Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
Nebraska paired 87 primary output with 73.9 efficiency.
Player Stats
Sam Cotton College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Receiving yards
- 185
- Receptions
- 17
- Touchdowns
- 3
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Regular Season | Nebraska | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2013 Regular Season | Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 30.2 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 41 | 2 | 48.8 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 35 | 0 | 53.5 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Nebraska | 5 | 8 | 87 | 0 | 67 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
target-driven usage with 73.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2016 Regular Season · Nebraska
Games
5
Receiving Yards / G
17.4
Efficiency
73.9
Usage
14.9
Consistency
44.7
Best Game by takeover score
Indiana
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Northwestern: 11. Illinois: 12. Indiana: 37. Purdue: 27. Wisconsin: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Northwestern: 1 by 73.3. Illinois: 1 by 80. Indiana: 3 by 82.2. Purdue: 3 by 60
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins21.8 · Games = 4 · +21.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -21.8 vs Wins
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