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

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Junior ColsonLB · LAC
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Brock PurdyQB · SF
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Junior Colson
Chargers logoLos Angeles Chargers

Junior Colson

LBpos#25jersey23age6'3"height247lbs3seasons

Michigan · 2024 draft, round 3, pick 69

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Brock Purdy
49ers logoSan Francisco 49ers

Brock Purdy

QBpos#13jersey26age6'1"height220lbs5seasons

Iowa State · 2022 draft, round 7, pick 262

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ColsonPurdy

Percentile chips: vs 34 QBs who played half the games, 2026 season

–Snap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played97.1%34th
–Total EPA per game+10.0096th

Passing

ColsonPurdy

Percentile chips: vs 35 QBs who have 12+ dropbacks a week, 2026 season

–Pass yards per game247.561st
–Touchdowns per game2.190th
–Interceptions per game · lower is better0.660th
–EPA per dropback+0.30696th
–CPOE · completion % over expected+4.984th
–Sack rate · lower is better3.1%99th

Rushing

ColsonPurdy
–Rush yards per game25.1
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–Plays with EPA per game34.631st

Passing

–Completion %69.1%90th
–Yards per attempt8.490th
–Success rate55.0%96th
–aDOT · average depth of target8.161st

Rushing

–Carries per game · official rush attempts4.9
–Designed runs in EPA per game · QB scrambles count as dropbacks, kneels are left out1.9
–Yards per carry5.2
–Rush TD per game0.3
–EPA per designed run-0.020
–Success rate73.3%
–10+ yard runs per game0.0

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Junior ColsonBrock Purdy
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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.