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Wide receivers / range

Average distance of wide receiver touchdowns

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
PlayersTDAvg
Josh Gordon1447.6
T.Y. Hilton1237.6
DeSean Jackson1135.0
Cecil Shorts III1032.6
Mike Wallace1330.5
Victor Cruz1430.4
Julio Jones1228.9
Alshon Jeffery1028.7
Antonio Brown1326.6
A.J. Green2226.3
Golden Tate1224.3
Roddy White1024.2
Calvin Johnson1724.1
Santana Moss1023.9
Demaryius Thomas2423.8
Riley Cooper1123.2
Jordy Nelson1522.8
Larry Fitzgerald1421.4
Randall Cobb1220.9
Sidney Rice1020.8
Dez Bryant2520.4
Mike Williams1119.6
Denarius Moore1218.9
Michael Crabtree1018.9
Vincent Jackson1518.9
Anquan Boldin1117.5
Torrey Smith1217.0
James Jones1716.5
Brandon Marshall2314.7
Eric Decker2414.3
Marvin Jones1112.5
Marques Colston1512.3
Jerricho Cotchery1010.4
Wes Welker168.4

—Ian Allan

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