Rob Gronkowski

TE · NE/TB · 2010–2021

Born May 14, 1989 · College Arizona · Drafted 2010, round 2, pick 42 (NE) · 6-6, 265 lb

Comeback Player of the Year (2014) · 1st-team All-Pro ×4 (2011, 2014, 2015, 2017) · Pro Bowl ×6 (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017)

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	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2011	NE	16	1	2	1	2.00	+1.179		100.0	+1.2	+0.00

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2010	NE	16	59	42	546	10	71.2	+0.744	+0.331+0.169 to +0.493	11.8	9.5	+43.9	+0.53
2010 playoffs	NE	1	6	4	65	0	66.7	+0.395		13.3	6.2	+2.4	+0.02
2011	NE	16	124	90	1,327	17	72.6	+0.783	+0.501+0.360 to +0.641	20.4	9.2	+97.1	+1.67
2011 playoffs	NE	3	23	17	258	3	73.9	+0.730		21.1	12.1	+16.8	+0.11
2012	NE	11	80	55	790	11	68.8	+0.713	+0.369+0.215 to +0.523	18.7	9.9	+57.0	+0.81
2012 playoffs	NE	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	−0.805		2.5	32.0	−0.8	−0.02
2013	NE	7	66	39	592	4	59.1	+0.297	+0.246+0.087 to +0.405	23.7	10.8	+19.6	+0.43
2014	NE	15	131	82	1,124	12	62.6	+0.461	+0.351+0.213 to +0.490	23.0	9.8	+60.3	+0.82
2014 playoffs	NE	3	31	16	204	3	51.6	+0.105		23.0	9.6	+3.3	+0.29
2015	NE	15	120	72	1,176	11	60.0	+0.543	+0.382+0.240 to +0.524	21.1	10.0	+65.2	+1.18
2015 playoffs	NE	2	23	15	227	3	65.2	+0.447		23.7	9.5	+10.3	+0.37
2016	NE	8	38	25	540	3	65.8	+0.926	+0.327+0.157 to +0.498	14.4	13.9	+35.2	+0.45
2017	NE	13	105	69	1,084	8	65.7	+0.700	+0.415+0.269 to +0.561	22.6	11.6	+73.5	+1.53
2017 playoffs	NE	3	27	16	218	3	59.3	+0.357		19.4	12.2	+9.6	+0.26
2018	NE	13	72	47	682	3	65.3	+0.430	+0.309+0.152 to +0.466	16.1	12.4	+31.0	+0.77
2018 playoffs	NE	3	19	13	191	0	68.4	+0.076		15.2	8.9	+1.4	+0.37
2020	TB	16	77	45	623	7	58.4	+0.300	+0.262+0.107 to +0.417	12.7	11.0	+23.1	+0.41
2020 playoffs	TB	4	14	8	110	2	57.1	+0.394		10.4	8.9	+5.5	+0.22
2021	TB	12	89	55	802	6	61.8	+0.368	+0.279+0.128 to +0.430	17.2	10.1	+32.7	+0.80
2021 playoffs	TB	2	17	9	116	1	52.9	−0.057		19.1	11.1	−1.0	−0.03
Career	TB	142	961	621	9,286	92	64.6	+0.560		18.3	10.5	+538.6	+9.41

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
2011	NE	16	2	0
2011 playoffs	NE	3	1	0
2012	NE	11	1	0
2013	NE	7	1	0
2015	NE	15	1	0
2017	NE	13	0	1
2018	NE	13	1	0
2020	TB	16	1	0
Career	TB	142	7	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
2011	1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2012	Pro Bowl
2013	Pro Bowl
2014	Comeback Player of the Year, 1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2015	1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2017	1st-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
2016	NE	8	348	67.4	–	–
2017	NE	14	893	90.4	1	1.4
2017 playoffs	NE	3	173	81.6	–	–
2018	NE	13	826	91.7	2	1.7
2018 playoffs	NE	3	240	97.6	–	–
2020	TB	16	804	77.1	–	–
2020 playoffs	TB	4	219	83.3	–	–
2021	TB	12	622	75.8	–	–
2021 playoffs	TB	2	136	94.4	–	–

Game logs

2021 game log (14 games)

2021 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2021-09-09	vs DAL	W 31–29	8	8	90	2	+8.6
2	2021-09-19	vs ATL	W 48–25	5	4	39	2	+4.9
3	2021-09-26	@ LA	L 24–34	8	4	55	0	−1.6
8	2021-10-31	@ NO	L 27–36	1	0	0	0	−0.8
11	2021-11-22	vs NYG	W 30–10	8	6	71	0	+3.3
12	2021-11-28	@ IND	W 38–31	9	7	123	0	+8.8
13	2021-12-05	@ ATL	W 30–17	8	4	58	2	+3.6
14	2021-12-12	vs BUF	W 33–27 OT	9	5	62	0	+1.0
15	2021-12-19	vs NO	L 0–9	11	2	29	0	−5.7
16	2021-12-26	@ CAR	W 32–6	2	1	23	0	−0.1
17	2022-01-02	@ NYJ	W 28–24	10	7	115	0	+3.5
18	2022-01-09	vs CAR	W 41–17	10	7	137	0	+7.1
P19	2022-01-16	vs PHI	W 31–15	6	5	31	1	+2.0
P20	2022-01-23	vs LA	L 27–30	11	4	85	0	−3.0

2020 game log (20 games)

2020 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2020-09-13	@ NO	L 23–34	3	2	11	0	−0.6	0
2	2020-09-20	vs CAR	W 31–17	1	0	0	0	−7.2	0
3	2020-09-27	@ DEN	W 28–10	7	6	48	0	+3.8	0
4	2020-10-04	vs LAC	W 38–31	3	1	29	0	+1.5	0
5	2020-10-08	@ CHI	L 19–20	6	3	52	0	+2.4	0
6	2020-10-18	vs GB	W 38–10	8	5	78	1	+6.3	0
7	2020-10-25	@ LV	W 45–20	8	5	62	1	+3.8	0
8	2020-11-02	@ NYG	W 25–23	4	4	41	1	+3.7	0
9	2020-11-08	vs NO	L 3–38	6	1	2	0	−7.8	1
10	2020-11-15	@ CAR	W 46–23	3	2	51	1	+6.0	0
11	2020-11-23	vs LA	L 24–27	6	2	25	0	−0.8	0
12	2020-11-29	vs KC	L 24–27	7	6	106	0	+6.1	0
14	2020-12-13	vs MIN	W 26–14	2	1	2	1	−0.6	0
15	2020-12-20	@ ATL	W 31–27	7	3	29	0	−0.3	0
16	2020-12-26	@ DET	W 47–7	2	2	58	2	+6.2	0
17	2021-01-03	vs ATL	W 44–27	4	2	29	0	+0.7	0
P18	2021-01-09	@ WAS	W 31–23	1	0	0	0	−1.3	0
P19	2021-01-17	@ NO	W 30–20	5	1	14	0	−3.4	0
P20	2021-01-24	@ GB	W 31–26	1	1	29	0	+2.5	0
P21	2021-02-07	vs KC	W 31–9	7	6	67	2	+7.7	0

2018 game log (16 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2018-09-09	vs HOU	W 27–20	8	7	123	1	+6.6	0
2	2018-09-16	@ JAX	L 20–31	4	2	15	0	+0.3	0
3	2018-09-23	@ DET	L 10–26	5	4	51	0	+3.0	0
4	2018-09-30	vs MIA	W 38–7	7	4	44	0	+4.5	0
5	2018-10-04	vs IND	W 38–24	7	6	75	0	+1.5	0
6	2018-10-14	vs KC	W 43–40	4	3	97	0	+3.6	0
8	2018-10-29	@ BUF	W 25–6	8	3	43	0	−0.5	0
12	2018-11-25	@ NYJ	W 27–13	7	3	56	1	+2.4	0
13	2018-12-02	vs MIN	W 24–10	4	3	26	0	+0.3	0
14	2018-12-09	@ MIA	L 33–34	8	8	107	1	+12.5	0
15	2018-12-16	@ PIT	L 10–17	5	2	21	0	+1.5	1
16	2018-12-23	vs BUF	W 24–12	3	0	0	0	−7.4	0
17	2018-12-30	vs NYJ	W 38–3	2	2	24	0	+2.6	0
P19	2019-01-13	vs LAC	W 41–28	1	1	25	0	+2.5	0
P20	2019-01-20	@ KC	W 37–31 OT	11	6	79	0	−2.3	0
P21	2019-02-03	@ LA	W 13–3	7	6	87	0	+1.2	0

2017 game log (16 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	PD
1	2017-09-07	vs KC	L 27–42	6	2	33	0	+2.5	0
2	2017-09-17	@ NO	W 36–20	9	6	116	1	+10.6	0
3	2017-09-24	vs HOU	W 36–33	10	8	89	1	+3.3	1
4	2017-10-01	vs CAR	L 30–33	5	4	80	0	+7.6	0
6	2017-10-15	@ NYJ	W 24–17	10	6	83	2	+6.7	0
7	2017-10-22	vs ATL	W 23–7	7	3	51	0	+4.3	0
8	2017-10-29	vs LAC	W 21–13	9	5	57	1	+2.5	0
10	2017-11-12	@ DEN	W 41–16	7	4	74	0	+3.3	0
11	2017-11-19	@ LV	W 33–8	3	3	37	0	+4.4	0
12	2017-11-26	vs MIA	W 35–17	8	5	82	2	+6.8	0
13	2017-12-03	@ BUF	W 23–3	11	9	147	0	+11.9	0
15	2017-12-17	@ PIT	W 27–24	13	9	168	0	+6.6	0
16	2017-12-24	vs BUF	W 37–16	7	5	67	1	+2.7	0
P19	2018-01-13	vs TEN	W 35–14	9	6	81	1	+5.0	0
P20	2018-01-21	vs JAX	W 24–20	3	1	21	0	+0.9	0
P21	2018-02-04	vs PHI	L 33–41	15	9	116	2	+3.7	0

2016 game log (8 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
3	2016-09-22	vs HOU	W 27–0	1	0	0	0	−2.3
4	2016-10-02	vs BUF	L 0–16	2	1	11	0	−1.1
5	2016-10-09	@ CLE	W 33–13	7	5	109	0	+9.8
6	2016-10-16	vs CIN	W 35–17	9	7	162	1	+10.8
7	2016-10-23	@ PIT	W 27–16	4	4	93	1	+10.0
8	2016-10-30	@ BUF	W 41–25	7	5	109	1	+8.5
10	2016-11-13	vs SEA	L 24–31	6	3	56	0	+2.5
12	2016-11-27	@ NYJ	W 22–17	2	0	0	0	−3.0

2015 game log (17 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2015-09-10	vs PIT	W 28–21	8	5	94	3	+8.1	0
2	2015-09-20	@ BUF	W 40–32	13	7	113	1	+7.1	0
3	2015-09-27	vs JAX	W 51–17	7	4	101	0	+4.4	0
5	2015-10-11	@ DAL	W 30–6	5	4	67	0	+5.1	0
6	2015-10-18	@ IND	W 34–27	5	3	50	1	+4.4	0
7	2015-10-25	vs NYJ	W 30–23	16	11	108	1	+3.4	0
8	2015-10-29	vs MIA	W 36–7	9	6	113	1	+5.7	0
9	2015-11-08	vs WAS	W 27–10	5	4	47	0	+4.9	0
10	2015-11-15	@ NYG	W 27–26	7	5	113	1	+6.0	0
11	2015-11-23	vs BUF	W 20–13	7	2	37	0	−0.5	1
12	2015-11-29	@ DEN	L 24–30 OT	10	6	88	1	+5.3	0
14	2015-12-13	@ HOU	W 27–6	4	4	87	1	+7.7	0
15	2015-12-20	vs TEN	W 33–16	11	5	54	1	+2.3	0
16	2015-12-27	@ NYJ	L 20–26 OT	6	4	86	0	+4.3	0
17	2016-01-03	@ MIA	L 10–20	7	2	18	0	−3.0	0
P19	2016-01-16	vs KC	W 27–20	8	7	83	2	+6.7	0
P20	2016-01-24	@ DEN	L 18–20	15	8	144	1	+3.6	0

2014 game log (18 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2014-09-07	@ MIA	L 20–33	11	4	40	1	+0.3
2	2014-09-14	@ MIN	W 30–7	6	4	32	0	+1.2
3	2014-09-21	vs LV	W 16–9	6	3	44	1	+4.9
4	2014-09-29	@ KC	L 14–41	3	2	31	1	+2.5
5	2014-10-05	vs CIN	W 43–17	11	6	100	1	+4.2
6	2014-10-12	@ BUF	W 37–22	9	7	94	0	+6.8
7	2014-10-16	vs NYJ	W 27–25	10	5	68	0	+2.5
8	2014-10-26	vs CHI	W 51–23	9	9	149	3	+17.7
9	2014-11-02	vs DEN	W 43–21	10	9	105	1	+8.6
11	2014-11-16	@ IND	W 42–20	5	4	71	1	+4.4
12	2014-11-23	vs DET	W 34–9	10	5	78	0	−1.5
13	2014-11-30	@ GB	L 21–26	12	7	98	0	+5.5
14	2014-12-07	@ LAC	W 23–14	11	8	87	1	+2.0
15	2014-12-14	vs MIA	W 41–13	8	3	96	1	+3.7
16	2014-12-21	@ NYJ	W 17–16	10	6	31	1	−2.5
P19	2015-01-10	vs BAL	W 35–31	13	7	108	1	+2.1
P20	2015-01-18	vs IND	W 45–7	8	3	28	1	−3.2
P21	2015-02-01	@ SEA	W 28–24	10	6	68	1	+4.4

2013 game log (7 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
7	2013-10-20	@ NYJ	L 27–30 OT	17	8	114	0	−3.4	0
8	2013-10-27	vs MIA	W 27–17	5	2	27	0	−4.5	1
9	2013-11-03	vs PIT	W 55–31	10	9	143	1	+13.0	0
11	2013-11-18	@ CAR	L 20–24	7	5	59	1	+2.7	0
12	2013-11-24	vs DEN	W 34–31 OT	10	7	90	1	+8.4	0
13	2013-12-01	@ HOU	W 34–31	12	6	127	1	+3.1	0
14	2013-12-08	vs CLE	W 27–26	5	2	32	0	+0.3	0

2012 game log (12 games)

2012 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2012-09-09	@ TEN	W 34–13	6	6	60	1	+7.7	0
2	2012-09-16	vs ARI	L 18–20	9	6	75	1	+6.0	0
3	2012-09-23	@ BAL	L 30–31	3	2	21	0	+0.2	0
4	2012-09-30	@ BUF	W 52–28	11	5	104	1	+0.7	1
5	2012-10-07	vs DEN	W 31–21	5	4	35	0	+2.2	0
6	2012-10-14	@ SEA	L 23–24	9	6	61	0	+3.4	0
7	2012-10-21	vs NYJ	W 29–26 OT	9	6	78	2	+7.5	0
8	2012-10-28	@ LA	W 45–7	13	8	146	2	+12.6	0
10	2012-11-11	vs BUF	W 37–31	4	3	31	1	+2.3	0
11	2012-11-18	vs IND	W 59–24	7	7	137	2	+12.9	0
17	2012-12-30	vs MIA	W 28–0	4	2	42	1	+1.5	0
P19	2013-01-13	vs HOU	W 41–28	1	0	0	0	−0.8	0

2011 game log (19 games)

2011 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2011-09-12	@ MIA	W 38–24	0	0	0	0.0	7	6	86	1	+6.6	0
2	2011-09-18	vs LAC	W 35–21	0	0	0	0.0	6	4	86	2	+6.5	0
3	2011-09-25	@ BUF	L 31–34	0	0	0	0.0	9	7	109	2	+6.6	1
4	2011-10-02	@ LV	W 31–19	0	0	0	0.0	5	1	15	0	−0.5	0
5	2011-10-09	vs NYJ	W 30–21	0	0	0	0.0	4	4	31	0	+4.5	0
6	2011-10-16	vs DAL	W 20–16	0	0	0	0.0	7	7	74	0	+6.3	0
8	2011-10-30	@ PIT	L 17–25	0	0	0	0.0	9	7	94	0	+6.6	0
9	2011-11-06	vs NYG	L 20–24	0	0	0	0.0	15	8	101	1	+2.6	1
10	2011-11-13	@ NYJ	W 37–16	0	0	0	0.0	11	8	113	2	+11.2	0
11	2011-11-21	vs KC	W 34–3	0	0	0	0.0	7	4	96	2	+7.2	0
12	2011-11-27	@ PHI	W 38–20	0	0	0	0.0	4	4	59	1	+6.5	0
13	2011-12-04	vs IND	W 31–24	1	2	1	+1.2	6	5	64	2	+7.4	0
14	2011-12-11	@ WAS	W 34–27	0	0	0	0.0	10	6	160	2	+12.5	0
15	2011-12-18	@ DEN	W 41–23	0	0	0	0.0	5	4	53	0	+1.2	0
16	2011-12-24	vs MIA	W 27–24	0	0	0	0.0	9	7	78	0	+3.8	0
17	2012-01-01	vs BUF	W 49–21	0	0	0	0.0	10	8	108	2	+8.0	0
P19	2012-01-14	vs DEN	W 45–10	0	0	0	0.0	12	10	145	3	+11.5	0
P20	2012-01-22	vs BAL	W 23–20	0	0	0	0.0	8	5	87	0	+5.2	0
P21	2012-02-05	vs NYG	L 17–21	0	0	0	0.0	3	2	26	0	+0.0	1

2010 game log (17 games)

2010 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2010-09-12	vs CIN	W 38–24	1	1	1	1	+1.5
2	2010-09-19	@ NYJ	L 14–28	2	1	14	0	+0.9
3	2010-09-26	vs BUF	W 38–30	3	3	43	1	+5.3
4	2010-10-04	@ MIA	W 41–14	1	1	4	0	−0.8
6	2010-10-17	vs BAL	W 23–20 OT	1	1	24	0	+1.8
7	2010-10-24	@ LAC	W 23–20	2	2	10	1	+2.1
8	2010-10-31	vs MIN	W 28–18	3	1	5	0	−1.1
9	2010-11-07	@ CLE	L 14–34	8	4	47	0	−4.8
10	2010-11-14	@ PIT	W 39–26	5	5	72	3	+11.5
11	2010-11-21	vs IND	W 31–28	1	1	25	0	+1.6
12	2010-11-25	@ DET	W 45–24	5	5	65	0	+3.8
13	2010-12-06	vs NYJ	W 45–3	2	1	12	0	+1.1
14	2010-12-12	@ CHI	W 36–7	6	5	43	1	+4.4
15	2010-12-19	vs GB	W 31–27	2	1	25	0	+1.5
16	2010-12-26	@ BUF	W 34–3	7	4	54	2	+6.0
17	2011-01-02	vs MIA	W 38–7	10	6	102	1	+8.9
P19	2011-01-16	vs NYJ	L 21–28	6	4	65	0	+2.4