Senior tight end for Texas. 2021: 22 catches, 184 receiving yards, 3 TD.
6′4″ · 239 lb · Austin, TX
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. 974 nationally · Signed with Texas
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 tight end for Texas. 2021: 22 catches, 184 receiving yards, 3 TD.
Cade Brewer
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Cade Brewer has been at Texas through two head coaches in five seasons. One game to point at: 40 rec yds, 2 receptions against Kansas — Week 11, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Texas, 611 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2021
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Tom Herman → Steve Sarkisian. 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 (94th percentile). Strength: td rate (91st percentile). Concern: explosive rate (10th 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
2021 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.2 | 21.5 | 9.9 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 13.8 | 5.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.4 | 11.4 | 7.9 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.0 | 25.4 | 8.8 | 0.4 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Steve Sarkisian
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #78 at the position.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 13 · 2021
W 22–17
vs Kansas State
2 rush yds (1 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 5 at home.
With C. Dicker — 2 SOLO · 2 TOT · 39 LONG · R. Johnson — 2 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 99.7 · 179 rush yds (31 car) · 1 TD
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-18vs Louisiana | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 1 | 6 | |
| Wk 2 | L 21-40@ Arkansas | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 3 | W 58-0vs Rice | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 4 | W 70-35vs Texas Tech | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 6 | L 48-55vs Oklahoma | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Wk 9 | L 24-31@ Baylor | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 7-30@ Iowa State | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Wk 11 | L 56-57vs Kansas | 2 | 40 | 20.0 | 1 | 25 | Season-high 40 yds |
| Wk 12 | L 23-31@ West Virginia | 4 | 37 | 9.3 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 13 | W 22-17vs Kansas State | 4 | 32 | 8.0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Total | 22 | 184 | 8.4 | 3 | 25 |
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 2021 production profile sits closest to Brayden Willis’s 2021 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Brayden Willis's senior season at Oklahoma (2021).
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Player DNA