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Seattle Seahawks
This is a top-heavy committee. Jaxon Smith-Njigba holds 35.6% of the targets, and the 14 tracked pass-catchers project for 23 receptions and 260 receiving yards in week 7.
What this staff chooses
The Seattle Seahawks run more than the situation calls for: pass rate over expectation -2.8%, 20th of 32, on 61 plays a game (9th). Raw pass rate is 56.3%, but that follows the scoreboard — a trailing team throws. PROE subtracts the league rate for the same down, distance and score, so what is left is the CHOICE.
Pass rate over expectation is the most repeatable offensive trait we measure: split the season into odd and even weeks and a team agrees with itself at 0.84. Most things a defense does sit near 0.32.
| This season | League rank | |
|---|---|---|
| Pass rate over expectation | -2.8% | 20th |
| Plays per game | 61.2 | 9th |
| Points per game | 24.7 | 13th |
The line, and the front it faces
The offensive line has allowed pressure on 31.9% of dropbacks (31st) and opened 2.33 yards before contact a carry (19th). The defense pressures the quarterback on 34.5% of opposing dropbacks (3rd).
| This season | League rank | |
|---|---|---|
| Pressure allowed, per dropback | 31.9% | 31st |
| Yards before contact, per carry | 2.33 | 19th |
| Pressure generated, per dropback | 34.5% | 3rd |
What this defense concedes
Of the passes thrown at the Seattle Seahawks, 58% go to receivers, 21% to tight ends and 21% to backs. Opponents average 5.24 yards a target (1st).
Read this half with more caution than the half above. How a defense DISTRIBUTES the targets it faces repeats moderately — 0.34 for backs, 0.23 for receivers, 0.09 for tight ends. How many YARDS it allows a tight end per target repeats at 0.02, which is indistinguishable from chance. "Weak against tight ends" is the least reproducible claim in this dataset and one of the most repeated.
Season by season
This staff is calling it much as it has: pass rate over expectation -2.8% this season against +0.1% across the previous 10 seasons.
Who owns the targets
Trailing target share, largest first. Target share reproduces at 0.92 between halves of a season, so this is a stable picture of the pecking order rather than a snapshot of one good game.
Receivers
| Player | Snap share | Target share | Proj. catches | Proj. rec yards | If he sits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR1 | 85% | 35.6% | 7.4 | 84 | who benefits |
| Rashid Shaheed WR2 | 53% | 14.9% | 2.6 | 34 | who benefits |
| Cooper Kupp WR3 | 68% | 12.4% | 3.2 | 36 | — |
| Tory Horton WR depth | 27% | 4.5% | 1.1 | 14 | — |
| Velus Jones Jr. WR depth | 7% | 0.7% | 0.3 | 0 | — |
| Irvin Charles WR depth | 0% | 0.0% | 0.9 | 1 | — |
Tight ends
| Player | Snap share | Target share | Proj. catches | Proj. rec yards | If he sits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJ Barner TE1 | 90% | 12.4% | 3.0 | 32 | who benefits |
| Eric Saubert TE2 | 26% | 1.7% | 0.7 | 6 | — |
| Elijah Arroyo TE3 | 23% | 1.3% | 0.4 | 9 | — |
| Nick Kallerup TE depth | 16% | 0.8% | 0.1 | 1 | — |
Backs
| Player | Snap share | Target share | Proj. catches | Proj. rec yards | If he sits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jadarian Price RB2 | 37% | 7.6% | 0.0 | — | who benefits |
| George Holani RB3 | 41% | 6.5% | 1.9 | 18 | — |
| Emanuel Wilson RB1 | 39% | 5.6% | 1.2 | 15 | who benefits |
| Brady Russell RB depth | 22% | 1.8% | 0.5 | 9 | — |
The ground game
Projected for 23 carries and 90 rushing yards, with Emanuel Wilson taking 69% of the work. Carries per game is the second most repeatable thing a player has — 0.97 between halves of a season — so a backfield split holds up far better than a touchdown rate does.
| Player | Carries | Rush yds | Yds/carry | Anytime TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emanuel Wilson RB | 15.7 | 63 | 4.01 | 38% |
| George Holani RB | 7.0 | 27 | 3.79 | 25% |
Whose role has changed since last season
Snap share this season against last, for anyone who has moved at least six points. This is the input the model leans on hardest early in a year, because snap share is already reliable at 0.84 after two games while receptions manage 0.66.