NFL Breakdown · Situational

Which wide receivers get the most targets in the two-minute drill?

2025 seasonTop 5 · updated as results come in
The short answer

Ja'Marr Chase leads all NFL wide receivers with 33 targets in two-minute drill situations, on 25 receptions and 2 receiving touchdowns across 16 games.

NFL Wide Receiver Targets in the Two-Minute Drill

Ranked by TGT · 2025 regular season
NFL Wide Receiver Targets in the Two-Minute Drill, 2025 season
#PlayerTGTRECYDSTDCTH%GP
1Ja'Marr Chase
Cincinnati Bengals · #1
3325282275.8%16
2Amon-Ra St. Brown
Detroit Lions · #14
3227282184.4%15
3Chris Olave
New Orleans Saints · #12
3121283367.7%16
4Michael Wilson
Arizona Cardinals · #14
3116211151.6%17
5Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Seattle Seahawks · #11
2920242169.0%17

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Why this matters

Hurry-up offense strips a game plan down to whatever a group of receivers can signal at the line and run without a full huddle. That favors route concepts that get to the boundary and out of bounds, since stopping the clock matters as much as gaining yardage, and it can push a team's most cerebral route runner into a bigger role than his overall target share suggests.

Targets in these stretches say more about trust in a tight window than about who wins on a given play. Sideline-adjacent receivers who can adjust to a throw and get out of bounds cleanly earn repeated looks, while a deep threat who needs a full route tree to separate can go quiet even if he leads the offense in targets across an ordinary drive.

Treat this list as a measure of clock-situation trust, not of who the passing game revolves around on a normal snap. A receiver can rank here almost entirely because of body control and awareness near the boundary, which is a specific and valuable skill, but it does not automatically carry over to how often he sees the ball once the clock stops mattering.

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