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Receiving Catch Rates - Passing Downs vs Standard Downs

jgisland

jgisland

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The guys over at footballstudyhall.com put together some great data for the last 7 years on DI receiver catch rates, % targeted and all of this broken down into Passing Downs vs Standard Downs. It is very difficult to sort though so I parsed just the CU data from last year and included it below. Here is the original article explaning it all. I can add previous CU years if anybody want to take a look at the breakdown.

ALL PASSES
STANDARD DOWNS
PASSING DOWNS
Year
Team
Player
Targets
Catches
Yards
CatchRate
YdsPerTarget
Target %
YdsPerCatch
Targets
Catches
Yards
CatchRate
YdsPerTarget
Target %
YdsPerCatch
Targets
Catches
Yards
CatchRate
YdsPerTarget
Target %
YdsPerCatch
2011
Colorado
Toney Clemons
79
43
680
54.4%
8.6
18.8%
15.8
38
21
350
55.3%
9.2
17.7%
16.7
41
22
330
53.7%
8.0
19.9%
15.0
2011
Colorado
Paul Richardson
74
40
569
54.1%
7.7
17.6%
14.2
46
26
335
56.5%
7.3
21.4%
12.9
28
14
234
50.0%
8.4
13.6%
16.7
2011
Colorado
Rodney Stewart
71
45
571
63.4%
8.0
16.9%
12.7
33
23
222
69.7%
6.7
15.3%
9.7
38
22
349
57.9%
9.2
18.4%
15.9
2011
Colorado
Ryan Deehan
38
24
322
63.2%
8.5
9.0%
13.4
20
16
191
80.0%
9.6
9.3%
11.9
18
8
131
44.4%
7.3
8.7%
16.4
2011
Colorado
Tony Jones
33
27
168
81.8%
5.1
7.8%
6.2
16
13
66
81.3%
4.1
7.4%
5.1
17
14
102
82.4%
6.0
8.3%
7.3
2011
Colorado
Logan Gray
31
18
300
58.1%
9.7
7.4%
16.7
11
8
73
72.7%
6.6
5.1%
9.1
20
10
227
50.0%
11.4
9.7%
22.7
2011
Colorado
Keenan Canty
31
14
161
45.2%
5.2
7.4%
11.5
18
7
80
38.9%
4.4
8.4%
11.4
13
7
81
53.8%
6.2
6.3%
11.6
2011
Colorado
Tyler McCulloch
20
9
82
45.0%
4.1
4.8%
9.1
13
8
73
61.5%
5.6
6.0%
9.1
7
1
9
14.3%
1.3
3.4%
9.0
2011
Colorado
Kyle Cefalo
13
10
85
76.9%
6.5
3.1%
8.5
7
5
26
71.4%
3.7
3.3%
5.2
6
5
59
83.3%
9.8
2.9%
11.8
2011
Colorado
DaVaughn Thornton
12
6
69
50.0%
5.8
2.9%
11.5
4
3
60
75.0%
15.0
1.9%
20.0
8
3
9
37.5%
1.1
3.9%
3.0
 
jgisland said:
The guys over at footballstudyhall.com put together some great data for the last 7 years on DI receiver catch rates, % targeted and all of this broken down into Passing Downs vs Standard Downs. It is very difficult to sort though so I parsed just the CU data from last year and included it below. Here is the original article explaning it all. I can add previous CU years if anybody want to take a look at the breakdown.

ALL PASSESSTANDARD DOWNSPASSING DOWNS
YearTeamPlayerTargetsCatchesYardsCatchRateYdsPerTargetTarget %YdsPerCatchTargetsCatchesYardsCatchRateYdsPerTargetTarget %YdsPerCatchTargetsCatchesYardsCatchRateYdsPerTargetTarget %YdsPerCatch
2011ColoradoToney Clemons794368054.4%8.618.8%15.8382135055.3%9.217.7%16.7412233053.7%8.019.9%15.0
2011ColoradoPaul Richardson744056954.1%7.717.6%14.2462633556.5%7.321.4%12.9281423450.0%8.413.6%16.7
2011ColoradoRodney Stewart714557163.4%8.016.9%12.7332322269.7%6.715.3%9.7382234957.9%9.218.4%15.9
2011ColoradoRyan Deehan382432263.2%8.59.0%13.4201619180.0%9.69.3%11.918813144.4%7.38.7%16.4
2011ColoradoTony Jones332716881.8%5.17.8%6.216136681.3%4.17.4%5.1171410282.4%6.08.3%7.3
2011ColoradoLogan Gray311830058.1%9.77.4%16.71187372.7%6.65.1%9.1201022750.0%11.49.7%22.7
2011ColoradoKeenan Canty311416145.2%5.27.4%11.51878038.9%4.48.4%11.41378153.8%6.26.3%11.6
2011ColoradoTyler McCulloch2098245.0%4.14.8%9.11387361.5%5.66.0%9.171914.3%1.33.4%9.0
2011ColoradoKyle Cefalo13108576.9%6.53.1%8.5752671.4%3.73.3%5.2655983.3%9.82.9%11.8
2011ColoradoDaVaughn Thornton1266950.0%5.82.9%11.5436075.0%15.01.9%20.083937.5%1.13.9%3.0
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Dude, I'm so happy right now. FOOTBALL STATS!!! WHO WANTS A MUSTACHE RIDE?

even though your stats make me cringe. Wow, we are really going to miss Logan Gray & Deehan more than we thought next year. Their replacements had awful #s. TyMc/Canty have to take a HUGE leap this year.
 
Darth Snow said:
Dude, I'm so happy right now. FOOTBALL STATS!!! WHO WANTS A MUSTACHE RIDE?

even though your stats make me cringe. Wow, we are really going to miss Logan Gray & Deehan more than we thought next year. Their replacements had awful #s. TyMc/Canty have to take a HUGE leap this year.
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And also Speedy, even if the OL is better, (which I have doubts about) they are going to bust some assignments and Connor is going to have to be able to dump it to a RB, speedy got the 3rd most targets on passing downs. CU is going to need the RB's to catch a lot of balls this year.
 
I have been waiting anxiously for this day. Football stats.... YES. GLORY GLORY COLORADO
 
jgisland said:
And also Speedy, even if the OL is better, (which I have doubts about) they are going to bust some assignments and Connor is going to have to be able to dump it to a RB, speedy got the 3rd most targets on passing downs. CU is going to need the RB's to catch a lot of balls this year.
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Good news here is that though he was less productive from a yards per catch standpoint, Tony Jones was apparently fairly sure-handed as a receiver when given the opportunity as his completion percentages are fairly decent.
 
Speedys numbers reflect how good this team is at the screen pass. I expect that this years numbers will be similar.
 
we are going to put a RB in the NFL in the next few years, NFL coaches love these RB's who can run and catch. I think speedy with be signed as an UDFA and would be a draft pick if he was bigger.
 
Darian3Hagan said:
Speedys numbers reflect how good this team is at the screen pass. I expect that this years numbers will be similar.
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How big of a reason do you think it was that we saw so much of the screen pass last year was b/c of the offensive lines inability to sustain blocks? I get that the screen pass is a big part of the pro-style offensive, but it will be interesting to see if they call as many this year as last year, or if they were using the screen pass as a stop-gap last year.
 
jgisland said:
How big of a reason do you think it was that we saw so much of the screen pass last year was b/c of the offensive lines inability to sustain blocks? I get that the screen pass is a big part of the pro-style offensive, but it will be interesting to see if they call as many this year as last year, or if they were using the screen pass as a stop-gap last year.
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it was a pretty awesome stop gap. I'm ok with it.
 
jgisland said:
How big of a reason do you think it was that we saw so much of the screen pass last year was b/c of the offensive lines inability to sustain blocks? I get that the screen pass is a big part of the pro-style offensive, but it will be interesting to see if they call as many this year as last year, or if they were using the screen pass as a stop-gap last year.
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It is not a stop-gap. Marshall is the best screen coach Barnett has ever seen (heard him say this last season on a radio broadcast. Given that this staff has big ties to the Barnett era, expect screens to be a staple of this offense going forward.
 
Boulder Buff said:
It is not a stop-gap. Marshall is the best screen coach Barnett has ever seen (heard him say this last season on a radio broadcast. Given that this staff has big ties to the Barnett era, expect screens to be a staple of this offense going forward.
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Plus, there in college, the linemen can move down field, increasing the screen play's effectiveness compared to the pro's. Embree has stated multiple times that he loves him some screen.
 
I think we went to the screen a lot more last year due to nothing else really working that well. I'd be surprised if we use it as much in the future once we get our players/system in place
 
sliderNcider said:
I think we went to the screen a lot more last year due to nothing else really working that well. I'd be surprised if we use it as much in the future once we get our players/system in place
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The good thing is that the screen works even better when other aspects of your offense are also working well. I hope we use it less, but more effectively because the defense has to worry about our regular passing and running game.
 
Rugged said:
The good thing is that the screen works even better when other aspects of your offense are also working well. I hope we use it less, but more effectively because the defense has to worry about our regular passing and running game.
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This was my point, not that the screen was a stop-gap but the frequency CU used the screen was the stop-gap. If they continue to run the screen at the frequency they did last year that means continued struggles for the offense.
 
jgisland said:
This was my point, not that the screen was a stop-gap but the frequency CU used the screen was the stop-gap. If they continue to run the screen at the frequency they did last year that means continued struggles for the offense.
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I just said it better. :smile2:
 
jgisland said:
How big of a reason do you think it was that we saw so much of the screen pass last year was b/c of the offensive lines inability to sustain blocks? I get that the screen pass is a big part of the pro-style offensive, but it will be interesting to see if they call as many this year as last year, or if they were using the screen pass as a stop-gap last year.
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I think we'll see as much or more. Most NFL offensive coaches say that if they had the college rules allowing OLs to go downfield on screen passes that they'd call the play nearly every down. EB, Embo, Marshall, and Rip are all from that school. I expect to be a great screen team into the future.
 
Buffnik said:
I think we'll see as much or more. Most NFL offensive coaches say that if they had the college rules allowing OLs to go downfield on screen passes that they'd call the play nearly every down. EB, Embo, Marshall, and Rip are all from that school. I expect to be a great screen team into the future.
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We will be known as Screen U.
 
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