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Last year I finally began to figure out ways to share large amounts of data at once with the team statistical profiles. Within each profile resides a ton of individual and unit data, but it's obviously only presented one team at a time. People have been requesting all receiving data in one file, as I have presented in years past. So here it is.
Download an Excel sheet with receiver data here.
It features all the bells and whistles I shared last year, including general target-and-catch data for all downs, standard downs, and passing downs (note: SD and PD data have garbage time filtered out). I'm also including these terms on the far right of each tab:
Net Expected Yards: Basically, "Your Catch Rate was A%, and one with that average would typically net about B yards per catch. With your total targets, then, you should have ended up with C receiving yards, but you ended up with D receiving yards instead." (Also: NEP/Target).
Real Yards Per Target: On average, a player tended to be targeted A% of the time on standard downs, so if Player B was targeted A% on SDs and C% on PDs, his per-target average would have been D.
RYPR: (Receiving yards / Total Team Plays) * Passing S&P+. For more, go here.
As I did last year, I thought it would be fun to look at a break-out of the most frequently targeted players (in this case, guys targeted at least 80 times). Whose production stood out, and who just got targeted a lot? Shades of red mean the player was below the 50th percentile in the given category (the darker, the worse), shades of green mean the opposite.
2016 returnees are in bold. (Note: Gehrig Dieter transferred to Alabama.) Non-WRs are documented.
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Massachusetts | Tajae Sharpe | 176 | 111 | 1319 | 63.1% | 11.9 | 7.5 | 37.4% | 1 |
Tulsa | Keyarris Garrett | 159 | 96 | 1588 | 60.4% | 16.5 | 10.0 | 33.7% | 1 |
Washington State | Gabe Marks | 149 | 104 | 1192 | 69.8% | 11.5 | 8.0 | 20.8% | 1 |
Michigan State | Aaron Burbridge | 146 | 85 | 1258 | 58.2% | 14.8 | 8.6 | 34.1% | 1 |
Middle Tennessee | Richie James | 146 | 108 | 1346 | 74.0% | 12.5 | 9.2 | 29.8% | 1 |
Western Michigan | Daniel Braverman | 142 | 109 | 1371 | 76.8% | 12.6 | 9.7 | 36.1% | 1 |
Ball State | Jordan Williams | 141 | 73 | 935 | 51.8% | 12.8 | 6.6 | 31.7% | 1 |
Bowling Green | Gehrig Dieter | 141 | 94 | 1033 | 66.7% | 11.0 | 7.3 | 24.5% | 1 |
Boise State | Thomas Sperbeck | 140 | 89 | 1431 | 63.6% | 16.1 | 10.2 | 27.7% | 1 |
Western Michigan | Corey Davis | 140 | 91 | 1446 | 65.0% | 15.9 | 10.3 | 35.6% | 2 |
USC | JuJu Smith-Schuster | 135 | 89 | 1454 | 65.9% | 16.3 | 10.8 | 30.8% | 1 |
Louisiana Tech | Trent Taylor | 131 | 99 | 1282 | 75.6% | 12.9 | 9.8 | 28.3% | 1 |
Middle Tennessee | Ed'Marques Batties | 131 | 82 | 1048 | 62.6% | 12.8 | 8.0 | 26.7% | 2 |
Bowling Green | Roger Lewis | 130 | 85 | 1544 | 65.4% | 18.2 | 11.9 | 22.6% | 2 |
Washington State | Dom Williams | 130 | 75 | 1040 | 57.7% | 13.9 | 8.0 | 18.1% | 2 |
Houston | Demarcus Ayers | 129 | 98 | 1222 | 76.0% | 12.5 | 9.5 | 31.0% | 1 |
Illinois | Geronimo Allison | 129 | 65 | 882 | 50.4% | 13.6 | 6.8 | 25.9% | 1 |
Northern Illinois | Kenny Golladay | 129 | 73 | 1129 | 56.6% | 15.5 | 8.8 | 33.4% | 1 |
Texas A&M | Christian Kirk | 129 | 80 | 1009 | 62.0% | 12.6 | 7.8 | 28.2% | 1 |
Cincinnati | Shaq Washington | 128 | 90 | 982 | 70.3% | 10.9 | 7.7 | 24.6% | 1 |
Wisconsin | Alex Erickson | 128 | 77 | 978 | 60.2% | 12.7 | 7.6 | 32.1% | 1 |
Texas Tech | Jakeem Grant | 127 | 90 | 1263 | 70.9% | 14.0 | 9.9 | 21.6% | 1 |
Alabama | Calvin Ridley | 126 | 89 | 1059 | 70.6% | 11.9 | 8.4 | 29.2% | 1 |
Pittsburgh | Tyler Boyd | 126 | 91 | 926 | 72.2% | 10.2 | 7.3 | 38.9% | 1 |
East Carolina | Isaiah Jones | 125 | 98 | 1093 | 78.4% | 11.2 | 8.7 | 27.7% | 1 |
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Minnesota | KJ Maye | 125 | 73 | 773 | 58.4% | 10.6 | 6.2 | 30.4% | 1 |
Virginia Tech | Isaiah Ford | 125 | 75 | 1164 | 60.0% | 15.5 | 9.3 | 34.7% | 1 |
UCLA | Jordan Payton | 124 | 78 | 1106 | 62.9% | 14.2 | 8.9 | 25.8% | 1 |
Colorado | Nelson Spruce | 123 | 90 | 1043 | 73.2% | 11.6 | 8.5 | 27.6% | 1 |
Ole Miss | Laquon Treadwell | 122 | 83 | 1165 | 68.0% | 14.0 | 9.5 | 26.2% | 1 |
Temple | Robby Anderson | 122 | 70 | 939 | 57.4% | 13.4 | 7.7 | 28.6% | 1 |
Baylor | Corey Coleman | 121 | 74 | 1363 | 61.2% | 18.4 | 11.3 | 32.4% | 1 |
Mississippi State | Fred Ross | 121 | 88 | 1007 | 72.7% | 11.4 | 8.3 | 24.8% | 1 |
Clemson | Artavis Scott | 120 | 93 | 927 | 77.5% | 10.0 | 7.7 | 24.0% | 1 |
Old Dominion | Zach Pascal | 120 | 69 | 975 | 57.5% | 14.1 | 8.1 | 30.4% | 1 |
North Texas | Carlos Harris | 118 | 61 | 727 | 51.7% | 11.9 | 6.2 | 30.7% | 1 |
Penn State | Chris Godwin | 118 | 70 | 1103 | 59.3% | 15.8 | 9.3 | 29.9% | 1 |
Oklahoma | Sterling Shepard | 117 | 86 | 1288 | 73.5% | 15.0 | 11.0 | 28.1% | 1 |
Western Kentucky | Taywan Taylor | 115 | 86 | 1467 | 74.8% | 17.1 | 12.8 | 21.3% | 1 |
UL-Monroe | Ajalen Holley | 114 | 60 | 709 | 52.6% | 11.8 | 6.2 | 25.3% | 1 |
Ball State | KeVonn Mabon | 113 | 70 | 745 | 61.9% | 10.6 | 6.6 | 25.4% | 2 |
Southern Miss | Mike Thomas | 112 | 71 | 1391 | 63.4% | 19.6 | 12.4 | 22.2% | 1 |
Nevada | Jerico Richardson | 111 | 68 | 745 | 61.3% | 11.0 | 6.7 | 35.0% | 1 |
Western Kentucky | Jared Dangerfield | 111 | 82 | 844 | 73.9% | 10.3 | 7.6 | 20.5% | 2 |
Indiana | Simmie Cobbs, Jr. | 110 | 60 | 1035 | 54.5% | 17.3 | 9.4 | 24.7% | 1 |
Arizona State | D.J. Foster | 109 | 59 | 584 | 54.1% | 9.9 | 5.4 | 21.1% | 1 |
Utah State | Hunter Sharp | 109 | 71 | 827 | 65.1% | 11.6 | 7.6 | 29.0% | 1 |
Tulsa | Joshua Atkinson | 108 | 76 | 1071 | 70.4% | 14.1 | 9.9 | 22.9% | 2 |
South Carolina | Pharoh Cooper | 107 | 66 | 977 | 61.7% | 14.8 | 9.1 | 32.4% | 1 |
TCU | Josh Doctson | 107 | 79 | 1327 | 73.8% | 16.8 | 12.4 | 21.7% | 1 |
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Colorado State | Rashard Higgins | 106 | 75 | 1062 | 70.8% | 14.2 | 10.0 | 28.7% | 1 |
UL-Monroe | Marcus Green | 106 | 63 | 698 | 59.4% | 11.1 | 6.6 | 23.5% | 2 |
BYU | Mitch Mathews | 105 | 54 | 737 | 51.4% | 13.6 | 7.0 | 21.9% | 1 |
Georgia State | Penny Hart | 105 | 71 | 1099 | 67.6% | 15.5 | 10.5 | 22.1% | 1 |
Southern Miss | Casey Martin | 105 | 80 | 925 | 76.2% | 11.6 | 8.8 | 20.8% | 2 |
UNLV | Devonte Boyd | 105 | 54 | 904 | 51.4% | 16.7 | 8.6 | 30.3% | 1 |
Marshall | Davonte Allen | 103 | 58 | 715 | 56.3% | 12.3 | 6.9 | 22.9% | 1 |
Oklahoma State | James Washington | 103 | 53 | 979 | 51.5% | 18.5 | 9.5 | 20.5% | 1 |
Buffalo | Ron Willoughby | 101 | 62 | 813 | 61.4% | 13.1 | 8.0 | 23.3% | 1 |
Georgia State | Robert Davis | 100 | 62 | 995 | 62.0% | 16.0 | 10.0 | 21.0% | 2 |
Nebraska | Jordan Westerkamp | 100 | 66 | 926 | 66.0% | 14.0 | 9.3 | 23.1% | 1 |
Ohio | Sebastian Smith | 100 | 64 | 770 | 64.0% | 12.0 | 7.7 | 26.1% | 1 |
Alabama | ArDarius Stewart | 99 | 63 | 700 | 63.6% | 11.1 | 7.1 | 22.9% | 2 |
Arizona State | Devin Lucien | 99 | 66 | 1074 | 66.7% | 16.3 | 10.8 | 19.2% | 2 |
Florida Atlantic | Jenson Stoshak | 99 | 57 | 825 | 57.6% | 14.5 | 8.3 | 26.5% | 1 |
Virginia | Taquan Mizzell (RB) | 99 | 75 | 719 | 75.8% | 9.6 | 7.3 | 25.6% | 1 |
Mississippi State | De'Runnya Wilson | 98 | 60 | 918 | 61.2% | 15.3 | 9.4 | 20.1% | 2 |
Oregon | Bralon Addison | 98 | 63 | 804 | 64.3% | 12.8 | 8.2 | 27.2% | 1 |
Purdue | DeAngelo Yancey | 98 | 48 | 700 | 49.0% | 14.6 | 7.1 | 20.9% | 1 |
Central Michigan | Jesse Kroll | 97 | 61 | 866 | 62.9% | 14.2 | 8.9 | 20.8% | 1 |
Bowling Green | Ronnie Moore | 96 | 72 | 954 | 75.0% | 13.3 | 9.9 | 16.7% | 3 |
Kentucky | Dorian Baker | 96 | 55 | 608 | 57.3% | 11.1 | 6.3 | 26.6% | 1 |
Michigan | Amara Darboh | 96 | 58 | 727 | 60.4% | 12.5 | 7.6 | 23.9% | 1 |
Central Florida | Tre'Quan Smith | 95 | 52 | 724 | 54.7% | 13.9 | 7.6 | 24.1% | 1 |
Indiana | Ricky Jones | 95 | 54 | 906 | 56.8% | 16.8 | 9.5 | 21.3% | 2 |
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Memphis | Mose Frazier | 95 | 71 | 833 | 74.7% | 11.7 | 8.8 | 21.0% | 1 |
Notre Dame | Will Fuller | 95 | 62 | 1258 | 65.3% | 20.3 | 13.2 | 25.9% | 1 |
Fresno State | Jamire Jordan | 94 | 46 | 540 | 48.9% | 11.7 | 5.7 | 25.5% | 1 |
Iowa | Matt VandeBerg | 94 | 65 | 700 | 69.1% | 10.8 | 7.4 | 26.2% | 1 |
Kansas State | Deante Burton | 94 | 38 | 510 | 40.4% | 13.4 | 5.4 | 28.7% | 1 |
Washington | Jaydon Mickens | 94 | 58 | 692 | 61.7% | 11.9 | 7.4 | 25.0% | 1 |
Wyoming | Jake Maulhardt | 94 | 57 | 648 | 60.6% | 11.4 | 6.9 | 31.8% | 1 |
Arizona | Cayleb Jones | 93 | 55 | 908 | 59.1% | 16.5 | 9.8 | 21.5% | 1 |
Florida State | Travis Rudolph | 93 | 59 | 916 | 63.4% | 15.5 | 9.8 | 23.4% | 1 |
Southern Miss | D.J. Thompson | 93 | 55 | 779 | 59.1% | 14.2 | 8.4 | 18.4% | 3 |
Baylor | KD Cannon | 92 | 51 | 881 | 55.4% | 17.3 | 9.6 | 24.7% | 2 |
Charlotte | Austin Duke | 92 | 53 | 534 | 57.6% | 10.1 | 5.8 | 26.3% | 1 |
Connecticut | Noel Thomas | 92 | 54 | 719 | 58.7% | 13.3 | 7.8 | 28.7% | 1 |
Georgia | Malcolm Mitchell | 92 | 58 | 865 | 63.0% | 14.9 | 9.4 | 29.8% | 1 |
Iowa State | Allen Lazard | 92 | 58 | 879 | 63.0% | 15.2 | 9.6 | 23.5% | 1 |
Nevada | Hasaan Henderson | 91 | 53 | 734 | 58.2% | 13.8 | 8.1 | 28.7% | 2 |
Wake Forest | Cortez Lewis | 91 | 47 | 611 | 51.6% | 13.0 | 6.7 | 23.5% | 1 |
SMU | Courtland Sutton | 90 | 50 | 899 | 55.6% | 18.0 | 10.0 | 26.0% | 1 |
UL-Lafayette | Jamal Robinson | 90 | 54 | 824 | 60.0% | 15.3 | 9.2 | 25.0% | 1 |
Penn State | DaeSean Hamilton | 89 | 45 | 585 | 50.6% | 13.0 | 6.6 | 22.6% | 2 |
UCLA | Thomas Duarte | 89 | 53 | 872 | 59.6% | 16.5 | 9.8 | 18.5% | 2 |
Vanderbilt | Trent Sherfield | 89 | 51 | 659 | 57.3% | 12.9 | 7.4 | 25.4% | 1 |
Western Kentucky | Nicholas Norris | 89 | 63 | 971 | 70.8% | 15.4 | 10.9 | 16.5% | 3 |
Florida International | Thomas Owens | 88 | 51 | 638 | 58.0% | 12.5 | 7.3 | 20.4% | 1 |
Houston | Chance Allen | 88 | 56 | 752 | 63.6% | 13.4 | 8.5 | 21.2% | 2 |
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Oregon State | Jordan Villamin | 88 | 43 | 660 | 48.9% | 15.3 | 7.5 | 27.8% | 1 |
Oregon State | Victor Bolden | 88 | 46 | 461 | 52.3% | 10.0 | 5.2 | 27.8% | 2 |
Oklahoma State | David Glidden | 87 | 57 | 866 | 65.5% | 15.2 | 10.0 | 17.3% | 2 |
Buffalo | Matt Weiser (TE) | 86 | 63 | 625 | 73.3% | 9.9 | 7.3 | 19.8% | 2 |
Florida State | Jesus Wilson | 86 | 58 | 629 | 67.4% | 10.8 | 7.3 | 21.6% | 2 |
Texas State | C.J. Best | 86 | 58 | 594 | 67.4% | 10.2 | 6.9 | 21.7% | 1 |
Toledo | Corey Jones | 86 | 55 | 577 | 64.0% | 10.5 | 6.7 | 21.8% | 1 |
California | Kenny Lawler | 85 | 52 | 658 | 61.2% | 12.7 | 7.7 | 16.1% | 1 |
Idaho | Dezmon Epps | 85 | 61 | 757 | 71.8% | 12.4 | 8.9 | 19.4% | 1 |
Miami-FL | Rashawn Scott | 85 | 52 | 695 | 61.2% | 13.4 | 8.2 | 19.5% | 1 |
Texas A&M | Josh Reynolds | 85 | 51 | 907 | 60.0% | 17.8 | 10.7 | 18.6% | 2 |
Troy | Teddy Ruben | 85 | 63 | 879 | 74.1% | 14.0 | 10.3 | 21.3% | 1 |
Tulane | Teddy Veal | 85 | 48 | 644 | 56.5% | 13.4 | 7.6 | 22.2% | 1 |
Western Kentucky | Antwane Grant | 85 | 55 | 701 | 64.7% | 12.7 | 8.2 | 15.7% | 4 |
Ohio State | Michael Thomas | 84 | 56 | 781 | 66.7% | 13.9 | 9.3 | 27.5% | 1 |
Auburn | Ricardo Louis | 83 | 46 | 716 | 55.4% | 15.6 | 8.6 | 28.9% | 1 |
Boise State | Shane Williams-Rhodes | 83 | 62 | 521 | 74.7% | 8.4 | 6.3 | 16.4% | 2 |
Idaho | Callen Hightower | 83 | 57 | 749 | 68.7% | 13.1 | 9.0 | 18.9% | 2 |
Marshall | Deandre Reaves | 83 | 56 | 705 | 67.5% | 12.6 | 8.5 | 18.4% | 2 |
Michigan State | Macgarrett Kings Jr. | 83 | 40 | 519 | 48.2% | 13.0 | 6.3 | 19.4% | 2 |
Akron | Imani Davis | 82 | 47 | 613 | 57.3% | 13.0 | 7.5 | 24.1% | 1 |
Arizona State | Tim White | 82 | 57 | 633 | 69.5% | 11.1 | 7.7 | 15.9% | 3 |
Duke | Max McCaffrey | 82 | 52 | 643 | 63.4% | 12.4 | 7.8 | 16.9% | 1 |
North Carolina | Quinshad Davis | 82 | 55 | 638 | 67.1% | 11.6 | 7.8 | 21.0% | 1 |
Clemson | Charone Peake | 81 | 51 | 726 | 63.0% | 14.2 | 9.0 | 16.2% | 2 |
Player | Offense | Targets | Catches | Yards | Catch Rate | Yards/ Catch |
Yards/ Target |
Target Rate | Target No. |
Purdue | Danny Anthrop | 81 | 57 | 450 | 70.4% | 7.9 | 5.6 | 17.3% | 2 |
Arkansas | Drew Morgan | 80 | 63 | 843 | 78.8% | 13.4 | 10.5 | 22.3% | 1 |
Indiana | Mitchell Paige | 80 | 57 | 684 | 71.3% | 12.0 | 8.6 | 18.0% | 3 |
Kentucky | Garrett Johnson | 80 | 46 | 694 | 57.5% | 15.1 | 8.7 | 22.2% | 2 |
Michigan | Jehu Chesson | 80 | 50 | 764 | 62.5% | 15.3 | 9.6 | 20.0% | 2 |
NC State | Jaylen Samuels (TE) | 80 | 65 | 597 | 81.3% | 9.2 | 7.5 | 20.5% | 1 |
Old Dominion | Jonathan Duhart | 80 | 47 | 636 | 58.8% | 13.5 | 8.0 | 20.3% | 2 |
UTSA | Kerry Thomas Jr. | 80 | 52 | 541 | 65.0% | 10.4 | 6.8 | 24.0% | 1 |
West Virginia | Shelton Gibson | 80 | 37 | 887 | 46.3% | 24.0 | 11.1 | 19.7% | 1 |
2016 returnees that had shades of green in the first three categories (not including target rate): Thomas Sperbeck, Corey Davis, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Taywan Taylor, Josh Atkinson, Penny Hart (who did it as a freshman!), Jordan Westerkamp, Nicholas Norris. And I guess KD Cannon might have come close if not for QB injuries.
Enjoy. And congratulations in advance to 2016 Biletnikoff Award winner JuJu Smith-Schuster.
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