
- Emeka Egbuka: +2.7
- Amon-Ra St. Brown: +2.7
- Dallas Goedert: +2.5
- Garrett Wilson: +2.4
- AJ Barner: +2.2
- Michael Pittman Jr.: +2.2
- Deebo Samuel: +2.2
- Jacory Croskey-Merritt: +2.0
- Tre Tucker: +2.0
- De'Von Achane: +2.0
Most Expected Touchdowns in 2025 (Quarterbacks)
This quarterback table splits out xTDs by passing TD and scrimmage TD data. It's sorted by passing xTDs.
Two QBs have reached 10.0+ expected passing touchdowns: Dak Prescott (10.4) and Matthew Stafford (10.0) with passing touchdown totals (10 and 11, respectively) in the reasonable range.
The outliers with at least 2.0 passing touchdowns under expectation are Spencer Rattler (-3.5), Michael Penix Jr. (-2.4), Trevor Lawrence (-2.1), and Cameron Ward (-2.0).
Patrick Mahomes (9.7 expected passing touchdowns, 8 passing touchdowns) is close by at a -1.7 -- but has 3 rushing scores on 0.9 expected rushing touchdowns -- the biggest quarterback rushing outlier of the year so far.
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