Read why one Pro Football Focus project was astounded by a specific Sammy Watkins figure from the 2015 season.
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Sammy Watkins was an amazing downfield threat in 2015, that we know.
During the offseason, he was named “the king” of a Pro Football Focus study.
Tyler Loechner of PFF analyzed the impact of average depth of target (aDOT) on wide receiver catch rate from 2007 to 2015, and Watkins was, as Loechner put it, “the king of the study.”
As a whole, there was almost a direct correlation between aDOT and catch percentage.