by Vincent Verhei

Happy Boxing Day to all, and to all a good night spent reading this abbreviated edition of Quick Reads that was written several days earlier, even before Week 16 games had kicked off. With the holiday season throwing our production schedule out of whack, we're going to look back at some full-season numbers instead of focusing on what happened this week. Which is actually a good thing, because it gives us a chance to revisit something I wrote about earlier this year.

In Week 7, I looked at the streakiest quarterbacks in the league -- those most likely to rip off several good plays in a row, or several bad plays in a row. From time to time since then, I have referenced quarterback streaks in individual player comments, but not written extensively about them. So we're going to do that today, but we're going to use a somewhat simpler methodology than we did in Week 7. We're simply going to grade each play as a success or a failure (explained here). Then we will calculate the percentage of each quarterback's passes (including sacks, bad snaps, and intentional grounding and defensive pass interference penalties) that were either a successful play after a success, or a failure after a failure.

Let's start with C.J. Beathard, for example. The 49ers rookie has had 242 pass plays this season:

Six were the first passes of the game. Obviously, you can't extend a streak on the first pass of a game, you can only start one.

103 were failed plays that came after another failed play.

46 were failed plays that came after a successful play.

48 were successful plays that came after a failed play.

39 were successful plays that came after another successful play.

Adding together the 103 failures-after-failures and the 39 successes-after-successes, then dividing by the 242 total pass plays, gives us a "streak rate" of 58.7 percent. And that makes Beathard the streakiest quarterback so far in 2017.

Streakiest Quarterbacks, Weeks 1-15, 2017 Name Passes First Pass Fail-

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Success Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk 3-C.Beathard 242 6 103 46 48 39 58.7% 1 44.8% 28 69.1% 1 7-B.Hundley 279 9 107 54 55 54 57.7% 2 49.5% 12 66.5% 4 10-E.Manning 529 13 185 107 106 118 57.3% 3 52.7% 3 63.4% 6 2-B.Hoyer 228 7 89 44 47 41 57.0% 4 46.6% 24 66.9% 3 7-D.Kizer 451 13 193 93 96 56 55.2% 5 36.8% 34 67.5% 2 9-M.Stafford 554 14 175 118 120 127 54.5% 6 51.4% 7 59.7% 16 3-T.Savage 250 8 89 51 55 47 54.4% 7 46.1% 25 63.6% 5 3-R.Wilson 546 14 180 117 119 116 54.2% 8 49.4% 13 60.6% 13 5-T.Taylor 395 13 138 84 84 76 54.2% 9 47.5% 18 62.2% 10 4-D.Prescott 459 14 154 99 99 93 53.8% 10 48.4% 16 60.9% 12 7-B.Roethlisberger 564 14 154 120 127 149 53.7% 11 54.0% 2 56.2% 24 8-K.Cousins 513 14 162 110 114 113 53.6% 12 49.8% 11 59.6% 17 14-A.Dalton 453 14 162 96 102 79 53.2% 13 43.6% 31 62.8% 7 1-C.Newton 469 14 156 102 104 93 53.1% 14 47.2% 20 60.5% 14 13-T.Siemian 390 11 140 87 85 67 53.1% 15 44.1% 30 61.7% 11 7-C.Keenum 455 13 115 101 101 125 52.7% 16 55.3% 1 53.2% 32 3-C.Palmer 296 7 97 67 66 59 52.7% 17 47.2% 21 59.1% 18 7-J.Brissett 460 14 166 100 106 74 52.2% 18 41.1% 32 62.4% 8 Name Passes First Pass Fail-

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Success Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk 11-C.Wentz 478 13 147 109 107 102 52.1% 19 48.8% 14 57.4% 22 4-D.Watson 229 7 63 50 53 56 52.0% 20 51.4% 8 55.8% 25 4-D.Carr 484 13 136 110 110 115 51.9% 21 51.1% 9 55.3% 28 9-D.Brees 496 14 132 112 113 125 51.8% 22 52.5% 4 54.1% 29 16-J.Goff 468 14 142 105 107 100 51.7% 23 48.3% 17 57.5% 21 15-J.McCown 437 13 138 101 98 87 51.5% 24 47.0% 23 57.7% 20 12-T.Brady 557 14 145 128 129 141 51.3% 25 52.2% 5 53.1% 33 17-P.Rivers 528 14 151 122 124 117 50.8% 26 48.5% 15 55.3% 27 8-M.Mariota 409 13 123 95 94 84 50.6% 27 47.2% 22 56.4% 23 6-J.Cutler 413 12 132 95 97 77 50.6% 28 44.3% 29 58.1% 19 10-M.Trubisky 298 10 114 69 69 36 50.3% 29 34.3% 35 62.3% 9 5-J.Flacco 490 14 172 113 117 74 50.2% 30 38.7% 33 60.4% 15 3-J.Winston 356 10 90 82 86 88 50.0% 31 50.6% 10 52.3% 34 2-M.Ryan 439 13 104 102 106 114 49.7% 32 51.8% 6 50.5% 35 12-A.Rodgers 265 7 74 64 63 57 49.4% 33 47.5% 18 53.6% 31 5-B.Bortles 468 14 135 109 115 95 49.1% 34 45.2% 26 55.3% 26 11-A.Smith 504 14 144 124 122 100 48.4% 35 45.0% 27 53.7% 30

Beathard is followed in streakiness by Brett Hundley, Eli Manning, Brian Hoyer, and DeShone Kizer. There's not a single full-time starter in that group. All five either started the year as backup quarterbacks or were benched for at least one game during the season. Meanwhile, the six least-streaky quarterbacks -- Alex Smith, Blake Bortles, Aaron Rodgers, Matt Ryan, Jameis Winston, and Joe Flacco -- are all unquestioned starters for their teams. As a general rule, streaky quarterbacks tend to be bad quarterbacks.

This can be easily explained by looking at each quarterback's streak rate after successful and failed plays. Beathard's streak rate after successes is only 44.8 percent, 28th-highest of the 35 quarterbacks with at least 200 passes this year. However, he has followed one failed play with another 69.1 percent of the time, the highest such rate in the league. His streaks have mostly been long series of bad plays, not good plays. This is true for most of the quarterbacks at the top of the table -- they're only streaky in a bad sense. Beathard is one of five quarterbacks (Kizer, Andy Dalton, Jacoby Brissett, and Mitchell Trubisky are the others) in the bottom ten in good streak rate, but the top ten in bad streak rate. The exception at the top of the table is Manning, the only player to finish in the top ten for both good streaks and bad streaks.

In contrast, we have Case Keenum -- 16th in overall streak rate, first in good streak rate, 32nd in bad streak rate. The Vikings quarterback has chained more good plays together than anyone else, while avoiding runs of multiple bad plays in a row. Derek Carr, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Jameis Winston, and Matt Ryan are the other players in the top 10 for good streak rate, but bottom ten for bad streak rate. And then there's the two players at the bottom of the table. Smith and Bortles are the only players to finish in the bottom 10 in both good streak rate and bad streak rate.

That's all well and good, but then there's the question of whether any of this actually means anything. Do some quarterbacks really tend to go on streaks more than others, or is this just random statistical fluctuation?

Changes in Streak Rate, Weeks 1-7 to Weeks 8-15 Name Passes Weeks 1-7 Weeks 8-15 Passes Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk Passes Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk 7-B.Roethlisberger 564 258 55.4% 8 50.4% 9 59.6% 12 306 54.8% 9 56.5% 2 52.9% 23 12-T.Brady 557 284 53.8% 15 52.2% 8 55.2% 18 273 51.5% 21 52.2% 5 50.8% 26 9-M.Stafford 554 253 57.9% 3 50.0% 10 63.6% 4 301 54.3% 11 52.4% 4 56.0% 16 3-R.Wilson 546 234 58.8% 2 54.4% 2 62.4% 7 312 53.3% 16 45.5% 19 59.3% 12 10-E.Manning 529 280 60.8% 1 53.9% 3 65.8% 1 249 56.4% 7 51.4% 7 60.4% 10 17-P.Rivers 528 274 50.2% 25 44.0% 21 55.0% 19 254 54.3% 12 52.8% 3 55.7% 17 8-K.Cousins 513 214 53.4% 16 52.4% 6 54.3% 20 299 56.4% 8 47.6% 15 62.9% 5 11-A.Smith 504 250 46.1% 27 42.5% 24 49.2% 27 254 53.4% 13 47.7% 14 58.0% 13 9-D.Brees 496 224 53.2% 17 53.2% 4 53.2% 22 272 53.4% 14 51.9% 6 54.8% 21 5-J.Flacco 490 241 55.1% 9 40.4% 25 64.1% 3 249 48.3% 26 37.3% 27 56.4% 14 4-D.Carr 484 204 57.1% 5 54.7% 1 59.2% 16 280 50.5% 24 48.5% 12 52.4% 24 11-C.Wentz 478 258 51.0% 24 48.3% 18 53.3% 21 220 56.5% 6 49.5% 9 62.0% 7 1-C.Newton 469 256 55.8% 6 49.5% 12 60.9% 8 213 53.4% 15 44.2% 22 60.0% 11 16-J.Goff 468 234 54.6% 11 48.5% 16 59.4% 15 234 52.0% 20 48.1% 13 55.5% 19 Name Passes Passes Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk Passes Streak% Rk Good% Rk Bad% Rk 5-B.Bortles 468 211 54.4% 12 48.4% 17 59.5% 14 257 47.6% 27 42.7% 23 51.9% 25 7-J.Brissett 460 227 55.5% 7 43.8% 22 63.4% 5 233 52.2% 19 38.5% 25 61.5% 8 4-D.Prescott 459 211 53.2% 18 49.5% 13 56.3% 17 248 57.5% 4 47.5% 16 64.5% 3 7-C.Keenum 455 198 51.0% 23 50.0% 10 52.0% 23 257 56.8% 5 59.0% 1 54.3% 22 14-A.Dalton 453 211 57.1% 4 48.9% 14 63.2% 6 242 53.0% 17 38.7% 24 62.4% 6 7-D.Kizer 451 197 53.9% 14 35.3% 27 64.2% 2 254 59.1% 1 38.1% 26 69.9% 1 2-M.Ryan 439 216 51.9% 20 52.3% 7 51.5% 24 223 50.5% 25 51.4% 8 49.5% 27 15-J.McCown 437 244 54.9% 10 48.6% 15 59.8% 11 193 50.8% 23 45.0% 21 55.1% 20 6-J.Cutler 413 194 51.6% 21 38.2% 26 60.7% 10 219 52.6% 18 49.0% 11 55.7% 18 8-M.Mariota 409 181 49.1% 26 47.6% 19 50.5% 25 228 54.8% 10 46.8% 17 60.6% 9 5-T.Taylor 395 190 54.3% 13 45.5% 20 60.7% 9 205 57.6% 2 49.4% 10 63.5% 4 13-T.Siemian 390 239 52.8% 19 43.3% 23 59.6% 12 151 57.5% 3 45.5% 19 64.8% 2 3-J.Winston 356 218 51.4% 22 53.1% 5 49.5% 26 138 51.5% 22 45.9% 18 56.2% 15 Minimum 100 passes in both categories.

Chalk one up for random noise. The correlation between streak rate in the first half of the season and that in the second half of the season is just -0.094. Alex Smith's streak rate has risen by 7.4 percent in the second half of the season; Carson Wentz, Case Keenum, DeShone Kizer, and Marcus Mariota each saw their streak rate rise by at least five percent as well. Meanwhile, Joe Flacco, Derek Carr, and Blake Bortles each saw their streak rate fall by at least six percent.

On a more granular level, there is a 0.441 correlation between good streak rate in the first and second halves of the year, and a 0.283 correlation between first-half and second-half bad streak rate. So there is some evidence at least that good quarterbacks will continue to play well and bad quarterbacks will continue to struggle. But that's hardly a revelation.

While we're here, we also calculated the streak rates of each team's passing defense, but they seem to be almost entirely meaningless. The correlations between the first and second halves of the season are even weaker than those for quarterbacks. The defensive streak rate leaders are basically a list of the best pass defenses in the league (Jaguars, Vikings, Ravens, Washington, and Cardinals), while the teams at the bottom of the table are, well, worse (Colts, Patriots, Giants, Browns, Broncos). When it comes to streaks, this tenet may seem obvious, but it's true: good offenses avoid long runs of failed plays in a row, while good defenses force them.

Quarterbacks Rk Player Team CP/AT Yds TD INT Sacks Total

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DYAR Opp 1. Jimmy Garoppolo SF 21/30 242 2 1 1 178 167 12 JAC Garoppolo gained a league-high 71 DYAR due to opponent adjustments this week. Prior to this week, the best NFL passer rating by a starting quarterback against Jacksonville was 86.2 by Jared Goff. Garoppolo's passer rating this week was 102.4. He was also just the third quarterback this season to throw 30 or more passes against the Jaguars without getting sacked at least twice. On third downs, he went 7-of-10 for 72 yards with seven conversions (including two touchdowns), one interception, and one sack. On passes up the middle, he went 9-of-9 for 102 yards and a touchdown. 2. Tom Brady NE 21/28 224 2 1 2 125 122 3 BUF With four minutes and change left in the second quarter, Brady threw an incomplete pass to Brandin Cooks on second-and-3. It was his last incomplete pass of the day. From that point forward, he went 10-of-10 for 110 yards, plus DPIs of 29 and 44 yards, with two sacks. 3. Ben Roethlisberger PIT 20/29 226 2 0 0 106 106 0 HOU 4. Jacoby Brissett IND 16/33 215 1 0 2 91 99 -9 BAL The good news for Brissett is that on passes that traveled at least 15 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, he went 5-of-6 for 94 yards. The bad news is that on passes that traveled 6 to 14 yards downfield, he went 1-of-13 for 16 yards. 5. Kirk Cousins WAS 19/37 299 3 1 0 80 69 10 DEN It turned out to be a decent game for Cousins, but only after a very slow start. He completed only one of his first eight passes, a 6-yard gain on second-and-10. 6. Jameis Winston TB 21/27 367 1 0 6 78 79 -1 CAR Winston fumbled three times, and the Panthers recovered all of them -- a huge factor in a one-score game. On passes that traveled 10 or more yards downfield, he went 12-of-16 for 319 yards, plus DPIs of 10 and 12 yards. 7. Alex Smith KC 25/39 304 1 0 1 74 64 10 MIA On third downs, Smith went 11-of-14 for 152 yards and seven conversions. He converted only one of his three opportunities with 3 yards or less to go, but made up for that with conversions on third-and-13 and third-and-15. 8. Jared Goff LARM 22/38 301 4 0 1 74 100 -26 TEN With the exception of an 80-yard touchdown to Todd Gurley (which was caught 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and included 85 yards after the catch), Goff's best plays came in the red zone -- touchdowns of 3, 3, and 14 yards. However, his worst play, a sack-fumble, also came in the red zone. 9. Marcus Mariota TEN 22/39 275 0 1 1 66 74 -9 LARM Mariota gains 54 DYAR due to opponent adjustments. He failed to throw a touchdown on four red zone drives, going 4-of-8 for 31 yards with a sack. 10. Jay Cutler MIA 19/38 289 1 0 0 62 62 0 KC Once the Dolphins fell behind by three scores, Cutler was pretty much done. After falling behind 29-13 in the fourth quarter, Cutler went 3-of-12 for 32 yards. 11. Matt Ryan ATL 22/36 288 1 1 5 61 58 3 NO Ryan gains 50 DYAR due to opponent adjustments. On third downs, he went 2-of-7 for 19 yards with an interception and four sacks. His only third-down conversion was a touchdown pass with less than three minutes left in the game that left Atlanta still trailing 23-13. 12. Philip Rivers LACH 23/40 290 1 0 0 39 39 0 NYJ On passes that traveled 13 to 23 yards downfield, Rivers went 8-of-10 for 152 yards. Rk Player Team CP/AT Yds TD INT Sacks Total

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DYAR Opp 13. Andy Dalton CIN 27/41 238 1 1 3 21 27 -6 DET Dalton failed to complete a deep pass against Detroit, going 0-for-6 with an interception. He did gain 25 yards on a seventh pass that resulted in a DPI. 14. Drew Brees NO 21/28 239 1 1 1 16 16 0 ATL Throwing to his left or up the middle, Brees went 9-of-14 for 59 yards and only two first downs. Throwing to his right, however, he went 12-of-14 for 180 yards and a DPI for 7 more yards, for eight first downs. 15. Joe Flacco BAL 29/38 237 2 0 1 8 11 -4 IND Flacco lost 71 DYAR due to opponent adjustments. On passes that traveled at least 13 yards downfield, he went 5-of-6 for 91 yards, plus a DPI for 14 more yards. 16. Case Keenum MIN 14/25 139 1 0 3 2 1 1 GB Short-yardage plays are supposed to be, if not automatic, then certainly converted more often than not. But with less than 5 yards to go for a first down, Keenum went 3-of-7 for 15 yards with two sacks and only two conversions. 17. Blake Bortles JAC 32/50 382 2 3 1 1 5 -3 SF While his counterpart Jimmy Garoppolo got the biggest boost due to opponent adjustments this week, Bortles took the biggest hit, losing 77 DYAR. Bortles threw a league-high 21 passes up the middle against San Francisco. He completed 13 of them for 158 yards and a touchdown, but also threw two interceptions, one of them a pick-six. 18. Bryce Petty NYJ 15/28 121 0 1 3 -11 -24 14 LACH On third and fourth downs, Petty went 4-of-12 for 24 yards with one conversion and one interception. Outside the New York 40, he went 6-of-14 for 33 yards with an interception and three sacks. 19. Russell Wilson SEA 14/21 93 2 0 3 -11 -21 10 DAL Wilson's 22-yard loss on a sack in the second quarter was the biggest loss of yardage on a single offensive play this season. 20. Matthew Stafford DET 19/35 203 1 1 2 -35 -39 3 CIN Stafford didn't throw many passes to his left against Cincinnati -- only six of them, completing four for 58 yards. 21. Mitchell Trubisky CHI 14/23 193 0 0 5 -38 -60 23 CLE Trubisky didn't throw a pass in the Browns' red zone. In Cleveland territory, he went 4-of-5 for 33 yards, but only one first down, with one sack and an aborted play. 22. Eli Manning NYG 27/45 263 0 2 2 -53 -54 1 ARI Manning didn't throw a pass in the Cardinals' red zone. In Arizona territory, he went 10-of-20 for 69 yards, but only one first down, with one sack and an interception. (Yes, I copied and pasted this from Trubisky's comment and changed the relevant data, but it's still true.) Rk Player Team CP/AT Yds TD INT Sacks Total

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DYAR Opp 23. Tyrod Taylor BUF 21/38 281 0 0 6 -63 -63 0 NE On four separate drives, Taylor failed to (officially) throw a touchdown, going 2-of-8 with two sacks. Those completions went for -1 and -8 yards, respectively. Yes, that's 10 plays in the red zone, and none of them gained yards. 24. Cam Newton CAR 16/25 160 0 1 2 -64 -52 -12 TB Newton's best passing splits in this game came on first down, when he went 7-of-9 for 105 yards and six conversions . He only had four first-down conversions on 19 second- and third-down plays. 25. Dak Prescott DAL 21/34 182 0 2 4 -68 -70 3 SEA Inside the Seattle 40, Prescott went 4-of-8 for 19 yards with one first down, one interception, and three sacks. 26. Drew Stanton ARI 20/34 209 2 2 2 -78 -75 -3 NYG Stanton's last three passes, all with the Cardinals up by 16 points or more in the second half: interception, interception, incompletion. He had -111 DYAR on those three plays. Take them away and he would climb 13 spots in the rankings. 27. DeShone Kizer CLE 18/36 182 0 2 1 -91 -89 -2 CHI Kizer had five plays inside the Chicago 38, and three of them resulted in turnovers: two interceptions, and one fumble by Rashard Higgins after a completed pass. That's 16 turnovers this season for Cleveland on plays that started inside the opponent's 40. Nobody else has more than 12. 28. Brock Osweiler DEN 22/37 195 0 1 4 -93 -96 3 WAS In the second half, Osweiler went 11-of-19 for 76 yards with two first downs and three sacks. 29. Derek Carr OAK 15/29 150 1 2 1 -127 -123 -4 PHI 30. Brett Hundley GB 17/41 130 0 2 1 -128 -141 13 MIN Hundley gained 66 DYAR due to opponent adjustments. He threw a league-high 13 deep passes this week, but only completed two of them. And one of those -- a 19-yard gain on second-and-20 -- didn't even pick up a first down. In other words, Larry Fitzgerald had as many first downs on deep completions as Hundley did this week. 31. Nick Foles PHI 19/38 163 1 1 2 -130 -130 0 OAK 32. T.J. Yates HOU 7/16 83 1 1 6 -176 -179 3 PIT So, uh, those Christmas games sure were horrible, weren't they?

Five Best Running Backs by DYAR (Total) Rk Player Team Runs Rush

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DYAR Opp 1. Todd Gurley LARM 22 118 0 10/13 158 2 87 32 56 TEN Five first downs on the ground, including gains of 10, 10, and 34 yards, while being hit for no gain or a loss just three times. His biggest reception, obviously, was his 80-yard touchdown on second-and-11 in the second quarter. 2. Melvin Gordon LACH 19 81 1 3/3 47 0 53 36 17 NYJ Gordon ran for five first downs against the Jets, including gains of 19 and 11 yards, while being stuffed for no gain or a loss three times. His biggest catch was a 39-yard gain in the third quarter. 3. Duke Johnson CLE 4 20 0 7/7 81 0 52 7 44 CHI Johnson's runs went for 2, 5, 6, and 7 yards. Five of his receptions went for first downs (the rest of the Browns receivers combined for only three first downs through the air), including gains of 13, 15, and 29 yards. 4. Giovani Bernard CIN 23 116 1 7/7 52 0 46 26 20 DET Bernard had six runs of 10 or more yards against Detroit, while being hit for no gain or a loss only four times. Four of his seven receptions resulted in first downs, the longest a 15-yarder. 5. Dion Lewis NE 24 129 1 5/5 24 1 38 23 15 BUF Five times Lewis ran for 10 or more yards against Buffalo, with eight first downs on the ground and only two hits for no gain or a loss. Only two of his receptions were successful plays, but one of those was a 12-yard touchdown on third-and-11.

Five Best Running Backs by DYAR (Rushing) Rk Player Team Runs Rush

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DYAR Opp 1. Ezekiel Elliott DAL 24 97 0 4/7 21 0 35 40 -5 SEA Elliott's longest run gained only 9 yards, and only five of his 24 runs resulted in first downs. However, only once was he hit for no gain or a loss. Sixteen of his carries gained 4 yards or more, 11 gained 5 yards or more, and five gained 6 yards or more. 2. Melvin Gordon LACH 19 81 1 3/3 47 0 53 36 17 NYJ 3. Todd Gurley LARM 22 118 0 10/13 158 2 87 32 56 TEN 4. Le'Veon Bell PIT 14 69 1 5/8 28 0 25 29 -4 HOU 5. Giovani Bernard CIN 23 116 1 7/7 52 0 46 26 20 DET

Worst Running Back by DYAR (Total) Rk Player Team Runs Rush

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DYAR Opp 1. Mike Davis SEA 15 25 0 4/5 18 0 -38 -32 -5 DAL A long run of only 8 yards, only one first down rushing, and seven hits for no gain or a loss. Two of his receptions went for first downs, but on back-to-back plays in the third quarter, he had an 8-yard loss on second-and-12 and then an 8-yard gain on third-and-20.

Worst Running Back by DYAR (Rushing) Rk Player Team Runs Rush

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DYAR Opp 1. Devonta Freeman ATL 11 39 0 2/3 20 0 -28 -36 8 NO Freeman's did have a 15-yard gain on third-and-1, but still picked up only two first downs despite getting six carries with 1 or 2 yards to go. That includes a fumble on second-and-goal from the 1 and a stuff for no gain on fourth-and-goal from the 1.

Five Best Wide Receivers and Tight Ends by DYAR Rk Player Team Rec Att Yds Avg TD Total

DYAR Opp 1. Julio Jones ATL 7 11 149 21.3 0 51 NO Jones only had five first downs in 11 targets, which is nothing special, but those five plays averaged 27 yards apiece. 2. Mike Evans TB 6 8 107 17.8 0 51 CAR Evans' DYAR accounts not only for the receptions listed here, but also two DPIs for 22 more yards. He had seven total first downs on the day, including three third-down conversions in four targets. 3. Cooper Kupp LARM 4 6 65 16.2 1 43 TEN Kupp also had a 31-yard DPI. His longest play was a 34-yard catch in the first quarter, but his most valuable was a 14-yard touchdown on third-and-6 in the fourth. 4. Jakeem Grant MIA 4 6 107 26.8 1 39 KC Grant's totals include 41 DYAR receiving, -2 DYAR rushing for his one carry for 3 yards. First-half targets: 10-yard catch on second-and-10, 26-yard catch on second-and-7, 65-yard touchdown on first-and-10. Second-half targets: 6-yard catch on third-and-16, incomplete on third-and-24, incomplete on third-and-15. 5. Ted Ginn NO 4 5 76 19.0 1 36 ATL Ginn's totals include 28 DYAR receiving, 8 DYAR rushing for his two carries for 14 yards. Basically his whole day was one 54-yard touchdown catch and then some other plays that amounted to nothing. It was not a great week for receivers.