Player / WR
Emmanuel Sanders
Regular season production, 2010 through 2021.
- Position
- WR
- Team
- BUF
- Seasons
- 2010-2021
- Games
- 169
- 2021 Altitude
- 55Level
- 2021 WR rank
- #50 of 119 WR
2021 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.
W1
88
Cruising
W2
72
Cruising
W3
67
Cruising
W4
68
Cruising
W5
56
Level
W6
88
Cruising
W8
57
Level
W9
84
Cruising
W10
15
Turbulence
W11
51
Level
W12
23
Turbulence
W13
59
Level
W14
14
Turbulence
W16
28
Turbulence
Season mean Altitude 55 across 14 qualifying games. Earned 46 yards a game; delivered 45.
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
Headline2.85 yd
WR/TE median 3.02 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 223 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Cushion
5.73 yd
WR/TE median 6.07 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 223 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC over expected
-0.13 yd
WR/TE median +0.29 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 223 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Air-yards share
31%
WR/TE median 24%
Track spans the middle 90% of 223 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Separation by season
2016
2.64 yd
2017
2.36 yd
2018
3.31 yd
2019
2.57 yd
2020
3.05 yd
2021
2.85 yd
Gap decomposition
Delivered production ran -1.3 yd/wk against earned opportunity this season. After-catch skill (xYAC -0.13/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
15.0 yd
WR/TE median 8.1 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 212 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC per reception
Headline2.00 yd
WR/TE median 4.70 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 212 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Broken tackles
0.00/rec
WR/TE median 0.05/rec
Track spans the middle 90% of 212 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Drop rate
Context0.0%
WR/TE median 0.0%
Track spans the middle 90% of 212 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC per reception by season
2018
4.20 yd
2019
3.60 yd
2020
2.80 yd
2021
2.00 yd
PFR advanced charting, 2018 onward; qualified seasons only.
2021 / WR/TE
Position profile
Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.
2021 percentiles
Against every qualifying WR and TE season in 2021. Metrics below their sample minimum say so instead of pretending.
EPA per target
68thpercentile
117 qualifying seasons
Receiving yards
51stpercentile
117 qualifying seasons
Yards after catch
3rdpercentile
117 qualifying seasons
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | BUF | 14 | 72 | 42 | 626 | 4 | 85 | 25.78 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | NO | 14 | 82 | 61 | 726 | 5 | 170 | 32.74 | 0.40 |
| 2019 | SF | 17 | 97 | 66 | 869 | 5 | 237 | 17.44 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | DEN | 12 | 98 | 71 | 866 | 4 | 295 | 18.68 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | DEN | 12 | 92 | 47 | 555 | 2 | 167 | 9.83 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | DEN | 15 | 137 | 79 | 1032 | 5 | 252 | 20.22 | 0.15 |
| 2015 | DEN | 15 | 137 | 76 | 1135 | 6 | 363 | 35.56 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | DEN | 16 | 141 | 101 | 1404 | 9 | 353 | 81.59 | 0.58 |
| 2013 | PIT | 16 | 112 | 67 | 733 | 6 | 279 | 11.46 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | PIT | 16 | 74 | 44 | 624 | 1 | 209 | 19.76 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | PIT | 11 | 43 | 22 | 288 | 2 | 128 | 4.28 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | PIT | 11 | 50 | 28 | 376 | 2 | 71 | 14.46 | 0.29 |
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