The yardage leaders and the efficiency leaders are not the same players. Every row below shows both, for the same group, side by side.
Volume answers who was used the most. Efficiency answers who did the most with it. A dashboard that shows only the first one flatters the players with the most attempts.
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Total yards rewards volume and a healthy season. EPA asks whether those yards moved the game — down, distance and field position included.
Volume — passing yards
Top 10 quarterbacks by total passing yards.
Efficiency — passing EPA
Same season, 200+ attempts. Bars in red where the ranking disagrees with the volume list.
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Carries are a coaching decision as much as a talent signal, so yards per carry is the check on the yardage table.
Volume — rushing yards
Top 10 running backs by total rushing yards.
Efficiency — yards per carry
Same players, so the two bars are directly comparable. 100+ carries.
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Targets are opportunity. The scatter separates receivers who earned their yardage from receivers who were simply thrown at often.
Volume — receiving yards
Top 10 by total receiving yards for the selected position.
Efficiency — targets against yards
40+ targets. Above the line is more yardage than the target count implies.
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Both halves of the same four seasons: how the balance of the offence sat, and how far apart the two rankings actually fall.
Pass and run, by season
League totals across the 4 regular seasons in the dataset.
Where the two lists disagree
Each qualifying quarterback's rank by yards against rank by EPA. The line is where the two rankings agree; red marks a gap of five places or more.