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

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Brock Bowers
Raiders logoLas Vegas Raiders

Brock Bowers

TEpos#89jersey23age6'4"height235lbs3seasons

Georgia · 2024 draft, round 1, pick 13

VS6of 8 shown metrics led2
John Bates
Commanders logoWashington Commanders

John Bates

TEpos#87jersey29age6'6"height256lbs6seasons

Boise State · 2021 draft, round 4, pick 124

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (2026 season, per opportunity): Bowers leads in 6 and Bates leads in 2. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

BowersBates

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

85.6%90thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played39.6%25th

Receiving

BowersBates

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

10.096thTargets per game1.2
0.68635thReceptions per target0.833
9.4087thReceiving yards per target4.50
0.08673rdReceiving TD per target0.000
27.2%96thTarget share · of team targets in his games5.9%
+0.53189thEPA per target-0.273
4.646thYAC per catch5.2
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Usage

7Games with stats5
10.198thPlays with EPA per game1.421st
+5.24899thTotal EPA per game-0.38314th

Receiving

68.6%35thCatch rate83.3%
33.7%99thAir yards share0.9%
9.996thaDOT1.5

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Brock BowersJohn Bates
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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.

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.