DeVonta Smith’s Descending Average Depth Of Target And The P.J. Walker Effect: Week 9 Wide Receiver Usage Trends And Takeaways

Ryan Ramsarran
November 3, 2022

Week 8 is in the books, and as usual, it was filled with some crazy moments, from Tom Brady losing on Thursday night, capping a three-game losing streak, to Christian McCaffrey becoming the first player since 2005 to have a passing, rushing, and receiving touchdown in a single game.

Now, this is the wide receivers article, so let’s start with this insane 62-air-yard touchdown pass from P.J. Walker to D.J. Moore:

PJ WALKER JUST DID THAT. HAIL MARY TO DJ MOORE. pic.twitter.com/dDYwoZhaGG

— NFL (@NFL) October 30, 2022

Routes Run and Routes per Target

Routes run is the first key statistic I’ll focus on because WRs need to be on the field to produce. The second statistic is routes per target. Unlike RB usage, targets are earned as a WR and routes per target is a helpful measure in figuring out which players are good (or which players coaches want to get the ball to).

*Routes for Monday’s game are not included

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Ryan Ramsarran

RotoViz Writer, Known RB Fader, Giants Fan.

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