New York Giants fans may not be overly excited about the quarterback they’re going to be forced to cheer for on Sunday. But there is at least one Giants wide receive that is licking his chops waiting for the opportunity to play with Jameis Winston again.
With rookie sensation Jaxson Dart set to miss his second straight game as he continues to work through the concussion protocol, the Giants will turn to Winston, the motivational veteran quote-machine, to start again versus the Detroit Lions in the Motor City in Week 12.
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While Big Blue fans will be slightly more accepting of Winston than Russell Wilson, they still won’t be very happy about the current QB situation. But as previously said, there is at least one player who is rubbing his hands together like Birdman at the thought of another full contest catching passes from Famous Jameis the W-Eater.
That’s current Giants WR1 Wan’Dale Robinson. With top dog Malik Nabers out for the year, the 2022 second-round pick is having a breakout season. He had four games with 10+ targets prior to Winston being inserted into the lineup.
Likewise, he led all pass-catchers with nine targets from Winston in last week’s 27-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers. That's a 31-percent target share on Winston's 29 passes, and 50 percent more than the next closest guy, Isaiah Hodgins, who had six.
That continues a very intriguing trend for Winston over his last 10 or so starts going back to his final stint with the Saints in 2022.
Jameis Winston’s top receiver has always feasted
The 2013 Heisman Trophy winner is known as a gun-slinger, though one that often has a one-track—or one-receiver—mind. Much like Matthew Stafford, Winston is known for dialing in on one pass-catcher and absolutely feeding them targets until they become the glutton from Se7en.
And while some may doubt the veracity of those views, the numbers certainly back up the notion that Winston picks a favorite and feeds them. In 10 of his last 11 starts, he has targeted a single receiver nine-plus times. Nine of those games have seen at least one receiver end with double-digit targets.
During that span, guys like Chris Olave and Jerry Jeudy had some of their best performances as pros because Winston wasn't scared to feed the the ball to the best receiver he had.
And it goes beyond that: During Winston’s first few years in the NFL as a starter with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the beneficiary was wideout Mike Evans. He saw 713 targets over those five seasons, fourth-most in the NFL, and regularly accounted for over 30 percent of Winston’s targets.
Even back in college, Rashad Greene was his guy. He caught 175 of Winston’s 562 completions over two years at FSU (over 31 percent). While there is no target data for 2013, Greene saw 142 targets in 2014, which was a share of 30-plus percent.
For context, there are only four wideouts this year in the NFL that are seeing a 30-plus percent target share: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ja’Marr Chase, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and Justin Jefferson.
That means it’s a pretty rare achievement—unless you’re catching passes from Winston as his favorite target. Then, that kind of workload is just par for the course.