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Carolina Panthers Defense vs Wide Receivers (2025)

In 2025, the Carolina Panthers allowed 124.6 receiving yards per game to wide receivers — #8 of 32 (1 = stingiest). Our persistence testing says single-season ranks like this mostly do NOT carry over year to year — use with that in mind.

Everything they allowed to wide receivers, per game

Metric	Season	Last 4	Last 2
Targets allowed	15.8	17.0	12.5
Receptions allowed	9.9	11.5	8.5
Rec yds allowed	124.6	117.8	82.0
Rec TD allowed	0.6	0.5	0.0
Yards per target	7.9	6.9	6.6
Explosive receptions (20+)	1.5	0.5	0.5

Last 4 = weeks 15–18; last 2 = weeks 17–18. 2025 regular season.

Upcoming: week 1 vs Chicago Bears

Wide Receivers they'll face first: Rome Odunze, Luther Burden III.

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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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