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Hit rates by week, WR
Over 2019–2025, 97 games played. Bars show this player's rate against the WR rate over the same games.
Usage, WR
6 targets / game
16 games
[2025,2026] season, 16 games played. Share of team targets against the WR median.
San Francisco took him in the second round out of South Carolina, and for a while he was the most interesting answer in football to the question of what a wide receiver is. He is thirty now, still carrying two hundred and fifteen pounds of it, and the interesting question is no longer what he is but how much of him is left. What remains is a receiver who touches the ball the way a running back does and gets paid for it in bruises.
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Weeks before the season kicks off, the 49ers coverage that frames Deebo Samuel's situation is mostly about the wide receiver room around him rather than about him directly. The biggest storyline is Mike Evans' arrival in San Francisco: Turf Show Times and Yahoo Sports NFL ran Q&As on what he brings to the offense, with Evans expected to be a favorite target, and Niners Nation's Kyle Posey raised the question of whether his snaps will need managing. That target competition is the key context for Samuel's outlook, though no report this week addressed his role specifically. Elsewhere, Niners Nation published the team's first official depth chart and roster grading, confirmed the captains are unchanged from 2025, and Turf Show Times described a team facing adversity before Week 1. Fantasy pieces from Yahoo's Scott Pianowski and Matt Okada and Big Blue View's final WR rankings rounded out the week.
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