5 NFL Teams That Need Wide Receiver Help Entering the Draft

Process

The average NFL wide receiver in 2015 grabbed 50 targets. I ranked the 87 wide receivers who met or surpassed that target average in 2015, scoring them by Reception Net Expected Points (NEP), Reception NEP per target, and Catch Rate. NEP is a metric that helps us take the numbers we get from the box score and shows how that player or team did versus expectation. For more info on NEP, check out our glossary.

I then used a similar scoring system to cross-country running, where an NFL team’s top three wide receivers determine the team score. In this system, the lowest team score wins (i.e. if Julio Jones ranks first, Roddy White second, and Leonard Hankerson third, the Atlanta Falcons would sweep it).

So, which teams are still lacking in their wideout corps?