Allen Robinson with the Chicago Bears, 2019
With the Chicago Bears, 2019. Photo: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Receiver, Penn State, 2011–⁠13

Allen Robinson

Number
No. 8
Height
6′3″
Hometown
Southfield, MI
Born
Aug 24, 1993, in Detroit, Michigan

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Allen Robinson played receiver at Penn State (2011–⁠13). The Jacksonville Jaguars took Robinson in round 2, No. 61 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
1,432
Receiving yards, 2013 (Penn State, 7–⁠5)
Drafted
No. 61
Round 2, 2014 NFL Draft (Jacksonville Jaguars)

Career highs

12catches, career hightwice; last at Ohio State, 2013197receiving yards, career highvs. Indiana, 20123receiving touchdowns, career hightwice; last vs. Indiana, 2012

Honors

All-America: Sporting News 2013; CBS Sports 2013

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Receiving

Receiving yards, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2011*Penn State3299.7012
2012*Penn State771,01813.21153
2013Penn State971,43214.8665
Career1772,47914.01765

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2011Penn State8WR
2012Penn State8WR
2013Penn State8WR6′3″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Per play

SeasonTeamPlaysEPA/playPctileMedianTotalUsage
2013Penn State991.0076th (n=341)0.8198.612%

Expected points added: how much the player’s plays moved the team’s expected score, per play and in total. Plays: total EPA divided by EPA per play, the plays the source credits to him (for a receiver roughly his catches and runs, not every target; for a passer, not every attempt), so it can differ from attempts plus carries. Percentile: against the position’s regulars that season across all divisions on file (quarterbacks with 150+ plays, backs 60+, receivers and tight ends 30+), with how many there were (n) and their median; a dash means too few plays to rank. A season in progress uses the full-season bar scaled by games played, never below 75 plays for quarterbacks, 30 for backs and 20 for receivers. The cohort grows or shrinks with the source’s coverage each season (2025 lists far more players), so compare percentiles rather than raw EPA across years. FCS seasons are marked. Usage: the share of the team’s plays the player was part of (shown from 20 plays). From CollegeFootballData, 2013 on.

Game by game

2013 Penn State 12 games, 97 catches, 1,432 yards, 6 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Aug 31vs.SyracuseW 23–⁠177133151–
Sep 7vs.Eastern MichiganW 45–⁠77129145–
Sep 14vs.UCFL 31–⁠349143146–
Sep 21vs.Kent StateW 34–⁠0343018–
Oct 5atIndianaL 24–⁠441217324610
Oct 12vs.MichiganW 43–⁠40584036−6
Oct 26atOhio StateL 14–⁠6312173165–
Nov 2vs.IllinoisW 24–⁠171116504714
Nov 9atMinnesotaL 10–⁠24763014–
Nov 16vs.PurdueW 45–⁠218980189
Nov 23vs.NebraskaL 20–⁠2381060437
Nov 30atWisconsinW 31–⁠2481220522
2012 Penn State 12 games, 77 catches, 1,018 yards, 11 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 1vs.OhioL 14–⁠24997021–
Sep 8atVirginiaL 16–⁠171089130–
Sep 15vs.NavyW 34–⁠75136345–
Sep 22vs.TempleW 24–⁠13582141–
Sep 29atIllinoisW 35–⁠7335015–
Oct 6vs.NorthwesternW 39–⁠28985218–
Oct 20atIowaW 38–⁠14639110–
Oct 27vs.Ohio StateL 23–⁠35568037–
Nov 3atPurdueW 34–⁠9558027–
Nov 10atNebraskaL 23–⁠32697038–
Nov 17vs.IndianaW 45–⁠2210197353–
Nov 24vs.WisconsinW 24–⁠21435019–
2011 Penn State 3 games, 3 catches, 29 yards
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLongRush
Sep 10vs.AlabamaL 11–⁠27112012–
Sep 17atTempleW 14–⁠101808–
Nov 12vs.NebraskaL 14–⁠171909–

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2014Combine or pro day 2014
Height6′2⅝″
Weight220 lb
Arm length32″
Hand size9½″
Wingspan76″W
40-yard dash4.60 s
10-yard split1.60 s
Vertical jump39″
Broad jump10′7″
3-cone drill7.00 s
20-yard shuttle4.00 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

11 seasons, 131 games with a stat; latest team: Detroit Lions.

Pro Bowl: 2015

SeasonTeamGRecYdsTD
2014Jacksonville Jaguars10485482
2015Jacksonville Jaguars16801,40014
2016Jacksonville Jaguars16738836
2017Jacksonville Jaguars11170
2018Chicago Bears13557544
2019Chicago Bears16981,1477
2020Chicago Bears161021,2506
2021Chicago Bears12384101
2022Los Angeles Rams10333393
2023Pittsburgh Steelers15342800
2024Detroit Lions63300
NFL career1315657,05843

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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