2026
2026 season · WR · #14 · 3rd season
Devaughn Vele
Age 28 · 6'5" · 210 lb · Utah · Pick 235 overall (2024). Listed WR2 on the 3WR 1TE depth chart. Snap share 92% across 7 games.
- How goodVele's +22.1 EPA is 16th of 99 wide receivers.
- Where it comes fromThe biggest share comes in the air (+22.9, 64th percentile per target).
- Fantasy7.5 standard points a game, WR34 of 171.9.9 half-PPR points a game, WR32 of 171.12.3 PPR points a game, WR28 of 171.
- How he's usedHe is a straight-dropback target: 6% of his targets come off play action (league 16%).
- LatelyTargets are steady: 5.7 a game over his last three against 6.9 for the season.
- This weekWeek 8 is the bye.
How good is hehis line against the league at his position
| Stat | Value | Rank | League | Pctl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target shareof team targets | 19% | 44th of 99 | 56th | |
| Depth of targetair yards per target | 9.9 | 70th of 99 | 30th | |
| After the catchyards per reception | 3.0 | 74th of 99 | 26th | |
| Catch ratereceptions per target | 69% | 32nd of 99 | 68th | |
| EPA per target | +0.46 | 25th of 99 | 75th |
| Stat | Value | Rank | League | Pctl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First downsper target | 40% | 40th of 99 | 60th | |
| Drop ratedrops per target, lower is better | 2% | 29th of 99 | 71st | |
| Yards per game | 49.7 | 36th of 99 | 64th | |
| Success rate | 58% | T-18th of 99 | 81st | |
| Total EPA | +22.1 | 16th of 99 | 84th |
How this is measured
Each bar is the league at his position; the marker is him. Right is better, the dashed line is the median. Ranks are out of the qualifying pool, ties shown as T-, and move every week as the pool changes.
Vele scores 7.5 standard points a game, WR34 of 171 WRs with enough games. Most weeks land between 4.0 and 11.4; 1 boom week (12+) and 3 busts (under 5). Next up, in Week 9, the Browns allow the 14th-fewest standard points to WRs, 18.9 a game.
Vele scores 9.9 half-PPR points a game, WR32 of 171 WRs with enough games. Most weeks land between 5.5 and 14.3; 1 boom week (16+) and 3 busts (under 6.5). Next up, in Week 9, the Browns allow the 12th-fewest half-PPR points to WRs, 24.1 a game.
Vele scores 12.3 PPR points a game, WR28 of 171 WRs with enough games. Most weeks land between 7.0 and 17.2; 0 boom weeks (20+) and 3 busts (under 8). Next up, in Week 9, the Browns allow the 12th-fewest PPR points to WRs, 29.3 a game.
How this is measured
Fantasy points are nflverse's standard and full-PPR scoring (6 points for a rushing or receiving touchdown, 4 for a passing touchdown, minus 2 for an interception or a lost fumble); half PPR is the average of the two. Ranks are points a game among players at his position with at least half the most games played. Most weeks is his 20th to 80th percentile game. Bars are green on a boom week and red on a bust; the dashed line is the starter line, the points a game of the WR24 in a 12-team league. The format you pick is remembered on this device.
How he's usedhis fingerprint, where the ball finds him and when
He is a straight-dropback target: 6% of his targets come off play action (league 16%). Screens are not part of his role: 0% of his targets (league 4%). His share of the team's targets is 18%: on third down it climbs to 25%; inside the 20 it holds at 20%. He lives outside the numbers: only 15% of his targets come over the middle (league 21%).
How this is measured
Every trait is a share of his own targets, so volume does not move it. The marker is him among the league's qualifying wide receivers; the dashed line is the median. Styles are not grades: a high or low percentile is a description, not a verdict. Play action, screen, RPO, motion and blitz flags come from FTN charting and read low in a week it has not published.
Vele's +22.1 EPA is 16th of 99 wide receivers. The biggest share comes in the air (+22.9, 64th percentile per target).
career +0.55 over 2024–2025 · his 2nd best of 3
How this is measured
Every target this season, split by what happened. Catches divide at the catch: the yards in the air and what came after. The percentile is him among the qualifying wide receivers, higher is better, so a cost smaller than most ranks high. The parts add up to the totals above; the career strip counts seasons with at least 15 targets.
He is targeted short left 2.3× as often as the league (42% of his targets against 18%) and gains +0.61 EPA a target there.
How this is measured
Every target with a charted depth and direction this season; sacks and throws with no charted direction are left out. Left and right are as the offense sees the field. Cells with fewer than three targets show no EPA.
On the field
By depth of target
Who he works withthe connection, and the rest of the huddle
By depth
Week by weekthe shape of his season, the game log and the defenses behind it
The game
vs BrownsCaesars Superdome
NO −2.5 · O/U 43.5
The defense vs WR
a middle-of-the-pack matchup
His history
First meeting this season
His status
Week 8 is the bye. A middle-of-the-pack matchup: the Browns rank 16th vs WR, allowing +0.25 EPA per target to wide receivers. He has averaged 54 yards a game against middle defenses this season.
| Wk | Opponent | Defense | Snap | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at DET L 30-3124th D | 24th vs WR | 91% | 9 | 7 | 69 | 1 | +4.9 |
| 2 | at BAL W 24-1728th D | 28th vs WR | 96% | 7 | 5 | 64 | +5.4 | |
| 3 | vs LV L 27-3529th D | 29th vs WR | 88% | 6 | 3 | 39 | -0.1 | |
| 4 | vs ATL L 24-4519th D | 19th vs WR | 89% | 9 | 6 | 54 | 1 | +4.0 |
| 5 | vs MIN L 13-239th D | 9th vs WR | 96% | 6 | 4 | 26 | +0.3 | |
| 6 | at NYG W 34-277th D | 7th vs WR | 92% | 6 | 3 | 42 | -0.6 | |
| 7 | vs PIT L 10-168th D | 8th vs WR | 89% | 5 | 5 | 54 | 1 | +8.3 |
| 8 | Bye week | |||||||
| 9 | vs CLESun Nov 8 · next up | |||||||
| 10 | vs CARSun Nov 15 | |||||||
| 11 | at CHISun Nov 22 | |||||||
| 12 | at CINSun Nov 29 | |||||||
| 13 | vs GBSun Dec 6 | |||||||
| 14 | at CARSun Dec 13 | |||||||
| 15 | at TBSun Dec 20 | |||||||
| 16 | vs ARISun Dec 27 | |||||||
| 17 | at ATLSun Jan 3 | |||||||
| 18 | vs TBSun Jan 10 | |||||||
| 7 games | 92% | 48 | 33 | 348 | 3 | +22.1 |
| Wk | Opponent | Defense | Tgt share | Air share | aDOT | YAC | EPA/tgt | 1D | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at DET L 30-3124th D | 24th vs WR | 17% | 13% | 7.0 | 18 | +0.54 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | at BAL W 24-1728th D | 28th vs WR | 22% | 32% | 9.9 | 13 | +0.78 | 3 | |
| 3 | vs LV L 27-3529th D | 29th vs WR | 15% | 30% | 15.7 | 12 | -0.02 | 3 | |
| 4 | vs ATL L 24-4519th D | 19th vs WR | 19% | 19% | 10.0 | 7 | +0.44 | 3 | |
| 5 | vs MIN L 13-239th D | 9th vs WR | 25% | 26% | 6.5 | 9 | +0.06 | 2 | |
| 6 | at NYG W 34-277th D | 7th vs WR | 20% | 48% | 14.7 | 18 | -0.10 | 1 | |
| 7 | vs PIT L 10-168th D | 8th vs WR | 13% | 20% | 6.6 | 21 | +1.65 | 4 | |
| 8 | Bye week | ||||||||
| 9 | vs CLESun Nov 8 · next up | ||||||||
| 10 | vs CARSun Nov 15 | ||||||||
| 11 | at CHISun Nov 22 | ||||||||
| 12 | at CINSun Nov 29 | ||||||||
| 13 | vs GBSun Dec 6 | ||||||||
| 14 | at CARSun Dec 13 | ||||||||
| 15 | at TBSun Dec 20 | ||||||||
| 16 | vs ARISun Dec 27 | ||||||||
| 17 | at ATLSun Jan 3 | ||||||||
| 18 | vs TBSun Jan 10 | ||||||||
| 7 games | 19% | 27% | 9.9 | 98 | +0.46 | 19 | 1 |
| Wk | Opponent | Defense | Rec | Yds | Y/R | TD | 20+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at DET L 30-3124th D | 24th vs WR | 7 | 69 | 9.9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | at BAL W 24-1728th D | 28th vs WR | 5 | 64 | 12.8 | 1 | |
| 3 | vs LV L 27-3529th D | 29th vs WR | 3 | 39 | 13.0 | ||
| 4 | vs ATL L 24-4519th D | 19th vs WR | 6 | 54 | 9.0 | 1 | |
| 5 | vs MIN L 13-239th D | 9th vs WR | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | ||
| 6 | at NYG W 34-277th D | 7th vs WR | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | ||
| 7 | vs PIT L 10-168th D | 8th vs WR | 5 | 54 | 10.8 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Bye week | ||||||
| 9 | vs CLESun Nov 8 · next up | ||||||
| 10 | vs CARSun Nov 15 | ||||||
| 11 | at CHISun Nov 22 | ||||||
| 12 | at CINSun Nov 29 | ||||||
| 13 | vs GBSun Dec 6 | ||||||
| 14 | at CARSun Dec 13 | ||||||
| 15 | at TBSun Dec 20 | ||||||
| 16 | vs ARISun Dec 27 | ||||||
| 17 | at ATLSun Jan 3 | ||||||
| 18 | vs TBSun Jan 10 | ||||||
| 7 games | 33 | 348 | 10.5 | 3 | 3 |
Targets are steady: 5.7 a game over his last three against 6.9 for the season. At or above a starter's median in yards in 6 of 7 games.
How this is measured
Bars are his week. The shaded band is the league's middle half at his position, every qualifying player-game this season, and the dashed line is its median. The solid line is his trailing three games. An × on the baseline is a game his team played without him; a dotted tick is the bye.
He has faced the 21st-toughest slate vs WR: his opponents rank 17.7 of 32 on average (league middle 16.4). Ahead: 5 of his next 10 are top-10 vs WR and 1 is bottom-10, starting with the Browns (16th) in Week 9.
The slate · played solid, ahead dashed
His line by defense faced
| Defenses | G | Tgt/g | Yds/g | EPA/tgt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ranked 1 to 10Top-10 defenses | 3 | 5.7 | 41 | +0.47 |
| 11 to 22Middle | 1 | 9.0 | 54 | +0.44 |
| 23 to 32Bottom-10 | 3 | 7.3 | 57 | +0.46 |
| All games | 7 | 6.9 | 50 | +0.46 |
Yards against the rank of the defense
How this is measured
His yards climb as the defense gets softer (r = 0.46): the schedule has been doing some of the work.
Careerseason by season, back to his rookie year
His best year was 2024, 475 receiving yards in 13 games with DEN. This season's 49.7 a game puts him on pace for 845 over 17, a career high.
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Y/R | Yds/g | EPA/tgt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | DEN | 13 | 55 | 41 | 475 | 3 | 11.6 | 36.5 | +0.64 |
| 2025 | NO | 9 | 39 | 25 | 293 | 2 | 11.7 | 32.6 | +0.43 |
| 2026 | NO | 7 | 48 | 33 | 348 | 3 | 10.5 | 49.7 | +0.46 |
| Career | 2 tm | 29 | 142 | 99 | 1,116 | 8 | 11.3 | 38.5 | +0.52 |
How this is measured
Regular season only, from nflverse weekly stats back to 1999. This season is partial and drawn hollow; the pace is his per-game rate over 17 games. Bold cells are career highs.
Intel & playsthe report, his best snaps, his teammates
- Depth chart
- WR2 · 3WR 1TE
- Injury report
- clean
- Red zone touches
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- Third down
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- Explosive plays
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- Drops
- 1 on 48 targets
- Broken tackles
- 3
- Passer rating when targeted
- 103.7
- Play action
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- Contested
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| Player | Touches | Yds | EPA |
|---|---|---|---|
 Chris OlaveWR | 71 | 636 · 2 TD | +37.5 |
 Kendre MillerRB | 70 | 196 · 2 TD | -20.4 |
 Alvin KamaraRB | 68 | 258 · 3 TD | -6.6 |
 Travis EtienneRB | 43 | 179 | -0.6 |
 Juwan JohnsonTE | 37 | 255 · 3 TD | +7.5 |
 Tyler ShoughQB | 24 | 111 · 2 TD | +8.0 |
 CJ DonaldsonRB | 23 | 91 | -4.1 |
 Bryce LanceWR | 22 | 78 · 1 TD | -13.1 |