Comparing NFL Wide Receivers' Completion Percentage With Chad Ochocinco And Terrell Owens
by Josh Kirkendall on Dec 23, 2010 3:55 PM EST
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On Tuesday we posted a story regarding the percentage of passes being caught, combined, by Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens. A quick recap.
Combined, the Bengals starting wide receivers only recorded a combined 52% completion percentage of 265 passes thrown their way.
Individually, Owens has only caught 52% of the passes this year with Chad Ochocinco hauling in 53% of the passes thrown to him. There is a variety of reasons as for the low percentage, ranging from bad passes, deeper routes, being covered by the opposing team's best cover guys, etc..
Regardless. How do both Bengals receivers compare to the league? We ranked them. There are 24 wide receivers in the NFL that's been targeted 100 times or more this season. Three receivers (Larry Fitzgerald, Brandon Lloyd, Mike Williams of Tampa Bay) have a receiving percentage below that of Chad's and Owens'. Of those receivers, 14 have caught over 60% of the passes with one, Wes Welker, hauling in an amazing 71%.
| Player | Targets | Receptions | Rec. % |
| Roddy White | 166 | 106 | 64% |
| Reggie Wayne | 160 | 99 | 62% |
| Larry Fitzgerald | 153 | 78 | 51% |
| Terrell Owens | 139 | 72 | 52% |
| Andre Johnson | 138 | 86 | 62% |
| Calvin Johnson | 130 | 73 | 56% |
| Brandon Lloyd | 130 | 67 | 52% |
| Marques Colston | 126 | 82 | 65% |
| Chad Ochocinco | 126 | 67 | 53% |
| Santana Moss | 124 | 79 | 64% |
| Steve Johnson | 120 | 72 | 60% |
| Hakeem Nicks | 119 | 75 | 63% |
| Brandon Marshall | 118 | 71 | 60% |
| Wes Welker | 117 | 83 | 71% |
| Mike Williams | 116 | 57 | 49% |
| Dwayne Bowe | 114 | 61 | 54% |
| Danny Amendola | 108 | 75 | 69% |
| Jeremy Maclin | 106 | 64 | 60% |
| Davone Bess | 105 | 71 | 68% |
| Greg Jennings | 104 | 65 | 63% |
| Miles Austin | 103 | 61 | 59% |
| Anquan Boldin | 102 | 60 | 58% |
| Jabar Gaffney | 102 | 60 | 58% |
| Mike Williams (Seattle) | 100 | 60 | 60% |
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Some of those guys are obviously gonna have better % than Chad & TO
Davone Bess, Danny Amendola, and yes, Welker are guys who almost exclusively work the shorter routes for their teams. I think Bess and Amendola average less than 10 yds per catch and get a lot of WR screens thrown their way.
Still, you’d rather be in the middle of the pack rather than near the bottom.
I’d rather see how Chad & TO compare to their historical #s, which is hard since they’ve only been recording “targets” as a stats for 2 or 3 years now.
Some of these stats would make me feel slightly better
if i didn’t know how many of those “targets” turned into picks or were just thrown in dumb places
Heeeeey, Ochocinco, he's a good guy, no?
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