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

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Bucky IrvingRB · TB
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Riley Nowakowski
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Riley Nowakowski

FBpos#37jersey24age6'2"height250lbsRrookie

Indiana · 2026 draft, round 5, pick 169

VS0of 6 shown metrics led6
Bucky Irving
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Bucky Irving

RBpos#7jersey24age5'10"height195lbs3seasons

Oregon · 2024 draft, round 4, pick 125

Across the 6 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (2026 season): Irving leads in 6 and Nowakowski leads in 0. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

NowakowskiIrving

Percentile chips: vs 92 RBs who played half the games, 2026 season

6.1%Snap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played63.0%83rd

Rushing

NowakowskiIrving

Percentile chips: vs 54 RBs who have 4.5+ carries a week, 2026 season

0Carries · official rush attempts16792nd
0Rush yards82594th
–Yards per carry4.988th
0Rush TD785th
–EPA per designed run+0.01481st

Receiving

NowakowskiIrving

Percentile chips: vs 20 RBs who have 2.5+ targets a week (tight ends 2+), 2026 season

1Targets2823rd
0Receiving yards1068th
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Usage

4Games with stats9
1Plays with EPA19595th
-1.6Total EPA-2.155th

Rushing

0Designed runs in EPA · QB scrambles count as dropbacks, kneels are left out16792nd
–Success rate43.1%71st
010+ yard runs1889th

Receiving

0Receptions2215th
0Receiving TD153rd
0.0%Catch rate78.6%43rd
4.5%Target share · of team targets in his games13.9%63rd
1.3%Air yards share-3.1%8th
-1.608EPA per target-0.15818th
–YAC per catch7.138th
2.0aDOT-1.813th

Defense

5Tackles0
1Solo tackles0
0.0Sacks0.0
0Tackles for loss0
0QB hits0
0Passes defended0
0Interceptions0

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Riley NowakowskiBucky Irving
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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.