Deion Branch

WR · NE/SEA · 2002–2012

Born July 18, 1979 · College Louisville; Jones County JC · Drafted 2002, round 2, pick 65 (NE) · 5-9, 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	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2002	NE	13	2	0	0	0.00	−0.307	50.0	−0.6	−0.00
2003	NE	15	1	11	0	11.00	+0.977	100.0	+1.0	+0.03
2004 playoffs	NE	3	3	41	1	13.67	+2.000	66.7	+6.0	+0.03
2006	SEA	14	4	30	0	7.50	−0.183	40.0	−0.9	−0.02
2009	SEA	14	1	-8	0	-8.00	−2.463	0.0	−2.5	−0.09
Career	NE	138	8	33	0	4.12	−0.335	44.4	−3.0	−0.09

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2002	NE	13	68	43	489	2	63.2	+0.158	+0.169+0.004 to +0.334	14.2	–	+10.8	+0.06
2003	NE	15	104	57	803	3	54.8	+0.296	+0.222+0.067 to +0.377	20.5	–	+30.8	+1.22
2003 playoffs	NE	3	28	15	176	1	53.6	+0.153		22.6	–	+4.3	+0.16
2004	NE	9	51	35	454	4	68.6	+0.665	+0.280+0.109 to +0.451	19.5	–	+33.9	+0.76
2004 playoffs	NE	3	19	16	264	1	84.2	+1.219		23.5	–	+23.2	+0.38
2005	NE	16	125	78	998	5	62.4	+0.466	+0.333+0.184 to +0.483	22.6	–	+58.2	+0.94
2005 playoffs	NE	2	18	10	189	0	55.6	+0.671		28.6	–	+12.1	+0.15
2006	SEA	14	101	53	725	4	52.5	+0.026	+0.132−0.023 to +0.288	22.4	12.2	+2.7	+0.09
2006 playoffs	SEA	2	14	8	96	0	57.1	+0.162		20.6	14.1	+2.3	+0.05
2007	SEA	11	85	49	661	4	57.6	+0.296	+0.214+0.054 to +0.374	22.8	10.8	+25.1	+0.63
2008	SEA	8	59	30	412	4	50.8	+0.224	+0.158−0.010 to +0.326	24.9	11.0	+13.2	+0.54
2009	SEA	14	79	45	437	2	57.0	−0.140	+0.072−0.090 to +0.234	15.0	9.5	−11.1	−0.08
2010	NE	15	92	61	818	6	66.3	+0.441	+0.272+0.114 to +0.430	19.2	11.1	+40.6	+0.67
2010 playoffs	NE	1	10	5	59	1	50.0	+0.519		22.2	12.3	+5.2	+0.04
2011	NE	14	90	51	702	5	56.7	+0.278	+0.220+0.062 to +0.379	16.7	9.2	+25.0	+0.53
2011 playoffs	NE	3	13	8	148	1	61.5	+0.687		11.9	13.6	+8.9	+0.10
2012	NE	9	29	16	145	0	55.2	+0.122	+0.080−0.099 to +0.259	7.5	9.7	+3.5	+0.14
2012 playoffs	NE	1	5	2	16	0	40.0	−0.626		9.6	13.0	−3.1	−0.06
Career	NE	138	883	518	6,644	39	58.7	+0.264		18.4	10.6	+232.7	+5.51

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	Forced fumbles
2002	NE	13	1	–	–	–	0
2003	NE	15	3	–	–	–	0
2005	NE	16	5	–	–	–	0
2006	SEA	14	4	0	–	–	1
2006 playoffs	SEA	2	1	0	–	–	0
2007	SEA	11	3	0	–	–	0
2008	SEA	8	1	0	–	–	0
2009	SEA	14	3	0	0	0	0
2010	NE	15	1	0	0	0	0
2011	NE	14	2	0	0	0	0
2012	NE	9	1	0	0	0	0
Career	NE	138	24	0	0	0	1

Game logs

2012 game log (10 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
3	2012-09-23	@ BAL	L 30–31	3	2	11	+1.5	0
5	2012-10-07	vs DEN	W 31–21	2	1	25	+2.7	0
6	2012-10-14	@ SEA	L 23–24	4	1	5	−5.3	1
7	2012-10-21	vs NYJ	W 29–26 OT	2	1	9	+0.7	0
8	2012-10-28	@ LA	W 45–7	1	0	0	−1.3	0
10	2012-11-11	vs BUF	W 37–31	8	4	30	−1.1	0
15	2012-12-16	vs SF	L 34–41	5	4	37	+4.4	0
16	2012-12-23	@ JAX	W 23–16	3	2	12	−0.3	0
17	2012-12-30	vs MIA	W 28–0	1	1	16	+2.1	0
P20	2013-01-20	vs BAL	L 13–28	5	2	16	−3.1	0

2011 game log (17 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2011-09-12	@ MIA	W 38–24	9	7	93	0	+6.4	1
2	2011-09-18	vs LAC	W 35–21	10	8	129	0	+7.6	0
3	2011-09-25	@ BUF	L 31–34	3	0	0	0	−2.4	0
4	2011-10-02	@ LV	W 31–19	4	1	4	1	+0.8	0
5	2011-10-09	vs NYJ	W 30–21	8	7	74	1	+5.1	0
6	2011-10-16	vs DAL	W 20–16	5	3	69	0	+2.4	1
8	2011-10-30	@ PIT	L 17–25	7	4	36	1	+0.6	0
9	2011-11-06	vs NYG	L 20–24	5	2	21	0	−4.3	0
10	2011-11-13	@ NYJ	W 37–16	9	5	58	1	+2.1	0
11	2011-11-21	vs KC	W 34–3	3	2	19	0	+0.9	0
12	2011-11-27	@ PHI	W 38–20	10	6	125	0	+8.2	0
13	2011-12-04	vs IND	W 31–24	6	3	37	0	+0.7	0
14	2011-12-11	@ WAS	W 34–27	2	0	0	0	−1.0	0
16	2011-12-24	vs MIA	W 27–24	9	3	37	1	−2.0	0
P19	2012-01-14	vs DEN	W 45–10	4	3	85	1	+7.5	0
P20	2012-01-22	vs BAL	W 23–20	3	2	18	0	−0.9	0
P21	2012-02-05	vs NYG	L 17–21	6	3	45	0	+2.4	0

2010 game log (16 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2010-09-12	vs SF	W 31–6	3	3	11	1	+1.8	0
2	2010-09-19	@ DEN	L 14–31	7	4	31	0	−2.9	1
3	2010-09-26	vs LAC	W 27–20	6	5	60	0	−2.3	0
4	2010-10-03	@ LA	L 3–20	2	1	10	0	+0.1	0
6	2010-10-17	vs BAL	W 23–20 OT	12	9	98	1	+6.1	0
7	2010-10-24	@ LAC	W 23–20	8	4	39	0	−0.8	0
8	2010-10-31	vs MIN	W 28–18	3	1	21	0	+0.2	0
9	2010-11-07	@ CLE	L 14–34	4	2	21	0	+0.9	0
10	2010-11-14	@ PIT	W 39–26	8	7	71	0	+5.7	0
11	2010-11-21	vs IND	W 31–28	10	7	70	0	+1.4	0
12	2010-11-25	@ DET	W 45–24	5	3	113	2	+8.8	0
13	2010-12-06	vs NYJ	W 45–3	7	3	64	1	+3.1	0
14	2010-12-12	@ CHI	W 36–7	10	8	151	1	+13.9	0
15	2010-12-19	vs GB	W 31–27	2	2	33	0	+3.7	0
16	2010-12-26	@ BUF	W 34–3	5	2	25	0	+0.8	0
P19	2011-01-16	vs NYJ	L 21–28	10	5	59	1	+5.2	0

2009 game log (14 games)

2009 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
3	2009-09-27	vs CHI	L 19–25	1	-8	−2.5	3	2	13	0	−0.8	0
4	2009-10-04	@ IND	L 17–34	0	0	0.0	6	6	49	0	+2.0	0
5	2009-10-11	vs JAX	W 41–0	0	0	0.0	4	2	23	0	−0.9	0
6	2009-10-18	vs ARI	L 3–27	0	0	0.0	7	2	9	0	−2.8	0
8	2009-11-01	@ DAL	L 17–38	0	0	0.0	4	3	36	1	+3.2	0
9	2009-11-08	vs DET	W 32–20	0	0	0.0	3	3	25	0	+1.5	0
10	2009-11-15	@ ARI	L 20–31	0	0	0.0	8	4	50	0	−3.1	0
11	2009-11-22	@ MIN	L 9–35	0	0	0.0	2	1	15	0	−2.3	1
12	2009-11-29	@ LA	W 27–17	0	0	0.0	3	3	19	0	−0.8	0
13	2009-12-06	vs SF	W 20–17	0	0	0.0	5	1	7	1	−1.2	0
14	2009-12-13	@ HOU	L 7–34	0	0	0.0	7	5	33	0	−0.3	0
15	2009-12-20	vs TB	L 7–24	0	0	0.0	10	4	28	0	−9.5	1
16	2009-12-27	@ GB	L 10–48	0	0	0.0	9	5	53	0	+0.0	1
17	2010-01-03	vs TEN	L 13–17	0	0	0.0	8	4	77	0	+3.8	0

2008 game log (8 games)

2008 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
5	2008-10-05	@ NYG	L 6–44	5	3	31	0	+0.2	0
11	2008-11-16	vs ARI	L 20–26	8	4	54	0	−0.7	0
12	2008-11-23	vs WAS	L 17–20	5	1	11	0	−1.9	0
13	2008-11-27	@ DAL	L 9–34	11	5	56	0	−1.3	1
14	2008-12-07	vs NE	L 21–24	7	4	88	2	+7.0	0
15	2008-12-14	@ LA	W 23–20	7	5	76	0	+2.5	0
16	2008-12-21	vs NYJ	W 13–3	4	2	6	0	−1.4	0
17	2008-12-28	@ ARI	L 21–34	12	6	90	2	+8.9	0

2007 game log (11 games)

2007 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2007-09-09	vs TB	W 20–6	3	0	0	0	−2.1	0
2	2007-09-16	@ ARI	L 20–23	13	7	122	0	+6.8	0
3	2007-09-23	vs CIN	W 24–21	7	6	77	1	+5.8	0
4	2007-09-30	@ SF	W 23–3	10	7	130	0	+6.8	1
5	2007-10-07	@ PIT	L 0–21	3	2	14	0	+0.1	0
11	2007-11-18	vs CHI	W 30–23	7	4	31	0	−1.5	0
12	2007-11-25	@ LA	W 24–19	10	5	92	1	+3.5	0
13	2007-12-02	@ PHI	W 28–24	10	5	40	0	−2.8	1
14	2007-12-09	vs ARI	W 42–21	4	3	52	1	+3.7	0
15	2007-12-16	@ CAR	L 10–13	12	8	79	1	+7.2	0
16	2007-12-23	vs BAL	W 27–6	6	2	24	0	−2.3	1

2006 game log (16 games)

2006 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
3	2006-09-24	vs NYG	W 42–30	1	8	+0.5	3	2	23	0	+1.1	0
4	2006-10-01	@ CHI	L 6–37	0	0	−1.1	7	3	57	0	−3.8	0
6	2006-10-15	@ LA	W 30–28	1	19	+1.4	10	6	76	2	+7.2	0
7	2006-10-22	vs MIN	L 13–31	1	0	−0.5	8	4	60	0	−1.8	1
8	2006-10-29	@ KC	L 28–35	0	0	0.0	6	2	45	0	+0.5	1
9	2006-11-06	vs LV	W 16–0	0	0	0.0	7	4	61	1	+2.8	0
10	2006-11-12	vs LA	W 24–22	0	0	0.0	6	3	22	0	−1.1	0
11	2006-11-19	@ SF	L 14–20	0	0	0.0	11	7	113	1	+4.2	1
12	2006-11-27	vs GB	W 34–24	0	0	0.0	9	4	38	0	−7.7	0
13	2006-12-03	@ DEN	W 23–20	1	3	−1.2	3	3	23	0	+1.2	0
14	2006-12-10	@ ARI	L 21–27	0	0	0.0	6	3	54	0	−2.2	0
15	2006-12-14	vs SF	L 14–24	0	0	0.0	8	4	54	0	+0.5	0
16	2006-12-24	vs LAC	L 17–20	0	0	0.0	11	5	61	0	+1.5	0
17	2006-12-31	@ TB	W 23–7	0	0	0.0	6	3	38	0	+0.3	1
P18	2007-01-06	vs DAL	W 21–20	0	0	0.0	7	4	48	0	−0.4	0
P19	2007-01-14	@ CHI	L 24–27 OT	0	0	0.0	7	4	48	0	+2.7	1

2005 game log (18 games)

2005 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2005-09-08	vs LV	W 30–20	11	7	99	1	+7.3	0
2	2005-09-18	@ CAR	L 17–27	14	8	60	0	+1.3	0
3	2005-09-25	@ PIT	W 23–20	7	6	78	0	+5.8	1
4	2005-10-02	vs LAC	L 17–41	6	1	6	0	−2.9	0
5	2005-10-09	@ ATL	W 31–28	8	8	107	0	+8.7	0
6	2005-10-16	@ DEN	L 20–28	12	7	87	0	+4.5	0
8	2005-10-30	vs BUF	W 21–16	5	3	92	1	+6.0	1
9	2005-11-07	vs IND	L 21–40	6	5	58	1	+4.2	0
10	2005-11-13	@ MIA	W 23–16	10	5	82	0	+2.4	0
11	2005-11-20	vs NO	W 24–17	6	5	38	1	+6.6	0
12	2005-11-27	@ KC	L 16–26	12	5	49	0	−3.0	2
13	2005-12-04	vs NYJ	W 16–3	6	5	44	0	+4.6	0
14	2005-12-11	@ BUF	W 35–7	6	5	83	0	+7.3	1
15	2005-12-17	vs TB	W 28–0	5	2	27	0	−2.1	0
16	2005-12-26	@ NYJ	W 31–21	8	4	69	0	+5.9	0
17	2006-01-01	vs MIA	L 26–28	3	2	19	1	+1.7	0
P18	2006-01-07	vs JAX	W 28–3	5	2	36	0	+3.7	0
P19	2006-01-14	@ DEN	L 13–27	13	8	153	0	+8.3	0

2004 game log (12 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2004-09-09	vs IND	W 27–24	0	0	0	0.0	9	7	86	1	+7.5
2	2004-09-19	@ ARI	W 23–12	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	7	0	+1.8
11	2004-11-22	@ KC	W 27–19	0	0	0	0.0	8	6	105	1	+10.1
12	2004-11-28	vs BAL	W 24–3	0	0	0	0.0	7	4	51	0	+2.2
13	2004-12-05	@ CLE	W 42–15	0	0	0	0.0	2	1	13	0	+0.8
14	2004-12-12	vs CIN	W 35–28	0	0	0	0.0	7	3	44	0	−1.3
15	2004-12-20	@ MIA	L 28–29	0	0	0	0.0	4	3	44	0	+3.4
16	2004-12-26	@ NYJ	W 23–7	0	0	0	0.0	10	7	82	1	+6.0
17	2005-01-02	vs SF	W 21–7	0	0	0	0.0	3	3	22	1	+3.4
P19	2005-01-16	vs IND	W 20–3	1	4	0	−0.2	3	1	15	0	−1.0
P20	2005-01-23	@ PIT	W 41–27	2	37	1	+6.2	4	4	116	1	+10.1
P21	2005-02-06	@ PHI	W 24–21	0	0	0	0.0	12	11	133	0	+14.0

2003 game log (18 games)

2003 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2003-09-07	@ BUF	L 0–31	0	0	0.0	3	1	8	0	−2.1	0
2	2003-09-14	@ PHI	W 31–10	0	0	0.0	8	6	89	1	+9.0	0
3	2003-09-21	vs NYJ	W 23–16	0	0	0.0	2	2	25	0	+3.1	1
4	2003-09-28	@ WAS	L 17–20	1	11	+1.0	8	3	38	0	−2.8	1
5	2003-10-05	vs TEN	W 38–30	0	0	0.0	7	5	68	0	+9.0	0
7	2003-10-19	@ MIA	W 19–13 OT	0	0	0.0	11	6	62	0	+0.8	0
8	2003-10-26	vs CLE	W 9–3	0	0	0.0	5	3	30	0	+0.7	0
9	2003-11-03	@ DEN	W 30–26	0	0	0.0	6	3	107	1	+8.8	1
11	2003-11-16	vs DAL	W 12–0	0	0	0.0	9	2	69	0	−1.6	0
12	2003-11-23	@ HOU	W 23–20 OT	0	0	0.0	10	5	52	0	−2.5	0
13	2003-11-30	@ IND	W 38–34	0	0	0.0	9	6	64	1	+5.6	0
14	2003-12-07	vs MIA	W 12–0	0	0	0.0	8	6	93	0	+6.9	0
15	2003-12-14	vs JAX	W 27–13	0	0	0.0	1	1	16	0	+2.3	0
16	2003-12-20	@ NYJ	W 21–16	0	0	0.0	7	2	24	0	−5.1	0
17	2003-12-27	vs BUF	W 31–0	0	0	0.0	10	6	58	0	−1.3	0
P19	2004-01-10	vs TEN	W 17–14	0	0	0.0	9	3	10	0	−4.3	0
P20	2004-01-18	vs IND	W 24–14	0	0	0.0	6	2	23	0	+0.2	0
P21	2004-02-01	vs CAR	W 32–29	0	0	0.0	13	10	143	1	+8.4	0

2002 game log (13 games)

2002 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2002-09-09	vs PIT	W 30–14	0	0	0.0	9	6	83	1	+4.1	0
2	2002-09-15	@ NYJ	W 44–7	0	0	0.0	5	3	65	1	+3.8	0
3	2002-09-22	vs KC	W 41–38 OT	0	0	0.0	8	6	33	0	+0.4	0
4	2002-09-29	@ LAC	L 14–21	1	4	+0.6	15	13	128	0	+9.4	0
5	2002-10-06	@ MIA	L 13–26	0	0	0.0	6	4	61	0	+2.0	0
6	2002-10-13	vs GB	L 10–28	0	0	0.0	10	5	38	0	−5.7	0
8	2002-10-27	vs DEN	L 16–24	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	−1.3	0
9	2002-11-03	@ BUF	W 38–7	1	-4	−1.2	1	0	0	0	−0.4	0
10	2002-11-10	@ CHI	W 33–30	0	0	0.0	2	1	9	0	−0.1	1
11	2002-11-17	@ LV	L 20–27	0	0	0.0	4	3	11	0	−1.1	0
12	2002-11-24	vs MIN	W 24–17	0	0	0.0	3	1	20	0	−0.1	0
13	2002-11-28	@ DET	W 20–12	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	−2.7	0
14	2002-12-08	vs BUF	W 27–17	0	0	0.0	1	1	41	0	+2.5	0