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

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Brenden BatesTE · JAX
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Brenden Bates

TEpos27age6'5"height255lbs3seasons

Kentucky

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Sam LaPorta

TEpos#87jersey25age6'3"height245lbs4seasons

Iowa · 2023 draft, round 2, pick 34

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

–Snap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played89.9%97th

Receiving

BatesLaPorta

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

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

0Games with stats8
–Plays with EPA5089th
–Total EPA+33.498th

Receiving

–Catch rate71.4%51st
–Air yards share13.5%54th
–aDOT5.735th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Brenden BatesSam LaPorta
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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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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.