Diontae Johnson’s Return and Nico Collins’ High Air Yardage: Wide Receiver Advanced Stats And Buy Lows Ahead Of Week 9

Ryan Ramsarran
November 2, 2023

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 8 is in the books, and it ended in surprising fashion, with the Denver Broncos upsetting the Chiefs. A.J. Brown had another huge week as well, setting the new NFL record with six straight games with 125-plus receiving yards!

As always, we’re going to start with one of the best plays from a wide receiver last week:

Courtland Sutton makes an absurd catch with a defender all over him 🔥

📺: #KCvsDEN on CBS
📱: Stream on #NFLPlus https://t.co/Quwvdzpx7G pic.twitter.com/NBvcSCVd0f

— NFL (@NFL) October 29, 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

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