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2026 season · box score + nflverse play-by-play

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Bauer Sharp
Buccaneers logoTampa Bay Buccaneers

Bauer Sharp

TEpos#84jersey23age6'4"height246lbsRrookie

LSU · 2026 draft, round 6, pick 185

VS1of 8 shown metrics led7
Sam LaPorta
Lions logoDetroit Lions

Sam LaPorta

TEpos#87jersey25age6'3"height245lbs4seasons

Iowa · 2023 draft, round 2, pick 34

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (2026 season): LaPorta leads in 7 and Sharp leads in 1. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

SharpLaPorta

Percentile chips: vs 75 TEs who played half the games, 2026 season

11.3%3rdSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played89.9%97th

Receiving

SharpLaPorta

Percentile chips: vs 42 TEs who have 2.5+ targets a week (tight ends 2+), 2026 season

1Targets4980th
1Receptions3575th
21Receiving yards39982nd
0Receiving TD367th
2.4%Target share · of team targets in his games18.2%75th
+1.420EPA per target+0.67996th
0.0YAC per catch5.465th
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Usage

6Games with stats8
11stPlays with EPA5089th
+1.444thTotal EPA+33.498th

Receiving

100.0%Catch rate71.4%51st
7.8%Air yards share13.5%54th
21.0aDOT5.735th

Defense

6Tackles0
4Solo tackles0
0.0Sacks0.0
0Tackles for loss0
0QB hits0
0Passes defended0
0Interceptions0

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Bauer SharpSam LaPorta
●Wk 1●Wk 2●Wk 3●Wk 4●Wk 5●Wk 6●Wk 7●Wk 8●Wk 9

Expected points added across every role (passing, rushing, receiving) in the nflverse play-by-play model, in the period you picked. Lines run the total; a missing bar is a week without plays. The dot marks the best week among the 2 players.

Matchups to start with

top passers · most targeted
Brock Purdy vs Trevor LawrenceJoe Burrow vs Josh AllenJared Goff vs Caleb WilliamsC.J. Stroud vs Jordan LoveCeeDee Lamb vs Jaxon Smith-NjigbaMatthew Golden vs Puka NacuaMichael Wilson vs Amon-Ra St. BrownChris Olave vs Malik Nabers

Box score totals from ESPN (regular season and playoffs; “last 4” is each player's four most recent games with a box score line). EPA, success rate, CPOE, aDOT, target and air-yard share from the nflverse play-by-play over the same games; snap share from nflverse snap counts. EPA per dropback includes sacks and scrambles. Carries are the official ESPN rush attempts; EPA per designed run leaves out quarterback scrambles (they count as dropbacks) and kneel-downs, so for a quarterback the two counts differ. Per opportunity divides counting stats by nflverse dropbacks (passing), ESPN targets (receiving) and ESPN carries (rushing); other counts go per game. Percentiles rank each value among players at the same position with enough volume in the same period (the same groups as the player cards: QBs 12 dropbacks a week, RBs 4.5 carries, wide receivers 2.5 targets, tight ends 2, defenders half the games; fewer than 8 peers, no percentile). The bars compare the players on the page only, not the league.