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Joe Royer
Browns logoCleveland Browns

Joe Royer

TEpos#18jersey24age6'5"height250lbsRrookie

Cincinnati · 2026 draft, round 5, pick 170

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Sam LaPorta
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Sam LaPorta

TEpos#87jersey25age6'3"height245lbs4seasons

Iowa · 2023 draft, round 2, pick 34

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RoyerLaPorta

Percentile chips: vs 111 TEs who played half the games, last 4 games

–Snap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played92.3%99th

Receiving

RoyerLaPorta

Percentile chips: vs 58 TEs who have 2.5+ targets a week (tight ends 2+), last 4 games

–Targets1759th
–Receptions1365th
–Receiving yards17175th
–Receiving TD160th
–Target share · of team targets in his games15.5%68th
–EPA per target+0.85994th
–YAC per catch7.185th
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0Games with stats4
–Plays with EPA1879th
–Total EPA+14.898th

Receiving

–Catch rate76.5%70th
–Air yards share10.7%51st
–aDOT5.227th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Joe RoyerSam 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.