Air yards: a simple term in itself but for fantasy football what is the significance? In essence, air yards is a cumulative total of a player's depth of target. It only includes yards traveled from the time the QB releases it up to the moment the ball is either dropped or caught by the receiver. As a statistic, it does not differentiate between catches or drops and it does not include anything that happens after the receiver has the ball in his hands. It is to some extent a measure of the quarte[...]