Jerome Lane

#7 · WR · Akron6′3″ · Akron, OH

Jerome Lane: WR · Akron · #7.

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Jerome Lane

WR · Akron · #7

Beats you over the top. Second year in the same receiving corps at Akron. On tape: 196 receiving yards and 10 receptions against VMI, Week 1, 2016.

Style of play

Play style

Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Akron in the news

Former Akron assistant Chuck Amato dies at 80Akron Beacon Journal Oct 20

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2016	Akron	62	1,018	16.4	6	91
2015	Akron	39	782	20.1	8	72
Career		101	1,800	17.8	14	91

Sacks without a box score

There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.

2014: 4 sacks

How we counted this

Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2016 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 47-24vs VMI	10	196	19.6	2	42	Season-high 196 yds
Wk 2	L 10-54@ No. 10 Wisconsin	3	43	14.3	0	27
Wk 3	W 65-38@ Marshall	7	115	16.4	0	25
Wk 4	L 38-45vs App State	9	134	14.9	1	35	134-yard receiving day
Wk 5	W 31-27@ Kent State	1	15	15.0	0	15
Wk 6	W 35-13vs Miami (OH)	2	14	7.0	0	9
Wk 7	L 0-41vs No. 24 Western Michigan	4	42	10.5	0	15
Wk 8	W 35-25@ Ball State	7	90	12.9	1	28
Wk 9	L 20-41@ Buffalo	4	40	10.0	0	14
Wk 10	L 17-48vs Toledo	6	177	29.5	1	91	177-yard receiving day
Wk 11	L 28-38vs Bowling Green	5	97	19.4	1	64
Wk 13	L 3-9@ Ohio	4	55	13.8	0	22
Total		62	1018	16.4	6	91

Signature game

Week 1 · 2016

W 47-24

vs VMI

10 rec · 196 yds · 2 TD

Dominant 23-point win at home against VMI.

With T. Woodson — 407 yds · 6 TD · 1 INT · QBR 90.6 · 13 rush yds (5 car) · W. Ball — 110 rush yds (18 car) · 1 TD · 1 rec · 12 yds

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 10 · Toledo · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA +6.82Woodson to Lane: a 91-yard touchdown pass.
Week 11 · Bowling Green · 3rd and 9 · Q4 · EPA +6.76Tyrell Goodman pass complete to Jerome Lane for 64 yds for a TD, (Tyrell Goodman pass to Jerome Lane for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 3 · Marshall · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA −3.99Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 10 yds Jerome Lane fumbled, forced by Rodney Allen, recovered by Marsh Kendall Gant
Week 1 · VMI · 2nd and 11 · Q4 · EPA +3.94Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 42 yds to the VMI 34 for a
Week 8 · Ball State · 4th and 4 · Q3 · EPA +3.37Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 28 yds to the BalSt 1 for a
Week 4 · App State · 3rd and 8 · Q1 · EPA +3.13Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 17 yds to the AppSt 43 for a

4 more plays

Week 3 · Marshall · 3rd and 10 · Q2 · EPA +3.09Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 15 yds to the Marsh 48 for a
Week 4 · App State · 1st and 10 · Q2 · EPA +2.89Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 35 yds to the AppSt 40 for a
Week 4 · App State · 2nd and 10 · Q2 · EPA +2.86Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 14 yds for a TD, (Tom O'Leary KICK)
Week 1 · VMI · 1st and 10 · Q1 · EPA +2.81Thomas Woodson pass complete to Jerome Lane for 30 yds for a TD, (Tom O'Leary PAT MISSED)

Teams and coaches

2 seasons under Terry Bowden — 13-12 over that span.

2015Akron8-5HC: Terry Bowden · Run-leaning

2016Akron5-7HC: Terry Bowden · Balanced

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Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2016 season

11 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / target (80th percentile). Strength: long catch (98th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / target#134 / 674 · 80th pct

0.73

Yards / catch#142 / 674 · 79th pct

15.2

Explosive rate#169 / 674 · 74th pct

15.4%

TD rate#256 / 674 · 62nd pct

5.5%

Catch rate#372 / 674 · 45th pct

65.9%

Box-score rates (6)

Long catch#8 / 524 · 98th pct

Rec yards#35 / 524 · 93rd pct

1018

Receptions#63 / 524 · 88th pct

Yards / catch#86 / 524 · 83rd pct

16.4

Rec TDs#82 / 524 · 82nd pct

Fumbles lost#80 / 216 · 40th pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

97th → 80th percentile

Explosive rate

96th → 74th percentile

Catch rate

37th → 45th percentile

TD rate

97th → 62nd percentile

Yards / catch

98th → 79th percentile

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2016. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2016 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home6g	6.0	110	16.8	0.8
Road6g	4.3	59.7	13.7	0.2

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-77g	5.1	79.9	14.0	0.4
Weeks 8+5g	5.2	91.8	17.1	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2016 season

Head Coach

Terry Bowden

Pass share

51.1%

396 pass / 379 run

Plays / game

64.6

12 games

Team sack rate

5.9%

444 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2016

Starter

62 catches in 12 games, more catches a game than most FBS receivers who play every week.

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Jerome Lane

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Career stats

Sacks without a box score

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Teams and coaches

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Splits

Awards

Starter

Three seasons at Akron