Collin Murray-Boyles turned his first NBA season into one of the Raptors' most useful rookie campaigns. The Toronto forward, selected ninth overall in the 2025 NBA Draft, finished the 2025-26 regular season with 57 games played, 22 starts and production that made the early questions around him look a lot less important.
He averaged 8.5 points, shot 57.9 percent from the field, and added 5.0 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.9 blocks in 21.9 minutes per game. That is the kind of line teams notice from a rookie who entered the league with pre-draft doubts about whether he was undersized for the big role he played and whether his three-point shot would hold up.
The numbers matter because Murray-Boyles did all of that while missing extensive time with a nagging thumb injury. The Raptors still got a season's worth of evidence that his value was not built on flash. It came from efficiency, activity and the ability to help in several ways whenever he was on the floor.
His rookie year also arrived in a season that is over only in the regular-season sense, with the playoffs still ahead. That leaves Toronto with a useful question to carry forward: how much more can Murray-Boyles add once the sample grows and the thumb is no longer part of the story?
For now, the answer from his first season is clear enough. Toronto did not just get a ninth pick who survived the jump to the NBA; it got a rotation piece who produced, defended and rebounded well enough to make the early hype look justified.
