• Career Stats
    Receiving
    YearGPRrec/ydsaveTDsFSV
    20229 30 28/388 13.9 3 85
    202111 17 55/665 12.1 2 134
    202016 2 107/1196 11.2 9 281
    201916 4 90/1145 12.7 3 223
    20184 79 6/75 12.5 0 16
    201612 53 10/85 8.5 2 31
    20156 183 0/0 0.0 0 2/18 9.0 0 4
  • (Month:Week)
2022 Stats | LVRWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TOT
TM Snap % - 55% 73% 80% 12% - - - - - - - - - 49% 40% 57% 67% 55%
recYds 79 50 22 24 - - - - - - - - - - 48 58 72 35 388
Tar/Rec 6/4 8/6 5/3 5/3 - - - - - - - - - - 3/3 5/4 5/3 6/2 43/28
TM Tar% - 21% 12% 17% 0% - - - - - - - - - 9% 17% 16% 16% 14%
recTDs 0 1 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 1 0 3
FScore 7 11 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 5 13 3 56
FS/PPR 11 17 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 9 16 5 84
Opp @ lac ari @ ten den @ kc bye hou @ no @ jac ind @ den @ sea lac @ lar ne @ pit sf kc  
 
2021 Stats | LVRWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 TOT
TM Snap % 94% 92% 80% 93% 96% 82% - - 88% 91% 94% 24% - - - - - 78% 81%
recYds 105 65 54 50 45 59 - - 92 24 116 33 - - - - - 22 665
Tar/Rec 19/10 7/5 7/5 7/4 8/4 5/5 - - 11/7 7/4 8/7 5/2 - - - - - 9/2 93/55
TM Tar% 37% 19% 18% 22% 24% 22% - - 26% 21% 32% 14% - - - - - 0% 22%
recTDs 1 0 0 1 0 0 - - 0 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 2
FScore 16 6 5 11 4 5 0 0 9 2 11 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 78
FS/PPR 26 11 10 15 8 10 0 0 16 6 18 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 133
Opp bal @ pit mia @ lac chi @ den phi bye @ nyg kc cin @ dal was @ kc @ cle den @ ind lac  
 
2020 Stats | LVRWeek
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
TM Snap % 89% 92% 95% 95% 91% - 91% 79% 88% 89% 93% 97% 95% 97% 91% 98% 87% 92%
recYds 45 105 9 88 48 - 50 27 22 37 88 23 200 75 150 112 117 1196
Tar/Rec 8/6 16/12 4/2 12/9 7/5 - 9/6 6/5 10/5 5/3 7/7 7/4 17/13 10/7 12/9 6/5 10/9 146/107
TM Tar% 29% 47% 13% 28% 24% - 26% 32% 43% 23% 24% 19% 40% 22% 40% 20% 29% 28%
recTDs 0 1 0 0 1 - 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 9
FScore 4 16 0 8 10 0 11 2 8 3 14 2 32 7 21 11 17 173
FS/PPR 10 28 2 17 15 0 17 7 13 6 21 6 45 14 30 16 26 280
Opp @ car no @ ne buf @ kc bye tb @ cle @ lac den kc @ atl @ nyj ind lac mia @ den  
 
2019 Stats | Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 TOT
rshYds 0 0 7 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
rushes 0 0 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
rshTDs 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
recYds 70 63 134 53 39 - 126 11 52 40 78 41 100 72 122 37 107 1145
Tar/Rec 8/7 7/6 14/13 8/7 5/4 - 8/7 8/2 2/2 5/3 7/5 6/3 9/7 6/6 10/8 4/4 10/6 117/90
recTDs 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
FScore 7 6 14 5 3 0 24 7 5 4 7 4 10 7 12 3 10 133
FS/PPR 14 12 27 12 7 0 31 9 7 7 12 7 17 13 20 7 16 222
Opp @ car no @ ne buf @ kc bye tb @ cle @ lac den kc @ atl @ nyj ind lac mia @ den  
 

Darren Waller 2022 Outlook
Last season, Waller missed five games due to a combination of a knee injury, a back injury and time on the COVID list. In the 11 games he appeared in, he caught 55 balls for 665 yards and two touchdowns while averaging 12.1 yards per reception. In other words, it was a bit of a disappointment following a huge 2020 season. As the Pro Football Network suggested, Waller's struggles are pretty easily explained. His massive 2020 was primarily built on touchdowns. He scored nine that season. According to PFN, his catch rate was 71.6 percent in 2019 and 74.8 percent in 2020. That fell to 59.1 percent in 2021 (partly due to Waller's 8.6 percent drop rate). That wasn't all his fault, though, as his catchable target rate dropped from 87 percent in 2019 to 80.5 percent in 2020 to 75 percent in 2019. So, he could benefit from better play by Derek Carr, but even with that the arrival of Davante Adams is going to be an issue. Waller has been the Raiders' unquestioned top pass catcher for the past three seasons. That's going to change. PFN summed up: "Fantasy managers should consider Waller a top-5 tight end, but we should not expect his production to rise to the difference-making levels of Travis Kelce (or) 2020 Mark Andrews." Sounds about right to us.

Darren Waller 2021 Outlook
Once again, Ben Linsey of Pro Football Focus, agrees with our fantasy ranking of Waller -- but maybe not from an NFL perspective. "Waller has crept closer to the Kittle-Kelce tier at the top of the position with his play over the last two seasons for the Raiders," Linsey wrote. "He's earned PFF receiving grades of at least 85.0 in each of the past two years, falling behind only Kelce in receiving grade during the 2020 season (90.9). ..." Meanwhile, USA Today noted that while Waller could still improve as a blocker, he is just about as good as it gets as a receiver. The Raiders have designed an offense that flows through him. Waller is fully capable of lining up out wide and beating cornerbacks as a receiver. That's why Waller saw 27.9 percent of his team's targets in 2020, which ranked fourth in the NFL, behind only Davante Adams, Stefon Diggs and DeAndre Hopkins. Kelce was the next-closest tight end at 23.7 percent. Waller’s 107 catches last season was the third-most in NFL history among tight ends, behind only Zach Ertz (2018, 116 catches) and Jason Witten (2012, 110 catches). Don't expect that role to change noticeably.

Darren Waller 2020 Outlook
Waller, one of the top draft bargains/waiver adds in 2019, finished his breakout campaign ranked 13th in average fantasy points per touch (2.40). He also tied Mark Andrews for fifth among tight ends in terms of points per game (13.8). Waller scored in double digits 10 times, which tied for the third-most behind Travis Kelce and George Kittle, and his three games with 20-plus points were third behind Kelce and Andrews. The question now is whether Waller can repeat. In case you missed it, the Raiders drafted three offensive skill position players in the first three rounds in April and they signed TE Jason Witten, RB Devontae Booker and WR Nelson Agholor in free agency, so there's little question about their desire to improve on that side of the ball. Waller thinks the off-season additions mixed with him, Derek Carr, WR Tyrell Williams and Josh Jacobs are setting the stage for a big difference on the scoreboard. To some degree, the increased talent around him might cause some concern about his production and involvement in the offense, but we'll remind you that HC Jon Gruden called Waller and the entire tight end group the "lifeblood of our offense" last season. That's worth trusting in this range.