Every NFL team will rely on at least two, and usually three, wide receivers each game, so logging one of the best eight games allowed by a secondary is a significant feat. Last year, there were 2139 instances of a receiver catching at least one pass in a game. That’s an average of 67 times a secondary defended against a wideout, So Top-8 is certainly an elite performance against that defense.
Below will show how often a player logged the best game allowed by a secondary (Top-1), one of the four best performances allowed (Top-4), and one of the best eight performances (Top-8). With 17 games played, a Top-8 game is “above average” among the best wideout from each opponent.
The “Better than Average” (BTA) score is a weighting of those games.
