Anthony Thomas

RB · CHI/DAL/BUF · 2001–2007

Born November 7, 1977 · College Michigan · Drafted 2001, round 2, pick 38 (CHI) · 6-2, 221 lb

Offensive Rookie of the Year (2001)

EPA per carry by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2001	CHI	14	278	1,183	7	4.26	−0.029	−0.063−0.116 to −0.010	37.0	−8.3	−0.59
2001 playoffs	CHI	1	15	36	0	2.40	−0.309		26.7	−4.6	−0.20
2002	CHI	12	214	721	6	3.37	−0.192	−0.114−0.169 to −0.059	33.9	−41.8	−1.21
2003	CHI	13	244	1,024	6	4.20	−0.030	−0.055−0.109 to −0.001	35.7	−7.5	+0.21
2004	CHI	12	122	404	2	3.31	−0.194	−0.112−0.170 to −0.053	36.3	−24.1	−0.13
2005	DAL	9	43	92	0	2.14	−0.299	−0.116−0.178 to −0.054	18.2	−13.2	−0.23
2006	BUF	14	107	378	2	3.53	−0.265	−0.127−0.186 to −0.067	28.2	−29.1	−0.56
2007	BUF	9	36	89	0	2.47	−0.249	−0.109−0.171 to −0.046	30.8	−9.7	−0.17
Career	BUF	83	1,044	3,891	23	3.73	−0.125		34.1	−133.6	−2.69

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2001	CHI	14	30	22	178	0	73.3	+0.266	6.4	–	+8.0	+0.21
2001 playoffs	CHI	1	1	1	11	0	100.0	+0.196	4.5	–	+0.2	+0.02
2002	CHI	12	41	24	163	0	58.5	−0.265	9.8	–	−10.9	−0.06
2003	CHI	13	14	9	36	0	64.3	−0.242	3.5	–	−3.4	−0.03
2004	CHI	12	23	17	132	0	73.9	−0.019	6.9	–	−0.4	−0.13
2005	DAL	9	8	4	13	0	50.0	−0.381	2.6	–	−3.0	−0.07
2006	BUF	14	24	22	139	0	91.7	+0.044	6.6	0.5	+1.1	+0.05
2007	BUF	9	20	15	95	1	75.0	−0.002	8.2	-0.7	−0.0	−0.06
Career	BUF	83	160	113	756	1	70.6	−0.055	6.3	-0.0	−8.8	−0.09

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	QB hits	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed
2001	CHI	14	3	–	–	–
2002	CHI	12	5	–	–	–
2004	CHI	12	1	–	–	–
2006	BUF	14	3	0	–	–
2007	BUF	9	1	0	–	–
Career	BUF	83	13	0	0	0

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2001	Offensive Rookie of the Year

Game logs

2007 game log (9 games)

2007 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2007-09-09	vs DEN	L 14–15	3	-1	−2.1	2	1	8	0	−1.2	0
2	2007-09-16	@ PIT	L 3–26	0	0	+0.6	1	0	0	0	−1.5	0
4	2007-09-30	vs NYJ	W 17–14	2	4	−0.7	1	0	0	0	−1.3	0
5	2007-10-08	vs DAL	L 24–25	0	0	0.0	2	2	16	0	−0.3	0
7	2007-10-21	vs BAL	W 19–14	3	9	−3.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2007-11-04	vs CIN	W 33–21	0	0	0.0	1	1	11	0	+0.7	0
10	2007-11-11	@ MIA	W 13–10	2	0	−0.6	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	2007-11-18	vs NE	L 10–56	11	31	−2.1	4	3	15	0	−1.5	0
12	2007-11-25	@ JAX	L 14–36	15	46	−1.8	9	8	45	1	+5.1	1

2006 game log (14 games)

2006 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2006-09-10	@ NE	L 17–19	3	29	1	+3.7	2	2	16	+1.0	0
2	2006-09-17	@ MIA	W 16–6	5	4	0	−2.8	1	0	0	−1.6	0
3	2006-09-24	vs NYJ	L 20–28	1	1	0	−1.5	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2006-10-15	@ DET	L 17–20	1	3	0	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0	2
7	2006-10-22	vs NE	L 6–28	1	2	0	−0.5	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	2006-11-05	vs GB	W 24–10	20	95	1	−0.0	1	1	6	−0.0	0
10	2006-11-12	@ IND	L 16–17	28	109	0	−7.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	2006-11-19	@ HOU	W 24–21	19	56	0	−5.5	7	7	33	+0.5	0
12	2006-11-26	vs JAX	W 27–24	4	0	0	−3.8	3	3	13	−1.1	0
13	2006-12-03	vs LAC	L 21–24	2	11	0	+0.2	4	4	33	+1.5	0
14	2006-12-10	@ NYJ	W 31–13	15	42	0	−9.2	3	3	23	+2.2	1
15	2006-12-17	vs MIA	W 21–0	6	16	0	−0.9	2	2	15	−0.2	0
16	2006-12-24	vs TEN	L 29–30	1	7	0	−0.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2006-12-31	@ BAL	L 7–19	1	3	0	−0.6	1	0	0	−1.3	0

2005 game log (9 games)

2005 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2005-09-11	@ LAC	W 28–24	3	9	−0.3	0	0	0	0.0
2	2005-09-19	vs WAS	L 13–14	2	0	−1.4	2	2	5	−0.6
5	2005-10-09	vs PHI	W 33–10	4	5	−2.8	1	0	0	−0.5
6	2005-10-16	vs NYG	W 16–13 OT	21	47	−4.1	1	0	0	−0.4
7	2005-10-23	@ SEA	L 10–13	6	19	−1.2	0	0	0	0.0
13	2005-12-04	vs TB	L 3–10	1	2	−0.8	0	0	0	0.0
14	2005-12-12	@ ATL	L 17–36	1	3	−0.6	2	1	6	−0.6
16	2005-12-24	vs DET	L 12–13	1	0	−0.6	0	0	0	0.0
17	2006-01-01	@ TB	L 13–27	4	7	−1.5	2	1	2	−0.9

2004 game log (12 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2004-09-12	vs DET	L 16–20	3	13	0	+0.4	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2004-09-19	@ GB	W 21–10	5	15	0	−0.7	1	0	0	−1.1	0
3	2004-09-26	@ MIN	L 22–27	2	2	0	−0.9	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2004-10-17	vs WAS	L 10–13	1	1	0	−0.6	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	2004-10-24	@ TB	L 7–19	5	17	0	−1.1	2	2	4	−1.0	0
8	2004-10-31	vs SF	W 23–13	25	98	0	−6.2	4	4	46	+2.8	0
9	2004-11-07	@ NYG	W 28–21	28	110	2	−0.1	2	1	5	−0.9	0
10	2004-11-14	@ TEN	W 19–17 OT	29	72	0	−7.0	6	3	10	−4.6	1
12	2004-11-25	@ DAL	L 7–21	3	0	0	−2.1	2	2	20	+1.5	0
13	2004-12-05	vs MIN	W 24–14	15	55	0	−3.0	1	1	10	+1.8	0
14	2004-12-12	@ JAX	L 3–22	0	0	0	0.0	3	3	18	+0.8	0
15	2004-12-19	vs HOU	L 5–24	6	21	0	−2.7	2	1	19	+0.3	0

2003 game log (13 games)

2003 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2003-09-07	@ SF	L 7–49	6	15	0	−2.8	1	1	4	−0.3
2	2003-09-14	@ MIN	L 13–24	10	53	0	−0.0	0	0	0	0.0
4	2003-09-29	vs GB	L 23–38	13	110	1	+4.9	2	2	4	−1.0
5	2003-10-05	vs LV	W 24–21	22	123	0	+1.1	0	0	0	0.0
6	2003-10-12	@ NO	L 13–20	21	96	0	+2.2	0	0	0	0.0
9	2003-11-02	vs LAC	W 20–7	31	111	2	+6.5	0	0	0	0.0
10	2003-11-09	@ DET	L 10–12	21	61	0	−7.4	0	0	0	0.0
11	2003-11-16	vs LA	L 21–23	23	92	1	−0.8	0	0	0	0.0
12	2003-11-23	@ DEN	W 19–10	21	60	0	−4.5	0	0	0	0.0
14	2003-12-07	@ GB	L 21–34	9	22	0	−3.7	0	0	0	0.0
15	2003-12-14	vs MIN	W 13–10	19	79	1	−1.2	4	2	10	−0.8
16	2003-12-21	vs WAS	W 27–24	32	141	1	+1.8	3	2	11	+0.6
17	2003-12-28	@ KC	L 3–31	16	61	0	−3.8	4	2	7	−1.9

2002 game log (12 games)

2002 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2002-09-08	vs MIN	W 27–23	19	45	1	−4.5	5	4	22	−0.9	1
2	2002-09-15	@ ATL	W 14–13	26	84	1	−6.3	2	2	26	+1.9	1
3	2002-09-22	vs NO	L 23–29	27	111	0	−3.2	6	4	27	−0.3	0
4	2002-09-29	@ BUF	L 27–33 OT	23	48	0	−8.0	4	2	11	−0.6	0
5	2002-10-07	vs GB	L 21–34	15	45	0	−2.1	7	1	2	−10.0	0
7	2002-10-20	@ DET	L 20–23 OT	26	92	1	−10.6	4	3	5	−2.0	2
8	2002-10-27	@ MIN	L 7–25	9	18	0	−2.9	3	1	3	−1.1	1
9	2002-11-03	vs PHI	L 13–19	16	52	1	+1.2	6	4	52	+1.8	0
10	2002-11-10	vs NE	L 30–33	21	99	1	−2.4	1	1	4	−0.1	0
11	2002-11-18	@ LA	L 16–21	14	61	1	+1.3	1	0	0	−0.4	0
12	2002-11-24	vs DET	W 20–17 OT	14	40	0	−4.5	1	1	11	+1.1	0
13	2002-12-01	@ GB	L 20–30	4	26	0	+0.3	1	1	0	−0.4	0

2001 game log (15 games)

2001 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2001-09-09	@ BAL	L 6–17	3	9	0	−1.4	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2001-09-23	vs MIN	W 17–10	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	8	+0.5	1
4	2001-10-07	@ ATL	W 31–3	11	57	1	+1.0	1	0	0	−0.4	0
5	2001-10-14	vs ARI	W 20–13	11	58	0	−0.5	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2001-10-21	@ CIN	W 24–0	22	188	1	+11.2	0	0	0	0.0	1
7	2001-10-28	vs SF	W 37–31 OT	27	127	1	+3.1	3	2	9	+0.3	0
8	2001-11-04	vs CLE	W 27–21 OT	31	96	1	−3.4	10	6	71	+3.3	0
9	2001-11-11	vs GB	L 12–20	22	45	0	−7.0	5	5	45	+2.7	0
10	2001-11-18	@ TB	W 27–24	23	58	0	−7.3	2	1	10	+1.1	0
13	2001-12-09	@ GB	L 7–17	15	54	1	−0.8	5	4	20	−0.7	1
14	2001-12-16	vs TB	W 27–3	31	173	1	+4.5	1	1	5	−0.0	0
15	2001-12-23	@ WAS	W 20–15	24	82	0	−3.9	1	1	-1	−0.7	0
16	2001-12-30	@ DET	W 24–0	25	76	0	−6.7	0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2002-01-06	vs JAX	W 33–13	33	160	1	+2.9	1	1	11	+1.8	0
P19	2002-01-19	vs PHI	L 19–33	15	36	0	−4.6	1	1	11	+0.2	0