James Cook

RB · BUF · 2022–2026

Born September 25, 1999 · College Georgia · Drafted 2022, round 2, pick 63 (BUF) · 5-11, 190 lb

2nd-team All-Pro (2025) · Pro Bowl ×3 (2023, 2024, 2025)

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)
2022	BUF	16	89	507	2	5.70	+0.060	−0.070−0.130 to −0.009	44.4	+5.4	+0.11
2022 playoffs	BUF	2	17	52	1	3.06	−0.243		23.5	−4.1	−0.13
2023	BUF	17	237	1,122	2	4.73	−0.033	−0.073−0.128 to −0.018	42.0	−8.0	−0.46
2023 playoffs	BUF	2	36	140	0	3.89	−0.041		50.0	−1.5	−0.05
2024	BUF	16	207	1,009	16	4.87	+0.037	−0.044−0.100 to +0.011	42.5	+7.9	+0.34
2024 playoffs	BUF	3	53	272	3	5.13	+0.139		50.9	+7.7	+0.36
2025	BUF	17	309	1,621	12	5.25	+0.005	−0.024−0.076 to +0.028	45.1	+1.7	−0.40
2025 playoffs	BUF	2	39	163	0	4.18	−0.184		37.5	−7.3	−0.26
2026	BUF	8	169	814	8	4.82	+0.016	−0.077−0.133 to −0.020	45.4	+2.8	−0.12
Career	BUF	74	1,011	5,073	40	5.02	+0.009		43.8	+9.8	−0.53

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2022	BUF	16	32	21	180	1	65.6	+0.121	5.8	2.6	+3.9	+0.12
2023	BUF	17	54	44	445	4	81.5	+0.303	9.9	2.5	+16.4	+0.51
2023 playoffs	BUF	2	9	8	26	0	88.9	−0.322	13.4	-2.0	−2.9	−0.01
2024	BUF	16	38	32	258	2	84.2	+0.336	8.1	1.0	+12.8	+0.31
2024 playoffs	BUF	3	6	6	64	0	100.0	+0.503	7.8	-2.0	+3.0	+0.11
2025	BUF	17	40	33	291	2	82.5	+0.217	8.4	1.4	+8.7	+0.10
2025 playoffs	BUF	2	6	4	29	0	66.7	−0.166	8.1	0.2	−1.0	−0.05
2026	BUF	8	18	12	110	0	66.7	+0.173	8.1	-0.3	+3.1	+0.15
Career	BUF	74	182	142	1,284	9	78.0	+0.246	8.0	1.7	+44.8	+1.18

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
2022	BUF	16	1
2023	BUF	17	1
Career	BUF	74	2

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
2023	Pro Bowl
2024	Pro Bowl
2025	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl

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
2022	BUF	16	259	24.5	–	–
2022 playoffs	BUF	2	44	32.4	–	–
2023	BUF	17	630	55.5	–	–
2023 playoffs	BUF	2	79	54.9	–	–
2024	BUF	16	484	48.4	–	–
2024 playoffs	BUF	3	99	49.0	–	–
2025	BUF	17	637	58.1	–	–
2025 playoffs	BUF	2	88	63.3	–	–

Hands and contested catches

Regular season, 2022 on. Charting: FTN Data via nflverse, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aggregated by Red Zone Math; this table is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

Season	Targets charted	Catchable %	Drops	Drop % of catchable	Contested targets	Contested catch %
2022	32	78.1	3	12.0	0	–
2023	54	90.7	5	10.2	1	0.0
2024	38	92.1	2	5.7	1	0.0
2025	40	95.0	5	13.2	0	–
2026	18	88.9	2	12.5	0	–

Game logs

2026 game log (8 games)

2026 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2026-09-13	@ HOU	W 36–31	13	57	0	−0.1	4	3	12	−0.4
2	2026-09-17	vs DET	W 41–31	21	135	1	+6.7	3	1	4	−1.2
3	2026-09-27	vs LAC	W 24–16	24	154	1	−0.4	1	0	0	−0.4
4	2026-10-04	vs NE	L 26–29	12	75	1	+3.2	2	2	8	−0.5
5	2026-10-12	@ LA	W 37–34 OT	25	111	2	−3.2	1	1	7	+0.5
6	2026-10-18	@ LV	W 33–30	22	95	1	−0.6	3	3	58	+5.0
8	2026-11-01	vs BAL	W 36–10	21	80	1	+0.9	3	2	21	+1.1
9	2026-11-09	@ MIN	W 23–6	31	107	1	−3.7	1	0	0	−1.1

2025 game log (19 games)

2025 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2025-09-07	vs BAL	W 41–40	13	44	1	−2.1	5	5	58	0	+2.9
2	2025-09-14	@ NYJ	W 30–10	21	132	2	+5.1	1	1	3	0	−0.3
3	2025-09-18	vs MIA	W 31–21	19	108	1	+2.4	3	3	10	0	−0.9
4	2025-09-28	vs NO	W 31–19	22	117	1	+2.8	4	3	18	0	−0.8
5	2025-10-05	vs NE	L 20–23	15	49	0	−1.6	1	0	0	0	−0.7
6	2025-10-13	@ ATL	L 14–24	17	87	0	+1.9	0	0	0	0	0.0
8	2025-10-26	@ CAR	W 40–9	19	216	2	+14.6	0	0	0	0	0.0
9	2025-11-02	vs KC	W 28–21	27	114	0	−2.4	1	1	11	0	+0.3
10	2025-11-09	@ MIA	L 13–30	13	53	0	−5.1	5	5	24	0	+0.2
11	2025-11-16	vs TB	W 44–32	16	48	0	−4.4	3	3	66	1	+5.2
12	2025-11-20	@ HOU	L 19–23	17	116	1	−0.5	3	3	13	0	−0.9
13	2025-11-30	@ PIT	W 26–7	32	144	0	−7.9	3	3	33	0	+3.1
14	2025-12-07	vs CIN	W 39–34	18	80	0	−9.5	2	2	31	0	+2.2
15	2025-12-14	@ NE	W 35–31	22	107	2	+4.6	3	2	4	1	+0.1
16	2025-12-21	@ CLE	W 23–20	16	117	2	+6.1	2	1	17	0	+0.8
17	2025-12-28	vs PHI	L 12–13	20	74	0	−3.1	4	1	3	0	−2.5
18	2026-01-04	vs NYJ	W 35–8	2	15	0	+0.8	0	0	0	0	0.0
P19	2026-01-11	@ JAX	W 27–24	15	46	0	−2.8	3	2	5	0	−1.4
P20	2026-01-17	@ DEN	L 30–33 OT	24	117	0	−4.6	3	2	24	0	+0.4

2024 game log (19 games)

2024 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2024-09-08	vs ARI	W 34–28	19	71	0	−3.6	3	3	32	0	+2.4
2	2024-09-12	@ MIA	W 31–10	11	78	2	+3.7	1	1	17	1	+4.4
3	2024-09-23	vs JAX	W 47–10	11	39	1	−0.9	5	4	48	0	+1.6
4	2024-09-29	@ BAL	L 10–35	9	39	0	+0.7	1	1	9	0	+0.9
5	2024-10-06	@ HOU	L 20–23	20	82	1	−1.5	3	2	17	0	+0.3
7	2024-10-20	vs TEN	W 34–10	12	32	1	−2.2	0	0	0	0	0.0
8	2024-10-27	@ SEA	W 31–10	17	111	2	+4.0	3	3	22	0	+1.3
9	2024-11-03	vs MIA	W 30–27	10	44	0	−0.4	6	5	25	0	−0.0
10	2024-11-10	@ IND	W 30–20	19	80	1	−0.5	3	1	5	0	−1.2
11	2024-11-17	vs KC	W 30–21	9	20	2	−0.9	6	5	7	0	−3.6
13	2024-12-01	vs SF	W 35–10	14	107	1	+2.1	1	1	13	0	+1.0
14	2024-12-08	@ LA	L 42–44	6	20	0	−0.6	2	2	9	0	+0.1
15	2024-12-15	@ DET	W 48–42	14	105	2	+6.4	1	1	28	0	+2.0
16	2024-12-22	vs NE	W 24–21	11	100	1	+2.8	3	3	26	1	+3.6
17	2024-12-29	vs NYJ	W 40–14	15	53	1	−0.3	0	0	0	0	0.0
18	2025-01-05	@ NE	L 16–23	10	28	1	−0.7	0	0	0	0	0.0
P19	2025-01-12	vs DEN	W 31–7	23	120	1	+0.8	0	0	0	0	0.0
P20	2025-01-19	vs BAL	W 27–25	17	67	0	−0.5	3	3	15	0	−0.1
P21	2025-01-26	@ KC	L 29–32	13	85	2	+7.3	3	3	49	0	+3.1

2023 game log (19 games)

2023 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2023-09-11	@ NYJ	L 16–22 OT	12	46	0	−1.2	6	4	17	0	−1.9	0
2	2023-09-17	vs LV	W 38–10	17	123	0	+1.4	4	4	36	0	+1.1	0
3	2023-09-24	@ WAS	W 37–3	15	98	0	+2.2	3	2	14	0	+0.2	0
4	2023-10-01	vs MIA	W 48–20	12	29	1	−1.1	1	1	48	0	+2.8	0
5	2023-10-08	vs JAX	L 20–25	5	-4	0	−3.7	4	3	25	0	−0.6	0
6	2023-10-15	vs NYG	W 14–9	14	71	0	+1.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	2023-10-22	@ NE	L 25–29	13	56	0	−1.6	3	3	46	1	+6.8	0
8	2023-10-26	vs TB	W 24–18	14	67	0	+1.2	1	1	6	0	+0.0	0
9	2023-11-05	@ CIN	L 18–24	6	20	0	−1.1	4	4	19	0	−0.1	0
10	2023-11-13	vs DEN	L 22–24	12	109	0	+4.0	2	2	11	0	−5.1	1
11	2023-11-19	vs NYJ	W 32–6	17	73	0	−1.7	4	3	29	1	+3.0	0
12	2023-11-26	@ PHI	L 34–37 OT	16	43	0	−4.2	7	6	57	0	+3.9	0
14	2023-12-10	@ KC	W 20–17	10	58	0	+1.7	5	5	83	1	+7.1	0
15	2023-12-17	vs DAL	W 31–10	25	179	1	+8.3	3	2	42	1	+2.5	0
16	2023-12-23	@ LAC	W 24–22	20	70	0	−8.5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2023-12-31	vs NE	W 27–21	16	48	0	−2.6	3	1	-4	0	−3.4	0
18	2024-01-07	@ MIA	W 21–14	13	36	0	−2.2	4	3	16	0	−0.0	0
P19	2024-01-15	vs PIT	W 31–17	18	79	0	−0.3	4	4	5	0	−3.0	0
P20	2024-01-21	vs KC	L 24–27	18	61	0	−1.1	5	4	21	0	+0.1	0

2022 game log (18 games)

2022 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2022-09-08	@ LA	W 31–10	1	2	0	−4.8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2022-09-19	vs TEN	W 41–7	11	53	0	+0.8	1	0	0	0	−0.5	0
3	2022-09-25	@ MIA	L 19–21	1	3	0	+0.1	5	4	37	0	+2.9	0
4	2022-10-02	@ BAL	W 23–20	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.6	0
5	2022-10-09	vs PIT	W 38–3	4	31	1	+1.3	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	2022-10-16	@ KC	W 24–20	2	8	0	+0.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2022-10-30	vs GB	W 27–17	5	35	0	+2.2	1	1	41	0	+3.5	0
9	2022-11-06	@ NYJ	L 17–20	4	15	0	−0.3	4	2	18	0	+1.4	0
10	2022-11-13	vs MIN	L 30–33 OT	5	22	0	+0.4	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	2022-11-20	vs CLE	W 31–23	11	86	0	+2.9	1	0	0	0	−0.8	0
12	2022-11-24	@ DET	W 28–25	2	4	0	−0.8	5	2	14	0	−0.8	0
13	2022-12-01	@ NE	W 24–10	14	64	0	−1.5	6	6	41	0	+1.2	0
14	2022-12-11	vs NYJ	W 20–12	4	6	0	−1.8	1	1	9	0	+0.3	0
15	2022-12-17	vs MIA	W 32–29	5	34	0	+1.5	3	2	5	1	+2.2	0
16	2022-12-24	@ CHI	W 35–13	11	99	1	+4.2	2	1	9	0	−4.1	1
18	2023-01-08	vs NE	W 35–23	9	45	0	+1.1	2	2	6	0	−0.9	0
P19	2023-01-15	vs MIA	W 34–31	12	39	1	−2.4	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
P20	2023-01-22	vs CIN	L 10–27	5	13	0	−1.8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0