Some fantasy leagues give bonuses for longer touchdowns. You score a touchdown from over 50 yards, and it’s worth twice as much. Or you get an extra point for every 10 yards of distance for a touchdown – a 10-yard touchdown is worth 7 points, but a 73-yard touchdown is worth 13.3 points. Stuff like that.
With that in mind, here are the average scoring distances over the last two years for all wide receivers who’ve caught at least 10 touchdowns. I expanded it out to two years so we’ve had a bigger, more meaningful set of data to work with.
Josh Gordon, T.Y. Hilton, DeSean Jackson and Cecil Shorts III. Those have been your best big-play guys. Of course, Gordon might not play at all this year, Jackson is on a new team, and Shorts filled a much different role for Jacksonville in 2013 than he did in his breakout season back in 2012.
Wes Welker, Jerricho Cotchery, Marques Colston and Marvin Jones. Those have been the pea-shooter guys.
AVERAGE TOUCHDOWN DISTANCE, 2012-13 | ||
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Players | TD | Avg |
Josh Gordon | 14 | 47.6 |
T.Y. Hilton | 12 | 37.6 |
DeSean Jackson | 11 | 35.0 |
Cecil Shorts III | 10 | 32.6 |
Mike Wallace | 13 | 30.5 |
Victor Cruz | 14 | 30.4 |
Julio Jones | 12 | 28.9 |
Alshon Jeffery | 10 | 28.7 |
Antonio Brown | 13 | 26.6 |
A.J. Green | 22 | 26.3 |
Golden Tate | 12 | 24.3 |
Roddy White | 10 | 24.2 |
Calvin Johnson | 17 | 24.1 |
Santana Moss | 10 | 23.9 |
Demaryius Thomas | 24 | 23.8 |
Riley Cooper | 11 | 23.2 |
Jordy Nelson | 15 | 22.8 |
Larry Fitzgerald | 14 | 21.4 |
Randall Cobb | 12 | 20.9 |
Sidney Rice | 10 | 20.8 |
Dez Bryant | 25 | 20.4 |
Mike Williams | 11 | 19.6 |
Denarius Moore | 12 | 18.9 |
Michael Crabtree | 10 | 18.9 |
Vincent Jackson | 15 | 18.9 |
Anquan Boldin | 11 | 17.5 |
Torrey Smith | 12 | 17.0 |
James Jones | 17 | 16.5 |
Brandon Marshall | 23 | 14.7 |
Eric Decker | 24 | 14.3 |
Marvin Jones | 11 | 12.5 |
Marques Colston | 15 | 12.3 |
Jerricho Cotchery | 10 | 10.4 |
Wes Welker | 16 | 8.4 |
—Ian Allan