In 2024, Nik Bonitto had 13.5 sacks along with a fumble recovered for a touchdown and an interception returned for a touchdown. The only other players that have done that in a single season are J.J. Watt in 2014 and Jacob Green in 1985.
.@HaydenWinks pointed out how NFL scoring is going to be up this year in his recent @UnderdogNFL article so I decided to look into preseason scoring. Here are the average points per preseason game in recent years:
2025 - 41.0
2024 - 34.9
2023 - 39.7
2022 - 39.5
2021 - 35.9
JaMarr Chase per game stats w/ Jake Browning as his starting QB for 6 games in 2023:
Tgts - 6.5
Recs - 4.8
Yds - 63.8
TDs - 0.2
Justin Jefferson per game stats w/ J. Dobbs, N. Mullens, & J. Hall as his starting QB for 5 games in 2023:
Tgts - 9.4
Recs - 6.4
Yds - 100.6
TDs - 0.4
Since becoming the starting RB for the Rams in 2023, Kyren Williams has rushed for 147 first downs trailing only behind Derrick Henry in that timeframe.
Garrett Wilson has been targeted 469 times in his three year career so far. The only player in NFL history with more targets in the first three years of their career is Justin Jefferson with 476.
From 2014 to 2024, C.J. Mosley was the only player in the NFL to have at least:
- 12 sacks
- 12 INTs
- 1,000 tackles
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Data: @Stathead
In 2024 Rashod Bateman had an EPA per catch of 1.00, which ranked 2nd amongst WRs, only behind Alec Pierce.
Congrats to @R_bateman2 on the well-deserved new deal!!
Data: nfelo (@greerreNFL)
Players that posted great stats in 2024 under small sample size (2025 breakout candidates?):
1. Jordan Whittington 2.46 YPRR (only 119 routes)
2. Ty Johnson 0.94 EPA/target (only 25 targets)
3. Chris Rodriguez 0.23 EPA/rush (only 35 rushes)
Data: @SumerSports & @greerreNFL
2023 was such an odd year for rookie WR performance. Five WRs had a YPRR of at least 2.0, which is the most in this sample (2015-2024). However, there were also 5 WRs that had a YPRR below 1.0, which is by far the most in this sample.
Thomas Morstead has punted a football over 1,000 times in his career, including postseason. In his 16 year career, he has only had a punt blocked ONCE!
Best of luck to @thomasmorstead on keeping this streak alive with the 49ers during Year 17!
Since entering the league in 2018, Fred Warner has had 5 seasons with at least:
- 100 tackles
- 1 interception
- 1 forced fumble
- 1 sack
The only other active player with as many is Lavonte David, who was drafted in 2012.
Fred Warner does it all.
Giants WRs Malik Nabers & Wan'Dale Robinson received a very high volume of targets in 2024. Likely due to playing from behind often and poor QB play. Will be interesting to see what their yards and targets per game are in 2025.
Created a dataset to look at which WRs in 2024 outperformed their consensus weekly receiving yard prop bet line. Felt like this was a better approach than looking at preseason total for receiving yards. Here are the results, tagging some people to hear their thoughts!
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