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

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Sam Howell
Cowboys logoDallas Cowboys

Sam Howell

QBpos#16jersey26age6'1"height225lbs5seasons

North Carolina · 2022 draft, round 5, pick 144

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Joe Burrow
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Joe Burrow

QBpos#9jersey29age6'4"height215lbs7seasons

LSU · 2020 draft, round 1, pick 1

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HowellBurrow

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

–Total EPA per game+10.78899th

Passing

HowellBurrow

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

–Pass yards per dropback7.4190th
–Touchdowns per dropback0.07196th
–Interceptions per dropback · lower is better0.01947th
–EPA per dropback+0.26190th
–CPOE · completion % over expected+9.799th
–Sack rate · lower is better4.7%76th

Rushing

HowellBurrow
–Rush yards per carry3.35
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Usage

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–Snap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played99.3%74th
–Plays with EPA per game41.387th

Passing

–Completion %74.0%99th
–Yards per attempt8.184th
–Success rate54.7%93rd
–aDOT · average depth of target7.536th

Rushing

–Carries per game · official rush attempts2.9
–Designed runs in EPA per game · QB scrambles count as dropbacks, kneels are left out1.0
–Yards per carry3.3
–Rush TD per carry0.130
–EPA per designed run+0.285
–Success rate87.5%
–10+ yard runs per carry0.043

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Sam HowellJoe Burrow
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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.