Eric McAlister

Senior wide receiver for TCU. 2025: 72 catches, 1,190 receiving yards, 10 TD.

WR · TCU · Sr. · #1

6′3″ · 205 lb · Azle, TX

CFB Index 91 · #7 of 485 WRsHigh confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamReturning to TCU for 2026

How he plays

Beats you over the top.

Yards / catch: 93rd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

1,190

receiving yards · 2025

72 catches · 10 TD · 16.5 per catch

Backed by 8 rec · 254 yds · 3 TD -- top 0.1% receiving yards game.

Swing playSwung TCU from 47% to 72% to win.TCU at Houston · 17-14

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 wide receiver for TCU. 2025: 72 catches, 1,190 receiving yards, 10 TD.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Boise State in 2021.
Transferred from Boise State to TCU in 2024.

His career, year by year

Eric McAlister

WR · TCU · Sr · #1

Beats you over the top. Eric McAlister has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. All-Big 12 in 2025 was the second honor of his career. The receipt: 254 rec yds, 8 receptions against SMU — Week 4, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2022Boise State10-4HC: Andy Avalos · Run-leaning

2023Boise State8-6HC: Spencer Danielson · Run-heavy

2024TCU9-4HC: Sonny Dykes · Pass-leaning

2025TCU9-4HC: Sonny Dykes · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

91All-America level #7 of 485?

High confidenceAscending11 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (93rd percentile). Strength: td rate (90th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Yards / catch#53 / 798 · 93rd pct

16.6

TD rate#84 / 798 · 90th pct

6.6%

Explosive rate#88 / 798 · 89th pct

17.9%

EPA / target#145 / 798 · 82nd pct

0.64

Catch rate#559 / 798 · 30th pct

62.3%

Box-score rates (6)

Rec yards#7 / 558 · 99th pct

1190

Rec TDs#12 / 558 · 98th pct

Long catch#13 / 558 · 98th pct

Receptions#15 / 558 · 97th pct

Yards / catch#71 / 558 · 87th pct

16.5

Fumbles lost#1 / 218 · 81st pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

96th → 82nd percentile

Explosive rate

95th → 89th percentile

Catch rate

28th → 30th percentile

TD rate

82nd → 90th percentile

Yards / catch

97th → 93rd percentile

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).

Situational

Situational · Share of own targets (PBP, 2025)

Third-down role

23%24 of his 106 targets came on third down · Receiver median is 24%

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home7g	6.9	101	15.8	0.9
Road5g	4.8	97.2	21.2	0.8

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	4.8	102	20.9	1.2
Weeks 8+6g	7.2	96.7	15.3	0.5

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Sonny Dykes

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference 1st team

First team in his league at the position.

our read the All-Conference 1st team honor is earned — and the box score backs it up emphatically: #7 of 485 FBS receivers by CFB Index Score.2025 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

91 · #7 of 485 WRs

Three-star recruit. Now #7 at the position.

2026 outlook

In the mix to repeat All-Big 12

Based on 2025: #1 of 55 Big 12 WRs

How the All-Big 12 estimate is computed

49% estimated, 95% confidence interval 43–54%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	TCU	72	1,190	16.5	10	--
2024	TCU	39	762	19.5	5	--
2023	Boise State	47	873	18.6	5	--
2022	Boise State	11	259	23.5	4	--
Career		169	3,084	18.2	24	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 18 · 2025

W 30–27

vs USC

8 rec · 69 yds

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 at home.

With K. Seals — 258 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 65.0 · -2 rush yds (9 car) · 1 TD · E. Craw — 41 AVG · 50 LONG · 5 NO

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 7 · Kansas State · 1&20 · Q4 · EPA +7.16Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 85 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 4 · SMU · 3&5 · Q4 · EPA +6.74Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 70 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 4 · SMU · 3&4 · Q4 · EPA +4.63Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 44 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 4 · SMU · 3&17 · Q1 · EPA +4.63Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 27 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 6 · Colorado · 4&6 · Q4 · EPA +3.88Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 21 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 4 · SMU · 2&15 · Q3 · EPA +3.73Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 47 yds to the SMU 11 for a 1ST down
Week 4 · SMU · 3&15 · Q4 · EPA +3.45Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 30 yds to the 50 yard line for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Kansas State · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.05Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 27 yds to the KSU 47 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · Kansas State · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +3.05Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 37 yds for a TD (Nate McCashland KICK)
Week 6 · Colorado · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.03Josh Hoover pass complete to Eric McAlister for 15 yds to the COLO 48 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 48-14@ North Carolina	3	20	6.7	0	12
Wk 3	W 42-21vs Abilene Christian	2	46	23.0	0	33
Wk 4	W 35-24vs SMU	8	254	31.8	3	70	Season-high 254 yds
Wk 6	W 35-21vs Colorado	4	65	16.3	2	23	2 TD catches
Wk 7	L 28-41@ Kansas State	4	156	39.0	2	85	2 TD catches
Wk 8	W 42-36vs Baylor	7	62	8.9	0	27
Wk 9	W 23-17@ West Virginia	9	124	13.8	1	28
Wk 11	L 17-20vs Iowa State	11	107	9.7	0	19
Wk 12	L 13-44@ BYU	4	107	26.8	0	47
Wk 13	W 17-14@ Houston	4	79	19.8	1	37
Wk 14	W 45-23vs Cincinnati	8	101	12.6	1	27
Bowl	W 30-27vs USC	8	69	8.6	0	14
Total		72	1190	18.1	10	85

How he plays

Play style

Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.

CFB Index positional classification

Money down · 3rd-down role

Money down

fact

13/243rd-down conversions

1.313rd-down EPA/target

0.50Other-downs EPA/target

13 of 24 caught on third down (54.2%) — EPA/target 1.31 vs 0.50 elsewhere (13 conversions).

Catch rate is disclosed context only, never the gate — conversions and EPA/target are. Interception targets carry no attribution row at any source, so EPA/target here is unfixably, slightly inflated.

2026 Outlook

TCU

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Wide receiver · TCU

Returning around him

22% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
3 TCU players drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -2 net (12 in / 14 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

TCU · Last season: 9-4 (AP #24) · Talent rank #40 · 2026 recruiting class #47

DNA match

Player DNA

Deep Threat

Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Elijah Cooks’s 2022 season.

Elijah Cooks

77%match

San José State · 2022

All-Mountain West

Jared Wayne

Pittsburgh · 2022

All-ACC

76%

Cedric Tillman

Tennessee · 2021

NFL Rd 3 · Pk 11

74%

Tre Harris

Ole Miss · 2023

NFL Rd 2 · Pk 23

73%

Jaivon Heiligh

Coastal Carolina · 2021

All-Sun Belt

73%

Matches Elijah on

Total EPA (college ability)

Height

Yards / reception

Differs from Elijah on

Recruiting rating (higher)

Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Jalen Williams’s path through Louisiana.

Jalen Williams

90%match

Louisiana · 2021

Ali Jennings

Virginia Tech · 2024

88%

JaQuae Jackson

Rutgers · 2023

88%

Landon Ellis

James Madison · 2025

All-Sun Belt

88%

Sawyer Racanelli

Wake Forest · 2025

86%

Matches Jalen on

Height

Yards per reception

Weight

As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Tre Harris's senior season at Ole Miss (2024).

Tre Harris

80%match

Ole Miss · 2024

All-SECNFL Rd 2 · Pk 23

Eli Pancol

Duke · 2024

All-ACC

78%

Cortez Braham

Memphis · 2025

74%

De'Zhaun Stribling

Oklahoma State · 2024

NFL Rd 2 · Pk 1

74%

Camden Brown

Georgia Southern · 2025

All-Sun Belt

72%

Matches Tre on

Height

TD rate

Reception volume

Differs from Tre on

Recruiting rating (higher)

EPA / play (adj) (lower)

Player DNA

Players who play like Eric McAlister

Lawrence Arnold

Kansas · 2023

86%

Eric McAlister

TCU · 2024

80%

Elijah Sarratt

Indiana · 2024

78%

Jayden Higgins

Iowa State · 2023

75%

Charlie Becker

Indiana · 2025

73%

Heisman trajectory

Heisman Trajectory · 2025

Peak #220

Final rank

#243

Avg #259.0

Finalist prob 0%

Peaked at #220 this season.

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Eric McAlister

2021

202412 games

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Situational

Splits & context

Awards

All-Conference 1st team

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Deep Threat

Players who play like Eric McAlister

Heisman trajectory

Peak #220