Brandon Tate

WR · NE/CIN/BUF · 2009–2017

Born October 5, 1987 · College North Carolina · Drafted 2009, round 3, pick 83 (NE) · 6-1, 195 lb

EPA per target by season

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

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2009	NE	2	1	11	11.00	+0.726	100.0	+0.7	+0.00
2010	NE	15	5	62	12.40	+0.726	100.0	+3.6	+0.08
2010 playoffs	NE	1	1	11	11.00	+0.818	100.0	+0.8	+0.01
2012	CIN	12	1	0	0.00	−0.949	0.0	−0.9	−0.00
2014	CIN	12	3	21	7.00	+0.347	66.7	+1.0	−0.00
2016	BUF	8	3	48	16.00	+1.217	66.7	+3.7	+0.07
Career	BUF	60	13	142	10.92	+0.623	76.9	+8.1	+0.15

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2009	NE	2	2	0	0	0	0.0	−1.758	−0.092−0.283 to +0.099	2.9	36.5	−3.5	−0.01
2010	NE	15	46	24	432	3	52.2	+0.225	+0.134−0.038 to +0.307	9.6	13.7	+10.4	−0.09
2010 playoffs	NE	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	−0.482		2.2	52.0	−0.5	−0.02
2012	CIN	12	25	13	211	1	52.0	−0.316	+0.014−0.167 to +0.194	6.2	12.4	−7.9	−0.08
2013	CIN	2	2	1	6	0	50.0	−0.034	−0.054−0.245 to +0.137	2.9	6.5	−0.1	+0.01
2014	CIN	12	26	17	193	1	65.4	+0.391	+0.104−0.076 to +0.284	7.0	11.4	+10.2	+0.32
2014 playoffs	CIN	1	5	0	0	0	0.0	−0.793		14.7	18.4	−4.0	−0.07
2015	CIN	4	3	2	59	1	66.7	+0.911	−0.021−0.212 to +0.169	3.0	19.7	+2.7	+0.19
2016	BUF	8	11	8	117	0	72.7	+0.769	+0.014−0.173 to +0.201	4.6	7.7	+8.5	+0.15
2017	BUF	5	14	6	81	1	42.9	+0.184	−0.017−0.202 to +0.169	8.4	10.1	+2.6	+0.04
Career	BUF	60	129	71	1,099	7	55.0	+0.177		6.8	12.5	+22.8	+0.52

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
2012	CIN	12	1
2014	CIN	12	2
2015	CIN	4	1
2016	BUF	8	1
2017	BUF	5	2
Career	BUF	60	7

Playing time

Scrimmage snaps from 2016, in the games he played (share: of his team’s snaps in those games). A season’s snaps appear after its playoffs, when the data is published. Who was on the field: NFL Next Gen Stats via nflverse (2016–22) and FTN Data via nflverse (2023 on), CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Team	G	Offensive snaps	Share of the offence’s snaps	Defensive snaps	Share of the defence’s snaps
2016	BUF	13	143	17.6	1	1.5
2017	BUF	11	142	19.9	1	1.4
2017 playoffs	BUF	1	6	7.8	–	–

Game logs

2017 game log (5 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
5	2017-10-08	@ CIN	L 16–20	4	2	25	1	+2.5	1
8	2017-10-29	vs LV	W 34–14	1	1	24	0	+2.4	0
11	2017-11-19	@ LAC	L 24–54	5	1	7	0	−3.1	1
15	2017-12-17	vs MIA	W 24–16	1	1	21	0	+1.9	0
16	2017-12-24	@ NE	L 16–37	3	1	4	0	−1.0	0

2016 game log (8 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
4	2016-10-02	@ NE	W 16–0	1	4	−0.1	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	2016-10-23	@ MIA	L 25–28	0	0	0.0	2	2	31	+3.7	0
8	2016-10-30	vs NE	L 25–41	1	14	+2.0	3	2	17	+1.2	0
11	2016-11-20	@ CIN	W 16–12	0	0	0.0	3	2	48	+2.3	0
12	2016-11-27	vs JAX	W 28–21	0	0	0.0	1	1	8	+0.4	0
13	2016-12-04	@ LV	L 24–38	0	0	0.0	1	1	13	+1.4	0
15	2016-12-18	vs CLE	W 33–13	1	30	+1.7	0	0	0	0.0	1
17	2017-01-01	@ NYJ	L 10–30	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	−0.6	0

2015 game log (4 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
4	2015-10-04	vs KC	W 36–21	1	1	55	1	+5.9	0
9	2015-11-05	vs CLE	W 31–10	1	1	4	0	−0.0	0
12	2015-11-29	vs LA	W 31–7	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
13	2015-12-06	@ CLE	W 37–3	1	0	0	0	−3.1	0

2014 game log (13 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2014-09-07	@ BAL	W 23–16	0	0	0.0	6	4	19	0	−1.4	0
2	2014-09-14	vs ATL	W 24–10	0	0	0.0	3	1	50	0	+1.7	0
3	2014-09-21	vs TEN	W 33–7	1	12	+0.7	1	1	5	0	−0.3	0
5	2014-10-05	@ NE	L 17–43	1	0	−0.5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2014-10-12	vs CAR	T 37–37 OT	1	9	+0.8	5	4	38	1	+5.1	1
7	2014-10-19	@ IND	L 0–27	0	0	0.0	2	1	7	0	−0.6	0
8	2014-10-26	vs BAL	W 27–24	0	0	0.0	2	2	30	0	+3.0	0
9	2014-11-02	vs JAX	W 33–23	0	0	0.0	1	1	10	0	+0.9	0
14	2014-12-07	vs PIT	L 21–42	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.7	0
15	2014-12-14	@ CLE	W 30–0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−1.5	0
16	2014-12-22	vs DEN	W 37–28	0	0	0.0	1	1	12	0	+1.2	0
17	2014-12-28	@ PIT	L 17–27	0	0	0.0	3	2	22	0	+2.8	1
P18	2015-01-04	@ IND	L 10–26	0	0	0.0	5	0	0	0	−4.0	0

2013 game log (2 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
6	2013-10-13	@ BUF	W 27–24 OT	1	1	6	0	+0.4
8	2013-10-27	vs NYJ	W 49–9	1	0	0	0	−0.5

2012 game log (12 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2012-09-10	@ BAL	L 13–44	0	0.0	2	1	3	0	−6.2	0
2	2012-09-16	vs CLE	W 34–27	0	0.0	3	3	71	1	+6.4	0
5	2012-10-07	vs MIA	L 13–17	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−1.1	0
6	2012-10-14	@ CLE	L 24–34	0	0.0	2	1	11	0	−6.4	0
7	2012-10-21	vs PIT	L 17–24	0	0.0	1	1	3	0	−0.5	0
9	2012-11-04	vs DEN	L 23–31	0	0.0	6	1	17	0	−2.7	0
10	2012-11-11	vs NYG	W 31–13	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−1.5	1
11	2012-11-18	@ KC	W 28–6	0	0.0	2	1	24	0	+0.7	0
12	2012-11-25	vs LV	W 34–10	0	0.0	1	1	6	0	+0.5	0
15	2012-12-13	@ PHI	W 34–13	1	−0.9	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
16	2012-12-23	@ PIT	W 13–10	0	0.0	1	1	23	0	+2.2	0
17	2012-12-30	vs BAL	W 23–17	0	0.0	5	3	53	0	+0.9	0

2010 game log (16 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2010-09-12	vs CIN	W 38–24	0	0	0.0	5	4	36	0	+2.6
2	2010-09-19	@ NYJ	L 14–28	0	0	0.0	1	1	17	0	+1.0
3	2010-09-26	vs BUF	W 38–30	1	5	+0.1	3	2	43	0	−1.7
4	2010-10-04	@ MIA	W 41–14	0	0	0.0	5	4	39	0	+1.1
6	2010-10-17	vs BAL	W 23–20 OT	1	22	+1.8	4	0	0	0	−1.5
7	2010-10-24	@ LAC	W 23–20	0	0	0.0	3	1	3	0	−2.6
8	2010-10-31	vs MIN	W 28–18	0	0	0.0	4	3	101	1	+6.6
9	2010-11-07	@ CLE	L 14–34	0	0	0.0	4	1	12	0	−1.5
10	2010-11-14	@ PIT	W 39–26	0	0	0.0	4	2	50	0	+1.9
12	2010-11-25	@ DET	W 45–24	1	17	+0.8	2	0	0	0	−1.4
13	2010-12-06	vs NYJ	W 45–3	1	6	+0.2	1	1	4	1	+1.7
14	2010-12-12	@ CHI	W 36–7	0	0	0.0	3	2	40	0	+3.5
15	2010-12-19	vs GB	W 31–27	0	0	0.0	3	1	5	0	−2.7
16	2010-12-26	@ BUF	W 34–3	1	12	+0.6	1	0	0	0	−2.7
17	2011-01-02	vs MIA	W 38–7	0	0	0.0	3	2	82	1	+6.0
P19	2011-01-16	vs NYJ	L 21–28	1	11	+0.8	1	0	0	0	−0.5

2009 game log (2 games)

2009 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
7	2009-10-25	@ TB	W 35–7	1	11	0	+0.7	1	0	0	0	−3.1
9	2009-11-08	vs MIA	W 27–17	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.4