Week 1 NFL player projection
John Metchie III
PROJECTION
John Metchie III is a CAR WR facing CHI in Week 1. He averaged 21 receiving yards across 13 recorded 2025 games, in a range from 0 to 65. Below: the WinForge median projection, then the record it has to be judged against.
MEDIAN PROJECTION
WinForge projection (median)
45
Receiving Yards
WinForge projection (median)
3.8
Receptions
CAR vs CHI · 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
John Metchie III is on a clear upward line. Per game he went from 11.3 in 2023 to 21.1 in 2025 — up 87% — on 30 then 48 targets.
Measured against this week's 44.5 projection, he cleared it in 2 of 13 games last season.
Split his 13 games down the middle and the two halves do not match: 11 receiving yards per game early, then 29.7 late.
HOW HE ACTUALLY FINISHED IN 2025
21.1
Receiving Yards / game
2/13
games clearing this projection
48
targets
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avg snap share
White line = his actual median (19). Gold line = this week's WinForge projection (44.5). 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 65 receiving yards in Week 12 against BAL; the quietest was 0 in Week 2 against KC. He finished above his own 21-per-game average in 5 of 13 games.
He accounted for at least one touchdown in 2 of 13 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 22 yards. That single play is worth about 104% 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.
Across those games he handled 48 targets and 3 carries.
2025 GAME LOG
| Wk | Matchup | Rec/Tgt | Receiving Yards | TD | Snap | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PHI vs DAL | 0/0 | 0 | 0 | -- | -- |
| 2 | PHI vs KC | 1/1 | 0 | 0 | -- | -- |
| 3 | PHI vs LA | 1/1 | 8 | 0 | -- | 8 |
| 4 | PHI vs TB | 2/2 | 10 | 0 | -- | 7 |
| 10 | NYJ vs CLE | 1/1 | 3 | 0 | -- | 3 |
| 11 | NYJ vs NE | 3/3 | 45 | 1 | -- | 22 |
| 12 | NYJ vs BAL | 6/7 | 65 | 1 | -- | 19 |
| 13 | NYJ vs ATL | 4/8 | 19 | 0 | -- | 7 |
| 14 | NYJ vs MIA | 4/8 | 34 | 0 | -- | 18 |
| 15 | NYJ vs JAX | 4/5 | 25 | 0 | -- | -- |
| 16 | NYJ vs NO | 1/5 | 4 | 0 | -- | 4 |
| 17 | NYJ vs NE | 3/3 | 41 | 0 | -- | 18 |
| 18 | NYJ vs BUF | 3/4 | 20 | 0 | -- | 11 |
SEASON BY SEASON
| Season | G | Tgt | Receiving Yards | Per game | TD | PPR/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 | 30 | 158 | 11.3 | 0 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | 37 | 254 | 25.4 | 1 | 6.7 |
| 2025 | 13 | 48 | 274 | 21.1 | 2 | 6.6 |
CAREER VS CHI
No career game against CHI 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
John Metchie III is tagged as WR4 rotation for CAR. The page uses top-4 WR projection volume for CAR, then layers in a middle-tier prior matchup with CHI ranked #21 vs WR and allowing 27.6 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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