Jordan Whittington

Three-week audition, then ghost: 21 targets in Wks 3-5 of 2024, just 5 the rest of that season.

For three weeks in fall 2024, Jordan Whittington looked like a legitimate Rams starting piece: 21 targets, 16 catches, 179 yards across Weeks 3-5, with a 21% average target share matching a WR2 workload.

Then the snap count dried up. Over the next 9 regular-season games (Weeks 6-18 minus Week 18), he totaled just 5 targets and 4 catches. The ceiling blinked on, then off — a pattern that followed him into a quiet 2025 (171 yards in 15 games, 5.1% target share).

Week 5 vs GB: 10 targets, 89 yards — more than he'd get in the next 8 games combined.

Whittington's Week 5 against Green Bay — 10 targets, 7 catches, 89 yards, 22.2% target share — is the high-water mark of his NFL career. It looked like a breakout.

The response from the Rams: zero targets in 9 consecutive games (Weeks 6-14). He didn't see a target again until the Week 17 finale (1 target), then got 4 in the garbage-time Week 18 closer vs Seattle.

That Week 5 game represents 19% of his entire 2024 receiving output in a single afternoon.

2025 high: 42 yards in Week 2 vs Tennessee — his biggest game in a year of small ones.

Whittington's 2025 season topped out with 42 yards in Week 2 vs Tennessee (2 catches on 2 targets). He didn't have a single 50+ yard game all year — a stark contrast to the 3 games of 60+ yards in his 2024 season (Wks 4, 5, and 18).

Of his 15 appearances in 2025, 10 came in under 10 receiving yards (including 5 games with zero yards). The Rams used him almost entirely on situational snaps, with Nacua (166 tgt), Adams (114 tgt), and Xavier Smith (24 tgt) all ahead of his 25 targets.

Zero career receiving TDs across 33 games — 40 catches without finding the end zone.

Across 33 career games and 43 receptions, Whittington has yet to score a receiving TD — 511 yards without a single end-zone trip.

The Rams' offense has historically concentrated red-zone work on their top receivers (Cooper Kupp historically; Nacua and Adams in recent years). Whittington's role has been intermediate-route filler on early downs, rarely seeing the inside-the-10 snaps where TDs get manufactured. The 0 in the TD column isn't unlucky — it reflects a clearly defined scheme role.

Playoff role: 4 games, 100% catch rate — 3 catches on 3 targets, never a drop.

Whittington has appeared in 4 career postseason games across two Rams playoff runs. When the ball has come his way, he hasn't missed: 3 catches on exactly 3 targets — 100% catch rate for 47 yards.

Two of the four games he was a non-factor (0 targets). His biggest January moment: 2 catches for 35 yards in the 2025 Wild Card vs Chicago. In both playoff years, Sean McVay has kept him active as a trusted situational piece — even if 'situational' means one target per elimination game, on average.

11 of 29 regular-season games with zero targets — nearly invisible in 38% of his appearances.

Across 29 regular-season appearances, Whittington has been a true ghost in 11 games (38%) — activated, on the field, but never thrown to.

Only 4 games in his career have involved a workload of 4+ targets; 2 of those were the same three-week burst in 2024 (Wk4: 8 targets, Wk5: 10 targets). The other 25 games cluster at 0-3 targets. That usage pattern — occasionally featured, routinely invisible — defines the Rams' treatment of their WR4/5 slot in a room dominated by Nacua and Adams.