After focusing on three separate elements of the RB position in his Week 5 articles, Shawn Siegele takes stock of the receiver position six weeks into the 2022 season.
Week 6 featured more fireworks at the wide receiver position, but the variety made it special. We got further confirmation from Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill that the 2022 season will revolve around them. Bounceback performances from Ja’Marr Chase and Michael Pittman relieved some of the concern surrounding the young stars. Meanwhile, Brandon Aiyuk and Chase Claypool made their case for fantasy relevance despite congested depth charts. We even got an unlikely star turn from a young WR in his second NFL game.
Today we’ll use a handful of our more than 40 tools to break down the top WR performances and take a short detour at the end to dive into the new Advanced Team Stat Explorer for a profile of the Monday night matchup.
WR Scoring Leaders – Week 6
| Player | Targets | Tgt Share | Recs | Rec Yds | Rec TD | Air Yds | YAC | aDOT | RACR | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ja’Marr Chase | 10 | 27.8 | 7 | 132 | 2 | 108 | 84 | 10.8 | 1.22 | 32.2 |
| Stefon Diggs | 13 | 34.2 | 10 | 148 | 1 | 113 | 52 | 8.7 | 1.31 | 30.8 |
| Tyreek Hill | 15 | 33.3 | 12 | 177 | 0 | 181 | 70 | 12.1 | 0.98 | 29.7 |
| Brandon Aiyuk | 11 | 26.8 | 8 | 83 | 2 | 103 | 37 | 9.4 | 0.81 | 28.3 |
| Michael Pittman | 16 | 28.6 | 13 | 134 | 0 | 72 | 64 | 4.5 | 1.86 | 26.4 |
| Chase Claypool | 7 | 25.9 | 7 | 96 | 1 | 66 | 30 | 9.4 | 1.46 | 23.4 |
| JuJu Smith-Schuster | 5 | 14.3 | 5 | 113 | 1 | 35 | 78 | 7 | 3.23 | 22.3 |
| Tyquan Thornton | 5 | 16.1 | 4 | 37 | 1 | 16 | 21 | 3.2 | 2.31 | 21.3 |
Ja’Marr Chase
Seamus Carr covered Chase’s bounceback performance in The 6 Storylines That Defined a Wild Week 6. One of Chase’s three incomplete targets was a dropped TD, so the game could have been even bigger.
