Former tight end at North Carolina. 2024: 24 catches, 264 receiving yards, 3 TD.
6′5″ · 235 lb · Charlotte, NC
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
Recruiting
TE recruit
No. 334 nationally · Signed with North Carolina
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former tight end at North Carolina. 2024: 24 catches, 264 receiving yards, 3 TD.
Bryson Nesbit
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Bryson Nesbit has played for two head coaches in four seasons at North Carolina. 2023 brought the first one: All-ACC. The receipt on tape: 71 rec yds, 4 receptions against James Madison, Week 4, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at North Carolina, 1,510 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.
His career
He arrived as a blue-chip recruit and played like one.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-ACC · 1ST TEAM
All-ACC 1st team (2023)
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mack Brown → Freddie Kitchens. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: catch rate (91st percentile). Concern: explosive rate (25th percentile).
Real play-by-play efficiency
Season trend
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. 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 · Per-game
2024 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.4 | 43.2 | 12.7 | 0.4 |
| Road2g | 3.5 | 24.0 | 7.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 3.4 | 37.7 | 11.1 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | North Carolina | 24 | 264 | 11.0 | 3 | -- |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 41 | 585 | 14.3 | 5 | -- |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 35 | 507 | 14.5 | 4 | -- |
| 2021 | North Carolina | 7 | 154 | 22.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 107 | 1,510 | 14.1 | 13 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2024
W 19–17
at Minnesota
2 rec · 15 yds
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 2 on the road.
With T. Maginness — 51 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 55 LONG · O. Hampton — 129 rush yds (30 car)
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 19-17@ Minnesota | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 2 | W 38-20vs Charlotte | 3 | 47 | 15.7 | 1 | 30 | |
| Wk 3 | W 45-10vs North Carolina Central | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Wk 4 | L 50-70vs James Madison | 4 | 71 | 17.8 | 1 | 34 | Season-high 71 yds |
| Wk 5 | L 20-21@ Duke | 5 | 33 | 6.6 | 1 | 10 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-34vs Pittsburgh | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 7 | L 34-41vs Georgia Tech | 3 | 22 | 7.3 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 24 | 264 | 11.1 | 3 | 34 |
Play style
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Caleb Phillips’s 2022 season.
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Differs from Caleb on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Elijah Mojarro's senior season at Rice (2024).
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Player DNA