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Brandon Smith
Steelers logoPittsburgh Steelers

Brandon Smith

WRpos#87jersey27age6'2"height220lbs1seasons

Iowa

VS1of 8 shown metrics led7
Puka Nacua
Rams logoLos Angeles Rams

Puka Nacua

WRpos#12jersey25age6'2"height216lbs4seasons

BYU · 2023 draft, round 5, pick 177

Out · Knee - MCL

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (last 4 games): Nacua leads in 7 and Smith leads in 1. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

SmithNacua

Percentile chips: vs 193 WRs who played half the games, last 4 games

48.5%46thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played91.0%97th

Receiving

SmithNacua

Percentile chips: vs 112 WRs who have 2.5+ targets a week (tight ends 2+), last 4 games

2Targets4896th
2Receptions39100th
24Receiving yards37894th
0Receiving TD394th
7.1%Target share · of team targets in his games37.8%99th
+1.232EPA per target+0.32663rd
3.0YAC per catch5.778th
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Usage

2Games with stats4
29thPlays with EPA5299th
+2.558thTotal EPA+16.794th

Receiving

100.0%Catch rate81.3%92nd
9.3%Air yards share41.9%89th
9.0aDOT6.48th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Brandon SmithPuka Nacua
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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.

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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.