Brandon Zylstra

WR · MIN/CAR · 2018–2021

Born March 25, 1993 · College Concordia College; Augustana (SD) · Undrafted · 6-2, 215 lb

EPA per target by season

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

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2018	MIN	2	2	1	23	0	50.0	+0.105	+0.022−0.169 to +0.213	2.9	21.5	+0.2	+0.04
2019	CAR	4	12	8	106	0	66.7	+0.455	+0.063−0.123 to +0.250	7.1	13.3	+5.5	−0.00
2020	CAR	3	4	3	35	0	75.0	+1.443	+0.091−0.099 to +0.281	3.6	13.8	+5.8	+0.10
2021	CAR	12	25	18	250	1	72.0	+0.366	+0.129−0.052 to +0.309	6.1	10.5	+9.1	+0.09
Career	CAR	21	43	30	414	1	69.8	+0.479		5.7	12.1	+20.6	+0.23

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
2018	MIN	2	1
2021	CAR	12	7
Career	CAR	21	8

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
2018	MIN	9	17	2.9	2	1.4
2019	CAR	6	66	15.9	–	–
2020	CAR	14	127	14.3	–	–
2021	CAR	13	322	37.1	–	–

Game logs

2021 game log (12 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
2	2021-09-19	vs NO	W 26–7	3	3	44	1	+3.4	2
3	2021-09-23	@ HOU	W 24–9	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
4	2021-10-03	@ DAL	L 28–36	2	2	63	0	+6.0	0
5	2021-10-10	vs PHI	L 18–21	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
6	2021-10-17	vs MIN	L 28–34 OT	3	3	32	0	+1.0	0
10	2021-11-14	@ ARI	W 34–10	2	2	18	0	+1.4	1
11	2021-11-21	vs WAS	L 21–27	2	1	7	0	−0.5	0
12	2021-11-28	@ MIA	L 10–33	2	1	24	0	−0.8	1
14	2021-12-12	vs ATL	L 21–29	5	4	45	0	+0.1	0
15	2021-12-19	@ BUF	L 14–31	4	2	17	0	+1.9	0
17	2022-01-02	@ NO	L 10–18	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
18	2022-01-09	@ TB	L 17–41	2	0	0	0	−3.3	0

2020 game log (3 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
7	2020-10-25	@ NO	L 24–27	1	1	4	+0.4
9	2020-11-08	@ KC	L 31–33	1	1	28	+4.7
14	2020-12-13	vs DEN	L 27–32	2	1	3	+0.6

2019 game log (4 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
8	2019-10-27	@ SF	L 13–51	1	0	0	−0.8
14	2019-12-08	@ ATL	L 20–40	2	1	7	+0.1
16	2019-12-22	@ IND	L 6–38	1	1	3	−0.4
17	2019-12-29	vs NO	L 10–42	8	6	96	+6.5

2018 game log (2 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles	Sacks	INT	PD
7	2018-10-21	@ NYJ	W 37–17	1	1	23	0	+1.9	1	0.0	0	0
17	2018-12-30	vs CHI	L 10–24	1	0	0	0	−1.7	0	0.0	0	0