Receivers: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2024 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

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Each offense's three opponents in weeks 15 to 17 and the mean of what those defenses have allowed a game to receivers this season, the softest slate first. What a defense has allowed is history, and our own check found it tracks the next game only faintly: read it as the matchup a player walks into, not as what he will do in it.

#	Offense	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Mean
1	Bears	@ 1775th	1813rd	15913th	172.5
2	49ers	16810th	@ 15715th	1813rd	168.6
3	Falcons	@ 14621st	1729th	@ 1861st	167.8

1 Bears wk 15 @ MIN · wk 16 DET · wk 17 SEA 172.5rec yds a game, mean
2 49ers wk 15 LA · wk 16 @ MIA · wk 17 DET 168.6rec yds a game, mean
3 Falcons wk 15 @ LV · wk 16 NYG · wk 17 @ WAS 167.8rec yds a game, mean

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season, ranked among the 32 (1 = allows the most). Shares are of the team's carries or targets over the player's last four games. Data from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). The definitions and floors are on How we count.