Chris Godwin, on the other hand, has run a route on 68 of Winston's 71 dropbacks, playing 55 snaps in the slot and 54 outside.

All in all, Howard has run 42 routes on Winston's 71 dropbacks, drawing just five of the Bucs' 59 targets. He already has two penalties, a lost fumble and a dropped pass that was intercepted. The usage has been frustrating, and Bruce Arians may have a point about Howard not playing well - the 24-year-old has PFF's worst grade among 65 qualified tight ends.

Howard thus ran routes on 20 of Tampa's 30 pass attempts, with his lone would-be target wiped out by his own PI penalty. However, the five plays he missed were all passes, and he was used as a pass blocker five times (per PFF). Howard's snap share jumped from 78 percent in Week 1 to 92 percent in Week 2.

And, as always, feel free to leave a comment or ask me on twitter ( if you have questions about players I might have missed or any of the statistics used below. No offense taken if you prefer to skim for specific teams or players (ctrl+F is your friend). I think the entire thing is worth reading, but I'm biased, and also a bit of a nerd. Sometimes the observations will seem contradictory to what we see in a standard box score other times I'll simply provide confirmation of what might already seem obvious. In any case, most of us already have a pretty good idea of which players are thriving and which are struggling, so I'd rather spend time taking a deeper look at what coaches are trying to do with their players (even if it isn't working). That's not to say I won't discuss efficiency or performance, but I'll be cautious with any conclusions based on a two-game sample. The simplest thing I can tell you is this: we're trying to evaluate intent more so than outcomes. This won't be the best place to come if you're looking for quick conclusions (we have plenty of other content for that), but it's nonetheless important to explain why the information below can be useful. Did 'voodochild' have a good point? Kind of. I was excited last Tuesday when we posted the debut of this column, but the feeling quickly turned to disappointment after I read the first comment: ' Ok, so whom would be your top targets via trade/waiver based on these numbers?'. This article is part of our Hidden Stat Line series.

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