Fantasy football: 6 surprising target pigs of season 2024

It is easy to be fooled by a small target data sample on the route, as, I suppose, it is easy to be fooled by any small size of the sample.

For years I have used target targets as a good, reliable way to identify which passing captains at a high pace. This can help to identify extremely productive widows and tight ends before going to the mainstream. In this way, the targets on running the route (TPRR) is a hipster metric. I was in this receiver before I heard him. Things of that nature.

A clear example of how TPRR can deceive us: Amari Cooper in week 14 against Rams was – from absolutely nowhere – targeted on 54 % of his crossing routes. Ended with six flashes for 95 meters without score. It seemed like a turning point in a forget season for Cooper. Maybe, maybe, it was established as Josh Allen’s WR1. But no: Cooper only saw five targets in the next three games. He was all invisible in the stretch and in the postsezon.

A sufficient sample of a season, perhaps, or at least half a season-day offers a perspective on the command of a player’s target and a look at how their team sees them in the captivating pecking order. Below are six receivers with what I think intrigued by TPRR 2024 profiles. Any of these broad could occur in 2025.

Josh downs (in)

• 30 percent targets on the route (4th the highest among the WR)
• Against the area: 32 percent (2 -a)
• Against human coverage: 25 percent (32)

Downs did a quick job for Uzurpa on Michael Pittman as the number 1 of Colts in 2024. In the first two weeks it was clear, in the first two weeks of the season, that Downs’s ability to open and make hay after catching a stronger weapon than capturing and falling Pittman, who was ranked 33 Past-not just a road rate.

Downs, as seen above, did a large part of the target marketing. It makes sense: The Fightning Quick Downs has managed to find a soft place under the appearance of the area from time to time, becoming an irresistible target for Joe Flacy and Anthony Richardson. Only Puka Nacua whose target numbers on the route of 24 were of another nature were reduced in TPRR against the area aspect.

2.4 meters of 2.4 meters on the route running against human coatings in 2024 was pedestrian, according to the efficiency of guys like Tank Dell and Zay Flowers. Obviously, Downs profiles as a starter every week in fanciful formats with 12 teams, but it is worth noting that it falls against defenses that implement heavy coatings in the area. Keep this note in your brain part dedicated to fanciful football.

Khalil Shakir (buf)

• 24.9 percent target on the route (12th among WR)
• Against area coverage: 31 percent TPRR (3)
• Against human coverage: 20 percent (57th)

Shakir, who signed this week an extension of the four-year contract with Buffalo, was a coating dominator in 2024. Like downs, his target command fell against human coverage, which you could wait for a receiver devoid of the physical traits of the true alpha.

He profiled like Josh Allen’s guy against the area. Shakir, in 2024, somehow posted a taller site on the route against area looks than AJ Brown, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Terry Mclaurin and Drake London, among others. He had almost 25 percent of the sites received by Buffalo against covering the area, a solid rate, if non -specific.

The problem for shakir could be how the defenses usually defend the bills. Last season, no team faced a higher human coverage rate (35 percent) than Buffalo. New contract and all, Shakir seems to be a receiver whose prospects will be largely balanced.

Dontayvian Wicks (GB)

• 30 percent targets on the route (4)
• Against area coverage: 26 percent (20)
• Against human coverage: 41 percent (4th)

I know that fantasy managers do not want to hear anything positive about Wicks, who broke our collective heart every time he had a blow to determine to be departing from Jordan Love in a crime without a true type no. 1. Through drops and bone heads, Wicks blown it in 2024. However, a target commander remained. Curious.

Malik Nabers, Drake London and the above mentioned above were the only receptors who posted a better TPRR than Wicks last season. His TPRR was elite against the appearance of man and not too shabby against coatings in the area. He was not, as you guessed, hyper with his opportunities. Against the appearance of man, Wicks ranked 80th out of 125 qualified qualifications on the route. Meanwhile, Christian Watson, ranked fifth in general on the construction sites against human coatings, while Jayden Reed-Ale whose metric was reserved in 2024, with Ray-Ray McCloud and Van Jefferson. Romeo Roubs was the 43rd.

Wicks, who raised the problem with Josh Jacobs’s public pleading for the help of the receiver in the Green Bay crime, will continue to order views from love until the morale improves. Wicks, after all, had the fourth Open ESPN score of last season, which measures how a wide separated from coverage.

Marvin Mims (Den)

• 28 percent targets on the route (14th among WR)
• Against the area: 26 percent (17)
• Against human coverage: 35 percent (10)

Sean Payton was aware of the existence of Mims once in the middle of season 2024, and from that moment, Mims was a target control car in the Denver crime.

As if his seasonal numbers were not strong enough, you consider this: from week 10-18, Pika Nacua was the only large one to see a bigger TPRR than MIMS. Mims threw the competition on sites on the route that takes place on that stretch.

That Mims was used as a wide part-time and something from a gadget player on a short area is little in terms of, and its eye efficiency numbers must be viewed in the context of a small sample. Probably they will not keep up if MIMS is used more as a full -time player in 2025 and beyond. Even so, Analytics Speedy Darling has shown for half a season that it can be a focal point of a passing attack. We hope Payton agrees.

Jauan Jennings (SF)

• 27 percent TPRR (15th among WR)
• Against area coverage: 29 percent (6)
• Against human coverage: 28 percent (18)

You might see Jennings’s target numbers on the route and reject them as Fluky, because Brandon Aiuk and, for a while, Deebo Samuel were absent from the Niners crime in 2024. Don’t be so fast with over the performance of Jennings from 2024. Aiyuk in 2025 will come out of an injury, but Samuel is out. At San Francisco after he was meeting in Kyle Shanahan’s perfect car.

I resisted Jennings as a target commander for too long in 2024. That’s because, just a year earlier, Jennings saw a target on a miserable 13 percent of her crossing routes. In 2022, its TPRR was 17 %. Nothing has suggested that he is a guy to seek Brock Purdy. But he did it, especially against the area.

Jennings ranked 24th out of 116 qualified receptors in the open score of ESPN. He made it a much more attractive target than Deebo, whose open score was the 102nd of 116 receptors. A dominator of the red area with large bodies, Jennings will probably be taken over in 2025.

Diontae Johnson (car, ball, hou)

• 27 percent targets on the route (15 among WR)
• Against the area: 22 percent (44)
• Against human cover: 39 percent (4th)

If Johnson can ever realize a way of not being kicked out of an NFL team, he could have a real chance of being a target port in the right crime.

Johnson has always been strong against the appearance of human coverage and this did not change in the last season, especially during his short run with Andy Dalton under the center for Carolina. Mercurial Johnson attracted a target on 30 percent of his passing routes of week 3-6 in the Panthers offense.

Even his narrow left with Ravens had something of a silver lining: Johnson saw a target on 26 percent of his (very) limited routes like a crow. In Pittsburgh, in 2023, Johnson saw a target on 26 % of his solid routes. His ability to make his targets to take his way could be noted if Johnson is able to stop alienating coaches and teammates.