Receivers: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2026 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	Browns	@ 1529th	@ 1702nd	1683rd	163.2
2	Titans	1683rd	@ 14711th	1645th	159.7
3	Bengals	@ 12525th	@ 1683rd	1702nd	154.2

1 Browns wk 15 @ NYG · wk 16 @ BAL · wk 17 IND 163.2rec yds a game, mean
2 Titans wk 15 IND · wk 16 @ LV · wk 17 PIT 159.7rec yds a game, mean
3 Bengals wk 15 @ CAR · wk 16 @ IND · wk 17 BAL 154.2rec 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.