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Allen Robinson

WR (retired)

Robinson was a reliable WR1-caliber target eater across six different teams and four different quarterback rooms, yet his team never advanced past the wild card. The numbers understate how consistently productive he was given his circumstances.

11-year career: 565 receptions, 7,058 yards, 43 TDs — all accumulated without a single playoff win.

Milestone

Career regular-season totals

StatTotal
Games131
Receptions565
Receiving Yards7,058
Receiving TDs43
Y/R12.49

1,000-yard seasons

YearTeamRecYdsTDs
2015JAX801,40014
2019CHI981,1477
2020CHI1021,2506

Why it matters. Robinson was a reliable WR1-caliber target eater across six different teams and four different quarterback rooms, yet his team never advanced past the wild card. The numbers understate how consistently productive he was given his circumstances.

His 2015 JAX season — 14 TDs, 1,400 yards, age 22 — is the most receiving TDs ever by a WR in a single regular season at age 22 or younger.

Trend

Most receiving TDs by a WR at age ≤22 (since 1999)

PlayerSeasonAgeTDsYds
Allen Robinson201522141,400
Ja'Marr Chase202121131,455
Odell Beckham Jr.201422121,305
Mike Evans201421121,051
Randy Moss199922111,413

Robinson JAX receiving yards by year

SeasonYards
2014548
20151400
2016883
20191147
20201250

Why it matters. Every other WR peak at that age produced between 10-13 TDs. Robinson did it behind Blake Bortles on a 5-11 team, which makes the outlier even more extreme.

Two straight 1,000-yard CHI seasons (2019, 2020) — Robinson's 2020 was the best WR season of the entire Trubisky era by 619 yards.

Split

Best CHI WR seasons 2017–2020 (Trubisky era)

PlayerYearRecYdsTDs
Allen Robinson20201021,2506
Allen Robinson2019981,1477
Allen Robinson2018557544
Taylor Gabriel2018676882
Darnell Mooney2020616314

Why it matters. The Trubisky era produced almost nothing at WR outside of Robinson. He was so dominant within that offense that the second-best WR season during those three years was barely half his output.

He tore his ACL in Week 1 of 2017 — the one JAX season they went 10-6, beat Pittsburgh 45-42, and reached the AFC Championship game.

Rare

JAX 2017 — Robinson's lost playoff run

GameResultScore
Week 1 (Robinson's only game)JAX W29-7 HOU
Wild CardJAX W10-3 BUF
DivisionalJAX W45-42 PIT
AFC ChampionshipJAX L20-24 NE

Why it matters. Robinson's career is often framed as QB-luck cursed, but the deeper wound is timing: the one year his team actually built a Super Bowl contender around him, he was watching from the sideline. He never played in a playoff game for JAX.

Among 2014 2nd-round WRs, Robinson ranks 3rd in career yards — 6,670 yards behind Adams, who had Aaron Rodgers.

Comparison

2014 2nd-round WR class — career receiving yards

PlayerPickCareer yds (all)
Davante Adams#5313,728
Jarvis Landry#638,084
Allen Robinson#617,268

Why it matters. Adams and Robinson were taken 8 picks apart in the same draft. The gap in production is almost entirely explained by quarterback quality — same draft tier, opposite career arcs.

2015 vs 2016: same 151 targets, 37% fewer yards — the most dramatic same-player same-team same-usage production drop in the target era.

Anomaly

Robinson 2015 vs 2016 — same targets, different universe

YearTeamTargetsRecYdsTDsYds/Tgt
2015JAX151801,400149.27
2016JAX1517388365.85

Why it matters. This is the clearest possible evidence that Robinson's production was QB-dependent: his workload was identical, but Blake Bortles was significantly worse in 2016, and Robinson's output collapsed with him. He was the variable that stayed constant.

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