Mark Bruener

TE · PIT/HOU · 1999–2006

Born September 16, 1972 · College Washington · Drafted 1995, round 1, pick 27 (PIT) · 6-4, 253 lb

EPA per target by season

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

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
1999	PIT	13	34	18	176	0	52.9	−0.273	+0.042−0.131 to +0.215	7.8	–	−9.3	−0.11
2000	PIT	16	34	17	192	3	50.0	+0.128	+0.056−0.116 to +0.229	8.0	–	+4.3	+0.10
2001	PIT	8	19	12	98	0	63.2	+0.111	+0.032−0.148 to +0.213	8.5	–	+2.1	+0.02
2002	PIT	11	18	13	66	1	72.2	+0.015	+0.022−0.159 to +0.203	4.8	–	+0.3	+0.01
2003	PIT	3	5	2	1	1	40.0	−0.098	+0.025−0.164 to +0.214	4.7	–	−0.5	−0.04
2004	HOU	8	10	4	52	0	40.0	+0.111	+0.074−0.112 to +0.259	4.0	–	+1.1	−0.02
2005	HOU	5	4	2	22	0	50.0	+0.043	+0.057−0.132 to +0.247	2.7	–	+0.2	−0.02
2006	HOU	8	10	9	62	2	90.0	+0.335	+0.020−0.166 to +0.205	4.3	3.6	+3.3	+0.10
Career	HOU	72	134	77	669	7	57.5	+0.012		6.1	3.6	+1.6	+0.04

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
2000	PIT	16	1	–	–	–
2002	PIT	11	2	–	–	–
2004	HOU	8	1	–	–	–
2005	HOU	5	1	–	–	–
2006	HOU	8	2	0	–	–
Career	HOU	72	7	0	0	0

2006 game log (8 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
2	2006-09-17	@ IND	L 24–43	1	1	1	1	+0.9	0
3	2006-09-24	vs WAS	L 15–31	1	1	2	1	+0.7	1
6	2006-10-15	@ DAL	L 6–34	1	1	5	0	−0.1	0
8	2006-10-29	@ TEN	L 22–28	1	1	9	0	+0.7	1
11	2006-11-19	vs BUF	L 21–24	1	1	3	0	−0.2	0
15	2006-12-17	@ NE	L 7–40	1	1	6	0	+0.2	0
16	2006-12-24	vs IND	W 27–24	2	2	26	0	+0.5	0
17	2006-12-31	vs CLE	W 14–6	2	1	10	0	+0.6	0

2005 game log (5 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2005-09-11	@ BUF	L 7–22	1	1	19	+1.3	0
11	2005-11-20	vs KC	L 17–45	1	0	0	−0.4	0
12	2005-11-27	vs LA	L 27–33 OT	1	1	3	−0.2	0
14	2005-12-11	@ TEN	L 10–13	1	0	0	−0.5	0
15	2005-12-18	vs ARI	W 30–19	0	0	0	0.0	1

2004 game log (8 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2004-09-12	vs LAC	L 20–27	1	1	7	+0.4	0
2	2004-09-19	@ DET	L 16–28	1	1	6	+0.3	0
5	2004-10-10	vs MIN	L 28–34 OT	2	1	27	+1.9	0
6	2004-10-17	@ TEN	W 20–10	1	0	0	−0.5	1
10	2004-11-14	@ IND	L 14–49	2	0	0	−0.8	0
11	2004-11-21	vs GB	L 13–16	1	0	0	−0.5	0
12	2004-11-28	vs TEN	W 31–21	1	1	12	+0.7	0
15	2004-12-19	@ CHI	W 24–5	1	0	0	−0.5	0

2003 game log (3 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
12	2003-11-23	@ CLE	W 13–6	1	1	1	1	+1.6
13	2003-11-30	vs CIN	L 20–24	3	1	0	0	−1.6
15	2003-12-14	@ NYJ	L 0–6	1	0	0	0	−0.4

2002 game log (11 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2002-09-09	@ NE	L 14–30	4	4	25	0	+2.5	1
2	2002-09-15	vs LV	L 17–30	1	1	10	0	+0.6	0
4	2002-09-29	vs CLE	W 16–13 OT	2	1	-2	0	−1.4	0
5	2002-10-06	@ NO	L 29–32	4	3	12	0	+0.3	0
6	2002-10-13	@ CIN	W 34–7	1	0	0	0	−1.5	0
7	2002-10-21	vs IND	W 28–10	1	1	8	0	+0.2	0
8	2002-10-27	@ BAL	W 31–18	1	1	4	0	−0.1	0
9	2002-11-03	@ CLE	W 23–20	1	1	1	1	+0.8	0
10	2002-11-10	vs ATL	T 34–34 OT	1	0	0	0	−0.7	0
11	2002-11-17	@ TEN	L 23–31	2	1	8	0	−0.3	0
13	2002-12-01	@ JAX	W 25–23	0	0	0	0	0.0	1

2001 game log (8 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2001-09-09	@ JAX	L 3–21	4	2	4	−1.0
4	2001-10-07	vs CIN	W 16–7	1	1	15	+1.0
5	2001-10-14	@ KC	W 20–17	1	1	6	+0.4
6	2001-10-21	@ TB	W 17–10	3	1	2	−1.1
7	2001-10-29	vs TEN	W 34–7	4	3	36	+2.5
8	2001-11-04	vs BAL	L 10–13	2	1	18	+0.7
9	2001-11-11	@ CLE	W 15–12 OT	2	1	3	−0.9
10	2001-11-18	vs JAX	W 20–7	2	2	14	+0.5

2000 game log (16 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2000-09-03	vs BAL	L 0–16	4	2	27	0	−0.4	0
3	2000-09-17	@ CLE	L 20–23	2	1	5	0	−0.4	0
4	2000-09-24	vs TEN	L 20–23	2	1	4	0	−0.1	0
5	2000-10-01	@ JAX	W 24–13	1	1	5	0	+1.6	0
6	2000-10-08	@ NYJ	W 20–3	1	1	7	0	+1.5	0
7	2000-10-15	vs CIN	W 15–0	1	1	5	0	−0.3	0
8	2000-10-22	vs CLE	W 22–0	1	0	0	0	−0.6	0
9	2000-10-29	@ BAL	W 9–6	1	1	11	0	+0.7	0
10	2000-11-05	@ TEN	L 7–9	2	1	30	1	+3.9	0
11	2000-11-12	vs PHI	L 23–26 OT	2	0	0	0	−1.0	0
12	2000-11-19	vs JAX	L 24–34	2	1	8	0	+0.2	0
13	2000-11-26	@ CIN	W 48–28	3	2	25	1	+4.7	0
14	2000-12-03	vs LV	W 21–20	4	2	11	1	+1.3	0
15	2000-12-10	@ NYG	L 10–30	2	0	0	0	−1.2	0
16	2000-12-16	vs WAS	W 24–3	2	1	21	0	+1.5	1
17	2000-12-24	@ LAC	W 34–21	4	2	33	0	−6.9	0

1999 game log (13 games)

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	1999-09-12	@ CLE	W 43–0	1	0	0	−1.0
2	1999-09-19	@ BAL	W 23–20	3	2	4	−1.1
3	1999-09-26	vs SEA	L 10–29	5	3	25	−1.1
4	1999-10-03	vs JAX	L 3–17	1	1	5	+0.3
5	1999-10-10	@ BUF	L 21–24	2	1	5	−5.4
7	1999-10-25	vs ATL	W 13–9	1	0	0	−0.6
9	1999-11-07	@ SF	W 27–6	3	1	0	−3.9
10	1999-11-14	vs CLE	L 15–16	4	2	20	+0.7
11	1999-11-21	@ TEN	L 10–16	2	0	0	−1.3
12	1999-11-28	vs CIN	L 20–27	3	2	51	+2.8
13	1999-12-02	@ JAX	L 6–20	4	3	27	−0.3
14	1999-12-12	vs BAL	L 24–31	4	2	33	+1.3
15	1999-12-18	@ KC	L 19–35	1	1	6	+0.3