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NFL Defense vs Wide Receivers — 2025 Rankings

The most generous defenses to wide receivers in 2025 were Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens. Full 32-team table below — season and last-4-games rates, TDs, yards per target, explosive plays. 🔒 marks defenses whose WR tendency was two-year stable — our persistence testing found most single-season defense-vs-position ranks do NOT repeat, so the stable ones are the only ones worth planning around.

Rk*	Defense	Rec yds/gm	Last 4	TD/gm	Y/tgt	Expl/gm
32	Dallas Cowboys 🔒	171.0	170.8	1.53	9.6	2.6
31	Indianapolis Colts	168.3	171.8	0.88	7.9	2.4
30	Baltimore Ravens 🔒	167.6	199.8	0.94	7.9	2.8
29	Tennessee Titans	165.5	169.2	1.06	9.5	2.5
28	Pittsburgh Steelers 🔒	163.6	143.5	1.00	8.2	2.2
27	Washington Commanders	162.7	161.8	1.00	8.8	2.0
26	Chicago Bears	157.4	185.5	1.18	9.2	2.7
25	Detroit Lions 🔒	155.5	124.2	1.24	8.2	2.5
24	New York Giants	151.8	107.0	0.94	8.2	2.2
23	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 🔒	147.6	129.0	0.82	7.8	2.1
22	Las Vegas Raiders	147.2	123.5	0.94	8.1	1.7
21	San Francisco 49ers	146.6	137.5	0.88	8.4	2.0
20	Los Angeles Rams	144.8	157.0	0.88	7.9	2.5
19	Atlanta Falcons	143.4	146.5	1.18	7.9	2.1
18	Jacksonville Jaguars	137.8	125.8	0.82	6.6	1.9
17	Arizona Cardinals	137.1	105.5	0.82	7.8	1.9
16	New York Jets	136.1	161.8	0.88	8.2	2.3
15	Philadelphia Eagles	135.4	104.5	0.35	7.3	2.2
14	Green Bay Packers	135.1	158.8	1.06	8.1	1.9
13	Denver Broncos	130.8	129.5	0.35	6.6	1.5
12	Los Angeles Chargers	127.5	153.2	0.59	7.2	1.6
11	Miami Dolphins	127.4	171.8	1.00	8.2	1.9
10	Houston Texans	127.2	131.5	0.59	7.5	1.9
9	Kansas City Chiefs 🔒	124.6	98.2	0.59	7.2	1.8
8	Carolina Panthers	124.6	117.8	0.65	7.9	1.5
7	New Orleans Saints	121.5	124.0	0.94	7.7	1.9
6	New England Patriots	118.5	95.8	1.00	7.6	1.6
5	Minnesota Vikings	115.9	107.0	0.53	8.1	1.5
4	Buffalo Bills	115.6	75.0	0.71	7.3	1.6
3	Cincinnati Bengals 🔒	115.2	106.0	0.53	8.3	1.7
2	Seattle Seahawks	110.8	122.0	0.71	6.3	1.3
1	Cleveland Browns	109.5	110.8	1.00	7.4	1.7

*Rank 1 = fewest allowed (stingiest). Sorted most-generous first. 🔒 = two-year-stable tendency. Per-game rates, 2025 regular season.

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Methodology: computed from nflverse play-by-play; a quarter's yards are the yards gained on plays snapped in that quarter. Averages use each player's games played, not team games. Updated 2026-07-28.

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