Odunze's Year 2 showed incremental progress–a WR25-per-game finish (10.3 ppg) in 12 games compared to a frustrating WR59 rookie campaign. His 91st-percentile ESPN YAC score shows playmaking ability after the catch, and his PFF YAC per reception (74th percentile) underlines that skill. The areas that need improvement are also clear: a 50th-percentile OPEN score and 68th-percentile route grade suggest his route running is average, and his ESPN CATCH score (4th percentile) and 8.3% drop rate (33rd percentile) point to ball-security issues in traffic. The 14.5 average depth of target is the distinguishing trait from Luther Burden: Odunze is the outside boundary receiver running deeper routes, which gives the Bears two genuinely different archetypes to deploy. Chicago's 149 vacated WR targets (48.1%) are split between Odunze and Burden (and Colston Loveland) as the primary candidates, with Odunze positioned to absorb the downfield share that Moore carried. Year 3 with Williams and a full offseason in Ben Johnson's system should produce another step. He's going as a high-end WR3, which is a reasonable bet on a receiver with playmaking athleticism in an offense who needs him to grow into a larger role.