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Lockdown Index, top 5 through Week 8 (CBs with 35+ coverage snaps per game played):
Pat Surtain II, DEN: 123.5
Targeted 20 times in 192 coverage snaps. 17 yards after the catch allowed on 10 catches. 0.56 yards allowed per coverage snap.
Brandon Stephens, NYJ: 122.2
6 forced incompletions on 32 targets. 1 missed tackle all season.
Renardo Green, SF: 121.5
3 INTs and 3 forced incompletions on 29 targets. Thrown at once every 9.8 coverage snaps.
Travis Hunter, JAX: 119.6
2 INTs and 5 forced incompletions on 29 targets.
Denzel Ward, CLE: 119.1
3 INTs and 4 forced incompletions on 33 targets. 0.42 yards allowed per coverage snap, fewest among qualifiers.
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Two Bears in the top 3 through Week 8. 👀
Odunze wins deep. Burden wins underneath. Both are doing more with their catchable targets than almost every WR in the league.
Receiving Efficiency Index, top 5 through Week 8 (WRs with 40+ targets):
Drake London, ATL: 129.2
Caught 39 of 40 catchable targets, 28 first downs, +1.6 yards after the catch over expected.
Rome Odunze, CHI: 128.6
14 of 30 catchable targets went for 20+ yards. Average target depth of 14.9 yards.
Luther Burden III, CHI: 127.6
42 of 42 on catchable targets, 0 drops, +1.9 yards after the catch over expected.
Tee Higgins, CIN: 122.1
36 first downs on 48 catchable targets. His 75% rate leads all qualifiers.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, SEA: 120.0
89 targets, 49 first downs, 16 catches of 20+ yards, 985 yards.
The top three are separated by 1.6 points, too close to call this early.
REI measures what a WR does with catchable throws. Passes broken up by the defense aren't counted.
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Brandon Aiyuk's 2023 season was the most efficient WR season since 2018.
105 targets. 61 first downs. 28 catches of 20+ yards. 2 drops.
His Target Efficiency Score was 147.8 (see graphic). That ranks 1st of 80 WRs in 2023 and 1st of 672 WR seasons since 2018.
Purdy and Shanahan's offense help, but Deebo scored 125.2 in the same system.
That's the season that got him a 4-year, $120M extension in 2024.
He hasn't played since tearing his ACL and MCL on Oct. 20, 2024. If he's reinstated and passes a physical, that ceiling is worth a low-guarantee flyer.
Brandon Aiyuk met with the 49ers on Friday to begin hammering out a path toward a divorce that has been more than two years in the making.
Via @nwagoner:
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/5040…
Aiyuk's Target Efficiency Score by season:
2020: 97.6 (47th of 86)
2021: 121.0 (6th of 91)
2022: 108.4 (26th of 85)
2023: 147.8 (1st of 80)
He'd been good before 2023, but nothing close to that. The 49ers paid for one elite season on top of a solid track record.
That's why it's a flyer, not a big guarantee. The 2021 and 2022 seasons were good and 2023 put it all together for him and got him PAID.
Uhm. @lutherburden3 has been a literal all around game changer. 😳
Bears yards per carry with each pass catcher on the field in 2026 (team's average without him):
Luther Burden, WR: 5.07 (4.07 without)
Jahdae Walker, WR: 4.85 (4.11)
Kalif Raymond, WR: 4.60 (4.09)
Cole Kmet, TE: 4.43 (4.10)
Rome Odunze, WR: 3.92 (4.13)
Colston Loveland, TE: 3.53 (4.17)
Sam Roush, TE: 3.34 (4.14)
Burden's on the field, the Bears gain a full yard more per carry.
(Through Week 8, min. ~40 carries)
Most yards per carry with each TE on the field in 2026 (min. ~100 carries), with the team's average without him:
Greg Dulcich, MIA: 5.53 (4.35 without)
Travis Kelce, KC: 5.34 (4.98 without)
Dawson Knox, BUF: 5.09 (4.96 without)
Charlie Woerner, ATL: 4.96 (4.61 without)
Isaiah Likely, NYG: 4.83 (4.17 without)
Biggest jump over his team's average without him: Dulcich, +1.18 yards per carry.
Raiders:
2.99 with Mayer (2.93 without)
2.86 with Bowers (2.94 without).
Bears:
4.43 with Kmet (4.10 without)
3.53 with Loveland (4.17 without).
(Official NFL stats, through Week 8)
Raiders yards per carry with each pass catcher on the field in 2026 (team's average without him):
Jalen Nailor, WR: 3.97 (2.90 without)
Cody White, WR: 3.83 (2.91)
Tre Tucker, WR: 3.44 (2.92)
Michael Mayer, TE: 2.99 (2.93)
Brock Bowers, TE: 2.86 (2.94)
Jack Bech, WR: 2.66 (2.94)
Ian Thomas, TE: 2.59 (2.95)
Dareke Young, WR: 1.93 (2.96)
Not one Raiders pass catcher gets the run game to 4 yards a carry.
(Through Week 8, min. ~40 carries)
Bears yards per carry with each pass catcher on the field in 2026 (team's average without him):
Luther Burden, WR: 5.07 (4.07 without)
Jahdae Walker, WR: 4.85 (4.11)
Kalif Raymond, WR: 4.60 (4.09)
Cole Kmet, TE: 4.43 (4.10)
Rome Odunze, WR: 3.92 (4.13)
Colston Loveland, TE: 3.53 (4.17)
Sam Roush, TE: 3.34 (4.14)
Burden's on the field, the Bears gain a full yard more per carry.
(Through Week 8, min. ~40 carries)
Dude has ALWAYS been a real one.
Someone get a hold of this guy ASAP. There is too much hidden depression in the NFL and these decisions he’s making is recipe for the downhill spiral.
Self inflicted wounds are wounds nonetheless.
He needs counseling. Quality friends. Leadership. Discipline.
I know what it is to make dumb decisions on a smaller scale. I’m 1000% praying for him.
Kansas City Chiefs WR Rashee Rice has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, claiming more than $3.45 million in debt. According to court documents, more than $2.1 million is tied to civil lawsuits stemming from his 2024 high-speed Dallas car crash and allegations of abuse by his former girlfriend.
Rice reported having just $13,640 in his checking accounts and roughly $677,000 in personal assets.
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Josh Liles ✘ retweeted
BEARS just beat Seahawks by 17 points.
That’s the same as the COMBINED margin of loss in their last 6 losses.
😤😤😤🐻⬇️
(All Time) Most 3+ rush TD games in one season Per StatMuse:
5 Games: LaDainian Tomlinson (2006 SD)
4 Games: Jonathan Taylor (2025 IND), Priest Holmes (2003 KC), Joe Morris (1985 NYG)
3 Games: Derrick Henry (2021 TEN), Shaun Alexander (2005 SEA), LaDainian Tomlinson (2005 SD), Priest Holmes (2004 KC), Marshall Faulk (2000 STL), Terrell Davis (1998 DEN), Terry Allen (1996 WAS), Jim Brown (1965 CLE), Jim Taylor (1962 GB)
Swift is at two with more than half the season left. 🤷♂️
Josh Liles ✘ retweeted
D'Andre Swift is the only player to have multiple games with 3+ rush TD this season.
Most such games in a season in Bears history:
D'Andre Swift (2026) - 2
Walter Payton (1979) - 2
Dutch Sternaman (1920) - 2
Akiem Hicks was the last Bears D-lineman who made you WATCH the trenches on every snap. 🐻
He made the 2018 Pro Bowl and had 20 QB hits in 2017. He even scored a rushing TD, the first by a Bears D-lineman since the Fridge. The whole building fed off his energy. Leadership, production and contagious energy.
It's been a long wait for the next one. Jeffery Simmons has a sack and 2 TFLs tonight, and you can feel it again in the middle. 😤
