According to ESPN.Com

Top Targeted WRs this season:

1. Julio Jones (182)

2. DeAndre Hopkins (170)

3. Antonio Brown (167)

4. Demaryious Thomas (155)

5. Odell Beckham Jr. (151)

6. Brandon Marshall (148)

7. Jarvis Landry (143)

8. Allen Robinson (135)

9. Larry Fitzgerald (133)

10. Michael Crabtree (131)

11. Mike Evans (130)

12. Calvin Johnson (126)

13. Emmanuel Sanders (124)

14. Amari Cooper (122)

15. TY Hilton (121)

16. AJ Green (118)

17. Randall Cobb (118)

18. Golden Tate (117)

19. Eric Decker (117)

20. Brandon Cooks (116)


Of course there are always variables that go into any rankings for yearly totals (yards, receptions, TDs, etc). It's pretty telling this season that AJ Green has 20 to 30 less targets than the receivers within the mid-top ten.


Green, C.Johnson, Cobb, Hilton, Evans, Amari: I'm actually surprised that a couple of those guy's targets are down that much lower, especially Johnson, Cobb, and Cooper.


AJ Green is surrounded by a ton of weapons that the Bengals have spread targets to all season (especially Eifert in the Red Zone), so that's no surprise.


Hilton has had to play with Hasselbeck all season, Lol! Poor guy Hahaha


And it looks like Carr likes to go to Crabtree more often than Cooper (which has bitten me in fantasy sometimes with the Crabtree TDs).


Anyway, you have to take rankings with "a grain of salt" most often, due to many variables that come into play (games played, target opportunities, backup QBs, other "weapons" on the team, etc.) I'm sure there's a few more.

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