Player / TE
Benjamin Watson
Regular season production, 2004 through 2019.
- Position
- TE
- Team
- NE
- Seasons
- 2004-2019
- Games
- 189
- 2019 Altitude
- 40Level
- 2019 TE rank
- #37 of 57 TE
2019 Flight Log
Altitude is earned yards: every target priced at the league rate for its depth, with nothing awarded for the catch, shown as the historical percentile of every qualifying receiver game since 2016. It grades the opportunity a receiver earned, not what the offense converted. The band is the claim; differences between adjacent bands are often noise.
W7
68
Cruising
W8
34
Turbulence
W9
75
Cruising
W11
68
Cruising
W12
34
Turbulence
W13
13
Turbulence
W14
49
Level
W15
0
Grounded
W16
42
Level
W17
13
Turbulence
Season mean Altitude 40 across 10 qualifying games. Earned 18 yards a game; delivered 17.
Tracking profile
Separation describes how a receiver wins, not how much he will produce; yards after catch over expected is the one repeatable open-field skill here.
Separation
Headline3.22 yd
WR/TE median 2.86 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 215 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Cushion
5.13 yd
WR/TE median 5.75 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 215 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC over expected
-0.75 yd
WR/TE median +0.34 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 215 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Air-yards share
10%
WR/TE median 24%
Track spans the middle 90% of 215 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Separation by season
2017
3.32 yd
2018
2.68 yd
2019
3.22 yd
Gap decomposition
Delivered production ran -0.9 yd/wk against earned opportunity this season. After-catch skill (xYAC -0.75/rec) is the persistent, portable slice of that gap; the rest tracks the offense around him, not the player.
League tracking aggregates; NFL-qualified weeks only.
Charting profile
A season of drops is mostly luck (year over year .15); never read drop rate as skill. YAC per reception is the strongest repeatable signal here.
Depth of target
10.2 yd
WR/TE median 8.9 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 202 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC per reception
Headline2.50 yd
WR/TE median 4.80 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 202 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Broken tackles
0.03/rec
WR/TE median 0.05/rec
Track spans the middle 90% of 202 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Drop rate
Context0.1%
WR/TE median 0.0%
Track spans the middle 90% of 202 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
PFR advanced charting, 2018 onward; qualified seasons only.
2019 / WR/TE
Position profile
Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.
2019 percentiles
Against every qualifying WR and TE season in 2019. Metrics below their sample minimum say so instead of pretending.
EPA per target
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2019.
Receiving yards
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2019.
Yards after catch
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2019.
Career, season by season
Regular season only. Column definitions live in the glossary and at /explore.
| Season | Team | G | Targets | Receptions | Receiving yards | Rec TD | YAC | Rec EPA | EPA per target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | NE | 9 | 24 | 17 | 173 | 0 | 83 | 10.20 | 0.43 |
| 2018 | NO | 13 | 46 | 35 | 400 | 2 | 87 | 20.64 | 0.45 |
| 2017 | BAL | 16 | 79 | 61 | 522 | 4 | 263 | 12.21 | 0.15 |
| 2015 | NO | 16 | 110 | 74 | 825 | 6 | 241 | 43.25 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | NO | 14 | 31 | 20 | 136 | 2 | 78 | 2.00 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | NO | 14 | 30 | 19 | 226 | 2 | 94 | 5.87 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | CLE | 16 | 81 | 49 | 501 | 3 | 215 | -3.26 | -0.04 |
| 2011 | CLE | 13 | 71 | 37 | 410 | 2 | 193 | 5.69 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | CLE | 16 | 102 | 68 | 763 | 3 | 282 | 16.30 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | NE | 12 | 41 | 29 | 404 | 5 | 93 | 33.08 | 0.81 |
| 2008 | NE | 10 | 22 | 22 | 209 | 2 | 56 | 9.57 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | NE | 12 | 36 | 36 | 389 | 6 | 114 | 36.40 | 1.01 |
| 2006 | NE | 13 | 50 | 50 | 657 | 3 | 203 | 55.09 | 1.10 |
| 2005 | NE | 14 | 29 | 29 | 441 | 4 | 0 | 43.82 | 1.51 |
| 2004 | NE | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1.34 | 0.67 |
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