Player
Jahan Dotson
WR · Eagles
Jahan Dotson: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
7 TDs as a rookie. 6 TDs in three seasons since.
TrendDotson by season
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | WAS | 12 | 61 | 35 | 523 | 7 |
| 2023 | WAS | 17 | 83 | 49 | 518 | 4 |
| 2024 | PHI | 16 | 38 | 22 | 269 | 1 |
| 2025 | PHI | 16 | 37 | 18 | 262 | 1 |
Drafted 16th overall by Washington in 2022, Dotson opened with 7 TDs in 12 rookie games — a top-12 WR rate league-wide for that span. 2023 was a volume bump (83 targets) but with a TD-rate halving (4 in 17 games).
The August 2024 trade to Philadelphia put him behind A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, and the rookies. The post-trade reality: 40 catches and 2 TDs across two full Eagles seasons combined.
Receiving TDs per season
| Season | TD |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Washington Dotson: 5.0 tgts/game. Eagles Dotson: 2.3 tgts/game.
SplitDotson by team
| Era | G | Tgt | Tgt/G | Yds/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAS (2022-23) | 29 | 144 | 5.0 | 35.9 |
| PHI (2024-25) | 32 | 75 | 2.3 | 16.6 |
In Washington, Dotson was a WR2 — 5.0 targets per game, 35.9 receiving yards per game. The Eagles trade collapsed all of that: 2.3 targets per game, 16.6 yards per game as the WR3/4 behind A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
It's not a usage anomaly — it's the predictable cost of joining a team where the top two WRs both eat 25%+ target shares. Dotson's single-game career-high target share with PHI was 26.8% in Week 18, 2024 (the regulars rested).
Career-best game: 8 catches, 108 yards, 1 TD in 2023 vs the Eagles — the future-team game.
MilestoneDotson's top games
| Year | Wk | Team | Opp | Rec | Yds | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 8 | WAS | PHI | 8 | 108 | 1 |
| 2022 | 15 | WAS | NYG | 4 | 105 | 1 |
| 2024 | 18 | PHI | NYG | 7 | 94 | 0 |
Dotson's career-high yardage game came in 2023 Week 8 against the Eagles — 8 catches, 108 yards, 1 TD on 10 targets. Ten months later, Washington traded him to that same Eagles team.
His only other 100-yard game: rookie year vs the Giants (4-105-1) — a 26.3 yards-per-catch line built almost entirely on a long TD. The yardage profile has always skewed boom-or-bust.
On PHI his efficiency went UP: 7.1 Y/Tgt vs 6.2 in his last WAS year.
AnomalyYards/target by year
| Season | Tgt | Yds | Y/Tgt |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 61 | 523 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 83 | 518 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 38 | 269 | 7.1 |
| 2025 | 37 | 262 | 7.1 |
On the Eagles, Dotson's per-target efficiency hasn't collapsed — it actually improved. 7.1 yards per target in both 2024 and 2025 beats his 2023 Washington line (6.2) by nearly a full yard. The issue is volume: Philly only throws him the ball 2-3 times a game.
His career-high Y/Tgt remains his rookie 8.6 in 2022 (long-ball usage on a thin WAS depth chart). The 2024-25 Eagles version is a more efficient receiver per touch than the 2023 WAS "WR2" version — just 45 fewer targets per season.
61 → 83 → 38 → 37: targets fell off a cliff after the trade.
ComparisonFrom 2023 Washington to 2024 Philly, Dotson's target volume fell from 83 to 38 — more than a 50% drop. That's the steepest year-over-year target decline you'll find for a first-round pick on a new team in his early 20s.
It was never a performance fall — it was a team change into a different offensive ecosystem. The Eagles already had two 100-target WRs and a rising rookie. Dotson became a rotational piece almost overnight.
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