Tee Higgins leads the #NFL with 25 contested targets.
45% of his targets have been contested, the 2nd-highest rate for any player with 50+ targets since 2014 (trailing only Golden Tate’s 46% in 2019).
Puka Nacua finished the 2024 season with a 37.1% Target Rate on routes run. The gap between Nacua and 2nd place (Malik Nabers, 29.7%) was larger than the gap between 2nd and 28th place (Courtland Sutton, 22.5%).
It was also the highest Target Rate in a single season since 2014 (min. 40 targets).
In 2024, Marvin Harrison Jr. was one of 11 wide receivers with 60 or more targets and a completion percentage below 60%. The average drop rate among the other 10 receivers was 10.7%. MHJ finished his rookie season with a drop rate of just 1.6%.
What was the cause of MHJ’s low completion percentage?
30 Days Until Kickoff, 30 Stats You Didn’t Know
Stat #8 - Terry McLaurin finished the 2024 season recording 34 contested targets, the most in a single season since 2014. He also had the highest contested catch rate in that span, hauling in 70.6% of those targets.
MVP
Most receiving yards on deep passes last two college seasons (WRs)
Rome Odunze
Brian Thomas Jr.
Malik Nabers
Jaylin Noel
Omarion Hampton:
#2 best RB *in the last DECADE* in YPC on runs when hit behind the line
#2 in highest percentage of team's entire touches (44%)
#2 in highest % of team's entire receptions (17%)
96th percentile in explosion score in jumping drills
profile of a true workhorse RB
Some Packers types yards per route run against man coverage and their ranking in the draft class*
Jalen Royals 3.80 (3rd)
Kobe Hudson 3.71 (4th)
Tet McMillan 3.50 (6th)
Jayden Higgins 3.13 (9th)
Pat Bryant 3.0 (10th)
*Among WRs with at least 20 man targets last year.
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I just ran up my statistical comps for the top 6 rookie WRs by expected draft capital:
(comps are to WRs from 2017-2023)
Travis Hunter:
Garrett Wilson
Rashod Bateman
Henry Ruggs
Jerry Jeudy
Tet McMillan:
JuJu Smith-Schuster
Drake London
Treylon Burks
Tee Higgins
@lateroundqb.bsky.social Any plans for the 1000th episode coming up?
No way he goes later than Bijan did. Are you predicting they trade up? Seems more likely they’d go with Neal or Hampton later
@azaelofficial.bsky.social is KILLING IT on play-by-play today! @lolesports1.bsky.social
I understand the desire to just post links, but man is it boring to have your entire feed be links to videos/articles on other sites.
TE Harold Fannin Jr from Bowling Green had a drop on his only target today.
(Had an FBS-most 117 catches this season, so we know he can catch.)
Got some reps at FB.
Told me he hadn’t done that since HS.
He thinks he’s an underrated pass blocker and is eager to show that.
The Bills have been top-5 in point differential for 5 straight years, reaching at least the Divisional Round each time. One of the best sustained runs ever to not make a Super Bowl.
Unless it's the Ravens, who have the most wins in a 7-year stretch to not make the Super Bowl.
Patrick Mahomes!
That's over a 99th percentile game for Patrick Mahomes in terms of dropback success rate.
There were only four games this entire season where a QB produced a successful play at a higher rate.
It's the highest dropback success rate of Mahomes' entire career!
Also wanted to welcome all my new followers, I repost the best Fantasy Football statistics for The FF Newsletter here in the Good Place
Not gonna lie, those LTA Secret Labs chairs look cleeeean #FLYWin
Good start. I like Boyd/Robinson in the Tim Patrick role
Shoutout the Southwestern Moundbuilders
How’d it turn out?
The back judge appreciated DeVonta giving him an easy catch to make lol.
Jalen Hurts was 12/13 for 146 yards and 2 TDs in the first half vs PIT - outstanding
Average Time To Throw? 2.60 seconds
That's his fastest ATT in any half of a game this year
Talked about what I saw from the pass game at the top of the PostGame Show
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Per Next Gen, Patrick Mahomes is now 9/33 on passes of 20+ yards this season. He ranks 32nd of 35 QBs in EPA/dropback on those plays. Ahead of only Baker Mayfield, Deshaun Watson, and Caleb Williams. Lot of reasons for that, but it has not been pretty when they've pushed the ball.
Matthew Stafford rushing yards Weeks 1-14: 11
Matthew Stafford rushing yards tonight: 18
Waivers run tonight
Isaac Guerendo did not practice today
49ers play Thursday
2024 Snap Count of Current RBs:
• Patrick Taylor - 41
• Ke’Shawn Vaughn - 3
• Israel Abanikanda - 0
Taylor the only one worth a roster spot in redraft leagues
Major gamble to play him in Week 15
By the way, Kirk Cousins gets three teams in the top half of fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks.
Kirk against top-16 matchups (5 games)
25/34, 292.4 yards, 2.6 td, 0 int, 20.9 fppg
Kirk against bottom-16 matchups (8 games)
21/33, 241.8 yards, 0.5 td, 1.6 int(!), 8.2 fppg
The last three 10+ catch, 175+ yard, 2+ touchdown games:
Ja'Marr Chase (tonight)
Ja'Marr Chase (Week 10)
Ja'Marr Chase (Week 5)
McVay handled business running the rock!
Most rush attempts since WK1 2023 (42)
Most rush attempts the Bills faced since WK14 2021
Career-high 29 rush att. for Kyren 🔥
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