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

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Michael Mayer
Raiders logoLas Vegas Raiders

Michael Mayer

TEpos#87jersey25age6'4"height256lbs4seasons

Notre Dame · 2023 draft, round 2, pick 35

VS4of 8 shown metrics led4
Colston Loveland
Bears logoChicago Bears

Colston Loveland

TEpos#84jersey22age6'6"height241lbs2seasons

Michigan · 2025 draft, round 1, pick 10

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (2026 season): Mayer leads in 4 and Loveland leads in 4. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

MayerLoveland

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

80.1%87thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played86.2%91st

Receiving

MayerLoveland

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

4673rdTargets5792nd
3992ndReceptions3783rd
38880thReceiving yards36375th
129thReceiving TD250th
14.6%49thTarget share · of team targets in his games19.5%85th
+0.18149thEPA per target-0.01727th
5.363rdYAC per catch4.644th
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Usage

9Games with stats9
4684thPlays with EPA5795th
+8.366thTotal EPA-1.020th

Receiving

84.8%94thCatch rate64.9%11th
9.4%30thAir yards share18.0%85th
5.225thaDOT6.965th

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Michael MayerColston Loveland
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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.