Receivers vs the defense

Week 16, 2026 2026 through week 8

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Every week, the defenses that have been hardest and easiest on receivers this season, after adjusting for who they have played, and the players who face them this week. What a defense has allowed is history, never a forecast.

The toughest matchups for receivers

Receivers with a real workload have gained 89% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 40% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

vs Seahawks

Holds them to 40 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Puka Nacua

37% of targets over his last four, 92 rec yds a game.

Puka Nacua is shouldering an immense load for the Rams offense Turf Show Times, 2 d ago

at Giants

Holds them to 39 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Amon-Ra St. Brown

32% of targets over his last four, 86 rec yds a game.

Lions, Dolphins Week 9 inactives: Sione Vaki, Amon-Ra St. Brown ACTIVE Pride of Detroit, 3 h ago

Jameson Williams

21% of targets over his last four, 78 rec yds a game.

Lions, Vikings mic’d up video shows redemption arc for Jameson Williams Pride of Detroit, 3 d ago

at Buccaneers

Holds them to 34 fewer receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Drake London

30% of targets over his last four, 64 rec yds a game.

Drake London fined by NFL for unnecessary roughness in Week 8 vs. Buccaneers The Falcoholic, 22 h ago

Jahan Dotson

15% of targets over his last four, 61 rec yds a game.

The other 26 defenses on the field this week are on the full board, with the players who face each one.

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The softest matchups for receivers

Receivers with a real workload have gained 97% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 44% of games. Against the middle of the league, 40% have.

at Jaguars

Allows 53 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

CeeDee Lamb

33% of targets over his last four, 53 rec yds a game.

George Pickens

22% of targets over his last four, 77 rec yds a game.

George Pickens, Joey Porter Jr. will not play for the Cowboys ProFootballTalk (RSS), 3 h ago

at Titans

Allows 46 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Tre Tucker

16% of targets over his last four, 60 rec yds a game.

at Texans

Allows 32 more receiving yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

DeVonta Smith

32% of targets over his last four, 78 rec yds a game.

Makai Lemon

21% of targets over his last four, 47 rec yds a game.

Eagles-Commanders snap counts: Makai Lemon seeing more opportunity Bleeding Green Nation, 5 d ago

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season. Every rank is over usual: what the defense allowed each game against that offense's own average in its other games, 1st the biggest margin, over each row's games. 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 the record are on How we count.