Week 4 WR Advanced Stats: 2024 Proves that Seeing the Same Old Names is Anything But Boring

Kevin Szafraniec
October 3, 2024

Week 4 proved to be the most exciting slate of games we have seen in the 2024 season. With multiple shootouts and two of our favorite passing offenses going over 50 attempts on the week, there were plenty of fantasy points to go around. As the NFL rounds into form, so does our 2024 data set.

Before we get into the latest information available in the Advanced Stats Explorer, just a few quick reminders about the article.

Leading up to the season, I looked at the five years of data available in the Advanced Stats Explorer and broke it down into four separate articles: Routes and Targets, Intended Air Yards, Yards After the Catch and Evasion, and Catchable Targets, Drops, First Downs, and Touchdowns.
When working through the five-year sample, we found that the 90th percentile and above generally included most of the top-24 wide receivers for each metric in any given season. The 75th percentile and above included the top 55 to 60 WRs in any given metric per season. Given that these two cohorts easily apply to a normal 12-team fantasy league, they will be referenced often throughout the article.

In Week 4, the total number of players who earned at least one target during the 2024 season grew to 164 after our Week 3 sample included 154 players.

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Kevin Szafraniec

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