I'm talking about projections. I offer no guarantees.
Basing this on DTR's brief history when he's got in the game, though when I checked the play by play this morning it was a tad lower then I thought as Njoku's 14 target game vs Cincy this year was one with 3 QB's throwing to him.
DTR has played 4 games with Njoku where he's played more then 4 snaps and attempted more then 2 passes. Only two of those games did DTR start and finish.
In those 4 games Njoku had a 25.7% target share of DTR's passes. Most of that was last year, in his only action this year with Njoku that was 20.8%.
Game logs:
2024:
Cincy-5 targets for Njoku on 24 attempts from DTR. DTR only played 45% of the snaps.
2023:
Baltimore: Njoku got 7 out of 36 DTR targets. This was one of DTR's two full games.
Pittsburgh: Njoku got 15 out of 43 DTR targets and this was the other full DTR game.
Denver: Njoku got 7 out of 29 DTR targets, Walker took over for about 30% of the game.
4 games with DTR, 33 targets but if you factor in DTR only played 45% and 70% of two games if you prorated this as 3.15 games then Njoku averages about 10.5 targets over a full game with DTR. That's a healthy amount though again just a tad lower then I thought before I checked the Cincy game this year and accounted for Watson and Winston's targets to Njoku.
Now the production was not awesome in these games but that's another subject. I'd certainly view Njoku as a lot better option in a TEP format, like I mainly play, where a 6/50 kind of day makes you a borderline top 5 TE and that's the range of he's been performing with DTR.
No one invested in a Browns pass catcher should be happy about the Winston benching but out of the group I'm least concerned with Njoku, if he's even healthy enough to play a full complement of snaps.
