Shaun Alexander

RB · SEA/WAS · 2000–2008

Born August 30, 1977 · College Alabama · Drafted 2000, round 1, pick 19 (SEA) · 5-11, 228 lb

MVP (2005) · Offensive Player of the Year (2005) · 1st-team All-Pro (2005) · 2nd-team All-Pro (2004) · Pro Bowl ×3 (2003, 2004, 2005)

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)
2000	SEA	16	64	313	2	4.89	−0.038	−0.114−0.175 to −0.052	42.0	−2.6	−0.05
2001	SEA	16	309	1,318	14	4.27	−0.066	−0.071−0.123 to −0.018	36.4	−20.6	+0.13
2002	SEA	16	295	1,175	16	3.98	−0.059	−0.065−0.118 to −0.012	33.9	−17.7	−0.23
2003	SEA	16	326	1,435	14	4.40	−0.049	−0.048−0.100 to +0.003	39.6	−16.7	−0.05
2003 playoffs	SEA	1	20	45	3	2.25	+0.028		40.0	+0.6	+0.02
2004	SEA	16	353	1,688	16	4.78	+0.006	−0.026−0.077 to +0.026	41.6	+2.0	+0.18
2004 playoffs	SEA	1	15	40	0	2.67	−0.186		33.3	−2.8	−0.10
2005	SEA	16	370	1,880	27	5.08	+0.132	+0.020−0.031 to +0.071	44.3	+49.6	+0.39
2005 playoffs	SEA	3	60	236	2	3.93	−0.114		41.0	−6.9	−0.15
2006	SEA	10	252	896	7	3.56	−0.138	−0.090−0.144 to −0.036	34.4	−35.4	−0.48
2006 playoffs	SEA	2	50	177	2	3.54	−0.051		38.0	−2.5	+0.03
2007	SEA	13	207	716	4	3.46	−0.141	−0.096−0.151 to −0.040	31.4	−29.6	−0.24
2007 playoffs	SEA	2	24	66	1	2.75	−0.109		32.0	−2.7	+0.04
2008	WAS	4	11	24	0	2.18	−0.645	−0.088−0.152 to −0.024	8.3	−7.7	−0.22
Career	WAS	123	2,187	9,445	100	4.32	−0.035		38.0	−78.8	−0.58

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2000	SEA	16	11	5	41	0	45.5	−0.574	2.2	–	−6.3	+0.02
2001	SEA	16	59	44	343	2	74.6	+0.080	13.1	–	+4.7	−0.06
2002	SEA	16	78	59	460	2	75.6	+0.065	13.5	–	+5.1	+0.05
2003	SEA	16	59	42	295	2	71.2	+0.150	11.4	–	+8.8	+0.08
2003 playoffs	SEA	1	3	1	1	0	33.3	−0.264	7.0	–	−0.8	−0.04
2004	SEA	16	38	23	170	4	60.5	+0.049	7.2	–	+1.9	−0.04
2004 playoffs	SEA	1	1	1	25	0	100.0	+1.404	2.4	–	+1.4	+0.03
2005	SEA	16	29	15	78	1	51.7	−0.252	6.2	–	−7.3	−0.39
2005 playoffs	SEA	3	6	3	2	0	50.0	−0.505	6.1	–	−3.0	−0.05
2006	SEA	10	16	12	48	0	75.0	−0.050	5.1	0.1	−0.8	−0.04
2006 playoffs	SEA	2	3	1	12	0	33.3	−0.235	4.4	0.7	−0.7	−0.05
2007	SEA	13	25	14	76	1	56.0	−0.103	5.4	0.2	−2.6	−0.19
2007 playoffs	SEA	2	4	4	12	0	100.0	−0.409	6.2	0.2	−1.6	−0.01
2008	WAS	4	1	1	9	0	100.0	+0.665	0.8	2.0	+0.7	+0.03
Career	WAS	123	316	215	1,520	12	68.0	+0.013	8.0	0.2	+4.1	−0.55

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	QB hits	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed
2000	SEA	16	1	–	–	–
2001	SEA	16	1	–	–	–
2002	SEA	16	1	–	–	–
2004	SEA	16	1	–	–	–
2005 playoffs	SEA	3	1	–	–	–
Career	WAS	123	4	0	0	0

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
2003	Pro Bowl
2004	2nd-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl
2005	MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, 1st-team All-Pro, Pro Bowl

Game logs

2008 game log (4 games)

2008 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
7	2008-10-19	vs CLE	W 14–11	3	8	−2.0	0	0	0	0.0
8	2008-10-26	@ DET	W 25–17	6	11	−5.1	1	1	9	+0.7
9	2008-11-03	vs PIT	L 6–23	1	4	−0.3	0	0	0	0.0
11	2008-11-16	vs DAL	L 10–14	1	1	−0.4	0	0	0	0.0

2007 game log (15 games)

2007 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2007-09-09	vs TB	W 20–6	27	105	1	−3.3	3	2	12	0	−0.4
2	2007-09-16	@ ARI	L 20–23	18	70	1	−0.4	2	2	5	0	+0.4
3	2007-09-23	vs CIN	W 24–21	21	100	0	+1.5	4	2	8	0	−0.6
4	2007-09-30	@ SF	W 23–3	25	78	0	−7.8	1	1	5	0	+0.2
5	2007-10-07	@ PIT	L 0–21	11	25	0	−3.9	4	3	7	0	−1.0
6	2007-10-14	vs NO	L 17–28	14	35	0	−3.4	1	0	0	0	−0.5
7	2007-10-21	vs LA	W 33–6	19	47	0	−5.8	2	1	18	0	+1.1
9	2007-11-04	@ CLE	L 30–33 OT	14	32	0	−4.3	3	1	1	0	−1.6
13	2007-12-02	@ PHI	W 28–24	20	65	1	−2.2	0	0	0	0	0.0
14	2007-12-09	vs ARI	W 42–21	10	38	0	+0.4	1	0	0	0	−0.9
15	2007-12-16	@ CAR	L 10–13	7	17	0	−1.7	2	1	6	0	−1.0
16	2007-12-23	vs BAL	W 27–6	13	73	0	−0.1	1	1	14	1	+2.4
17	2007-12-30	@ ATL	L 41–44	8	31	1	+1.4	1	0	0	0	−0.7
P18	2008-01-05	vs WAS	W 35–14	15	46	0	−2.6	2	2	-1	0	−1.6
P19	2008-01-12	@ GB	L 20–42	9	20	1	−0.1	2	2	13	0	−0.0

2006 game log (12 games)

2006 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2006-09-10	@ DET	W 9–6	19	51	0	−9.7	2	2	1	−1.2
2	2006-09-17	vs ARI	W 21–10	26	89	1	−2.7	2	1	9	+0.2
3	2006-09-24	vs NYG	W 42–30	20	47	1	−1.5	2	2	12	+1.2
11	2006-11-19	@ SF	L 14–20	17	37	0	−7.8	1	1	2	−0.4
12	2006-11-27	vs GB	W 34–24	40	201	0	+1.9	1	0	0	−0.4
13	2006-12-03	@ DEN	W 23–20	26	90	1	−3.2	1	1	2	−0.2
14	2006-12-10	@ ARI	L 21–27	22	76	0	−6.3	2	2	6	+0.3
15	2006-12-14	vs SF	L 14–24	23	73	1	−4.6	1	0	0	−0.5
16	2006-12-24	vs LAC	L 17–20	31	140	2	+2.6	3	2	2	−1.6
17	2006-12-31	@ TB	W 23–7	28	92	1	−4.1	1	1	14	+1.7
P18	2007-01-06	vs DAL	W 21–20	24	69	0	−2.5	2	0	0	−1.6
P19	2007-01-14	@ CHI	L 24–27 OT	26	108	2	−0.0	1	1	12	+0.9

2005 game log (19 games)

2005 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2005-09-11	@ JAX	L 14–26	14	73	0	−1.2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	2005-09-18	vs ATL	W 21–18	28	144	1	+5.0	3	2	11	0	−0.3	0
3	2005-09-25	vs ARI	W 37–12	22	140	4	+5.3	1	0	0	0	−0.4	0
4	2005-10-02	@ WAS	L 17–20 OT	20	98	1	+1.4	4	1	4	0	−2.6	0
5	2005-10-09	@ LA	W 37–31	25	119	2	+1.9	6	3	16	0	−1.2	0
6	2005-10-16	vs HOU	W 42–10	22	141	4	+13.7	2	1	1	0	−0.4	0
7	2005-10-23	vs DAL	W 13–10	21	61	0	−3.9	2	0	0	0	−2.1	0
9	2005-11-06	@ ARI	W 33–19	23	173	2	+8.8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	2005-11-13	vs LA	W 31–16	33	165	3	+4.2	1	1	9	0	+0.6	0
11	2005-11-20	@ SF	W 27–25	24	115	2	+4.9	2	1	7	0	−1.4	0
12	2005-11-27	vs NYG	W 24–21 OT	31	110	1	−2.5	3	1	4	0	−1.9	0
13	2005-12-05	@ PHI	W 42–0	19	49	2	−0.1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2005-12-11	vs SF	W 41–3	21	108	1	+1.9	4	4	20	0	+0.5	0
15	2005-12-18	@ TEN	W 28–24	26	172	1	+4.5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
16	2005-12-24	vs IND	W 28–13	21	139	2	+8.1	1	1	6	1	+1.9	0
17	2006-01-01	@ GB	L 17–23	20	73	1	−2.6	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
P19	2006-01-14	vs WAS	W 20–10	6	9	0	−6.6	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
P20	2006-01-22	vs CAR	W 34–14	34	132	2	−0.4	2	1	0	0	−1.1	0
P21	2006-02-05	@ PIT	L 10–21	20	95	0	+0.1	4	2	2	0	−2.0	0

2004 game log (17 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2004-09-12	@ NO	W 21–7	28	135	2	+2.1	2	2	31	1	+3.2	0
2	2004-09-19	@ TB	W 10–6	17	45	0	−4.8	1	0	0	0	−0.5	0
3	2004-09-26	vs SF	W 34–0	19	52	2	−2.6	4	4	22	1	+1.7	0
5	2004-10-10	vs LA	L 27–33 OT	23	150	1	+3.1	1	1	4	0	−0.0	0
6	2004-10-17	@ NE	L 20–30	16	77	1	+1.3	5	2	30	0	+0.1	0
7	2004-10-24	@ ARI	L 17–25	12	57	0	−3.2	1	0	0	0	−0.5	1
8	2004-10-31	vs CAR	W 23–17	32	195	1	+3.9	4	3	13	1	+0.8	0
9	2004-11-07	@ SF	W 42–27	26	160	2	+9.6	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	2004-11-14	@ LA	L 12–23	22	176	0	+3.8	2	1	3	0	−1.4	0
11	2004-11-21	vs MIA	W 24–17	29	96	1	−2.1	1	0	0	0	−0.4	0
12	2004-11-28	vs BUF	L 9–38	13	39	0	−3.8	1	0	0	0	−0.4	0
13	2004-12-06	vs DAL	L 39–43	21	83	2	−3.2	6	3	21	0	−1.7	0
14	2004-12-12	@ MIN	W 27–23	27	112	0	−2.5	2	1	12	1	+1.4	0
15	2004-12-19	@ NYJ	L 14–37	19	77	0	−4.5	5	4	19	0	−0.1	0
16	2004-12-26	vs ARI	W 24–21	30	154	3	+4.3	1	0	0	0	−1.3	0
17	2005-01-02	vs ATL	W 28–26	19	80	1	+0.4	2	2	15	0	+1.0	0
P18	2005-01-08	vs LA	L 20–27	15	40	0	−2.8	1	1	25	0	+1.4	0

2003 game log (17 games)

2003 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2003-09-07	vs NO	W 27–10	24	108	1	−0.0	3	2	16	1	+1.8
2	2003-09-14	@ ARI	W 38–0	13	51	1	−0.8	2	2	11	0	−1.0
3	2003-09-21	vs LA	W 24–23	14	58	0	−1.3	3	3	8	0	−0.5
5	2003-10-05	@ GB	L 13–35	20	102	1	+0.2	5	3	13	0	−2.3
6	2003-10-12	vs SF	W 20–19	22	77	0	−4.1	5	3	46	0	+4.4
7	2003-10-19	vs CHI	W 24–17	21	101	2	−1.2	4	4	21	0	+0.3
8	2003-10-26	@ CIN	L 24–27	20	86	0	−0.1	9	7	52	1	+5.0
9	2003-11-02	vs PIT	W 23–16	20	48	1	−5.5	3	3	19	0	+1.2
10	2003-11-09	@ WAS	L 20–27	22	94	1	+1.0	1	0	0	0	−0.2
11	2003-11-16	vs DET	W 35–14	20	110	1	+2.8	7	5	27	0	−1.1
12	2003-11-23	@ BAL	L 41–44 OT	22	72	0	−4.6	2	1	0	0	−1.0
13	2003-11-30	vs CLE	W 34–7	27	127	1	−2.7	3	2	10	0	−0.4
14	2003-12-07	@ MIN	L 7–34	14	56	1	−4.7	3	1	8	0	−0.5
15	2003-12-14	@ LA	L 22–27	25	126	1	+2.9	3	2	8	0	−0.6
16	2003-12-21	vs ARI	W 28–10	21	135	2	+1.1	2	1	7	0	+0.6
17	2003-12-27	@ SF	W 24–17	21	84	1	+0.4	4	3	49	0	+3.1
P18	2004-01-04	@ GB	L 27–33 OT	20	45	3	+0.6	3	1	1	0	−0.8

2002 game log (16 games)

2002 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2002-09-08	@ LV	L 17–31	13	36	0	−3.9	6	6	36	1	+3.5	0
2	2002-09-15	vs ARI	L 13–24	17	37	0	−6.6	6	6	46	0	−0.3	0
3	2002-09-22	@ NYG	L 6–9	14	37	0	−5.5	3	2	8	0	−1.5	0
4	2002-09-29	vs MIN	W 48–23	24	139	4	+5.3	5	3	92	1	+5.1	0
6	2002-10-14	vs SF	L 21–28	25	96	1	−0.5	5	4	25	0	+0.5	1
7	2002-10-20	@ LA	L 20–37	12	30	0	−4.2	4	1	16	0	+0.5	0
8	2002-10-27	@ DAL	W 17–14	23	58	2	+0.6	8	7	38	0	−0.3	0
9	2002-11-03	vs WAS	L 3–14	19	67	0	−1.8	9	8	48	0	+0.6	0
10	2002-11-10	@ ARI	W 27–6	12	42	2	+3.0	3	1	2	0	−1.7	0
11	2002-11-17	vs DEN	L 9–31	11	18	0	−4.3	8	6	23	0	−4.3	0
12	2002-11-24	vs KC	W 39–32	23	145	2	+5.8	2	1	6	0	−1.3	0
13	2002-12-01	@ SF	L 24–31	16	74	0	−2.1	10	8	77	0	+5.2	0
14	2002-12-08	vs PHI	L 20–27	17	123	0	+3.9	3	3	8	0	−0.6	0
15	2002-12-15	@ ATL	W 30–24 OT	28	127	2	−8.6	1	1	15	0	−0.0	0
16	2002-12-22	vs LA	W 30–10	26	79	2	−1.4	2	1	6	0	−0.6	0
17	2002-12-29	@ LAC	W 31–28 OT	15	67	1	+2.5	3	1	14	0	+0.3	0

2001 game log (16 games)

2001 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2001-09-09	@ CLE	W 9–6	4	3	0	−1.8	1	0	0	0	−0.9	0
2	2001-09-23	vs PHI	L 3–27	3	6	0	−0.5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	2001-09-30	@ LV	L 14–38	10	18	1	−10.4	8	7	66	0	+2.8	0
4	2001-10-07	vs JAX	W 24–15	31	176	2	+5.0	4	2	15	0	−3.0	0
5	2001-10-14	vs DEN	W 34–21	33	142	2	+0.2	3	2	24	0	+1.1	1
7	2001-10-28	vs MIA	L 20–24	23	87	0	−10.7	2	1	9	0	+0.1	0
8	2001-11-04	@ WAS	L 14–27	13	60	1	+0.0	5	4	42	0	+2.3	0
9	2001-11-11	vs LV	W 34–27	35	266	3	+13.6	1	1	7	0	+0.2	0
10	2001-11-18	@ BUF	W 23–20	25	93	1	−1.0	4	4	15	0	+0.2	0
11	2001-11-25	@ KC	L 7–19	13	43	0	−0.6	8	6	62	1	+2.6	0
12	2001-12-02	vs LAC	W 13–10 OT	29	87	1	−4.4	6	4	14	0	−2.5	0
13	2001-12-09	@ DEN	L 7–20	12	28	0	−2.1	3	2	4	0	−2.0	0
14	2001-12-16	vs DAL	W 29–3	7	27	1	+1.2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
15	2001-12-23	@ NYG	L 24–27	28	96	1	−4.5	5	3	36	1	+4.2	0
16	2001-12-30	@ LAC	W 25–22	23	59	0	−6.2	2	2	18	0	+0.4	0
17	2002-01-06	vs KC	W 21–18	20	127	1	+1.6	7	6	31	0	−0.8	0

2000 game log (16 games)

2000 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2000-09-03	@ MIA	L 0–23	2	5	0	−0.6	2	0	0	−3.2	0
2	2000-09-10	vs LA	L 34–37	3	18	0	+2.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	2000-09-17	vs NO	W 20–10	5	19	0	−0.5	2	2	21	+2.0	0
4	2000-09-24	@ LAC	W 20–12	3	19	0	+2.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	2000-10-02	@ KC	L 17–24	11	74	1	+0.6	3	2	13	+0.7	0
6	2000-10-08	@ CAR	L 3–26	1	0	0	−3.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	2000-10-15	vs IND	L 24–37	5	20	0	−0.1	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2000-10-22	@ LV	L 3–31	9	29	0	−0.3	1	0	0	−1.7	0
9	2000-10-29	vs KC	L 19–24	4	53	0	+0.1	2	1	7	−1.0	1
10	2000-11-05	vs LAC	W 17–15	4	-5	0	−3.0	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	2000-11-12	@ JAX	W 28–21	3	13	0	+1.6	0	0	0	0.0	0
13	2000-11-26	vs DEN	L 31–38	3	1	0	−4.7	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2000-12-03	@ ATL	W 30–10	3	5	0	−2.6	0	0	0	0.0	0
15	2000-12-10	@ DEN	L 24–31	1	16	0	+1.6	1	0	0	−3.1	0
16	2000-12-16	vs LV	W 27–24	2	4	1	+1.4	0	0	0	0.0	0
17	2000-12-23	vs BUF	L 23–42	5	42	0	+3.1	0	0	0	0.0	0