He had a league-leading 159 tackles last year and is entering his age 30 season. After earning grades of 81.9 in 2017 and 80.4 in 2018, Godwin took his game one step further this past season, breaching the elite at the position. Hes been particularly adept pushing the ball down the field, with top-five marks in passing grade and yards per attempt (14.6) on passes thrown 20 or more yards downfield over the last two years. . Patrick Peterson, CB, Cardinals. Height: 5'9 Position: Wide Receiver; Coming in at number 9, Wesley Carter Welker is a former American football pro who played for 11 seasons in the NFL. Upon looking closer, it was just two receivers who accomplished that; they both did it twice (Larry Fitzgerald and Terrell Owens), and are both Hall of Famers. From 2010 to 2013, the number of 1,000-yard wide receivers (not TE, not RB), rose from 16 to 17 to 19 to 23. Thats where well start today, the wide receiver position. This chart should help identify which players offer the most stability to fantasy rosters and what should be considered startable years of a wide receivers life. (Dec. 19, 2010) pic.twitter.com/tcQOG44Dm3, (Fitzgerald fits in the mold with Moss, Rice, and his career went 17 seasons, all with Cardinalshes currently 38). Players who are age-32 and beyond this season are: Julio Jones (32), T.Y. Those players do not exist like they did 20, 10, or even five years ago. This chart identifies when a player may lose some of that elite potential. Even at 29-years-old, he's still one of the best wide receivers in the league. He had arguably his best season in 2019, making his second Pro Bowl while posting a 26/6 TD/INT ratio and winning a huge playoff game at New Orleans. He had 1,077 yards when he was 29, but missed three games. No wide receiver has finished top-five in their age-21 season. Receivers arent allowed to push off defenders. Jefferson is now a 23-year-old with 196 catches, 3,016 yards, and 17 touchdowns in his career. When will Rams pick center of the future? Like Jamal Adams, James is a versatile defender who can produce high-quality play in all phases of the game, as evidenced by his 80.0-plus grades in run defense, coverage and as a blitzer as a rookie. Updated September 08, 2021 McCaffrey joins Alvin Kamara and Todd Gurley as the only three backs with 1,000 rushing yards between the tackles and 1,500 receiving yards over the last three seasons. 11 years ago today, DeSean Jackson walked it off with a punt return TD! Top 5 WRs age 30+AJ Green, 718 yardsThielen, 686Beasley, 640M Jones, 624E Sanders, 606WRs turning 30 next year:D AdamsK AllenLockettHopkinsWoodsOBJLandryTurning 29KuppDiggsCooksEvansGolladayWatkins. Being able to produce with the ball in your hands matters. He's entering his age 30 season. In 2000, six of the eighteen 1,000-yard receivers were at least 30, including 34-year-old Tim Brown and 35-year-old Cris Carter. PFF's exclusive metrics provide matchup previews, position rankings, grades, and snap counts. Jones, who turned 30 in the offseason, has been an All-Pro in two of the last three seasons and has double-digit sacks in six of the last seven years. pic.twitter.com/WrhsYbFYCD. Again, the game we play doesnt care about whether or not a player is in his prime physical shape, because if it doesnt equal fantasy points, it doesnt matter to you, the fantasy player. After earning grades of 81.9 in 2017 and 80.4 in 2018, Godwin took his game one step further this past season, breaching the elite at the position. 1 void left after the Broncos parted ways with Emmanuel Sanders, and he developed into a legitimate top option in their passing game. Jackson still wasnt a beacon of accuracy, but when you bring the dynamic ability he does as a runner, that simply doesnt matter as much. Players who are getting close to that mark: Julio Jones (31) and T.Y. Entering his age 37 season, Rodgers is still going strong in Green Bay. In dynasty, you should be playing with a three-year window in mind, and if this chart highlights anything, its that hell have another three years of top-24 production. In fact, his 92.1 rushing grade over the last two years is the only mark above 90.0. That could certainly be part of it, but the truth is, there were other contributing factors from injury to brutal quarterback play on the least efficient offense in the NFL. TL;DR: This article explores at which ages NFL wide receivers have their most productive seasons. That is just 7-percent of all 1,000-yard receivers in that two-year span. Wide receivers are in their prime fantasy years from age-25 through age-32, according to this chart. Theres a steady arc in the percentages, and its clear that a wide receivers prime is from age-25 through age-32. Barkleys inclusion on this list is based on the obvious talent he showcased as a rookie in 2018 rather than the relatively disappointing, injury-plagued sophomore campaign we saw from him this past season. Last season, Marvin Jones led all 30+ wide receivers with 978 yards. The 29-year-old found success with the Detroit Lions prior to his Giants stint. That mainly comes down to the fact that getting Chubb to the ground has been much easier said than done. Copyright 2023 YB Media, LLC. He is just another player on the list of recent Saints draft hits. 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This is a rudimentary way of evaluating wide receiver value: But it really doesnt matter if you want to be arbitrary or if you want to hide behind a security blanket called analytics, the name of the game is no different: Theres no way to slice this bread and not have it tell you that the average age of a good wide receiveror at least the wide receivers being employed and targeted most oftenhas gone down SIGNIFICANTLY in the last 20 years and even in the last five years. Go back to the year 1999, the season in which Kurt Warner changed everything just so that he could one day inspire a movie that be directly targeted to Brenda and Kurt Warner, and of the 26 players to cross the 1,000-yard threshold, seven were at least 30 years of age: Jimmy Smith*, Tim Brown*, Cris Carter*, Rocket Ismail, Tony Martin, Ed McCaffrey, and Terance Mathis. Now that we know a wide receiver essentially loses his elite upside when he turns 32, what about performing as a consistent WR1 for your fantasy team? The types of wideouts who we used to expect to get 14 seasons, then 11-12 seasons, now look to be getting at most eight or nine seasons. His grade may have trended in the wrong direction in 2018 and 2019 after an impressive rookie campaign where he notched 18 combined pass breakups and interceptions, but at worst, Lattimore has been a solid starter in the Saints secondary. Cole Beasley 33 years old. At age 27, Calvin Johnson caught 122 passes for 1,964 yards, setting the single-season record that Cooper Kupp is looking to break in the next couple of weeks. Ryan was the 2016 NFL MVP and has been a consistent producer over 12 seasons. This Sundays game between the Rams and Vikings will feature the top two receivers in the NFL in receiving yards, each on one end of the twenties spectrum: Cooper Kupp has 1,625 yards at age 28, Justin Jefferson has 1,335 yards at age 22. NAME GP . From the data above on average 96.1 wide receivers per year played in the NFL between the ages of 25-29. Outside of that, veteran wide receivers are tremendous values. Injuries have hindered Green over the last two seasons, but the Bengals are hopeful he can bounce back at age 32 this season. Winning in the trenches at a young age is not easy to do. But then in 2023, when hes 30, the Rams can get out from under half of his $18 million salary, the final year of the extension he signed in 2020. The years sampled were 2011-2020 for the wide receiver position only. The New York Giants have told wide receiver Kenny Golladay he will be released after two horrible seasons. This chart identifies when a player may lose some of that elite potential. Modern NFL nose tackles are rarely anything more than space-eaters and early-down run-stuffers. The analysis benchmark we will be discussing today is 100 targets. The year prior, of course, he played in 12 games while he was already 40, including seven starts.. Godwin was another easy choice here. Subscribe:Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Google Podcasts|Stitcher|SoundCloud|iHeartRadio. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. youngest active wide receivers in the NFL. The team will have to decide whether or not to keep Woods at a salary of $15.7 million, release Woods prior to June 1st for $3.6 million in savings, release Woods with post-June 1 for $10 million in savings, or renegotiate a new deal with Woods to lower his salary cap. 82 receptions for 693 yards and one touchdown in 2021. Not only does he produce the jaw-dropping, highlight-reel plays, but he is just about as good as anyone in the league at hitting the easy throws and limiting mistakes. Dont expect that to change on a defense that should only get better in 2020. But then, turning 30 was not necessarily even the really big concern for a wideout then. His most recent game with 90 or more yards was October 13, 2019. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. After removing the players with less than 50 targets, were left with a total of 1,080 individual seasons, more than enough for a conclusion. Very little. One of those things was the age that fantasy players stop producing. Mike Tagliere is a featured writer at FantasyPros. Its merely meant to serve as a nod to the leagues best young players across all positions, and it considers PFF grades, signature stats and team impact over the course of the players' respective NFL careers. Since he was drafted in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft, no running back has graded out higher than Chubb as a rusher. Moore hasnt had the best of quarterback circumstances, given that he's had to deal with an injured Cam Newton and an uninspiring Kyle Allen/Will Grier duo for much of 2019, but hes been able to produce despite those limitations, putting up a receiving grade over 80.0 across his first two NFL seasons. Johnson then had 1,492 yards the following year, but missed two games. Wagner has been one of the constants on Seattle's defense since 2012 and has been an All-Pro in five of the last six seasons. Suttons 83.1 PFF grade was a top-10 mark at the wide receiver position in 2019. His 16 forced missed tackles after the catch were a top-five mark at the position, as well. Wes Welker. Then something interesting happened in 2017: the number of 1,000-yard wideouts dropped from 23 to 13. This chart clearly shows that a wide receiver holds tons of value through his age-31 season, though thats where we start to see a drop-off in elite production. Do you expect Justin Jefferson to be capable of starting for the Vikings in 2033, when he will be 35? Moore has earned 62 targets on slant and in-routes since 2018 (fourth most in NFL), and his 94.9 receiving grade on those routes trails only, . His 17.2% pressure rate trailed only his brother, Joey Bosa, and the aforementioned Smith among rookies with 250 or more pass-rushing snaps over that same time frame. Bosas 89.8 overall grade in 2019 ranked third among all edge defenders. In 2001, 10 receivers of that age crossed over 1,000 yards, including 39-year-old Jerry Rice: 83 catches on 125 targets, 1,139 yards, 9 touchdowns. His PFF grade ranks fourth at the position since 2017, and hes been the eighth-most valuable safety in the league by PFF WAR over that same three-year stretch. His 2.89 receiving yards per route run trailed only George Kittle at the tight end position in 2019, and he was one of three qualifying tight ends to put up an average depth of target of 11 yards or more, joining Jared Cook and Mike Gesicki. Barring a dramatic turnaround in the next two months, Beckham should not be a priority free agent for the Rams or anyone else. He's on a streak of three consecutive Pro Bowls and has been an All-Pro in two of the last three seasons with a combined 29 sacks over that time. Wide receivers dont necessarily have to be straight speed demons although it certainly doesnt hurt if theyre blazing fast. There are certain topics that come up throughout a fantasy owners life cycle that force him to question everything hes heard. Seth Trachtman is a fantasy sports expert and diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan. The 26-year-old has become one of the Patriots most-reliable receivers. Slayton has four games of 20 or more fantasy points in his young career. His two-year contested-target percentage and forced incompletion rate both rank among the top 10 players at the position. I cant tell you how many times Ive heard wide receivers start to decline around the 28-year-old mark, and many in the dynasty industry think you should consider selling before the cliff. With the kind of production hes put up, its going to be hard for the Packers not to get a new deal done with Clark. Whats perhaps most interesting is that in addition to the names above, there were also quite a few other disappointments (Corey Davis, Calvin Ridley, Amari Cooper, DK Metcalf, A.J. Green, draft JaMarr Chase, get younger, healthier, and richer, The Giants sign Kenny Golladay and the Ravens add Sammy Watkins, but this doesnt prevent either team from drafting a wide receiver in the first round this year; which was smart because Golladay and Watkins do seem a lot older than their counterparts and theyve got a ways to go before turning 30. Brown, Will Fuller, Courtland Sutton) and who knows, we might see more than 20 new names in PFFs rankings to open next year. Dunlap has been one of the more overlooked defensive linemen in the league for much of his 10-year career in Cincy. 3 receiver in Las Vegas, but he had a really solid year in 2021 for the Raiders. Razzball.com and the Razzball logo units are copyright Razzball LLC. OBJ could once lay claim to being the most famous player in the entire National Football League, but even before he turned 29 he appeared to be a shadow of his former self. Theres a steady arc in the percentages, and its clear that a wide receivers prime is from age-25 through age-32. From age 28 through 31, we see three of the top four percentages on the chart. When drafting a player in the early rounds, you want to ensure they can not only live up to their draft position, but hopefully exceed it. There are things youre told when you start playing fantasy football that you believe to be true. After removing the players with less than 50 targets, were left with a total of 1,168 individual seasons, more than enough for a conclusion. He's been an All-Pro in three consecutive seasons and has three Pro Bowls to his name over nine seasons in Philadelphia. It would appear age doesnt make a whole lot of difference to wide receivers, though we do see the number ramp up from their age-21 to age-26 season, highlighting when most are at the tail end of their rookie contract. Superflex Dynasty Rookie Draft Rankings (2023 Fantasy Football), Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Trade Value Chart (March 2023 Update), Video: Fantasy Football Running Back Rankings (2023), NFL Free Agency Rumors & News: Derek Carr, Leonard Fournette (2023 Fantasy Football), Early Draft Sleepers to Target (2023 Fantasy Football), Trending Up & Trending Down (2023 Fantasy Football), No, I'm a California resident looking for the California Consumer Privacy Act form. I have no reason to believe Kupp wont finish out his deal, but seeing him get another contract beyond that is beginning to look like it will be more of an exception than an expectation. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Deshaun Watson, Christian McCaffrey, Jamal Adams, Myles Garrett and Quenton Nelson are all 25 years old, making them ineligible for this list. Not only does he produce the jaw-dropping, highlight-reel plays, but he is just about as good as anyone in the league at hitting the easy throws and limiting mistakes. This is much different than the running back chart youll see tomorrow. Finally, we have to talk about Cooper Kupp, Robert Woods, and Odell Beckham, Jr. Robert Woods - Turns 30 on April 10, 2022. Sutton wasnt sniffing this list after a rookie season where he earned just a 63.8 overall grade and dropped nine passes (second most in the NFL). Davante Adams, 29 Deebo Samuel, 25 Tyreek Hill, 27 Ja'Marr Chase, 21 Keenan Allen, 29 Stefon Diggs, 28 Combined with Kupp and Jefferson, that's eight solid receivers that virtually everyone. Godwin was another easy choice here. The Stafford Effect could mean that Cooper Kupp just gets to be a much more dominant player for a few years and barring an injury, what would hold him back? At just 23 years of age, Andrews was the clear-cut top receiving option on the most efficient offense in the NFL last season. Its hard to understate how impressive three consecutive seasons of 80.0 overall grades out of the gate is for a player like Garrett. He turns 32 in November. Justin Johnson sorts through the wide receiver corps of the NFC East. The wide receiver must have had 50 or more targets to be included in the sample, as this will eliminate players who never get a shot at a young age, and those who fizzled out of the league after a few years. Ill start this out by saying that Alexander has had his fair share of losses at the catch point, which is why his grading has been good but not great thus far, but hes one of the more aggressive and skilled cornerbacks in the NFL when it comes to making plays on the ball. Young and exciting players like Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson and Lamar Jackson have emerged atop the quarterback position, while the 2019 rookie wide receiver class produced quite a few names that were worthy of this list. He did much of the same upon his return to the field in 2019 (82.5 overall grade), and its hard to see him not playing at that same level next season. If you want a deeper dive, we have included more information later in the article. He's hoping to rebound from a down age 30 season, when he recorded eight sacks in 15 games. Wide receivers age 25-29 peak at age 26 but they remain stable up until their age 30 campaign. Whenever I hear such stereotypes, I want to do my best to set the record straight. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The New York Giants have told wide receiver Kenny Golladay he will be released after two horrible seasons. As you can see for the wide receiver position there is no major drop off. That could certainly be part of it, but the truth is there were other contributing factors from injury to brutal quarterback play on the least efficient offense in the NFL that also played a role. This is the list of rookies with receiving grades of 80.0 or higher on 250 or more routes over the past 10 years: Odell Beckham Jr., Keenan Allen, Michael Thomas, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Doug Baldwin and the two 2019 rookies A.J. Johnson avoided having a crater year that tainted the memories we have of him and like James Dean, will always be remembered that way. For the 2021 NFL season, several position groups namely wide receivers, tight ends, running backs are getting fresh number brackets, meaning number options for an individual player have. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. Bosa did things as a rookie that we havent seen since the PFF era began in 2006. He's made two Pro Bowls in four years and had a solid 2019 season at age 30. Again, age-33 is the end for a wide receivers WR1 days, as just two of 56 wide receivers were able to finish as a WR1. The percentage of accurate passes he received dropped from 61.4% in 2017 and 2018 to 50.8% in 2019. To be clear, Im not telling you a wide receivers body doesnt start breaking down or fatiguing once he gets to a certain age (believe me, that starts before 28 years old), but it doesnt mean they cant produce more fantasy points per game with the experience theyve gained over the years. McCaffrey is the ideal modern NFL running back. 29 year old wide receivers in the afc. Some of this downfall has to be attributed to injuries, which is part of getting older, but that only strengthens the point that wide receivers are getting pushed out of the league at an earlier rate than ever: one bad injury can end a career now, not necessarily because the tank is empty but because the team assumes less risk by replacing said veteran through the draftand the draft is not only more rich with wideout talent than ever, but teams are also looking for pass-catchers at tight end and running back more than previously. Smith is one of the anchors of Minnesota's excellent defense, making his fifth consecutive Pro Bowl in 2019. In his first season with New England, Bourne caught 55 passes for 800 yards and five touchdowns in 17 games. This chart clearly shows that a wide receiver holds tons of value through his age 31 season, though thats where we start to see a drop-off in elite production. We could start with those who were just named to the Pro Bowl: Combined with Kupp and Jefferson, thats eight solid receivers that virtually everyone can agree on. As a rookie in 2018, Barkleys 86.3 receiving grade was a top-five mark at the position, and his 31 missed tackles forced after the catch led all NFL players by eight. Injuries have nagged Watt over the last few years, but he remains elite when he's on the field. This time last season, there were still a lot of questions about Jackson as a passer, but he answered some of those in 2019 with an 82.5 PFF passing grade that ranked sixth among qualifiers. The 31-year-old has made six consecutive Pro Bowls and finished last season with 99 catches for 1,394 yards and six touchdowns. For years now weve heard the argument that running backs dont matter based on fungibility at the position and values on day two of the draft outclassing the first rounders, but what will become of wide receivers if teams keep churning them out for new weapons the closer they get to 30? His accomplished career includes two MVPs, one Super Bowl and eight Pro Bowls. This list is meant to recognize the young players who figure to be the face of the game for years to come. That number drops to only 21.9 for wide receivers in the 30-34 bracket. And looking closer, it was just two receivers who accomplished that, though they both did it twice (Larry Fitzgerald and Terrell Owens), and are both Hall of Famers. One of the biggest ones Id questioned was the timeline in which a player declined. However, the fantasy gods are on our side as you can see the % of the wide receivers ages 30-34 who hit the 100 target benchmark actually increases to an average of 25.5%. Turning 29 may be just as bad. Since turning 30, he dipped to 52 and 620. Whether it is dynasty or redraft understanding when the cliff typically comes for a fantasy asset is key to staying ahead of the game. Maybe they went RB-heavy in the first few rounds and want to choose some high-floor options at wide receiver. Hes been particularly dangerous over the middle of the field. Brown, D.K. On a side note, the fact that he wont even be 24 to start his fourth NFL season is absurd. Browns downfall began during the Steelers-Raiders-Patriots mayhem of 2019 and since then his numbers are: 14 games, 78 catches, 957 yards in three seasons. Those players were Jordy Nelson, Julian Edelman, Pierre Garcon, Fitzgerald, Mike Wallace, and DeSean Jackson, all names that most football fans are completely familiar with and they were playing just a decade after that Hines Ward/Reggie Wayne list that I mentioned earlier. Finally, Megatron had 88 catches for 1,214 yards when he was 30 and everyone assumed, Yeah, great, fineyouve only played nine seasons, SURELY you can play as long as Terrell Owens! Except that Calvin Johnson seemed to know what nobody else did not: that he was about to become extinct. TL;DR: This article explores at which ages NFL wide receivers have their most productive seasons. Ive accumulated a 14-year sample size with only one requirement to be included. Then last season, at 31, Julio started to show signs of decline with the Falcons. A season ago, Browns 8.9 yards after the catch per reception led all wide receivers regardless of experience, and that came despite a healthy 13.6-yard average depth of target. Bryan Edwards, Raiders. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. 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According to the source, the average career length is about 3.3 years for players across the NFL. : #CINvsDEN -- Sunday 4:05pm ET on CBS : NFL app pic.twitter.com/znDCkg1M0r. That elusiveness both as a runner and a receiver is what makes him so dynamic in open space and what earns him a spot on this list. For 225 PPR fantasy points per year (roughly top-24 production), the average age was 27 with 80% of peak seasons falling within the age range of, Although the sample sizes for NFL wide receivers grows smaller as age increases, readers can apply this data to fantasy drafts because Mike Tagliere shows that wide receivers do not significantly decline until the age of, For truly elite (250+ PPR points) production, 68% of elite seasons are from players between the ages of. Thats what happens when a wide receiver challenges for MVP and Offensive Player of the Year; its not like being Aaron Donald or a quarterback, very few players lead the NFL in receiving more than once. 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