Domestic-league season · Nottingham Forest.
Missed 6 of Nottingham Forest's ~38 games this season through 6 injury absences (hamstring, thigh). He still appeared 22 times — a solid return given how little of the season he was available. His rating is judged mainly on the games he was fit to play.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 UEFA Europa League | 12 | 2 | 1 | 697 | 6.73 |
 Premier League | 22 | 0 | 2 | 629 | 6.69 |
 League Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 6.7 |
Yates's current-season form is down 53% on last season (Season 32→15), while his Rating eased 73→50. His peak season for form remains 2021/22 (Season 51).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Nottingham Forest · 16th | 22 | 0 | 2 | 6.69 | 50 | 15 |
| 2024/25 | Nottingham Forest · 7th | 35 | 2 | 1 | 6.78 | 73 | 32 |
| 2023/24 | Nottingham Forest · 17th | 35 | 1 | 1 | 6.84 | 74 | 34 |
| 2022/23 | Nottingham Forest · 16th | 26 | 0 | 2 | 6.71 | 76 | 24 |
| 2021/22 | Nottingham Forest · 4th | 46 | 8 | 0 | 7.05 | 77 | 51 |
| 2020/21 | Nottingham Forest · 17th | 34 | 2 | 2 | 6.86 | 66 | 33 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
R. Yates is a 28-year-old central midfielder at Nottingham Forest, rated 50.3 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 341st of 418 in the Premier League. An experienced operator, he has been a fringe squad member this season (21.8% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 4.01 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Yates.
Judged on this season alone, Yates graded 15 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 37th of 43 of the 43 central midfielders in the Premier League, on 0 goals, 2 assists and 4.006 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's a drop on last season (Season 32 → 15). Over the 6 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2021/22.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 50, 38th of 43 of the 43 central midfielders in the Premier League. At 28 Yates is in his prime years, and a market index of 60.4 reflects that trajectory.
Read the appearance count in context: Yates missed 6 games through injury (hamstring, thigh) out of roughly 38 this season. The 22 he did play is a solid return on the time he was fit, and his ratings are weighted toward those games rather than the ones he sat out injured.
Past his 2021/22 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
4.01 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — solid defensive volume, with 2 clean sheets across 22 appearances. Doing that for a lower-table side (16th of 20) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight. Going forward he chipped in 0 goals and 2 assists — a useful bonus from the back.
With a Rating of 50.3, Yates carries the 38th-highest potential of the central midfielders in the Premier League of 43 — though on just 22 appearances this season, so the standing rests on a small sample. Defensively he reads as solid defensive volume (4.01 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90), with a bit more on the ball than most in the role. Experienced and reliable, but the value curve is easing (1.2× now → 0.9× projected in three years). Doing it for a lesser side, he profiles as a value buy for a club higher up the table.
Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.
The gold line is market value — an index (not €) blending rating, age and league. It climbs through the early 20s, peaks around ages 23–27 (~101), then tapers with age. At 28, Yates sits on 60.4, past its peak and easing. The blue line is Yates's projected Rating — 50.3 today — recomputed at each age, so it follows the same rise-and-fall as a career matures and declines. Solid = up to today; dashed = projected.
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