Tre Tucker — Week 2: Five Catches, a Hundred Nineteen Yards
2026 NFL Season · Half-PPR Scoring · Monday, Sep 21
Tucker caught five of seven targets for 119 yards and a 40-yard touchdown on first and ten with 11:57 left in the second quarter. His 42-yard catch with 0:31 left in the half set up a 59-yard field goal, and a first-quarter deep throw intended for him was intercepted. His seven targets tied for the Raiders lead, in a 26–14 win over the Chargers.
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No score, 11 57 left in the second quarter, first and 10 at the Chargers 40. Out of the no-huddle, Kirk Cousins threw deep left to Tre Tucker for 40 yards and the touchdown. +3.7 expected points added — expected points added is what a play was worth given down, distance and field position — the most by any Raiders play all afternoon, and +10.1 points of win probability, the chance of winning the game after the play against before it. On the snap before, second and 12, Tucker had caught 13 yards over the middle to get there.
The line: seven targets, five catches, a hundred 19 yards, one touchdown, four first downs, a hundred 43 air yards, +3.4 expected points on the targets — a total that carries an interception inside it. The catches: 15 on third and 10 with 10-oh-four left in the first quarter, converted; the 13; the 40; 42 deep left on second and 10 from the Las Vegas 16 with 31 seconds left in the half, tied at seven; and nine on third and 10 in the third quarter, a yard short, on a drive Las Vegas kept alive on fourth down and finished with the go-ahead touchdown. The 42-yarder put the ball at the Chargers 42, and Matt Gay hit from 59 with eight seconds left. The interception was second and five at the Chargers 32 with nine-oh-five left in the first, deep left for Tucker, picked off by Cam Hart at the 15, −4.8 expected points. The other incompletion was third and nine on the first series of the second half. A four-yard catch on third and seven in the fourth quarter came off the books on a Chargers penalty that gave Las Vegas the first down anyway, and he fair-caught the onside free kick after the late safety. Five targets and a hundred 10 yards before halftime, two targets and nine yards after.
His seven targets tied Ashton Jeanty for the most on the team, ahead of Michael Mayer's four, and his hundred 19 yards were nearly half of Cousins's 253. Brock Bowers was inactive again, per ProFootballTalk at NBC Sports.
Back in June the preview called Tucker a lean, underpriced — receiver 63 at pick one 70 for a player who had led the Raiders in targets and receiving yards on an 18.6 percent share — and said the lean folds if Bowers takes the tree back and Jalen Nailor's contract buys the perimeter. Week 1 he was tied for fourth on his own team with four targets and 27 yards. Sunday he was tied for first. Put the two games together and it is 11 of Cousins's 59 throws, 18.6 percent, last year's share to the decimal. Both games came without Bowers, so the caveat has not been tested yet. Las Vegas is at the Saints on Sunday the 20-seventh.
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