How do y’all feel about wide receivers who catch a healthy chunk of touchdowns but aren’t that involved in the offense? Specifically, Martavis Bryant and Terrance Williams. They both caught 8 TDs last year, but neither one of them even caught 40 passes.
Can we trust this kind of receiver?
Back when I was getting into fantasy football, the Seahawks had the ultimate receiver of this class. Daryl Turner. In a three-year period, he caught only 87 passes, but 30 of them went for touchdowns. Over a three-year period, over a third of his catches went for scores. Seemed like whenever the Seahawks got to the 30-40 yard line, Dave Krieg would hit him for a TD strike down the sidelines.
But over the years, there haven’t been a lot of these kind of receivers who have been able to keep it going.
Since Turner, there have been 10 more receivers who’ve been able to catch 8 TDs while catching fewer than 40 passes. None of them in their next season caught more than 4 TDs.
| TOUCHDOWN SPECIALIST RECEIVERS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Player | Att | Yards | Avg | TD |
| 1985 | Daryl Turner, Sea. | 34 | 670 | 19.7 | 13 |
| 1986 | Bobby Johnson, NYG | 31 | 534 | 17.2 | 5 |
| 1986 | Daryl Turner, Sea. | 18 | 334 | 18.6 | 7 |
| 1988 | Mark Duper, Mia. | 39 | 626 | 16.1 | 1 |
| 1991 | Fred Barnett, Phil. | 62 | 948 | 15.3 | 4 |
| 1991 | Calvin Williams, Phil. | 33 | 326 | 9.9 | 3 |
| 1995 | Alvin Harper, Dall. | 46 | 633 | 13.8 | 2 |
| 1996 | Chris Sanders, Hou. | 48 | 882 | 18.4 | 4 |
| 1996 | Ernie Mills, Pitt. | 7 | 92 | 13.1 | 1 |
| 2000 | Az-Zahir Hakim, St.L. | 53 | 734 | 13.8 | 4 |
| 2003 | Marc Boerigter, K.C. | 11 | 158 | 14.4 | 0 |
| 2007 | Chris Henry, Cin. | 21 | 343 | 16.3 | 2 |
| 2008 | Reggie Williams, Jac. | 37 | 364 | 9.8 | 3 |
| 2015 | Martavis Bryant, Pitt. | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 2015 | Terrance Williams, Dall. | ? | ? | ? | ? |
—Ian Allan