Jerry Jeudy

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy — Week 2: One Target on Thirty Throws

  Jeudy was thrown to once in Deshaun Watson's 30 throws: second and 13 at the Cleveland 36 with 13:37 left in the fourth quarter, short left, incomplete. He has one target since halftime of Week 1, a span of 39 Cleveland throws. Denzel Boston had seven targets and KC Concepcion and Harold Fannin six each, in a 23–19 win over the Buccaneers.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy — Week 1: Four Targets Before Halftime, None After

  Jeudy was thrown to four times Sunday, all before halftime: the second-and-five pass at the Jacksonville twenty-eight that Foyesade Oluokun intercepted, a short incompletion, a twenty-yard catch to midfield and a six-yarder on first and thirty. Two catches, twenty-six yards, minus six point one expected points on the targets, and none of Deshaun Watson's nine second-half throws went his way in a 34–10 loss to the Jaguars.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy Camp Update — August 31: His Quarterback Is Watson

  Deshaun Watson was named Cleveland's Week One starter, per Scott Petrak at BrownsZone, settling who throws to Jerry Jeudy in Jacksonville. Jeudy himself appears in no reporting all week, while the receiver room resolved to six and veteran Cedric Tillman was waived partly because of the rookies.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy Camp Update — August 23: No News in a Loud Receiver Week

  Jerry Jeudy went unmentioned in coverage of the Buffalo game and the joint practice, while rookie Denzel Boston started and drew national roster-stock praise. The drops storyline got no new evidence either way — a genuinely silent week at a noisy position.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy Camp Update — August 16: First-Team Reps, and the Drops Came With Him

  Jerry Jeudy is holding his first-team job in Cleveland's camp — next to two rookies aimed at his snaps — while the beat reports drops in practice. The role half of the June read is intact; the hands half is still misfiring.

• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  Jerry Jeudy 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  NO CALL — WR66 prices the floor season almost exactly. The sticky stat (six targets a game) survived the collapse; yards per target, the half that failed, is the one that predicts itself worst.

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  Jerry Jeudy caught less than half of his hundred six targets last season. One year after a 1200-yard career season, that sentence is the entire reason he's receiver 66 at pick one-74 — and the strangest part of this file is that the volume never left. The targets stayed. Everything they turned into disappeared.

  The season: all 17 games, 50 catches on a hundred six targets — a 47 percent catch rate — for 602 yards and two touchdowns. 5.6 Half-PPR points a game, 60-seventh among receivers per game, 50-third in total. He drew 20.3 percent of Cleveland's targets in his games and led the team's wideouts in everything — but the team's leading receiver was a rookie tight end: Harold Fannin's hundred seven targets edged Jeudy's hundred six by exactly one. All of it on a five-and-12 team that spent the year looking for a quarterback.

  The career is a sawtooth that never repeats a good year: eight-two, six-six, 11-four, seven-two, 11-five, five-six points a game. Two seasons that looked like an ascent — 20-22, 20-24 — each followed immediately by a collapse. The 20-24 version caught 90 of a hundred 45 for 12 29. Same receiver, same hands, 13 months apart.

  The pattern read explains more than you'd expect. His touchdown share is point-one-oh and he ranked 60-fifth by rate — no fade fires; there's nothing inflated to regress. But look at what our what-sticks research says about the two halves of his profile: targets per game replicate at point-seven-nine — his 6.2 a game is the sticky part — while yards per target barely repeats at all, point-two-three. Last year's 5.7 yards a target is the collapsed half, and it's the half that carries almost no signal forward. The library's honest translation: the volume is real, and the efficiency coin gets re-flipped every season.

  The situation is a franchise that hedged. The general manager called Jeudy their bell cow this offseason and said he isn't being traded, per the Cleveland beat — after months of trade columns said otherwise — and then the front office spent two of its first three picks on receivers: KC Concepcion at 24, Denzel Boston at 39. Todd Monken took over in January with Travis Switzer coordinating, and the quarterback is a three-way competition — Shedeur Sanders, who took the first-team turns this spring, Deshaun Watson, and Dillon Gabriel, per ESPN. Jeudy's June was one yellow flag: a hamstring twinge on the final minicamp day, held out as a precaution, expected past it by camp, per the team site. He's under contract through 20-27, per Over The Cap.

  The price: WR66 at pick one-74 for the per-game WR67. The market has priced him at his floor season almost exactly — one slot of daylight. Our verdict: no call. The price is the down year, and the down year happened; we can't call that an error. What we can say is where the range lives: the sticky stat — six targets a game, a fifth of the tree — kept showing up through the worst of it, and the stat that failed is the one that predicts itself worst. The caveat, both ways: two rookies with first- and second-round capital are aimed at his snaps, and a quarterback carousel is precisely the environment where efficiency stays broken.

  Watch the catch rate through September — under 50 is the anomaly, not the baseline, and it re-flips fast when the quarterback play stabilizes — and watch whether Concepcion's snaps come from his side or Boston's. A hundred six targets is a career's worth of proof the offense trusts him; what happens to the ball afterward is next season's coin. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.