Player / TE
Vance McDonald
Regular season production, 2013 through 2020.
- Position
- TE
- Team
- PIT
- Seasons
- 2013-2020
- Games
- 85
- 2020 Altitude
- 23Turbulence
- 2020 TE rank
- #53 of 63 TE
2020 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
31
Turbulence
W2
37
Turbulence
W3
44
Level
W5
10
Turbulence
W7
26
Turbulence
W12
0
Grounded
W13
0
Grounded
W15
0
Grounded
W16
17
Turbulence
W17
69
Cruising
Season mean Altitude 23 across 10 qualifying games. Earned 10 yards a game; delivered 10.
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
Headline4.01 yd
WR/TE median 2.96 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 216 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Cushion
8.76 yd
WR/TE median 6.15 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 216 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC over expected
+1.21 yd
WR/TE median +0.31 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 216 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Air-yards share
1%
WR/TE median 25%
Track spans the middle 90% of 216 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Separation by season
2016
2.45 yd
2017
2.38 yd
2018
3.33 yd
2019
3.44 yd
2020
4.01 yd
Gap decomposition
Delivered production ran -0.6 yd/wk against earned opportunity this season. After-catch skill (xYAC +1.21/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
5.1 yd
WR/TE median 8.6 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 199 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC per reception
Headline4.50 yd
WR/TE median 4.70 yd
Track spans the middle 90% of 199 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Broken tackles
0.03/rec
WR/TE median 0.06/rec
Track spans the middle 90% of 199 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
Drop rate
Context0.1%
WR/TE median 0.0%
Track spans the middle 90% of 199 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.
YAC per reception by season
2018
7.70 yd
2019
4.50 yd
PFR advanced charting, 2018 onward; qualified seasons only.
2020 / WR/TE
Position profile
Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.
2020 percentiles
Against every qualifying WR and TE season in 2020. Metrics below their sample minimum say so instead of pretending.
EPA per target
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2020.
Receiving yards
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2020.
Yards after catch
Below the 50 targets minimum in 2020.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | PIT | 9 | 20 | 15 | 99 | 0 | 79 | -2.90 | -0.15 |
| 2019 | PIT | 14 | 55 | 38 | 273 | 3 | 172 | -11.38 | -0.21 |
| 2018 | PIT | 15 | 72 | 50 | 610 | 4 | 387 | 27.58 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | PIT | 9 | 24 | 14 | 188 | 1 | 88 | 3.34 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | SF | 10 | 45 | 24 | 391 | 4 | 207 | 16.49 | 0.37 |
| 2015 | SF | 14 | 46 | 30 | 326 | 3 | 184 | -0.42 | -0.01 |
| 2014 | SF | 4 | 8 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 26 | -11.46 | -1.43 |
| 2013 | SF | 10 | 19 | 8 | 119 | 0 | 47 | 2.04 | 0.11 |
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