Julius Thomas

TE · DEN/JAX/MIA · 2011–2017

Born June 27, 1988 · College Portland State · Drafted 2011, round 4, pick 129 (DEN) · 6-5, 262 lb

Pro Bowl ×2 (2013, 2014)

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)
2011	DEN	4	7	1	5	0	14.3	−0.515	+0.068−0.119 to +0.256	5.4	10.7	−3.6	−0.09
2013	DEN	14	90	65	788	12	72.2	+0.568	+0.375+0.224 to +0.525	15.0	7.0	+51.2	+0.55
2013 playoffs	DEN	3	24	18	188	0	75.0	+0.125		18.8	6.5	+3.0	+0.02
2014	DEN	12	62	43	489	12	69.4	+0.481	+0.269+0.108 to +0.429	13.1	6.8	+29.9	+0.15
2014 playoffs	DEN	1	7	6	53	0	85.7	+0.263		15.6	8.3	+1.8	+0.02
2015	JAX	12	80	46	455	5	57.5	−0.003	+0.132−0.022 to +0.286	17.8	8.5	−0.2	+0.26
2016	JAX	9	51	30	281	4	58.8	+0.030	+0.155−0.010 to +0.320	13.4	7.1	+1.5	−0.09
2017	MIA	14	62	41	388	3	66.1	−0.070	+0.087−0.074 to +0.247	12.2	7.7	−4.4	−0.25
Career	MIA	65	352	226	2,406	36	64.2	+0.211		13.8	7.5	+74.3	+0.53

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	Forced fumbles
2013 playoffs	DEN	3	2	0
2014	DEN	12	3	0
2016	JAX	9	1	1
2017	MIA	14	2	0
Career	MIA	65	6	1

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
2013	Pro Bowl
2014	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
2016	JAX	9	448	72.4	–	–
2017	MIA	14	631	70.0	–	–

Game logs

2017 game log (14 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
2	2017-09-17	@ LAC	W 19–17	3	3	26	0	+0.3	0
3	2017-09-24	@ NYJ	L 6–20	5	3	16	0	−2.3	0
4	2017-10-01	vs NO	L 0–20	4	2	29	0	−3.7	0
5	2017-10-08	vs TEN	W 16–10	4	1	15	0	−1.2	0
6	2017-10-15	@ ATL	W 20–17	5	3	22	0	−1.2	1
7	2017-10-22	vs NYJ	W 31–28	4	3	58	0	+3.0	0
8	2017-10-26	@ BAL	L 0–40	3	2	2	0	−3.4	0
9	2017-11-05	vs LV	L 24–27	8	6	84	1	+4.4	0
10	2017-11-13	@ CAR	L 21–45	5	2	8	1	−5.2	0
11	2017-11-19	vs TB	L 20–30	4	4	30	0	+1.8	0
12	2017-11-26	@ NE	L 17–35	6	5	52	0	+3.1	0
13	2017-12-03	vs DEN	W 35–9	3	3	20	1	+2.2	0
14	2017-12-11	vs NE	W 27–20	4	2	11	0	−1.7	0
15	2017-12-17	@ BUF	L 16–24	4	2	15	0	−0.4	1

2016 game log (9 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2016-09-11	vs GB	L 23–27	5	5	64	1	+5.6	0
2	2016-09-18	@ LAC	L 14–38	7	4	71	0	+2.3	0
3	2016-09-25	vs BAL	L 17–19	5	2	13	0	−2.6	0
6	2016-10-16	@ CHI	W 17–16	4	2	28	0	−1.1	0
7	2016-10-23	vs LV	L 16–33	7	3	20	1	+0.0	0
8	2016-10-27	@ TEN	L 22–36	6	3	28	1	+2.0	0
9	2016-11-06	@ KC	L 14–19	2	2	21	0	+1.5	0
10	2016-11-13	vs HOU	L 21–24	10	6	24	1	−3.8	0
11	2016-11-20	@ DET	L 19–26	5	3	12	0	−2.4	1

2015 game log (12 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
5	2015-10-11	@ TB	L 31–38	2	2	20	0	+2.2
6	2015-10-18	vs HOU	L 20–31	13	7	78	1	−6.9
7	2015-10-25	vs BUF	W 34–31	5	1	4	0	−2.2
9	2015-11-08	@ NYJ	L 23–28	8	3	14	0	−2.5
10	2015-11-15	@ BAL	W 22–20	5	2	23	0	−0.0
11	2015-11-19	vs TEN	W 19–13	8	5	28	1	−3.2
12	2015-11-29	vs LAC	L 25–31	10	9	116	1	+8.2
13	2015-12-06	@ TEN	L 39–42	5	2	15	1	+0.8
14	2015-12-13	vs IND	W 51–16	7	5	54	1	+4.0
15	2015-12-20	vs ATL	L 17–23	9	6	79	0	+3.0
16	2015-12-27	@ NO	L 27–38	2	2	12	0	+1.1
17	2016-01-03	@ HOU	L 6–30	6	2	12	0	−4.6

2014 game log (13 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2014-09-07	vs IND	W 31–24	8	7	104	3	+12.1	0
2	2014-09-14	vs KC	W 24–17	5	4	39	1	+3.6	0
3	2014-09-21	@ SEA	L 20–26 OT	4	3	17	1	+1.1	0
5	2014-10-05	vs ARI	W 41–20	7	6	66	2	+7.6	0
6	2014-10-12	@ NYJ	W 31–17	6	4	51	2	+5.1	0
7	2014-10-19	vs SF	W 42–17	6	4	27	0	+1.4	0
8	2014-10-23	vs LAC	W 35–21	6	2	23	0	−1.9	0
9	2014-11-02	@ NE	L 21–43	2	2	33	1	+5.0	1
10	2014-11-09	@ LV	W 41–17	7	6	63	2	+2.4	1
11	2014-11-16	@ LA	L 7–22	3	2	3	0	−2.3	0
15	2014-12-14	@ LAC	W 22–10	2	1	30	0	+2.8	0
16	2014-12-22	@ CIN	L 28–37	6	2	33	0	−6.9	1
P19	2015-01-11	vs IND	L 13–24	7	6	53	0	+1.8	0

2013 game log (17 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2013-09-05	vs BAL	W 49–27	7	5	110	2	+7.0	0
2	2013-09-15	@ NYG	W 41–23	9	6	47	1	+2.0	0
3	2013-09-23	vs LV	W 37–21	4	3	37	1	+4.2	0
4	2013-09-29	vs PHI	W 52–20	4	4	43	0	+4.6	0
5	2013-10-06	@ DAL	W 51–48	12	9	122	2	+12.2	0
6	2013-10-13	vs JAX	W 35–19	7	4	22	1	+2.7	0
7	2013-10-20	@ IND	L 33–39	6	5	41	1	+3.6	0
8	2013-10-27	vs WAS	W 45–21	3	3	29	0	+0.9	0
10	2013-11-10	@ LAC	W 28–20	5	3	96	1	+7.4	0
11	2013-11-17	vs KC	W 27–17	5	3	43	1	+2.7	0
14	2013-12-08	vs TEN	W 51–28	7	5	35	1	+1.9	0
15	2013-12-12	vs LAC	L 20–27	8	4	49	0	−3.2	0
16	2013-12-22	@ HOU	W 37–13	8	6	78	1	+0.7	0
17	2013-12-29	@ LV	W 34–14	5	5	36	0	+4.3	0
P19	2014-01-12	vs LAC	W 24–17	7	6	76	0	+2.9	0
P20	2014-01-19	vs NE	W 26–16	11	8	85	0	+3.0	0
P21	2014-02-02	vs SEA	L 8–43	6	4	27	0	−2.9	2

2011 game log (4 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2011-09-12	vs LV	L 20–23	3	0	0	−1.6
2	2011-09-18	vs CIN	W 24–22	1	1	5	+0.1
8	2011-10-30	vs DET	L 10–45	1	0	0	−0.7
9	2011-11-06	@ LV	W 38–24	2	0	0	−1.4