Football Perspective’s Chase Stuart looked at the best deep threats in the NFL dating back to 2002 and found an interesting fact.
“There are just 24 players in this dataset who averaged at least 15 yards per catch,” Stuart writes. “15 of them are 205 pounds or lighter, and just four are over 220 pounds. Those four are Plaxico Burress (226, 15.52), Calvin Johnson (239, 15.89), and the two biggest outliers in the group: Vincent Jackson (a whopping 16.81, the third highest average of any player, at 241 pounds) and Gronk (15.