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The 2012 season is over for the Broncos and many have begun turning to free agency and draft talk but before that happened I wanted to review the Broncos position by position. This is purely looking back on the production of each player in 2012, this is not a discussion about what players I think should stay or go. Instead I want to present the data on the 2012 season before we start making decisions about what should change.
Here's the positions we've already review:
- Quarterbacks
- Running backs
- Wide receivers
Today we'll be reviewing the tight ends.
Basic Info
So in this table we'll be looking at a few topics
- Name of the player
- Their current age
- Games they saw at least one snap
- Snaps played during the 2012 season
- Years left on their contract
*This is a sortable table*
| Name | Age | Snaps | Games | Contract Years Left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreessen, Joel | 30 | 947 | 16 | 2 |
| Green, Virgil | 24 | 183 | 12 | 2 |
| Tamme, Jacob | 27 | 566 | 16 | 2 |
| Thomas, Julius | 24 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Team Totals |
26 | 1698 | 2 |
Receiving Production
So in this table we'll be looking at a few topics
- Name of the player
- Number of times the player was targeted
- Receptions
- Catch percentage, receptions divided by targets
- Receiving yards
- Yards per target
- Drops
- Drop percentage, drops divided by targets
- Tight end rating, the quarterbacks passer rating when targeting the tight end
*This is a sortable table*
| Name | Tar | Rec | Catch% | RecYds | Y/T | TD | Drops | Drop % | TE Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreessen, Joel | 57 | 41 | 71.9% | 356 | 6.3 | 5 | 3 | 5.3% | 117.3 |
| Green, Virgil | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 63 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 110.4 |
| Tamme, Jacob | 80 | 52 | 65.0% | 555 | 6.9 | 2 | 1 | 1.3% | 83.1 |
| Thomas, Julius | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Team Totals |
143 | 98 | 68.5% | 974 | 6.8 | 7 | 4 | 2.8 | 103.9 |
Pass Blocking Production
Here's what's in this table
- Name of the player
- Snaps spent as a pass blocker
- Sacks given up
- Hits given up
- Hurries given up
- Total pressures
- Pure pass rushing productivity, total pressure given up divided by snaps in pass defense turned in a percentage
- Weighted Pass Rushing Productivity, gives more weight to sacks, created by Pro Football Focus
*This is a sortable table*
| Name | Snaps | Sacks | Hits | Hurries | Total Pressures | Pure PRP | Weighted PRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreessen, Joel | 132 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 99.9 | 99.4 |
| Green, Virgil | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 90.9 | 91.7 |
| Tamme, Jacob | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Thomas, Julius | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals |
200 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 98.1 | 98.5 |
Notes
- I excluded fumbles from the tables because the TE's all did such a fantastic job and had zero fumbles
- Dreessen, despite his three drops, was still the most reliable tight end in terms of receiving, though he had fewer total targets than Tamme. He was also a beast in the red zone and on 3rd down
- Green saw his role rise as the season went on and while he only had 6 receptions, his number of snaps were on the increase