Putting Up Numbers· NFL

DeVonta Smith’s receiving yards at home and away

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Against his share of what his opponents usually allowed receivers, DeVonta Smith was 11.6 yards under at home and 4.5 yards over away in 2026, 2 games against 2. The plain averages are 64.0 and 91.0, a difference of 27.0.

2 games at home is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.

receiving yards a game over expected

A −16.1 difference in receiving yards over expected at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

A −27.0 difference in receiving yards at home vs away is about what you’d expect.

The games

at homeaway
DeVonta Smith’s games, 2026, each marked at home or away
SideDateGameResultreceiving yardsExpected
Sep 13, 2026vsWASW5377.3
Sep 20, 2026@TENW11795.7
Sep 28, 2026@CHIL6577.2
Oct 18, 2026vsCARL7573.8

Method

  • Expected is what the opponent allowed receivers in its other 2026 games, minus 0.2 for the home team (half the league’s home edge for receivers that season), nothing at a neutral site, scaled to his share of his team’s receivers’ receiving yards in his games, 51%.
  • Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 99% of the difference the model predicts.
  • The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.