Unveiling the NFL Draft’s Ultimate Deep Threats: Which Wide Receivers Leave Defenders in the Dust?

Burden’s burn rate is low, but his 86.1% open rate leads this group of receivers. (There’s a correlation between a shallower depth of target and being open more often, as you might expect.) Burden’s 0.429 missed or broken tackles per touch is nearly double this group’s average and about triple the national average for receivers. 

Ultimately, Burden wasn’t that efficient in 2024 compared to the other names on this list. His 7.7 expected yards per target lagged the much bigger totals of his deeper route-running peers. In the NFL, Burden’s coordinator might feel more freedom to use him expansively as a downfield target. I hope we get to see that, because a Burden who’s allowed to run deep routes is a scary Burden.

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