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

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Colston LovelandTE · CHI
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Sam LaPortaTE · DET
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Colston Loveland
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Colston Loveland

TEpos#84jersey22age6'6"height241lbs2seasons

Michigan · 2025 draft, round 1, pick 10

VS3of 8 shown metrics led5
Sam LaPorta
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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 5 and Loveland leads in 3. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

LovelandLaPorta

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

86.2%91stSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played89.9%97th

Receiving

LovelandLaPorta

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

5792ndTargets4980th
3783rdReceptions3575th
36375thReceiving yards39982nd
250thReceiving TD367th
19.5%85thTarget share · of team targets in his games18.2%75th
-0.01727thEPA per target+0.67996th
4.644thYAC per catch5.465th
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Usage

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5795thPlays with EPA5089th
-1.020thTotal EPA+33.498th

Receiving

64.9%11thCatch rate71.4%51st
18.0%85thAir yards share13.5%54th
6.965thaDOT5.735th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Colston LovelandSam 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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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.