What happened to NFL Wide Receivers??
Scrolling Twitter in a product manor as always, I came across the following tweet that stood out.
Four players in the NFL have 1,000+ receiving yards:
— Ian Hartitz (@Ihartitz) December 15, 2024
Ja'Marr Chase
Justin Jefferson
CeeDee Lamb
Jerry Jeudy
St. Brown reached 1k after this tweet being posted
Through 14 games only 5 receivers have over 1,000 yards and one of them being a non-star caliber name. I thought to myself, no way this was the case a decade ago.


Looking back at the 2012 & 2013 NFL season, we can see the league was much more star driven and top heavy. In the 2012 season there was 82 players with over 400 receiving yards. To compare that to today, through 14 games over 98 players have already reached the 400 yard marker.
It seems a conclusion can be made that the offense is more evenly spread out incorporating more players than the past. The average talent level of the receiver has gone up while the star receiver has become a lot harder to come across.