3 receiver in Las Vegas, but he had a really solid year in 2021 for the Raiders. Being able to produce with the ball in your hands matters. You don't earn the highest overall grade in the NFL among wide receivers at 24 years old as Godwin did in 2019 and miss out on this list. He's posted over 100 tackles in consecutive seasons and was an All-Pro at age 30 last year, with 111 tackles, four sacks and 12 passes defensed. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. There are sure to be outliers, but again, do not unload wide receivers who are 28- or 29-year-old studs. His most recent game with 90 or more yards was October 13, 2019. 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. Players who are age-32 and beyond this season are: Golden Tate, Emmanuel Sanders, and Julian Edelman. Not the 1,500-yard player that some of his peers were, Baldwin no less was setup for long-term success like a Derrick Mason would be in the decades before him. Ryan was the 2016 NFL MVP and has been a consistent producer over 12 seasons. In fact, his 92.1 rushing grade over the last two years is the only mark above 90.0. Always free! Signed as a free agent by the Jaguars, Jones has 56 catches for 624 yards this season. We only really have one season to go off with James as he missed most of 2019 with injury, but he did exactly what we expected him to do in that 2018 rookie season coming out of Florida State. From ages 25-30, Jones consistently crossed over 1,400 yards and he averaged: 103 receptions, 1,564 yards, 6 TDs. He's made three consecutive Pro Bowls, finishing last season with a career-high 15.5 sacks at age 30. 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. 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. McCaffrey is the ideal modern NFL running back. This is roughly 6% higher than the average of 19.7% who are in their late 20s. 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. Its a smaller sample size, sure, but seeing 34-year-olds posting top-24 numbers 38.9 percent of the time, the highest mark on the chart, it gives the older guys hope. 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, . Credit where credit is due, though. And that is what has made him the most valuable player in the NFL over the last two seasons by nearly a full win above replacement. Surely these players would be valuable for many more seasons to come, if history was any indication of what we could expect in the future. 5. 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. Veteran receivers were still quite valuable. Reggie Wayne, Randy Moss, Hines Ward, Donald Driver, Chad Johnson, and Derrick Mason were all at least 31, and had at least 1,000 yards. However, the data says otherwise which means many people can find great value in both redraft and dynasty. [Editors note: Subscribe to PFF ELITE today to gain access to PFFs Premium Stats and new Player Grades experience in addition to the 2020 NFL Draft Guide, 2020 Fantasy Rookie Scouting Report, PFF Greenline, all of PFFs premium article content and more.]. One of the biggest ones Id questioned was the timeline in which a player declined. You can drop this number down from 1,000 yards to 800 yards and it really will not make much of a difference. Youngs mention here was earned here by just how dominant of a prospect he was hes the best edge defender prospect that PFF has scouted since 2014. The biggest takeaway while looking at this chart is something many have forgotten after watching a great rookie class in 2019. This is much different than the running back chart youll see tomorrow. Bosa did things as a rookie that we havent seen since the PFF era began in 2006. Emailed daily. 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. Watson isnt without his faults namely his penchant for holding on to the ball too long and inviting pressure upon himself but that shouldnt detract from the fact that he has been one of the leagues best quarterbacks over the last two seasons, ranking seventh in PFF grade among qualifiers over that period. Julio Jones hamstring falling off the bone like perfectly cooked BBQ this season. Sources: Razzball.com, Pro Football Focus, Pro Football Reference, Football Outsiders and FFToday.com, Adam Thielen, Amari Cooper, Antonio Brown, Cole Beasley, Emmanuel Sanders, John Brown, Julio Jones, Marvin Jones Jr., T.Y. 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Blame it on injuries if you want to, the fact is that one OBJ case would be an exception; when there isnt a single 30+ OBJ in the league, it means that the rule says: You cant be a wide receiver over 30 anymore. Beckham will likely spend next summer looking for the right fit for my talents instead of being subject to a bidding war for his services and that says A LOT. In his first season with New England, Bourne caught 55 passes for 800 yards and five touchdowns in 17 games. 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 Deandre Hopkins and Michael Thomas. This steep drop-off is no surprise, but it does influence the total number of age 30+ wide receivers who hit 100 targets in a season. The Spartans ranked. Big Ben is coming back in 2020 after missing most of 2019 to an elbow injury. No wide receiver has finished top-five in their age-21 season. The idea is that if you give a 24-year-old and a 31-year-old the same number of targets, we want to know whos more likely to produce (its the 31-year-old). On a side note, the fact that he wont even be 24 to start his fourth NFL season is absurd. The years sampled were 2011-2020 for the wide receiver position only. Ingram has now made three consecutive Pro Bowls as he embarks on his age 31 season. The right tackle has never missed a start in his career and was an All-Pro in 2018. Patrick Peterson, CB, Cardinals. If theres someone in your dynasty league who wants to sell a wide receiver because hes rebuilding, take advantage and buy wide receivers in the 27-30 age range. 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. Young could very well deserve a spot on this list without even playing a down in the NFL. 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? That means if you dont have a target baseline in the analysis then youre including a lot of young wide receivers who dont pan out. The percentage of accurate passes he received dropped from 61.4% in 2017 and 2018 to 50.8% in 2019. If there's one reason to sell, it should be when a wide receiver is 30 or 31 years old . Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. He can do everything you would want a running back to do, and hell continue to do so for the Panthers given that hes coming off a freshly-inked contract extension. Green, Golden Tate, Doug Baldwin, Dez Bryant. Tate is out of the NFL this year, so his career ended at 32. Who could have had a better argument as the next Chad Johnson or a mini-me version of Terrell Owens? | Gone are the days when two-receiver sets were the staple of the NFL , as t eams lining up in trips, four-wideout looks . Thats where well start today, the wide receiver position. All five are on pace to have lower totals in 2021, even with the 17th game added onto the schedule. He made his seventh Pro Bowl in 2019. Tyler Lockett, Seattle Seahawks. Outside of that, veteran wide receivers are tremendous values. Rice caught 1,023 career passes after turning 30: Skip forward to 2009, a decade after the GSOT, when Game of Throws became Game of Thrones, elder statesmen wideouts were still able to thrive in the NFL. Going into the 2021 season, PFF ranked the top-32 wide receivers in the NFL and I want to highlight some of those names with updates on how their 2021 season is going: Of the 15 wide receivers on PFFs preseason list from this year who were over or nearing 30 (Davante Adams was ranked first and coincidentally today is his 29th birthday), I would argue that at least 12 have been disappointing for one reason or another. Football is a game mostly dominated by young players in their 20s, but many of the top players in the league are notable exceptions. Green (33), and Emmanuel Sanders (34). Jefferson is now a 23-year-old with 196 catches, 3,016 yards, and 17 touchdowns in his career. It gets pretty ugly after the age-32 season, though, as just 4-of-64 receivers finished as top-12 receivers. . Finally, we have to talk about Cooper Kupp, Robert Woods, and Odell Beckham, Jr. Robert Woods - Turns 30 on April 10, 2022. The percentage of accurate passes he received dropped from 61.4% in 2017 and 2018 to 50.8% in 2019. If youre in a dynasty league and nobody wants those players, take advantage of that. If the Packers are willing to spend big to land one of the best wide receivers in the NFL, Tyler Lockett is a player they should consider making a trade offer for. 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. It gets really ugly after that, though, as just 4-of-68 wide receivers who played at. 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. All rights reserved. The catch seen around the world. WRs who were 29 in 2017: Antonio Brown, A.J. One of those things was the age that fantasy players stop producing. He has been the most valuable player at the position since stepping foot on an NFL field in 2017, and he has developed into one of the more dangerous threats in the league as both a runner and as a receiver out of the backfield. Copyright 2023 YB Media, LLC. Mahomes is among the five best quarterbacks in the NFL in negatively graded throw rate since 2018. In saying nothing negative at all about Cooper Kupp whatsoever, I am confident that 2021 will be the best season of his career. 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). The third-year receiver is only 24 years old and has shown flashes of being a dangerous weapon. He's made two Pro Bowls in his career and is the clear No. 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. From the data above on average 96.1 wide receivers per year played in the NFL between the ages of 25-29. Hes been particularly dangerous over the middle of the field. He finished last year with 4,466 yards passing and 26 touchdowns at age 34. This was a no-brainer there is no quarterback in the NFL teams would rather have moving forward than Mahomes. Johnson is one of the league's most athletic and dominant offensive linemen, with three consecutive Pro Bowl appearances. 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. He's hoping to rebound from a down age 30 season, when he recorded eight sacks in 15 games. Slayton has four games of 20 or more fantasy points in his young career. NAME GP . Unfortunatelyand this is something that analytics seems to consistently misshistory does not predict the future. Interestingly, he did it at a high level in both the slot (63% of his routes in 2019) and out wide. By doing that, were making it a stronger study, though its important to note that if we included everyone, the numbers would strongly help the older wide receivers who stuck around in the league, but we wanted to make this an even playing field. All three players can beat you deep, take a. Quickness is what a wide receiver will use more often than speed. Brandon Cooks already has an impressive 44 catches for 694 yards, a 15.8 yards per catch. The 6'1 190 pound wide receiver will turn 29 this year. Thomas got back on track in his first season in Baltimore after missing most of 2018 due to a fractured leg. Theres a steady arc in the percentages, and its clear that a wide receivers prime is from age-25 through age-32. Receivers arent allowed to push off defenders. Wide. No wide receiver has finished top-five in their age-21 season. No position has seen more growth in the past two decades than wide receiver. To be as dominant as Nelson has been at his age is a rarity in the NFL. that also played a role. Then last season, at 31, Julio started to show signs of decline with the Falcons. Which is quite a statement. 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. He raised his grade from 79.4 as a rookie to 91.2 this past season, and his 88.8 grade over the last two seasons combined is higher than any other interior offensive lineman in the league over that span. The Ravens have one of the most talented secondaries in the NFL, and Humphrey has been a big part of that group. 82 receptions for 693 yards and one touchdown in 2021. 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. 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. Read about the tight ends here. : #CINvsDEN -- Sunday 4:05pm ET on CBS : NFL app pic.twitter.com/znDCkg1M0r. He made the Pro Bowl at age 29, but Baldwin was not the same player at 30 and he never played in the NFL again after that season. The New York Giants have told wide receiver Kenny Golladay he will be released after two horrible seasons. 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. Some will say that its skewed results due to the players who are still playing at that age are likely top-notch, but you mustnt forget that we removed all players with less than 50 targets from every age. When I became a full-time analyst and had time to research things like this, I wanted to give you concrete answers. He had 1,077 yards when he was 29, but missed three games. 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. Maybe they will. The final question you need to ask yourself is 92% of Julio Jones better than 100% of Amari Cooper in the 4th round of your fantasy draft? 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. The Giants are releasing wide receiver Kenny Golladay, The Post's Paul Schwartz confirmed. In conclusion it seems that once a wide receiver hits age 30 the narrative is to fade them in drafts. Odds & lines subject to change. Here are the 25 best players regardless of the position they play who will be under 25 years old by Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season, using September 10 as the presumed cutoff date. 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. Peterson is coming off the worst year of his career at age 29, but hopes the transition to his 30s holds a brighter . Meanwhile, a new breed of defender the Jamal Adamses and Derwin Jameses of the world wears multiple hats and does it all at a high level. Subscribe:Apple Podcasts|Spotify|Google Podcasts|Stitcher|SoundCloud|iHeartRadio. 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. What would they have to gain by telling you a player falls off a cliff at a certain age? Most Receiving Yards Among 29 Year Old Receivers This Season | StatMuse most receiving yards among 29 year old receivers this season Stefon Diggs had the most yards on receptions by a 29-year-old wide receiver in 2022, with 1,429 yards. What wide receivers are 29 years old? Modern NFL nose tackles are rarely anything more than space-eaters and early-down run-stuffers. Godwin was another easy choice here. Lattimore is part of the talented group of secondary players who were taken in the 2017 NFL Draft, and if you look back over his first three years in the NFL, his PFF grade of 84.9 ranks 10th at the cornerback position. 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. Garrett was on his way to a career year as a pass-rusher before his suspension last season. There are certain topics that come up throughout a fantasy owners life cycle that force him to question everything hes heard. You don't currently have any notifications, Dont give up on Julio Jones just yet, dynasty managers. The Steelers didnt have a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, but thats because they spent it on a 23-year-old safety whose 84.4 overall grade ranked sixth at the position after landing in Pittsburgh prior to Week 3. This chart identifies when a player may lose some of that elite potential. Campbell is one of the rare defensive linemen who has aged like a fine wine. Wants to chat with Jack Doyle first, as well. Hes been tested deep a fair amount since 2017, but Jacksons speed means that he rarely gets beaten over the top. His two-year contested-target percentage and forced incompletion rate both rank among the top 10 players at the position. Do you expect Justin Jefferson to be capable of starting for the Vikings in 2033, when he will be 35? Players who are getting close to that mark: Julio Jones (31) and T.Y. The only way to test whether this was true was to go through a large sample size of data. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The New York Giants have told wide receiver Kenny Golladay he will be released after two horrible seasons. 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. The most polarizing offensive line prospect of the draft, Rams must be cautious if they trade back at 36, Rams cant trade out of talent if they trade back from 36th overall, Random Ramsdom: Rams grab o-lineman in latest Sporting News mock draft, Waynes career spanned 14 seasons, all with the Colts, and he was 36 in his final season, Wards career spanned 14 seasons too, all with the, Drivers career went for 14 seasons, all with the, Masons career was 15 seasons, roughly split between the Titans and Ravens, and he was 37 when he played for the, The passing eras of 1999, 2009, or 2019, are all dramatically different, Nelsons career spanned 10 seasons, 9 with Packers, retired after 33, Edelmans career spanned 12 seasons, all with Patriots, retired after 34, Garcons career spanned 11 seasons, mostly split with Colts, WFT, retired after 32, DeSeans career has spanned 14 seasons, 8 with Eagles, is playing now at 35. 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. Hes, been particularly dangerous over the middle of the field, . Nelson was about as easy an NFL projection as you can get coming out of Notre Dame, and its no surprise that he has wasted no time in cementing his spot as one of the best guards in the NFL. Mike Tagliere is a featured writer at FantasyPros. Winning in the trenches at a young age is not easy to do. At what age do certain positions start falling off? The peak age for an NFL wide receiver appears to land at ages 23 to 30, as 79.1 percent of the individual seasons fall within this range. Even then, you can likely get WR2 or WR3 production, as they have just as good of a shot as everyone else. As I do these studies annually, the average age becomes younger each season. You dont want to make too many conclusions based on two-week sample sizes, but its hard not to see the kind of effect Fitzpatrick had on the Pittsburgh defense from his free safety position after joining the team. Thats where well start today, the wide receiver position. 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. 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. He surpassed 1,000 yards receiving in six of his first seven seasons. Youll take that as an NFL team 10 times out of 10. He quickly crushed those expectations, turning into the bonified top option in the Redskins passing attack. The year prior, of course, he played in 12 games while he was already 40, including seven starts.. Jones is already a five-time Pro Bowler, and he led the NFL with 136 receptions in 2015. *T.Y. Mecole Hardman, Chiefs. Thielen is hoping to rebound in 2019 after he suffered through a nagging hamstring injury last year. Dez spent his entire 20s with the Cowboys, peaking in 2014 when he was 26-years-old: 88 receptions, 1,320 yards, 16 TD. He's been an All-Pro in three consecutive seasons and has three Pro Bowls to his name over nine seasons in Philadelphia. Ive accumulated a 14-year sample size with only one requirement to be included. Only five years ago, 26-percent of 1,000-yard receivers were at least 30 years old. He will be 34 before Week 1, and the new Raven has made three consecutive Pro Bowls, including two double-digit sack seasons in Jacksonville. 9. Williams has very quietly played like one of the best safeties in the NFL over the last three seasons. 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. 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. On a side note, the fact that he wont even be 24 to start his fourth NFL season is absurd. Was the Bobby Wagner experiment a success for Rams? Drafted only three years apart, the two receivers are separated by six years of age and both would be consensus picks on anybodys current list of the top-10 players at that position. (via @NFLonCBS) Special. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. 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 23-30. In 2019 alone, he played 75 or more snaps at edge defender, in the box, in the slot and deep at free safety, and he did it all well. He also appeared in his third Super Bowl. So the percentage of 1,000-yard wideouts went from 12.5-percent in 2010 to 26.3-percent in 2012, but then fell back to 13-percent in 2013. Finally, the drop off isnt as steep as we might have thought. Unreal snag by Robert Woods pic.twitter.com/XmhQidpeXf. Its easy to get dispirited with Smith-Schuster after the 2019 season, attributing all his struggles in his third season to the fact that Antonio Brown wasnt there to draw away attention. 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. It's no coincidence that the Saints run defense improved markedly after Davis was added in 2018. 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. There are a lot of things to like about his ability to stick with NFL wide receivers. 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