Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season
Illinois paired 216 primary output with 63.6 efficiency.
Player Stats
D.J. Taylor 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
- 286
- Receptions
- 30
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 Regular Season | Illinois | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 37.5 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | Illinois | 8 | 22 | 216 | 0 | 62.8 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Illinois | 5 | 7 | 65 | 0 | 44.6 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
target-driven usage with 57.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2016 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan
Loss 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 · Illinois
Games
5
Receiving Yards / G
13
Efficiency
57.5
Usage
8.4
Consistency
62.8
Best Game by takeover score
Western Michigan
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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. Western Michigan: 24. Purdue: 0. Minnesota: 19. Iowa: 18. Northwestern: 4
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. Western Michigan: 2 by 80. Minnesota: 2 by 63.3. Iowa: 2 by 60. Northwestern: 1 by 26.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half14.3 · Games = 3 · +3.3 vs Second Half
Second Half11 · Games = 2 · -3.3 vs First Half
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