Player Profiles
The Lions took a flier on D.J. Chark to fill their hole at outside receiver while rookie Jameson Williams was on the shelf. He dealt…
Matt HarmonMarch 6, 2023
After an electric debut season with the Cardinals in 2020, the last two campaigns have been mired with injuries and a suspension. It's left some…
Matt HarmonMarch 6, 2023
I have long considered Michael Thomas to be a big Reception Perception win. He had a strong collegiate profile and his NFL results always showed…
Matt HarmonMarch 6, 2023
Allen Lazard was the lone young veteran on the Packers receiver depth chart entering 2022. You'll remember this was a receiver group that just watch…
Matt HarmonMarch 6, 2023
For the first time in his NFL career, Parris Campbell stayed healthy. Unfortunately, the following results probably showed that the upside case some were still…
Matt HarmonMarch 6, 2023
It was a weird season for Mike Evans. The stalwart veteran went over 1,000 yards yet again, a feat he's accomplished all nine seasons of…
Matt HarmonMarch 5, 2023
The Giants spent much of 2022 searching for answers at the wide receiver position. Mistakes by the previous front office and injuries continued to derail…
Matt HarmonMarch 5, 2023
After being a returner and gadget player for most of his career, Isaiah McKenzie got some legitimate playing time at wide receiver with the Bills…
Matt HarmonAugust 30, 2022
He doesn't come with much pedigree, he's not the flashiest player but Jakobi Meyers seems to keep carving out a solid role for himself in…
Matt HarmonAugust 23, 2022
The Julio Jones experiment in Tennessee went about as poorly as possible. The future Hall of Fame receiver was consistently hurt, rarely made an on-field…
Matt HarmonJuly 29, 2022
Courtland Sutton’s 2021 season was a volatile one. He showed flashes of his once excellent 2019 form a year removed from his ACL tear but…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Cooper Kupp has long been a solid NFL receiver who was one of the best zone-beaters in Reception Perception history. The 2021 season saw him…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Tyreek Hill has emerged as one of the most dangerous receivers in the league during his time with the Chiefs. He’ll now take his talents…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
There seems to be a pervasive narrative that Stefon Diggs declined a bit last year. Falling off from his wildly efficient 2020 was a given…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Tyler Lockett remains one of the most criminally underrated players in the NFL. There are plenty of questions to ask about his projectable production in…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
With the departure of Davante Adams, the football world is dying to know who will pick up the slack in the Green Bay receiving corps.…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Brandin Cooks has seemingly been around forever and has played for so many teams. However, he’s aging like fine wine. You could argue that the…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
D.J. Moore will continue to toil away in Carolina as the Panthers spin their wheels at the quarterback position. It’s an unfortunate spot for Moore…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Keenan Allen has long been one of the most productive receivers and detailed route runners in the game. He’s been on a stellar run, finishing…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
There’s been a decent amount of turmoil in the Broncos receiver corps with injuries over the last few seasons. Whenever the team finds itself in…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
The 2021 season was mostly an injury-ruined campaign for DeAndre Hopkins. However, when the veteran receiver was on the field he showed he can still…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
We know that the addition of Matthew Stafford did wonders for Rams receiver Cooper Kupp but his running mate Robert Woods never quite found the…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Since arriving in Tampa Bay and especially since he’s become a key player over the last few seasons, Chris Godwin has emerged as one of…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
Mike Williams is coming off a career-high 129 targets in Year 1 of a new offense and that strong work earned him a new contract…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2022
The Bengals have built a receiver corps that would make just about any team green with envy. The two young outside stars in Ja’Marr Chase…
Matt HarmonJune 29, 2022
The warning signs were all there and it turns out the worst-case scenario was indeed what came to pass: Kenny Golladay’s move from Detroit to…
Matt HarmonJune 29, 2022
The Rams have long been a breeding ground for strong wide receiver play. Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp have held that position down for years…
Matt HarmonJune 7, 2022
The biggest riser coming out of the Year 3 to 4 wide receiver drop is, without question, Michael Pittman. As you know, Reception Perception already…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
It's easy and necessary to get caught up in all of the excitement around star Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase, he's one of the most enthralling…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
CeeDee Lamb's rookie season Reception Perception was certainly promising. The encore is better. It didn't always materialize on the boxscore, especially as the 2021 season…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
If there's one wide receiver we should all desperately want to see in a healthy passing ecosystem, it's Terry McLaurin. While the stats don't show…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Diontae Johnson should be widely regarded as one of the best young receivers in football. The main goal of Reception Perception is to isolate a…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
After a blistering four-touchdown game against the Kansas City Chiefs in last year's playoffs, the world is abuzz over Bills wide receiver Gabriel Davis. Through…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Deebo Samuel took the NFL by storm in 2021. Not only did get off to a blistering start as a productive pure receiver in the…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Justin Jefferson is off to one of the best starts to any career we've seen in Reception Perception history. He cleared the 90th percentile in…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
The Ravens trading Marquise Brown to the Cardinals in the middle of the NFL Draft took the football world by surprise. It later came out…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
The 2021 season was chaotic for Seattle in what ended up being Russell Wilson's final season with the club. Despite scoring double-digit touchdowns, DK Metcalf…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Jerry Jeudy's 2021 season got off to a hot start in Week 1 but went awry as quickly as it began. Jeudy's Week 1 high-ankle…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Brandon Aiyuk was one of Reception Perception's favorite breakout picks heading into 2021 after a strong rookie season. That went off the rails quickly amid…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Chase Claypool showed a ton of promise as a rookie in a limited application role while scoring a bunch of touchdowns. Claypool's Reception Perception results…
Matt HarmonJune 6, 2022
Not much has gone well for Chicago's offense over the last few seasons but the selection of Darnell Mooney is something they got right. He's…
Matt HarmonMay 29, 2022
Hunter Renfrow erupted for the 2021 Raiders offense as a slot extraordinaire. Given that Renfrow offered up a promising rookie season in Reception Perception and…
Matt HarmonMay 29, 2022
The Eagles made an aggressive move to trade for A.J. Brown on draft night and promptly handed him a big contract. It was the finishing…
Matt HarmonMay 29, 2022
Once you got past the first-round wide receivers in last year's draft, there was no bigger Reception Perception favorite than Elijah Moore. The Ole Miss…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
There was near industry-wide consensus that Ja'Marr Chase was the top receiver prospect in last year's draft class. His Reception Perception profile demonstrated why that…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
Somehow, probably because of how white-hot he finished his rookie season, Amon-Ra St. Brown has become one of the most polarizing players in fantasy football…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
We all knew that DeVonta Smith was coming into the NFL as a pro-ready route-runner. If you were a Reception Perception subscriber, you knew that…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
We knew that Rondale Moore likely projected best to a slot/gadget receiver role in the NFL. Still, what we got in Year 1 was extreme.…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
Among the prospects charted for the 2021 NFL Draft class, no one posted a higher success rate vs. man coverage than Jaylen Waddle. The Alabama…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
The Texans didn't have very many bright spots from last year. You have to squint a bit to be able to see it but Nico…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
Outside of his blistering moves in the open field during that Dallas game, nothing was smooth about Kadarius Toney's rookie year. His talent was on…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
Terrace Marshall's Reception Perception prospect profile showed he was a limited but intriguing route-runner with potential coming into the NFL. With reports coming out of…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
Rashod Batemen's rookie season got off on the wrong foot when he suffered an injury in training camp but he quickly showed he belonged during…
Matt HarmonMay 9, 2022
The Chargers sunk a third-round pick into Joshua Palmer last year, taking the Tennessee product off the board a bit earlier than expected. It's easy…
Matt HarmonMay 8, 2022
Any receiver who has the upside to win on the boundary as a pure X-receiver is going to garner a ton of attention, no matter…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
If you're a team hunting for a reliable receiver who just gets the job done after the Tier 1 prospects are off the board, look…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
Alec Pierce seems to be aging well during the pre-draft process. Initially not a guy too many were falling all over themselves to hype up,…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
After exploding onto the college football scene as a freshman, Justyn Ross suffered a myriad of injuries before his time to enter the NFL Draft…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
While the 2022 NFL Draft wide receiver class doesn't have the star power at the top like last year's group, it does seem to have…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
Should we see a run on receivers in Round 1 of the NFL Draft, teams will have to push a few guys up the board.…
Matt HarmonApril 18, 2022
Like his teammate Jameson Williams, John Metchie is also going through the draft process coming off a late-season torn ACL during Alabama's run. Unlike Williams,…
Matt HarmonApril 17, 2022
Face-melting highlights are littered all over Treylon Burks' college game. Arkansas made it a priority to get the ball in his hands in any way…
Matt HarmonApril 15, 2022
Speed is highly coveted at all levels of football. Jameson Williams brings plenty of that to the table but also provides more than enough nuance…
Matt HarmonApril 14, 2022
The 2022 NFL Draft class is full of enticing wide receiver prospects of all sizes and varieties. None of them matches the technical precision and…
Matt HarmonApril 13, 2022
The 2022 NFL Draft Class might not feature a front-line, for-sure star at the wide receiver position like we got in Ja'Marr Chase last season…
Matt HarmonApril 12, 2022
A hulking wideout, Drake London brings size to the top of the wide receiver draft board that we haven't seen over the last few years.…
Matt HarmonApril 11, 2022
A long-time rugged receiver in the NFL, Jarvis Landry has been a dependable target for two teams during his eight-year career. an injury-plagued final year…
Matt HarmonMarch 19, 2022
There's certainly a discussion to be had as to who is the best receiver in the NFL right now. However, that discussion should almost always…
Matt HarmonMarch 14, 2022
The NFL world has been begging the Packers to find a true running mate for Davante Adams over the last few years. All the while,…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
The Falcons went from having one of the best wide receiver duos in the NFL with Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley in 2020 to being…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
Despite garnering some interest from other suitors, JuJu Smith-Schuster rebuffed other teams and elected to return to Pittsburgh after testing free agency last year. Unfortunately,…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
Not much went right for the Jacksonville Jaguars in Trevor Lawrence's first year at the helm. Losing No. 1 receiver D.J. Chark so early in…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
Christian Kirk enters the free agency window coming off a good season and isn't burdened with some of the same injury concerns that burden other…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
The Cowboys decided against paying Amari Cooper's bloated 2022 salary when making concessions to suit their cap situation. The divorce seemed destined to take place…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
The back-half of last season and his Super Bowl run with the Rams should have put to bed any bad narratives about what went wrong…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
Allen Robinson enters free agency coming off a lost year due to injuries, the Bears' overall incompetence, another set of bad quarterbacks and COVID. However,…
Matt HarmonMarch 11, 2022
The emergence of Bryan Edwards as the Raiders clear-cut starting X-receiver has been a swift but exciting development this offseason. He's been so impressive, he…
Matt HarmonSeptember 6, 2021
Everyone wants a piece of the Patrick Mahomes Kansas City Chiefs offense. Any talented pass-catcher in this attack is theoretically in the best spot in…
Matt HarmonAugust 12, 2021
The New England passing game was perhaps the least fruitful aerial environment in the NFL last year. Yet, Jakobi Meyers managed to flash and put…
Matt HarmonAugust 6, 2021
With the Rams offense likely to undergo some significant shifts with Matthew Stafford taking over for the far too timid passing work of Jared Goff,…
Matt HarmonJuly 2, 2021
The consummate flanker receiver, Robert Woods continues to provide steady production to the Los Angeles Rams passing game. Woods isn’t asked to do much as…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
When it comes to discussing any Cowboys offensive player from 2020, it comes with a sad air of “what if.” It definitely applies to Amari…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
If you’ve been following Reception Perception since the early days, you know that the methodology has tapped Stefon Diggs as an elite player well before…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
Just when it looked like Keenan Allen was potentially headed into the wilderness after Philip Rivers left town, the football gods spared him. They saved…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
The next NFL season that Mike Evans has with fewer than 1,000 receiving yards will be his first. That certainly helps encapsulate what an awesome…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
When teams draw the Seattle Seahawks on the schedule, they have to know their secondary is in for a long day. Not many teams boast…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
As a human collective, we’re all so quick to gravitate to the shiny new thing. So it’s admittedly difficult to not get tunnel vision on…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
There weren’t too many reasonable possible outcomes that could have justified the Texans' hideous decision to trade DeAndre Hopkins. The one that actually took place…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
The Chiefs offense continues to find new ways to push the bounds of offensive football. So much of what they’re able to do is thanks…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
Coming off an injury-ruined 2020 campaign, Michael Thomas will walk into the great unknown this season with Drew Brees retired. For the first time in…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
Davante Adams is one of the most storied players in Reception Perception’s history. An ultra rare case, Adams went from posting a bottom-10 all-time success…
Matt HarmonJuly 1, 2021
When Robby Anderson made his move from the Jets to the Panthers in free agency last year, not much fanfare followed him. Still, the Adam…
Matt HarmonJune 30, 2021
Mike Williams is somewhat unfairly maligned because he was taken as a top-10 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He’s never lived up to that…
Matt HarmonJune 30, 2021