Slate Stats › NFL › Players

DV

Devaughn Vele

New Orleans Saints · Wide receiverWR2

6′5″, 210 lb · age 28 · Utah · 2024 draft, round 7

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, at NYG: Devaughn Vele caught 3 of 6 targets for 42 yards on 92% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Through 6 games this season Devaughn Vele is averaging 4.7 receptions and 49 receiving yards on 92% of snaps, against 1.9 receptions and 23 receiving yards over 13 games last season. For week 7 the model projects 9.0 PPR points, WR41 this week.

Week 7 projection

PPR points
9.0
WR41 this week
Receptions
4.0
2.1 above his 2025 average
Receiving yards
40
Anytime TD
23%
He is the third-down option, a role that runs slightly ahead of trailing form: +0.09 receptions.

What a realistic week looks like

4%010%116%218%316%413%59%66%74%82%910111213Receptions
The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 1 and 7 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Devaughn Vele snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share
Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

GameOppSnap shareTarget shareTgtRecRec ydsTDWe said
26 wk7———————4.0 projected
26 wk6NYG92%20.0%634204.5 -1.5
26 wk5MIN96%25.0%642604.0 +0.0
26 wk4ATL89%19.1%965413.8 +2.2
26 wk3LV88%15.0%633903.9 -0.9
26 wk2BAL96%21.9%75640—
26 wk1DET91%17.3%97691—
25 wk15CAR55%19.4%65690—
25 wk14TB93%25.0%53400—
25 wk13MIA88%23.5%88931—
25 wk12ATL89%16.3%73370—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

How often he has actually done it

Rates over his last 15 games. A projection says what to expect on average; this says how often the thing you actually need has happened.

OutcomeGames it happenedHow often
3+ receptions6 of 1540%
5+ receptions4 of 1527%
7+ receptions2 of 1513%
50+ receiving yards4 of 1527%
75+ receiving yards1 of 157%
100+ receiving yards0 of 150%
Scored a touchdown3 of 1520%

Devaughn Vele 2026 stats

Through 6 games of 2026, Devaughn Vele has 28 catches for 294 receiving yards (4.7 catches and 49.0 yards a game), with 2 touchdowns, on 92% of snaps.

Against the rest of his career

2026 so far (6 games)2024–2025 (27 games)
Catches per game4.72.4
Receiving yards per game49.028.4
Target share19.7%10.8%

Devaughn Vele 2025 stats

In 2025 Devaughn Vele had 25 catches for 293 yards over 13 games, with 2 touchdowns, on 50% of snaps.

Season by season

Devaughn Vele: snap share and target share by season020406080100202420252026Snap shareTarget shareSeasonshare of the team
Role is the part of a player that carries. Snap share repeats at 0.98 between halves of a season and target share at 0.96, so this line is a far better guide to what comes next than a points total would be.
Devaughn Vele: targets and catches per game by season0246810202420252026TargetsCatchesSeason
Per-game rates over the games he appeared in. Opportunity is what reproduces — carries repeat at 0.97 between halves of a season and target share at 0.92 — while the yards it turns into are a separate and noisier question.
Devaughn Vele: yards per game by season020406033.9202422.5202549.02026
Receiving yards per game reproduce at 0.86 between halves of a season, against 0.61 for yards per catch — which is why this is modeled directly rather than as catches times yards per catch.
Devaughn Vele: touchdowns per game by season00.10.20.30.40.2120240.1520250.332026
The least predictable thing a skill player does. Touchdown rate repeats at 0.55 between halves of a season against 0.89 for catches, so a spike here is mostly not a property of the player. Per game over the games he appeared in, so a season in progress is comparable to a finished one.

3 seasons of usage, 2024–2026 · per-game rates over games he appeared in · snap counts are from official play-by-play and begin in 2016

If Devaughn Vele sits, who gets his work?The measured redistribution across the NO room — with sample size and t-statisticThe whole New Orleans Saints roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the New Orleans Saints receiver room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at WR for week 7.

What we have measured about wide receivers

Are players better coming off a bye week?They are slightly worseDo defenses shut down the other team’s best receiver?Barely

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7