2025 WR Advanced Stats Wrap-Up, Part 6: When in Doubt . . . Just Throw the Ball to George Pickens

Kevin Szafraniec
February 18, 2026

For the final installment of Kevin Szafraniec’s six-part series breaking down 2025’s advanced wide receiver stats, he focuses on the ability of wideouts to turn their opportunities into first downs and touchdowns.

Prior to the start of the 2024 NFL season, I did a deep dive into the WR data from the Advanced Stat Explorer to get a better feel for exactly what levels of production should be considered elite, average, or poor in each of the tool’s metrics. After adding 234 WR seasons from 2025 to the data set, our sample grew from 1,376 player seasons last winter to 1,610 now.

In the final installment of our 2025 recap, we will be looking into how often WRs were able to turn their opportunities into first downs and touchdowns. For a quick reference on how to interpret the data in the tables below, the 75th percentile and above generally include the top 60 WR performances from a given season. The 90th percentile and above encompasses most of the top 24 performers.

Make sure to check out the first three installments of the series:

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First Down Per Target Rate (FD%)

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