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

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Cole Kmet
Bears logoChicago Bears

Cole Kmet

TEpos#85jersey27age6'6"height257lbs7seasons

Notre Dame · 2020 draft, round 2, pick 43

VS0of 8 shown metrics led8
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, per game): LaPorta leads in 8 and Kmet leads in 0. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

KmetLaPorta

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

61.4%61stSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played89.9%97th

Receiving

KmetLaPorta

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

2.0Targets per game6.185th
1.4Receptions per game4.482nd
12.4Receiving yards per game49.982nd
0.1Receiving TD per game0.467th
6.3%Target share · of team targets in his games18.2%75th
+0.428EPA per target+0.67996th
3.2YAC per catch5.465th
Advanced metrics6 more · tap to open

Usage

7Games with stats8
2.036thPlays with EPA per game6.391st
+0.8659thTotal EPA per game+4.1898th

Receiving

71.4%Catch rate71.4%51st
5.9%Air yards share13.5%54th
6.5aDOT5.735th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Cole KmetSam 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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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.