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Bruce Ellington

Regular season production, 2014 through 2018.

Position
WR
Team
DET
Seasons
2014-2018
Games
35
2018 Altitude
57Level

2018 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

75

Cruising

W2

31

Turbulence

W11

72

Cruising

W12

58

Level

W13

79

Cruising

W14

29

Turbulence

Season mean Altitude 57 across 6 qualifying games. Earned 47 yards a game; delivered 36.

PLAYER SEASONBRUCE ELLINGTON, EPA PER TARGET BY SEASONRegular season, seasons with at least 25 targets.0.0000.0050.0100.0150.0202017.02017.22017.42017.62017.82018.0BREAK EVENEPA PER TARGETSEASONMOCKINGBOARD STATSDATA: NFLVERSE
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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

Headline

2.97 yd

WR/TE median 2.93 yd

Track spans the middle 90% of 208 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.

Cushion

6.17 yd

WR/TE median 5.87 yd

Track spans the middle 90% of 208 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.

YAC over expected

-0.12 yd

WR/TE median +0.44 yd

Track spans the middle 90% of 208 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.

Air-yards share

14%

WR/TE median 24%

Track spans the middle 90% of 208 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.

Separation by season

2017

2.90 yd

2018

2.97 yd

Gap decomposition

Delivered production ran -11.0 yd/wk against earned opportunity this season. After-catch skill (xYAC -0.12/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

4.9 yd

WR/TE median 8.9 yd

Track spans the middle 90% of 202 qualified seasons; the notch is the median.

YAC per reception

Headline

3.50 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

Context

0.1%

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.

2018 / WR/TE

Position profile

Season splits from pre-aggregated charting views. Missing datasets stay hidden.

RECEIVER ROUTE SEASONBRUCE ELLINGTON: ROUTE PROFILE2018 regular season. Share of charted targets by route.TARGETS0.000.050.100.150.200.25HITCHOUTCROSSSCREENSLANTFLATINGOTARGET SHAREROUTEMOCKINGBOARD STATSDATA: NFLVERSE
RECEIVER MAN ZONE SEASONBRUCE ELLINGTON: TARGETS BY COVERAGE2018 regular season. Bar height is targets; color is EPA per target.EPA PER TARGET0510152025ZONEMANTARGETSCOVERAGEMOCKINGBOARD STATSDATA: NFLVERSE

2018 percentiles

Against every qualifying WR and TE season in 2018. Metrics below their sample minimum say so instead of pretending.

EPA per target

Below the 50 targets minimum in 2018.

Receiving yards

Below the 50 targets minimum in 2018.

Yards after catch

Below the 50 targets minimum in 2018.

Career, season by season

Regular season only. Column definitions live in the glossary and at /explore.

SeasonTeamGTargetsReceptionsReceiving yardsRec TDYACRec EPAEPA per target
2018DET7423122411080.850.02
2017HOU11572933021360.470.01
2015SF10191315301102.040.11
2014SF7126622335.420.45

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