It seems to be DeAndre Hopkins world and we’re all just living in up to this point in the season. He’s dominated the receptions, targets and is also up there in yards. But he’s not the only one seeing a healthy amount of targets and capitalizing on all his chances. We’ve crunched the data and compiled 58 names this week, while pointing out some key numbers that you shouldn’t ignore for your fantasy football leagues or even your daily lineups!

Player NameTeamPass AttRecTargetsYdsTDRZ TgtsRZ Tgt %DropsTgt %
DeAndre HopkinsHOU12731493112560%138.58%
Antonio BrownPIT14030453881475%032.14%
Larry FitzgeraldARI183264127621060%122.40%
Dez BryantDAL14316402122728.57%327.97%
Keenan AllenLAC15024393341425%326%
A.J. GreenCIN12325383152475%030.89%
Michael ThomasNO15225373102560%224.34%
Zach ErtzPHI14726363261366.67%124.48%
Alshon JefferyPHI14717342152366.67%123.19%
Pierre GarconSF14820332850450%022.29%
Emmanuel SandersDEN12620331902683.33%226.19%
Odell Beckham Jr.NYG166203320524100%519.87%
Jarvis LandryMIA10725331660366.67%230.84%
Golden TateDET138243221914100%123.18%
Rishard MatthewsTEN12017322501425%026.67%
Adam ThielenMIN1332432358030%024.06%
Mike EvansTB10919322272540%129.35%
Stefon DiggsMIN133223239144100%224.06%
Rob GronkowskiNE15520313182616.67%120%
Doug BaldwinSEA14123312471450%021.98%
Amari CooperOAK12612311101520%724.60%
Brandon MarshallNYG1661630139000%218.07%
Demaryius ThomasDEN1261830247020%223.80%
Julio JonesATL1351930295010%022.22%
Andre EllingtonAZ18319301920450%216.39%
Evan EngramNYG166193020012100%218.07%
Jaron BrownAZ18314292051633.33%015.84%
Tarik CohenCHI14024291501580%020.71%
Christian McCaffreyCAR11922292060366.67%024.36%
Jason WittenDAL14319281682560%119.58%
Martellus BennettGB16117281410366.67%217.39%
Davante AdamsGB16116282192666.67%117.39%
Duke Johnson Jr.CLE1612028207000%017.39%
Alvin KamaraNO15220281471580%218.42%
Tyreek HillKC121212828821100%223.41%
Jimmy GrahamSEA1411527142030%219.14%
T.Y. HiltonIND11117272891450%024.32%
DeVante ParkerMIA10718272301250%125.23%
Sterling ShepardNYG16621272541633.33%016.26%
Devin FunchessCAR11917272162450%022.68%
Delanie WalkerTEN1201826219000%021.66%
Chris HoganNE15515262144850%116.77%
Travis KelceKC12121262552450%021.48%
Marqise LeeJAX1231326159020%421.13%
James WhiteNE1552226173000%016.77%
Jared CookOAK12616251701250%119.84%
Randall CobbGB16119251891366.67%015.52%
Charles ClayBUF9918252272560%125.25%
Jermaine KearseNYJ11818251822333.33%021.86%
Todd GurleyLAR119202523434100%021.01%
Jordy NelsonGB161172420655100%114.90%
Terrelle Pryor Sr.WAS12113241861250%319.83%
Mohamed SanuATL13516241631366.67%117.78%
Brandin CooksNE1551324294200%115.48%
Allen HurnsJAX12316241862785.71%119.50%
Robby AndersonNYJ1181224204110%020.33%
Tyrell WilliamsLAC150162423811100%116%

Target Leaders

The NFL has just four pass catchers that have seen 40-plus targets come their way. Just two players have 30 receptions and they happen to be one and two respectively on the targets list as well in DeAndre Hopkins and Antonio Brown. We mentioned last week that it’s likely they’re going to be one and two for the entire season and nothing happened in Week 4 suggesting otherwise.

We have seven running backs, six tight ends and the rest are receivers. We have some heavily targeted backs this year, paced by Andre Ellington who’s coming off a 14-target week, which was the second most in the entire league. He’s a must-own in PPR formats at this point. He’s more valuable than Chris Johnson because Johnson is showing absolutely nothing on the ground, which is mainly the reason old man Carson Palmer leads the league with 183 passes.

The most notable omissions from our list this week look eerily similar to what we were looking at heading into Week 4. Michael Crabtree, Sammy Watkins, DeSean Jackson and Martavis Bryant are the four we’re looking at. Jackson has somewhat of an excuse because his team has only played in three games, but the others have been somewhat nonexistent thus far. Both Crabtree and Watkins have one big week on their resumes but the other games they’ve played have STUNK. We can expect Bryant and Jackson to creep onto our list within the next couple of games, if not after Week 5.

Target Percentage

Just like after Week 4, we have just four players on our spreadsheet that are receiving north of 30-percent of their team’s targets and it’s the same four guys from last week (DeAndre Hopkins, Antonio Brown, A.J. Green and Jarvis Landry). Hopkins has really separated himself from the pack and it doesn’t look like anyone will catch him. That being said, Will Fuller returned in Week 4 so he may soak up a little bit of Hopkins volume.

After last week, we mentioned how quarterbacks have been really spreading the wealth and distributing the ball to a whole lot of receivers and that definitely held true again in Week 4. We have five teams in Week 4 that had three or more players on our list, now we’re down to four; Giants, Cardinals, Packers, Patriots. If the league's QB's continue throwing the ball the five, six, sometimes seven pass catchers, that number will only go down from here.

Red Zone Targets

Larry Fitzgerald is flat out dominating the red zone targets this year. He’s averaging 2.5 looks per game inside of the 20 and that’s far and away the best mark in the league. He’s followed by Dez Bryant who upped his total to eight red zone targets thus far. If Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension were ever to come down at some point this season, Bryant will likely surpass Larry Fitzgerald as the league’s top red zone dog.

Something that’s also worth noting is the fact that Emmanuel Sanders is the guy for Denver in the red zone, not Demaryius Thomas. Thomas has one-third of the RZ looks that Sanders has, as the latter’s outpaced him six to two. That’s been the case from Week 1, too. Although Thomas is the much bigger man, Trevor Siemian seems more secure targeting Sanders when points are at stake.

Brandon Marshall, Duke Johnson Jr., Delanie Walker, James White and Brandin Cooks are the only five names on our spreadsheet that haven’t had any looks in the red zone. The running backs don’t surprise us much, nor does Brandon Marshall after seeing how washed up he’s looked thus far, but Walker and Cooks are very surprising. We know Cooks has a lot of big play potential, but Rob Gronkowski and Chris Hogan are eating up all of the targets in the red zone. Just between the two of them, they’ve had 14 red zone targets. Things have shaped out quite noticeably in New England four weeks into the season.


Drops

Two of the biggest names at receiver continue to pace the league in drops. Amari Cooper has a drop in every game he’s played and has seven total. He’s struggled horribly and this has become a theme throughout the years. Things probably aren’t going to get much better either, now that Derek Carr is injured and E.J. Manuel is operating as the team’s primary pass thrower. This presents a HUGE problem, bigger than it already is. Cooper’s still tied for 19th in targets amongst all players in football, but if you look back to Week 1, he continues to tumble down the list. If you are an Amari Cooper owner for any of your season-long leagues, now is the time to part ways.

Odell Beckham Jr. isn’t far behind him with five, which is also discouraging seeing how he missed a game and barely saw the field in another. For all the great things he does and all of the mind boggling catches he seemingly makes, sometimes he can’t get out of his own way. It seems like he’s always looking for flash instead of sometimes just being fundamentally sound. Beckham still leads the Giants in targets, however, and will without a doubt continue to do so week in and week out. Despite his case of the dropsies, his value is sky high per usual