EUGENE, Ore. -- Even with some questions at quarterback, one fact seems to be holding up so far in Eugene -- the wide receivers are as good as advertised.

Oregon passing game coordinator Matt Lubick said before the season that this might be the deepest group he has ever coached and after 11 different players caught passes against Georgia State, at least the numbers are agreeing with him.

But it's fair to anticipate that the number of players who catch balls during the conference season will drop.

"Those first three games for any program, the coaches get a feel for which guys the offense moves smoother with," wide receiver Bralon Addison said.

A look at the Ducks' past four seasons tells us that during the regular season and postseason, six to seven guys will catch passes every game. And in games that are decided by 10 or fewer points, it's unlikely that more than six will.

And that's not all bad news. Oregon's top six receivers after the nonconference schedule caught 49 of the 75 passes thrown their way.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Addison -- the team's leading receiver after the non-conference slate -- was also the most targeted during the past three games. He caught 13 of the 21 passes sent his way (62 percent).

The second-most targeted wide receiver in nonconference play has been Charles Nelson, who has been targeted 18 times and tallied nine catches (50 percent). Byron Marshall was the third-most targeted wide receiver. He caught 67 percent of the passes thrown his way, which is a team best for any receiver with more than three catches.

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Running back Royce Freeman has been spotless in the pass game, catching all seven of the passes that have been thrown to him. The team's sixth-most targeted player was tight end Evan Baylis, who caught six of seven passes.

These kinds of numbers aren't the be-all-end-all for the wide receiver group, but they are promising. With high efficiency numbers from all of these players, it's a good chance that if the number is six moving forward, these six would be the ones that would get the most targets.

"The coaches are going to go with the best guys out there against the better competition, so that's why the numbers dwindle down like that," said wide receiver Dwayne Stanford, who caught six of the 10 passes thrown to him in the nonconference slate. "It's like a tryout, you could say, whoever's hot going into those conference games, that's who they're going to ride."

The most obvious wild card who could jump into that top-six group is Devon Allen. He probably isn't in there right now because he hasn't played as many snaps as some of the other players, and moving forward -- assuming he still feels like he's good to go -- he would likely get more looks in the pass game.

Sixty-five percent from the top-six most targeted players isn't earth shattering by any means. But considering that group has caught passes from two different first-year starters through three games and they're working to build chemistry with both on the fly, it's a very good starting point.

Now, we see whether history holds up in Pac-12 play or not.