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Smith's 77 X-iso targets in 2025 leave him well short of Brown's 148-snap role.
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Eagles WR2 ranked second in X-iso receiver snaps in 2025 with 77 targets, well behind A.J. Brown's 148 snaps. This significant gap (less than 52% of Brown's volume) indicates Smith was not positioned as a true replacement option for isolation work against elite cornerbacks. With Brown's departure and the Eagles' shift toward Sean Mannion's condensed-formation scheme (50% rate, 6th in NFL), Smith's role may expand but likely not into the dominant X-iso role Brown occupied. The passing game restructuring under Mannion suggests increased emphasis on scheme-based production rather than individual receiver isolation opportunities.
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In 2025, Brown lined up as the X iso receiver on 148 snaps, more than twice as often as any other Eagles receiver — DeVonta Smith ranked second with 77 X-iso targets, and then, the whole thing kind of fell off a cliff.
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- What did Bleeding Green Nation say about DeVonta Smith?
- Eagles WR2 ranked second in X-iso receiver snaps in 2025 with 77 targets, well behind A.J. Brown's 148 snaps. This significant gap (less than 52% of Brown's volume) indicates Smith was not positioned as a true replacement option for isolation work against elite cornerbacks. With Brown's departure and the Eagles' shift toward Sean Mannion's condensed-formation scheme (50% rate, 6th in NFL), Smith's role may expand but likely not into the dominant X-iso role Brown occupied. The passing game restructuring under Mannion suggests increased emphasis on scheme-based production rather than individual receiver isolation opportunities.
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- STACKED tags this as a neutral fantasy football signal for DeVonta Smith (WR). Smith's 77 X-iso targets in 2025 leave him well short of Brown's 148-snap role.
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- DeVonta Smith's complete 2026 fantasy football outlook — projections, ADP movement across every platform, injury context, and all source-backed STACKED insights — is on their STACKED player profile.
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