COWBOYS TARGETS ANALYSIS

We scoured all 256 drive summaries from 2008:

Grid #1 shows the times each player was targeted per week and per position with team totals.
Grid #2 shows the total times each player touched the ball inside the opponents 20 yd line, per position with team totals.

Times Targeted 2008 by Game Total Receiving Targets

Dallas Cowboys 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tot Rec Yds TD

Marion Barber 4 5 4 2 2 12 2 7 1 bye 7 9 1 0 2 1 2 61 52 417 2

Deon Anderson 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 bye 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 7 1

Felix Jones 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 bye 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 0

Tashard Choice 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 bye 0 2 2 8 5 10 1 30 21 185 0

RB TOTAL 5 5 5 2 4 12 3 8 1
7 11 3 8 8 11 3 96 77 619 3

Terrell Owens 8 4 7 17 3 9 7 9 9 bye 9 13 9 9 5 12 10 140 69 1052 10

Roy Williams 5 7 6 0 18 3 0 4 2 bye 3 5 4 6 3 8 7 81 36 430 2

Patrick Crayton 6 3 3 10 3 6 7 3 8 bye 1 3 4 0 3 5 5 70 39 550 4

Miles Austin 0 3 3 6 0 3 3 0 0 bye 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 23 13 278 3

Isaiah Stanback 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bye 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 24 0

WR TOTAL 22 17 19 33 24 21 17 16 19
16 21 17 15 12 26 22 317 159 2334 19

Jason Witten 9 9 9 10 11 5 11 1 3 bye 3 4 10 10 9 6 11 121 81 952 4

Martellus Bennett 0 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 4 bye 1 1 2 2 1 0 3 27 20 283 4

Tony Curtis 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 3 0 bye 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 12 8 32 0

TE TOTAL 10 14 12 12 13 7 13 7 7
4 6 12 13 10 6 14 160 109 1267 8

Red Zone Touches (carries, receiving, passing)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Tot

Marion Barber 6 6 8 bye 4 1 3 0 3 0 2 6 4 0 0 0 2 45

Tashard Choice 2 0 0 bye 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 10

Felix Jones 2 0 0 bye 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

Deon Anderson 0 0 0 bye 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2

RB TOTAL 10 6 8
6 1 3 0 4 0 2 6 4 2 3 3 2 60

Terrell Owens 3 1 2 bye 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 17

Patrick Crayton 0 0 0 bye 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6

Miles Austin 0 0 0 bye 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Roy Williams 0 0 0 bye 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 5

WR TOTAL 3 1 2
3 2 0 4 5 0 0 2 2 2 0 3 1 30

Jason Witten 1 0 1 bye 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 6

Martellus Bennett 0 0 0 bye 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 5

Tony Curtis 0 0 1 bye 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

TE TOTAL 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 1 12

OVERVIEW

Pass Targets to RB - 17%
Pass Targets to WR - 57%
Pass Targets to TE - 26%

Top 3 Red-Zone Touches: Barber (45), Owens (17), Choice (10)

Barber had a successful reception rate of 85% (52/61) displaying great hands to go with his punishing running style.
Barber was responsible for 64% of the total running back targets for the Cowboys.
In the final five games, Tashard Choice had 26 targets while the rest of the Cowboys running backs had seven combines.
Roy Williams had a reception rate of only 44% catching a pitiful 36/81 balls thrown his way.
Roy Williams had 38 targets in the second half of the year.
Patrick Crayton had 29 targets in the second half of the year.
Witten was targeted 9+ times on ten occasions last year.
Barber had 75% of the red zone touches for running backs and 44% of the total team red zone touches last season.
Crayton had more red zone touches than Roy Williams last season.
Witten had only 6 touches in the red zone while Bennett had 5 touches.