Collaboration networks
Who works with whom. Surfaces hidden connectors, siloed teams, and key-person risk when one name sits in the middle of everything.
Interactive Visual · 2026 NFL season
Who catches Jayden's passes?
A force-directed network of every completed pass in the 2026 regular season. Jayden Daniels sits in the middle. Each line runs to a player he has completed a pass to, and each of those players links out to any other passer who has completed one to them too.
Season to date, through Week 6 (in progress, 1 of 14 games in)
Drag a player · scroll or pinch to zoom · tap for details
- Receivers
- 13
- Completions
- 46
- Receiving yards
- 459
- Other passers
- 3
How to read it
Size means volume.
The bigger the circle and the thicker the line, the more completions run through that connection.
Receivers are sized by completions from the center QB. Lines from a receiver to another passer show how many times that passer completed one to the same player, whether it was a backup stepping in, a trick play, or a QB from a team the receiver played for earlier in the season.
The graph is live physics: grab any player and the rest of the network pulls along with it. Use the menu to put a different quarterback in the middle.
Beyond football
Why this matters at work.
No company cares who catches Jayden's passes. Swap the labels, though, and the same picture answers real business questions.
Center node
The focal entity: a person, product, vendor, account, or table.
Lines
Interactions, weighted by volume. Thicker means more.
Second-degree links
Shared connections: who else touches the same things.
Customers and products
A product in the center, its buyers around it, and the other products those buyers picked up. Cross-sell ideas fall out of the shared links.
Vendors and supply chain
A supplier, the sites it serves, and the other suppliers serving those sites. Shows concentration risk, and whether a backup already exists.
Data lineage
A source table, every report and dashboard that reads from it, and what else those depend on. You see a change's full impact before it ships. In BI, this is the one I'd reach for first.
Fraud and risk
An account or claim linked to the devices, phone numbers, or addresses it shares with others. Rings that look unrelated in a table show up as tight clusters.
Referrals and communication
Who refers to whom, who messages whom, and where requests actually route compared with where the org chart says they should.
What you learn from the shape
- Hubs
- Big, well-connected nodes. Seven receivers, led by Stefon Diggs and Antonio Williams, caught passes from three different Commanders passers. At work, it's the person or system everything runs through.
- Bridges
- Nodes that reach the same people as the center. Marcus Mariota reached 11 of Jayden's 13 receivers, and Athan Kaliakmanis reached seven, like a team where work routes through a backup when the key person is out. Better to see that before you need it.
- Clusters
- Tight groups that mostly connect to each other: a team, a product family, a fraud ring.
- Outliers
- Small nodes hanging by a single thin line, like Ben Sinnott, a TE with one catch from Jayden. Four of his receivers have just one. At work, that's the one-off vendor or the report nobody else uses, worth a cleanup or a closer look.
The numbers
Every connection.
The same data as the graph, ranked by completions from the center QB.
| Receiver | Pos | Comp | Yds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terry McLaurin | WR | 7 | 100 |
| Antonio Williams | WR | 7 | 95 |
| Stefon Diggs | WR | 7 | 77 |
| Chig Okonkwo | TE | 6 | 76 |
| Rachaad White | RB | 6 | 31 |
| John Bates | TE | 3 | 14 |
| Treylon Burks | WR | 2 | 26 |
| Dyami Brown | WR | 2 | 3 |
| Jacory Croskey-Merritt | RB | 2 | -2 |
| Austin Ekeler | RB | 1 | 15 |
| Colson Yankoff | TE | 1 | 14 |
| Ben Sinnott | TE | 1 | 6 |
| Jaylin Lane | WR | 1 | 4 |
| Passer | Pos | Comp | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Mariota WAS | QB | 33 | S.Diggs 7, T.McLaurin 7, A.Williams 5, D.Brown 3, R.White 3, T.Burks 2, J.Croskey-Merritt 2, J.Bates 1, C.Okonkwo 1, C.Yankoff 1, J.Lane 1 |
| Athan Kaliakmanis WAS | QB | 14 | S.Diggs 4, D.Brown 3, A.Williams 3, A.Ekeler 1, T.Burks 1, C.Okonkwo 1, J.Croskey-Merritt 1 |
| Dyami Brown WAS | WR | 1 | R.White 1 |
Data: nflverse play-by-play and rosters, 2026 regular season, updated Oct 2026. Counts include every completed pass charged to a passer and receiver, touchdowns included. Two-point tries and plays wiped out by penalties are excluded. Built by me with AI. Graph physics written from scratch, no outside libraries.
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