Week 1 NFL player projection

Elic Ayomanor
PROJECTION

Elic Ayomanor is a TEN WR facing NYJ in Week 1. He averaged 32 receiving yards across 16 recorded 2025 games, in a range from 5 to 58. Below: the WinForge median projection, then the record it has to be judged against.

MEDIAN PROJECTION

WinForge projection (median)

51

Receiving Yards

WinForge projection (median)

4.3

Receptions

TEN vs NYJ · Sun, Sep 13 · updated Jul 18, 2026. These weekly projections are prepared for Week 1. This is the median: half of the outcomes WinForge simulates land above it and half below.

WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS

The record on Elic Ayomanor is short: 16 games in 2025 for 515 receiving yards. That is too small a sample to call a trend, so the projection leans on role and matchup rather than his own history.

Measured against this week's 51.3 projection, he cleared it in 3 of 16 games last season.

HOW HE ACTUALLY FINISHED IN 2025

32.2

Receiving Yards / game

3/16

games clearing this projection

89

targets

81%

avg snap share

5Receiving Yards — every dot is one real game58

White line = his actual median (33). Gold line = this week's WinForge projection (51.3). This bar is built from recorded results, not a modelled range.

THE SHAPE OF HIS 2025 SEASON

His 2025 weeks were not evenly spread. The best was 58 receiving yards in Week 16 against KC; the quietest was 5 in Week 13 against JAX. He finished above his own 32-per-game average in 8 of 16 games.

He accounted for at least one touchdown in 4 of 16 games, never more than one in a game. Scoring is the most volatile part of any projection, so a record built on a handful of multi-score weeks reads differently from one spread evenly.

His longest single play on record in 2025 went for 39 yards. That single play is worth about 121% of an average game for him, which is the difference between a total built on steady volume and one that depends on a single play landing.

His snap share held roughly steady through the season: about 76% across his first 5 recorded games and 79% across his last 5. A stable role is the part of a projection least likely to be wrong.

Across those games he handled 89 targets and no carries on record.

2025 GAME LOG

WkMatchup Rec/TgtReceiving Yards TDSnap Long
1 TEN vs DEN 2/7 13 0 79% 10
2 TEN vs LA 4/6 56 1 73% 23
3 TEN vs IND 4/5 38 1 74% 11
4 TEN vs HOU 2/7 44 0 82% 33
5 TEN vs ARI 2/4 18 0 72% 13
6 TEN vs LV 3/5 27 0 93% 11
7 TEN vs NE 2/5 29 0 96% 20
8 TEN vs IND 4/8 52 0 94% 26
9 TEN vs LAC 3/6 46 0 64% 29
11 TEN vs HOU 2/6 11 0 85% 6
13 TEN vs JAX 1/5 5 0 85% 5
14 TEN vs CLE 1/3 14 1 80% 14
15 TEN vs SF 1/1 17 0 -- --
16 TEN vs KC 3/4 58 0 56% 25
17 TEN vs NO 4/7 37 1 81% 14
18 TEN vs JAX 3/10 50 0 94% 39

SEASON BY SEASON

SeasonG TgtReceiving Yards Per gameTD PPR/G
202516 89 515 32.2 4 8.5

CAREER VS NYJ

No career game against NYJ on record in the 2022-2025 seasons WinForge stores. There is no head-to-head sample to lean on here, which is itself worth knowing.

WHY THIS PROJECTION MOVES

Elic Ayomanor is tagged as WR2 rotation for TEN. The page uses top-2 WR projection volume for TEN, then layers in a middle-tier prior matchup with NYJ ranked #15 vs WR and allowing 24.2 fantasy points per game so the public read is tied to this player's actual weekly situation.

ACCURACY FRAMING AND EVERY OTHER WEEK 1 PROJECTION

In the independent 2025 test using games kept out of training, the WinForge receiving-yards model explained 59% of the variation in actual WR receiving yards. The model-fit result shows how closely projections tracked real differences in results; it is not a hit rate. Read the accuracy ledger and methodology for context.

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