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2025 season · compare · tight ends

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Two or three players of the same position, side by side: where each one grades against the league, where the ball finds each of them, and how their weeks line up.

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Who · up to three, same position groupStart over
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Ja'Tavion SandersTE · Panthers · graded
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Cade StoverTE · Texans · graded
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Where they rank · among 72 tight ends with 15 targets+League percentiles
Ja'Tavion SandersCade Stover
Target shareof team targets
9%40th
9%41st
Depth of targetair yards per target
4.837th
1.95th
After the catchyards per reception
3.08th
4.327th
Catch ratereceptions per target
85%98th
75%63rd
EPA per target
+0.1328th
+0.1431st
First downsper target
24%6th
25%10th
Drop ratedrops per target, lower is better
3%63rd
13%5th
Yards per game
14.633rd
8.410th

Each bar is the league pool; the markers are the players. Right is better, the dashed line is the median. The best value in each row is marked green.

Playstyle · how each is used, against the league's tight endsamong 72 tight ends
Ja'Tavion SandersCade Stover
Ja'TavionStaticDropback targetWorks the middle
CadeStays outsideNot the third-down optionNo screens
Deep sharetargets 20+ yards downfield
0%12th
0%12th
Screensshare of his targets
3%33rd
0%10th
Middle of the fieldtargets between the numbers
38%92nd
10%2nd
After the catchshare of his yards after the catch
45%36th
69%89th
Third-down shareof team targets on 3rd down
8%51st
1%6th
Red-zone shareof team targets inside the 20
13%64th
5%18th
Motiontargets with pre-snap motion
21%1st
62%64th
Play actiontargets off play action
3%1st
52%89th

Every trait is a share of his own targets, so volume does not move it. Each bar is the league's qualifying tight ends; the markers are the players and the thin line is the median. Styles are not grades: a high or low share describes the role, not how well he plays it. The tags are each player's traits furthest from the middle.

The shape · percentile radarBigger and rounder is more complete
Target shareDepthYACCatch rateEPA / tgtFirst downsDropsYds / game
Where he wins · EPA per target by lane and depthSame scale across
Ja'Tavion Sanders
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Cade Stover
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Green cells turn targets into points, red cells lose them. Cells with one target are left grey.

Where the EPA comes from · the season split by what happened on his playsReceiving EPA

Ja'Tavion Sanders gets the most from the ball in the air (−2.3 EPA), he gets the most after the catch (+10.1 EPA), and Ja'Tavion also gives the most back on targets he does not catch (−3.4).

Ja'Tavion Sanders+4.4
Cade Stover+2.2
Air yardsAfter the catchIncompletionsInterceptions
PartJa'TavionCade
Air yardson catches−2.3−0.07 a target · 30th−5.7−0.35 a target · 2nd
After the catch+10.1+0.30 a target · 16th+10.0+0.62 a target · 75th
Incompletionstargets not caught−3.4−0.10 a target · 97th−2.1−0.13 a target · 87th
Interceptionswhen targeted0.00.00 a target · 73rd0.00.00 a target · 73rd
Total+4.434 targets+2.216 targets

Every play is split by what happened: completions at the catch into air yards and yards after the catch (nflverse's air EPA), the cost of the ones that fell incomplete or were picked. Bars share one scale, gains right of the line and losses left. The rate is per target, with its percentile among the league's qualifying tight ends; the best rate in each row is green.

Where the ball finds them · same scale, same fieldloading plays

Ja'Tavion Sanders

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Cade Stover

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Targets placed by air yards and side of the field, from each team's play file.

On one field · every target, same fieldFilled is caught, a ring is not
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Depth butterfly · J.Sanders and C.StoverSolid is caught
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Back to back by depth band. The widest band is where the offense goes to him; the gap between solid and faded is where it misses.

The race · cumulative yardsFlat steps are byes
Week by week · groupedSame Sunday, side by side
The shape of their seasons · each one's last 3 games, week by weekWeeks 1 to 18
Ja'Tavion SandersCade Stover

Targetslast 3 games

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Ja'Tavion 1.3Cade 1.7

Rec yardslast 3 games

538
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Ja'Tavion 4.7Cade 5.3

EPA / targetlast 3 games

-0.24+0.76
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Ja'Tavion +0.17Cade +0.19

aDOTlast 3 games

3.08.7
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Ja'Tavion 2.3Cade 1.4

Each line is a player's trailing 3 games (rates are pooled over the games, not averaged); the faint dots are single games. The shaded band is the league's middle half of single games at the position, the dashed line its median. A line that climbs out of the band is a role getting bigger.

Floor and ceiling · boom, solid or dud, week by weekBoom 38+ · dud under 5
J.Sanders
27Wk 154Wk 211Wk 34Wk 45Wk 56Wk 60Wk 719Wk 85Wk 932Wk 1022Wk 116Wk 120Wk 1314Wk 145Wk 159Wk 160Wk 1718Wk 1819Wk 1920Wk 2021Wk 2122Wk 22
15 ± 15
C.Stover
22Wk 12Wk 23Wk 34Wk 45Wk 56Wk 67Wk 78Wk 89Wk 910Wk 100Wk 110Wk 1216Wk 130Wk 1422Wk 157Wk 160Wk 179Wk 1819Wk 1920Wk 2021Wk 2122Wk 22
8 ± 9

Thresholds are the quartiles of every game week by qualified tight ends this season (1057 player weeks). The right column is the average week and its swing.

Fantasy · points, rank and range, week by week
StandardJ.SandersC.Stover
Points a game1.9TE540.9TE74
Season25.0TE587.9TE86
Most weeks0.2–3.00.0–2.0
Booms · busts0 · 109+ · under 30 · 99+ · under 3
Half PPRJ.SandersC.Stover
Points a game3.0TE471.5TE65
Season39.5TE5213.9TE78
Most weeks0.4–5.10.0–3.2
Booms · busts0 · 912+ · under 40 · 812+ · under 4
PPRJ.SandersC.Stover
Points a game4.2TE432.2TE63
Season54.0TE5019.9TE77
Most weeks0.6–7.40.0–4.4
Booms · busts0 · 915+ · under 50 · 715+ · under 5

Ranks are among players at each one's own position. A missing bar is a week he did not score: a bye or a missed game. The format you pick is remembered on this device.

Week by week · aligned
WeekJ.SandersC.Stover
Wk 12722
Wk 254·
Wk 311·
Wk 70·
Wk 819·
Wk 95·
Wk 1032·
Wk 1122·
Wk 1260
Wk 13016
Wk 14··
Wk 15522
Wk 1697
Wk 17··
Wk 18·9
Season19076

Rows are league weeks, so byes and missed games show as gaps. The best value each week is marked green.

Season stats · side by side, with league rank
SeasonJ.SandersC.Stover
Targets3416
Receptions2912
Yards19076
Touchdowns10
Target share9%44th9%43rd
Depth of target4.846th1.969th
After the catch3.067th4.352nd
Catch rate85%2nd75%26th
EPA per target+0.1352nd+0.1450th
First downs24%68th25%64th
Drop rate3%27th13%69th
Yards per game14.649th8.465th
Careers · receiving yards a game, season by seasonRegular season
Ja'Tavion SandersCade Stover
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20242025*
PlayerGRecYdsTDYds/gBest seasonThis season
Ja'Tavion Sanders2024 to 2025 · 2 seasons2762532219.72024: 34222.8 a game15.8below his career rate
Cade Stover2024 to 2025 · 2 seasons2027209110.52024: 1339.5 a game12.7above his career rate

Regular season only, from each player's career file. * 2025 is through Week 22; its dot is hollow because the season is not over. "This season" compares this year's rate with his earlier seasons. Hover a dot for the season's line.