Which wide receivers catch the most touchdowns in the red zone?
Davante Adams leads all NFL wide receivers with 12 receiving touchdowns in the red zone, on 13 receptions across 14 games.
NFL Wide Receiver Red Zone Receiving Touchdowns
Ranked by TD · 2025 regular season| # | Player | TD | TGT | REC | YDS | CTH% | GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Davante Adams Los Angeles Rams · #17 | 12 | 32 | 13 | 65 | 40.6% | 14 |
| 2 | Amon-Ra St. Brown Detroit Lions · #14 | 10 | 33 | 20 | 133 | 60.6% | 16 |
| 3 | Drake London Atlanta Falcons · #5 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 74 | 56.3% | 11 |
| 4 | Ja'Marr Chase Cincinnati Bengals · #1 | 7 | 22 | 13 | 111 | 59.1% | 16 |
| 5 | Jauan Jennings San Francisco 49ers · #15 | 7 | 22 | 11 | 87 | 50.0% | 15 |
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Red zone coverage turns every route into a fight for position rather than a footrace. Cornerbacks abandon cushion for physicality, safeties tuck in to protect the goal line, and a scoring throw usually comes down to winning a boundary battle in the air. Receivers who show up here are the players a quarterback trusts to win a contested ball, rather than the players who separate with pure speed.
Touchdowns are the rarest events on this list, and rarity brings noise. A receiver can lead a team in red zone scoring largely because he owns the fade-route job on a run of close, contested throws, while a more heavily used teammate sees far more red zone targets without ever finishing as many of them. A single strong week can carry a name up the list.
This split is best read as a role marker, not a talent ranking. It identifies who a coaching staff hands the ball to when the field shrinks to almost nothing, which says real things about trust and body control, but it says little about a receiver's value on the rest of the field, where the space and the job both look completely different.