Russell Shepard

WR · TB/CAR/NYG · 2013–2019

Born September 17, 1990 · College LSU · Undrafted · 6-0, 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	YPC	EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2016	TB	13	1	9	9.00	+0.733	100.0	+0.7	+0.01
2017	CAR	14	2	19	9.50	+0.582	100.0	+1.2	+0.04
Career	NYG	66	3	28	9.33	+0.632	100.0	+1.9	+0.05

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Stabilised EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2014	TB	12	8	4	63	0	50.0	+0.358	−0.027−0.215 to +0.161	2.0	15.9	+2.9	+0.10
2015	TB	11	9	3	28	1	33.3	+0.051	−0.032−0.220 to +0.156	2.4	15.0	+0.5	+0.05
2016	TB	13	40	23	341	2	57.5	+0.377	+0.162−0.013 to +0.336	8.8	13.7	+15.1	+0.32
2017	CAR	14	32	17	202	1	53.1	+0.121	+0.071−0.107 to +0.248	7.3	8.3	+3.9	−0.03
2017 playoffs	CAR	1	2	0	0	0	0.0	−0.340		5.3	22.0	−0.7	−0.01
2018	NYG	8	19	10	188	2	52.6	+0.356	+0.117−0.066 to +0.300	6.7	17.5	+6.8	+0.41
2019	NYG	2	8	3	25	0	37.5	−0.415	+0.001−0.187 to +0.189	10.0	9.0	−3.3	−0.08
Career	NYG	66	116	60	847	6	51.7	+0.221		5.3	12.8	+25.7	+0.76

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	TB	6	6	1
2014	TB	12	14	0
2015	TB	11	10	0
2016	TB	13	2	0
2017	CAR	14	7	1
2018	NYG	8	8	0
Career	NYG	66	47	2

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	TB	14	431	44.9	–	–
2017	CAR	15	472	48.0	–	–
2017 playoffs	CAR	1	22	29.7	–	–
2018	NYG	11	177	25.5	1	1.5
2019	NYG	3	73	37.1	–	–

Game logs

2019 game log (2 games)

2019 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
2	2019-09-15	vs BUF	L 14–28	3	2	19	0	−0.6
3	2019-09-22	@ TB	W 32–31	5	1	6	0	−2.7

2018 game log (8 games)

2018 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
2	2018-09-16	@ DAL	L 13–20	1	0	0	0	−0.9	0
4	2018-09-30	vs NO	L 18–33	3	1	9	0	−0.5	1
5	2018-10-07	@ CAR	L 31–33	4	3	52	0	+1.8	0
11	2018-11-18	vs TB	W 38–35	0	0	0	0	0.0	3
12	2018-11-25	@ PHI	L 22–25	1	1	29	0	+3.2	0
13	2018-12-02	vs CHI	W 30–27 OT	2	2	59	1	+5.7	0
14	2018-12-09	@ WAS	W 40–16	4	1	11	1	−1.8	3
15	2018-12-16	vs TEN	L 0–17	4	2	28	0	−0.7	1

2017 game log (15 games)

2017 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2017-09-10	@ SF	W 23–3	0	0	0.0	2	2	53	1	+6.0	0
2	2017-09-17	vs BUF	W 9–3	0	0	0.0	2	1	6	0	−0.6	0
3	2017-09-24	vs NO	L 13–34	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	−0.6	0
4	2017-10-01	@ NE	W 33–30	0	0	0.0	1	1	13	0	+1.4	0
5	2017-10-08	@ DET	W 27–24	0	0	0.0	2	2	15	0	−1.2	1
6	2017-10-12	vs PHI	L 23–28	0	0	0.0	6	2	12	0	−3.5	0
7	2017-10-22	@ CHI	L 3–17	0	0	0.0	3	2	20	0	+0.8	0
8	2017-10-29	@ TB	W 17–3	0	0	0.0	1	1	14	0	+2.4	2
9	2017-11-05	vs ATL	W 20–17	1	11	+0.6	2	0	0	0	−2.9	0
10	2017-11-13	vs MIA	W 45–21	0	0	0.0	7	3	40	0	+1.3	0
12	2017-11-26	@ NYJ	W 35–27	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
13	2017-12-03	@ NO	L 21–31	0	0	0.0	5	3	29	0	+0.8	0
14	2017-12-10	vs MIN	W 31–24	1	8	+0.6	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
17	2017-12-31	@ ATL	L 10–22	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2
P18	2018-01-07	@ NO	L 26–31	0	0	0.0	2	0	0	0	−0.7	0

2016 game log (13 games)

2016 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2016-09-11	@ ATL	W 31–24	1	9	+0.7	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2016-09-18	@ ARI	L 7–40	0	0	0.0	2	2	16	0	+0.9	0
3	2016-09-25	vs LA	L 32–37	0	0	0.0	2	1	6	0	+0.3	0
5	2016-10-10	@ CAR	W 17–14	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
7	2016-10-23	@ SF	W 34–17	0	0	0.0	6	5	77	1	+9.4	0
8	2016-10-30	vs LV	L 24–30 OT	0	0	0.0	3	2	24	1	+1.4	1
11	2016-11-20	@ KC	W 19–17	0	0	0.0	4	3	54	0	+4.6	0
12	2016-11-27	vs SEA	W 14–5	0	0	0.0	3	2	23	0	+0.6	0
13	2016-12-04	@ LAC	W 28–21	0	0	0.0	2	1	15	0	−0.5	0
14	2016-12-11	vs NO	W 16–11	0	0	0.0	3	1	17	0	−1.0	0
15	2016-12-18	@ DAL	L 20–26	0	0	0.0	3	1	19	0	+0.5	0
16	2016-12-24	@ NO	L 24–31	0	0	0.0	5	3	61	0	+1.5	0
17	2017-01-01	vs CAR	W 17–16	0	0	0.0	7	2	29	0	−2.7	0

2015 game log (11 games)

2015 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2015-09-13	vs TEN	L 14–42	1	1	6	0	+0.7	0
2	2015-09-20	@ NO	W 26–19	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
3	2015-09-27	@ HOU	L 9–19	1	0	0	0	−0.7	1
8	2015-11-01	@ ATL	W 23–20 OT	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
9	2015-11-08	vs NYG	L 18–32	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
10	2015-11-15	vs DAL	W 10–6	2	0	0	0	−1.4	1
11	2015-11-22	@ PHI	W 45–17	1	1	4	1	+2.6	1
14	2015-12-13	vs NO	L 17–24	0	0	0	0	0.0	2
15	2015-12-17	@ LA	L 23–31	2	0	0	0	−1.4	1
16	2015-12-27	vs CHI	L 21–26	1	1	18	0	+1.6	0
17	2016-01-03	@ CAR	L 10–38	1	0	0	0	−1.0	1

2014 game log (12 games)

2014 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2014-09-07	vs CAR	L 14–20	0	0	0	0.0	1
2	2014-09-14	vs LA	L 17–19	0	0	0	0.0	1
3	2014-09-18	@ ATL	L 14–56	0	0	0	0.0	1
4	2014-09-28	@ PIT	W 27–24	2	2	30	+2.7	0
5	2014-10-05	@ NO	L 31–37 OT	0	0	0	0.0	1
6	2014-10-12	vs BAL	L 17–48	0	0	0	0.0	2
10	2014-11-09	vs ATL	L 17–27	0	0	0	0.0	2
12	2014-11-23	@ CHI	L 13–21	0	0	0	0.0	1
13	2014-11-30	vs CIN	L 13–14	0	0	0	0.0	2
15	2014-12-14	@ CAR	L 17–19	3	1	23	+1.1	0
16	2014-12-21	vs GB	L 3–20	1	0	0	−0.4	2
17	2014-12-28	vs NO	L 20–23	2	1	10	−0.6	1

2013 game log (6 games)

2013 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Tackles
1	2013-09-08	@ NYJ	L 17–18	1
8	2013-10-24	vs CAR	L 13–31	1
9	2013-11-03	@ SEA	L 24–27 OT	1
10	2013-11-11	vs MIA	W 22–19	1
11	2013-11-17	vs ATL	W 41–28	1
12	2013-11-24	@ DET	W 24–21	1