Bruce Ellington

WR · SF/HOU/DET · 2014–2018

Born August 22, 1991 · College South Carolina · Drafted 2014, round 4, pick 106 (SF) · 5-9, 200 lb

EPA per target by season

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

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2014	SF	7	6	28	1	4.67	+0.456	66.7	+2.7	+0.01
2015	SF	10	1	7	0	7.00	+0.580	100.0	+0.6	+0.03
2017	HOU	11	3	17	0	5.67	+0.019	66.7	+0.1	−0.01
2018	DET	7	1	2	0	2.00	−0.510	0.0	−0.5	−0.01
Career	DET	35	11	54	1	4.91	+0.260	63.6	+2.9	+0.02

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2014	SF	7	12	6	62	2	50.0	+0.451	+0.006−0.181 to +0.192	5.3	8.4	+5.4	−0.01
2015	SF	10	19	13	153	0	68.4	+0.108	+0.043−0.140 to +0.226	5.5	8.8	+2.0	+0.15
2017	HOU	11	57	29	330	2	50.9	+0.008	+0.100−0.068 to +0.269	14.7	9.9	+0.5	+0.06
2018	DET	7	42	31	224	1	73.8	+0.020	+0.154−0.020 to +0.328	18.3	4.9	+0.9	+0.10
Career	DET	35	130	79	769	5	60.8	+0.068		10.9	8.0	+8.8	+0.29

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	Passes defensed
2014	SF	7	1	0
2015	SF	10	1	1
2017	HOU	11	1	0
2018	DET	7	1	0
Career	DET	35	4	1

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
2017	HOU	11	584	74.4	2	1.5
2018	HOU/DET	7	270	58.2	–	–

Game logs

2018 game log (7 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2018-09-09	@ NE	L 20–27	0	0	0.0	8	4	37	1	+2.3	0
2	2018-09-16	@ TEN	L 17–20	0	0	0.0	3	3	45	0	+2.3	0
3	2018-09-23	vs NYG	L 22–27	0	0	0.0	1	1	10	0	+2.1	0
11	2018-11-18	vs CAR	W 20–19	0	0	0.0	9	6	52	0	+0.3	0
12	2018-11-22	vs CHI	L 16–23	1	2	−0.5	7	6	28	0	−1.4	0
13	2018-12-02	vs LA	L 16–30	0	0	0.0	10	7	35	0	−3.9	1
14	2018-12-09	@ ARI	W 17–3	0	0	0.0	4	4	17	0	−0.8	0

2017 game log (11 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2017-09-10	vs JAX	L 7–29	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	−1.2	0
3	2017-09-24	@ NE	L 33–36	1	-1	−0.8	7	4	59	1	+4.9	0
4	2017-10-01	vs TEN	W 57–14	1	13	+0.6	4	3	44	0	+1.8	0
5	2017-10-08	vs KC	L 34–42	0	0	0.0	3	2	30	0	+1.3	0
6	2017-10-15	vs CLE	W 33–17	0	0	0.0	3	2	22	0	+1.7	0
8	2017-10-29	@ SEA	L 38–41	0	0	0.0	4	1	13	0	+0.1	0
9	2017-11-05	vs IND	L 14–20	0	0	0.0	8	3	22	0	−3.3	1
10	2017-11-12	@ LA	L 7–33	0	0	0.0	9	4	41	1	−0.8	0
11	2017-11-19	vs ARI	W 31–21	1	5	+0.2	7	6	63	0	+4.3	0
12	2017-11-27	@ BAL	L 16–23	0	0	0.0	8	3	29	0	−6.8	0
13	2017-12-03	@ TEN	L 13–24	0	0	0.0	2	1	7	0	−1.6	0

2015 game log (10 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles	PD
1	2015-09-14	vs MIN	W 20–3	0	0	0.0	2	2	5	−1.1	0	0
5	2015-10-11	@ NYG	L 27–30	0	0	0.0	2	2	39	+3.1	0	0
8	2015-11-01	@ LA	L 6–27	0	0	0.0	3	2	8	−1.6	0	0
9	2015-11-08	vs ATL	W 17–16	1	7	+0.6	2	2	2	−1.7	1	0
11	2015-11-22	@ SEA	L 13–29	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	−2.0	0	0
13	2015-12-06	@ CHI	W 26–20 OT	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	−0.6	0	0
14	2015-12-13	@ CLE	L 10–24	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	−0.5	0	0
15	2015-12-20	vs CIN	L 14–24	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	−0.4	0	0
16	2015-12-27	@ DET	L 17–32	0	0	0.0	4	3	55	+3.5	0	0
17	2016-01-03	vs LA	W 19–16 OT	0	0	0.0	1	1	44	+3.2	0	1

2014 game log (7 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
2	2014-09-14	vs CHI	L 20–28	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.2	0
3	2014-09-21	@ ARI	L 14–23	1	1	0	−0.6	1	0	0	0	−0.5	0
4	2014-09-28	vs PHI	W 26–21	1	15	0	+1.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	2014-10-05	vs KC	W 22–17	1	0	0	−0.5	1	1	1	0	−0.7	0
7	2014-10-19	@ DEN	L 17–42	0	0	0	0.0	4	3	44	1	+6.0	1
9	2014-11-02	vs LA	L 10–13	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	9	0	+1.3	0
16	2014-12-20	vs LAC	L 35–38 OT	3	12	1	+2.7	4	1	8	1	−0.5	0