Never in my life did I expect to see a stat like this for the Raiders. The slowest wide receiver corps in the league?? Al Davis is spinning in his grave.
Route-weighted 40-yard dash times for every offense's WR room in 2023. Decent way to look at how much speed each team put on the field from the wide receiver position pic.twitter.com/AsKYLbWOZO
— Arjun Menon (@arjunmenon100) January 18, 2024
Many of you are probably wondering why Tre Tucker’s speed wouldn’t raise this number a bit. Well, first of all, as the chart suggests, it’s weighted for routes run. And Tucker was not a big part of the Raiders offense this season.
With routes run as the filter here, and since I don’t have the raw routes run numbers, I will go by targets, let’s list the Raiders receivers by targets and their 40 times.
Davante Adams 4.56, 963 snaps, 175 targets
Jakobi Meyers 4.63, 903 snaps, 106 targets
Hunter Renfrow 4.59, 363 snaps, 37 targets
Tre Tucker 4.4 334 snaps, 34 targets
DeAndre Carter 4.44, 102 snaps, 7 targets
So, yeah, Tucker has a decent 40 time of 4.4 flat. Though, it’s no Jacoby Ford (4.28) or Darrius Heyward-Bey (4.3). Not many are.
But more importantly, Tucker saw just a third of the snaps this season with Adams and Meyers getting the vest majority of the snaps and targets and their 40 times are not special.
Not that any of this is a big deal, really. Adams in certainly a deep threat with plenty of ability to get separation. Tucker did see his snaps and targets go up over the final few games of the season, twice setting new career-highs in catches and yards in those games.
Mostly it’s just pretty stunning to see the Raiders of all teams last on this list as classically, that has not been the case.
