Receivers: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2025 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	Vikings	@ 1586th	@ 15015th	1851st	164.3
2	Jets	@ 1753rd	@ 1665th	14719th	162.6
3	Lions	@ 14222nd	1558th	@ 1832nd	160.1

1 Vikings wk 15 @ DAL · wk 16 @ NYG · wk 17 DET 164.3rec yds a game, mean
2 Jets wk 15 @ JAX · wk 16 @ NO · wk 17 NE 162.6rec yds a game, mean
3 Lions wk 15 @ LA · wk 16 PIT · wk 17 @ MIN 160.1rec 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.