Garrett Wilson

Jets · WR

Where he ranks — 2026

7 leaderboards

What these mean: contested catch rate · receiving efficiency · air yards share · weighted opportunity rating · target share · drop rate · average separation

2026 — through Week 7
Scored Half-PPR
Pos. rank
—
Half-PPR / game
11.6
Last game
—
2025
WR62
11.6/g

Garrett Wilson by situation

2026 season, through Week 7

Garrett Wilson catches 87.2% of his catchable targets, 24th of 29 qualified receivers.

vs the blitz

15 targets · 31.2% of his targets
Yards per targetIn situation11.9Otherwise7.2Rank—
Air yards per targetIn situation10.3Otherwise9.3Rank—
Catch rateIn situation86.7%Otherwise66.7%Rank—
EPA per targetIn situation+0.88Otherwise+0.34Rank—

Board: Quarterbacks vs the Blitz · Defensive Blitz Rate

On play-action

11 targets · 22.9% of his targets
Yards per targetIn situation15.4Otherwise6.7Rank—
Air yards per targetIn situation14.5Otherwise8.2Rank—
Catch rateIn situation81.8%Otherwise70.3%Rank—
EPA per targetIn situation+0.97Otherwise+0.37Rank—

Board: Play-Action Rate

With motion

18 targets · 37.5% of his targets
Yards per targetIn situation6.4Otherwise10.1Rank—
Air yards per targetIn situation9.6Otherwise9.7Rank—
Catch rateIn situation66.7%Otherwise76.7%Rank—
EPA per targetIn situation+0.29Otherwise+0.64Rank—

Board: Pre-Snap Motion Rate

QB out of pocket

2 targets · 4.2% of his targets

Not enough out-of-pocket targets yet.

Board: Out-of-Pocket Rate

Catchable targets

39 targets · 81.2% of his targets
Yards per targetIn situation10.4Otherwise1.2Rank19th of 29
Air yards per targetIn situation9.1Otherwise12.2RankT-13th of 29
Catch rateIn situation87.2%Otherwise11.1%Rank24th of 29
EPA per targetIn situation+0.81Otherwise-0.80Rank17th of 29

Board: Catchable Throw Rate · Drop Rate

Contested targets

17 targets · 35.4% of his targets
Yards per targetIn situation5.4Otherwise10.5Rank—
Air yards per targetIn situation10.6Otherwise9.1Rank—
Catch rateIn situation52.9%Otherwise83.9%Rank—
EPA per targetIn situation+0.19Otherwise+0.69Rank—

Board: Contested Catch Rate

Rates show at 10 or more targets in a situation. Ranks are among receivers with 20 or more targets in the situation and 40 overall (backs on the ground: 15 or more carries in the box), and T- marks a shared rank. Blitzed means five or more pass rushers.

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Week 7Oct 26, 2026

Garrett Wilson — Week 7: Three Targets, 26 Yards

Wilson caught 2 of a season-low 3 targets for 26 yards against the Dolphins, including a 19-yarder on a field-goal drive, in the Jets' 28-25 home loss.

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More episodes

  • Week 6Oct 21, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 6: Two Third-Down Conversions

    Wilson caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards against the Patriots, converting two third-and-2s in the fourth quarter, with 4 of the 6 catchable, in the Jets' 26-19 loss in New England.

  • Week 5Oct 12, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 5: 104 Yards, Opening-Drive Touchdown

    Wilson caught 7 of 11 targets for 104 yards and a 32-yard touchdown against the Browns, and converted a late third down, in a 17-12 Jets win at home.

  • Week 4Oct 6, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 4: Four Targets, Twenty-Seven Yards

    Wilson caught 3 of 4 targets for 27 yards and one first down; all three of his third-down targets came up short, in a 23-12 loss to the Bears in which the Jets threw 15 passes.

  • Week 3Sep 28, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 3: Thirteen Targets, Fourth-Down Touchdown

    Wilson caught 10 of 13 targets for 107 yards, six first downs and a 23-yard touchdown on fourth and six with 4:11 left, ruled down at the 1 and reversed on a Jets challenge, before a two-point throw tied it 24–24. His 13 targets were 36 percent of the Jets' throws with a receiver, the most in the game, in a 31–24 loss to the Lions.

  • Week 2Sep 21, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 2: Five Catches and a Touchdown

    Wilson caught 5 of 7 targets for 57 yards, four first downs and a 5-yard touchdown that put the Jets ahead 14–7 with 2:35 left in the third quarter, and converted a third and eleven with a 16-yard catch. The Jets threw 41 times and his target count stayed at seven while Adonai Mitchell's went to twelve, in a 20–17 overtime loss to the Packers.

  • Week 1Sep 14, 2026

    Garrett Wilson — Week 1: Six of Seven, Seventy-Nine, a Fourth-and-Two

    Wilson caught six of seven targets for seventy-nine yards, including thirty-one down the right sideline and twenty-two down the left in the third quarter, and converted fourth and two at the Tennessee forty on the nineteen-play drive in the second. His seven targets were worth plus five point five expected points, the most of any Jet, in a 23–10 win over the Titans.

  • Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

    Garrett Wilson Camp Update — August 31: Untouched as the Room Is Trimmed

    Cut day thinned the receiver room around Garrett Wilson and left him alone: the Jets kept six receivers and waived Quincy Skinner Jr., Junior Bergen, Malik McClain and Cam Camper, per the team's transaction page, and Wilson is on none of the lists. His one item of the week was a routine one — five receptions from Geno Smith in Tuesday's practice, per the team's report.

  • Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

    Garrett Wilson Camp Update — August 23: A Sick Day, Then Back to Work

    Garrett Wilson missed Monday's practice with an illness, was back catching a tight-window throw from Geno Smith on Tuesday, and drew a pass breakup from Dane Belton on Wednesday. The game reporting from Pittsburgh logged nothing on him either way, so the week's file is practice tape.

  • Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

    Garrett Wilson Camp Update — August 16: Healthy, Everywhere, and Two Scores

    Garrett Wilson practiced both joint-practice days, scored twice against Tampa Bay's defense, and converted two third downs in the game from rookie Cade Klubnik. Last week's hesitation scare never became an injury-report line.

  • 2026 PreviewJun 13, 2026

    Garrett Wilson 2026 Season Preview — a proven alpha, an unsolved quarterback

    a 35%-target-share alpha whose ceiling is gated by an unsettled Jets QB room.

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    Garrett Wilson is a three-time thousand-yard alpha who just lost most of a season to a knee — and whose biggest problem isn't the knee, it's that nobody knows who's throwing him the ball in 2026. The Muffed 2026 preview.

    The 2025 season was seven games of elite usage cut short: a 35 percent target share and a 56 percent air-yards share before a knee sprain ended it — among the highest alpha workloads in football. The signature was a Week 4 deep touchdown from Justin Fields at Miami. When healthy, he's the entire passing game.

    The arc is the reassuring part: 95 catches, a hundred one catches, then the injury-shortened year. Wilson has been a remarkably stable high-volume alpha since he entered the league — three straight seasons around a thousand yards on bad offenses with worse quarterbacks. The volume is bankable. The scoring never has been, because the quarterback play never has been.

    What repeats: the targets, emphatically — a 35-percent share is the stickiest, safest usage in the sport, and his has been elite for years. What caps him is everything downstream of the throw. His touchdown share spiked to 24 percent in a seven-game sample, which is noise, not signal.

    The situation has resolved more than it's still unsettled, per the reports: the Jets traded Justin Fields to Kansas City and brought in Geno Smith as the new starter, with new offensive coordinator Frank Reich planning to move Wilson around the formation — X, F, and Z — and target him heavily. That's a real answer to last year's biggest question mark, even if "answer" doesn't mean "upgrade" is guaranteed. Wilson himself is past the knee injury that ended his 2025 early — full health, by his own account ("I feel great") and the staff's ("he looks really good"). A proven alpha is only as good as the arm feeding him, and that arm is now a known, established veteran rather than a question mark.

    The price: pick 42, the nineteenth receiver. Verdict: WATCHLIST — the volume profile is genuinely WR1-caliber and the price is a discount, but a new play-caller and a new-to-him veteran quarterback are still two variables we haven't seen on the field together. The counter for him: if Reich and Smith produce even competent quarterback play, a 34-percent-share alpha in the games he played at WR19 is a steal. Against: it's still an unproven pairing, and his ceiling has always been quarterback-gated.

    September watch: the Reich-Smith offense in live games, full stop; then whether the target share returns to its elite level now that health isn't the question. If he's one of your guys, Muffed builds this show for your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

  • 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

    Garrett Wilson 2025 Season in Review

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    Garrett Wilson finished 2025 as the number 62 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — but the number that actually matters? He was the number 14 wide receiver in PPR per game among qualifiers. That gap tells the whole story in one breath. Wilson played just seven games for a Jets team that finished three and 14, and when he was on the field, he produced like a clear weekly starter. This wasn't a decline. This wasn't a role loss. This was a top-15-per-game receiver chained to an offense that finished 29th in total offensive expected points added, with a quarterback room posting the worst adjusted net yards per attempt among qualified starters. Wilson didn't get muffed by his own play — he got muffed by the situation around him and a season that ended early.

    Now let's dig into the numbers. In seven games, Wilson caught 36 balls for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns on 59 targets — just over 8 targets a game on an offense that couldn't sustain anything. His average target share was 35 percent. His average air yards share was 56 percent. Read those again — 35 percent of the targets, 56 percent of the air yards. That is alpha-receiver, every-route-matters usage, the kind of workload that normally belongs to top-10 fantasy wideouts. Average separation of 3.06 yards and average cushion of 6.49 yards say he was still winning his routes. And the consistency was real on the high end: Wilson averaged 14.2 PPR per game with four outings of 22.5, 24.4, 20.2, and 19.1. The drag came from a 4.3-point dud against the Broncos and a zero-catch shutout against the Browns in Week 10 — the kind of variance you get when your quarterback room posts a completion percentage below expected and takes 60 sacks as a team.

    The defining shape of Wilson's year isn't one highlight — it's that he scored 4 touchdowns in 7 games on a team whose red-zone touchdown rate was just 52.9 percent, 29th in the league. He was finding the end zone at a clip his offense didn't deserve. The Week 4 deep touchdown at Miami — Justin Fields, second and 10 from the 23, shotgun, dropping it deep right for a 23-yard score down 14 in the fourth quarter — is the cleanest snapshot of what Wilson still is: a receiver his quarterback trusts to win one-on-one when the offense needs a play. That's the year in a sentence. Elite usage, real production per game, season cut short.

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