In this weekly article, Ryan Ramsarran uses the Advanced Stat Explorer and other RotoViz tools to dive deep into wide receiver usage trends. Usage is key for making waiver wire adds, start/sit decisions, and finding the next blowup WR in DFS. We’ll use the advanced WR metrics to highlight a few buy-low options at the position each week.
Week 4 is in the books, and like always, it was full of some close games and some blowouts as well. Team defenses really took off this week, with Khalil Mack getting six sacks on his own and the Seahawks sacking Daniel Jones 10 times during Monday Night Football.
As always, we’re going to start with one of the best plays from a wide receiver last week:
STEFON DIGGS JUST KEPT RUNNING.
📺: #MIAvsBUF on CBS
📱: Stream on #NFLPlus https://t.co/Jq9JHUeqb6 pic.twitter.com/X4CEBbSCLI— NFL (@NFL) October 1, 2023
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 games are not included
