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It means that Chase is getting gobs of volume-he's on pace for 138 targets, more than any rookie since Kelvin Benjamin in 2014.

It's not common to see a rookie post a DYAR as good as Chase's with a DVOA that is so mundane. That's an impressive list of names, but it's also only four names spread out over nearly four decades, and none in the past 18 years. He's doing just fine, in other words-finishing with 200 or so DYAR and a DVOA around 5.0% would put him in rookie company with Bill Brooks and Ernest Givins in 1986, or Andre Johnson and Anquan Boldin in 2003. That drops Chase all the way down to … 22nd among wide receivers in DYAR and still first by a wide margin among rookies. Then Chase caught three of nine targets for 32 yards in the upset loss to the Jets, followed by a six-of-13-for-49-yard performance in a blowout against the Browns. Two weeks ago he was among the top 20 wide receivers in DYAR and threatening to join Michael Thomas (431 DYAR in 2016) and Randy Moss (428 in 1998) as the only rookie wideouts to clear the 400-DYAR threshold. Oh, how things have turned around for Chase. That's not a ton, but it does make his raw stats more impressive, because it means Pitts has been putting up big numbers against defenses that are slightly better than average in coverage against tight ends. Speaking of DYAR, we should also point out that Pitts has gained 11 DYAR this year due to opponent adjustments. That probably says more about the 2010 Patriots and 2021 Falcons than it does about Gronkowski and Pitts, but we're pretty sure that everyone in Atlanta would be happy to see Pitts in the end zone more often. The biggest difference between Gronkowski and Pitts right now is touchdowns-Gronk had 10 as a freshman, while Pitts has just one in his first eight games. Gronk had 243 DYAR with the Patriots in 2010 Ken Dilger (205 DYAR with the Colts in 1995) is the only other player at the position to top 200 DYAR in his first season. Pitts is also chasing Gronkowski for the rookie tight end DYAR record. Yes, the 17-game season certainly helps-Ditka averaged 76.9 yards in 14 games in his first year. Pitts' current average? 68.3 yards per game. He would need to average 58.9 yards in each of Atlanta's nine remaining games to match Ditka.

He's over halfway to the rookie record of 1,076 yards set by Mike Ditka in 1961, the only time a first-year tight end has ever hit quadruple-digits. Pitts is already tied with Rob Gronkowski for 25th on the rookie tight end yardage list. There's no doubt that Pitts is the top rookie tight end this season the only question is whether he can threaten any all-time records. (In first place: Dallas' Dalton Schultz, Pitts' beanpole peer.) Our advanced stats like him too-he's fifth among tight ends in DYAR. Going into Monday Night Football this week, he is eighth at the position in receptions and third in yards. Regardless, we're counting Pitts as a tight end, and he's a fine one. Meanwhile, several notable wideouts (Terry McLaurin, Juju Smith-Schuster, Allen Robinson, and Davante Adams, to name a few) had BMIs of 28.0 or higher. Only a handful of tight ends (such as Logan Thomas, Dalton Schultz, and Robert Tonyan) saw meaningful playing time with a BMI that low. However, Pitts is fairly skinny for his height, with a BMI of 28.7. That's much larger than the average wide receiver last year (6-foot-1, 202 pounds) and more in line with the average tight end (6-foot-5, 252 pounds). Pitts' size-6-foot-6 and 248 pounds-makes it especially difficult to label him as one or the other. Technically, Pitts is a tight end, not a wideout, although the line between those two designations gets blurrier all the time. Here they are, in the order they were drafted … which means we aren't starting with a wide receiver at all. Five were taken in the first round, the other in the second. There are six rookies who have gained at least 300 receiving yards so far in 2021. With Smith and Chase bookending the week's receiving tables, we thought it would be a good idea to check in on this season's most notable first-year wide receivers, as we did last week for quarterbacks. Meanwhile, if you scroll up a little higher you'll see that the top receiver of the week was another rookie, Philadelphia's DeVonta Smith, who put up a 5-116-1 statline against the Chargers.

Scroll down to the very bottom of this article and you'll find that our least valuable wide receiver of Week 9 was Cincinnati Bengals rookie Ja'Marr Chase, who had six catches for 49 yards and a fumble against Cleveland. NFL Week 9 - We begin this week at the end-the end of our Quick Reads tables, that is.