*Top 5 WR Head to Head

[Blueline]

For those of you that don’t know me, I am user Blueline and my player is Sean O’Leary. WR1 for the Chicago Butchers. Going into this season I did not expect much from my player as our QB at the time, Rose Jenkins was regressing. Between the offensive line giving up sacks or Jenkins air mailing interceptions. I knew I was in for a rough season stat wise. Fast forward to the conclusion of game 8 of the season and the Chicago Butchers sit at a league worse 1-7 record. Our general managers try to salvage our season by trading Jenkins for draft capital. Which in my opinion is the right move. But where does this leave Sean O’Leary? Statistically, he was actually doing pretty well, besides scoring touchdowns which isn't a very good metric for grading anyways. O’Leary was 3rd in the league in receiving yards at 707, behind league leading Saba Donut’s 785 yards.

The reason for writing this article is I found my player in a unique situation in these last 5 games of the regular season. After losing Rose Jenkins in a trade, who would replace her? Well initially the team would have liked to call up their young QB prospect in the DSFL, George O’Donnell, but the kid requested to stay down in order to further his development. Which the team was happy to do. This part I can’t really remember well, but I believe the team had multiple issues getting a QB under contract to finish the season. One auto retiring after signing, one still under contract with another team. It was a mess. After all that fell through, the team was in panic mode as they had no serviceable QB in the system. Enter Frank “The Tank” LaFleur! The 40 year old Walmart greeter, former highschool rec nerf football league champion, two times! Franky hadn’t seen a football or the barber for that matter in some time. When he arrived to the team practice facilities you could tell this guy was living off gas station taquitos and Pabst Blue Ribbon beers. Some would describe Franky as rotund with a slight wobble as he walked. Either way Franky was Chicago’s new starting QB for the remaining 5 games of the regular season.

For me, these next 5 games were a very interesting microcosm of my players season. 5 games of a 13 game regular season is about 38%, so a decent sample size. Considering Franky was only a 50 tpe QB, while the other 4 top WR, had NSFL ready QBs. Below I will list the attributes of each team's combination of QB + WR and their stats over the last 5 games of the regular season to see how O’Leary did in comparison.




Saba had a fantastic final 5 games to the season. Sitting at a league leading 785 receiving yards by the end of game 8, Saba went on to add another 406 yards for a total of 1191 yards. 126 more yards than second place. The anomaly that is game 10, really diminished his separation from the other top WR. Saba was only 9 receiving yards shy of eclipsing 1200 yards on the season. In those 5 games he averaged 5 receptions, 81.2 yards for an average reception of 15.6 yards. Great season Saba and you made a strong case for WRoTY. Good luck to you.




This seasons second place in receiving yards goes to Swift, who also had a great season. At the game 8 mark he sat in second in receiving yards with 720, he would go on to add another 345 yards, for a total of 1065 yards on the season. Although I said touchdowns are not a good grading metric, Swift still deserves a shoutout for averaging a little over a touchdown per game. Which is very impressive when looking at the yards he put up as well. Swift averaged 5 receptions per game, for 69 (NOICE) yards per catch for an average of 13.8 yards. Congrats Swift on a fantastic season.




Tidwell my man, holy shit. At the game 8 mark, Tidwell was 5th out of the top 5 in receiving yards at 623. And in the next 5 games he would go on a tear to add another 413 yards, bringing him to 1036 total yards. Good for 3rd best in receiving yards. He had the least amount of receptions over these 5 games with 21, but averaged 83 yards per game, 19.3 yards a catch and averaged a long of 40.2 per game. WOW! Talk about making the most of your catches. He would also find the endzone 4 times and be tied for first in receiving touchdowns at the end of the season with 11.




Thomas-Fox, played decently in the last 5 games of the regular season. But he doesn’t stand out like the other 3 wide receivers before him. In fact he only played slightly better than Sean O’Leary with a 50 tpe QB. He sat 4th in receiving yards at the game 8 mark with 687. He would add another 335 yards to bring his season total to 1022 receiving yards, 4th most. He averaged a little less than 5 receptions per game, for an average reception of 14.2 yards per game and a total of 67 yards per game. Now I don’t want him to take this the wrong way, but considering how good his QB is, I believe he should have been a lot better.




Look at Franky in all his glory. The man, the myth, the Walmart greeter. When I started this I just wanted to see how I compared to my peers with a 50 tpe QB. And although the numbers are not very impressive, I am actually within reach of Swift and Thomas-Fox for average yards per game. I mean who would have thought O’Leary would be able to put up over 300 yards in the final 5 games of the regular season to eclipse the 1,000 receiving yard mark with a 50 tpe QB at the helm. And to top that off, receive for over 100 yards in the final game of the season. I know it is my player, but considering the circumstances with Franky. I truly believe O’Leary made NSFL history in game 13.

Good luck to the awards committee on this one. My top two are Saba and Tidwell. I believe Tidwell had the more complete season out of all of us and did it with only 57 total receptions on the season. Thanks to everyone that read all of this and I apologize for any errors.

Special Note: Tidwell only WR to receive an S grade. He did so in game 10 against the Honolulu Hahalua. Congrats.

[KillaScrilla]

Side note though DTF also was sharing the ball with me taking away from him. But great read.

[Opera_Phantom]

You're welcome Saba