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Sam LaPorta
Lions logoDetroit Lions

Sam LaPorta

TEpos#87jersey25age6'3"height245lbs4seasons

Iowa · 2023 draft, round 2, pick 34

VS8of 8 shown metrics led0
Zach Ertz
Eagles logoPhiladelphia Eagles

Zach Ertz

TEpos#86jersey36age6'5"height250lbs14seasons

Stanford · 2013 draft, round 2, pick 35

Across the 8 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (last 4 games): LaPorta leads in 8 and Ertz leads in 0. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

Usage

LaPortaErtz

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

92.3%99thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played23.3%18th

Receiving

LaPortaErtz

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

1759thTargets86th
1365thReceptions33rd
17175thReceiving yards223rd
160thReceiving TD023rd
15.5%68thTarget share · of team targets in his games9.2%23rd
+0.85994thEPA per target-0.5696th
7.185thYAC per catch2.78th
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Usage

4Games with stats3
1879thPlays with EPA846th
+14.898thTotal EPA-4.610th

Receiving

76.5%70thCatch rate37.5%3rd
10.7%51stAir yards share10.3%47th
5.227thaDOT7.673rd

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Total EPA by week (bars) and running total (lines)Sam LaPortaZach Ertz
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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.