FBO:Inc Pass Breakdown: WRs

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More football nerd talk from FBO this time about WRs.
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | 2014 Incomplete Pass Breakdown: Receivers

This metric breaksdown incomplete passes into categories:

Dropped and Defensed

Our last section looks at drops and passes defensed. Defensed is a very gray area for the blame game. Some passes are defensed because the receiver lost the one-on-one battle, but other times the quarterback throws a poor pass that should have been picked off. Drops are unofficial NFL stats because of the subjectivity. As a charter, I like to use the standard of getting two hands on the ball for a catch. If a guy makes a one-handed stab at a pass, that's not a drop. We came up with 791 drops for the 2014 season, but I'm sure you can hand this project over to any other group and they would find different results.

Defensed rate: 36th (out of 86) Garcon 11 passes defensed 10.5%
55th D Jax 7 passes defensed 7.4%

Drop rate: 84th DJax 1 drop rate 1.1%
86th the one and only Pierre Garcon dropped 0, zilch, zed passes for a rate 0.0%

Did you expect Julian Edelman to lead the league with 11 drops, or that Pierre Garcon would be the only wideout without one (minimum 50 targets)? That happened.