Senior tight end for West Virginia. 2025: 21 catches, 232 receiving yards, 2 TD.
6′4″ · 223 lb · Rocklin, CA
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.
The numbers
receiving yards · 2025
21 catches · 2 TD · 11 per catch
The play that turned itSwung West Virginia from 21% to 57% to win.Pittsburgh at West Virginia · 31-24
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 tight end for West Virginia. 2025: 21 catches, 232 receiving yards, 2 TD.
How he plays
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment.
Explosive rate: 83rd percentile.
The full scouting readGrayson Barnes
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Across three seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Thomas Hammock and Rich Rodriguez. One game to point at: 58 rec yds, 5 receptions against Pittsburgh — Week 3, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Neal Brown, Chad Scott, and Rich Rodriguez. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: explosive rate (83rd percentile). Concern: td rate (18th 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).
Situational · Share of own targets (PBP, 2025)
Third-down role
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.6 | 33.8 | 16.2 | 0.4 |
| Road4g | 2.0 | 15.8 | 8.1 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.6 | 26.4 | 9.5 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 25.0 | 16.5 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rich Rodriguez
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Three-star recruit. Now #106 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Big 12
Based on 2025: #15 of 19 Big 12 TEs
22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. 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.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | West Virginia | 21 | 232 | 11.0 | 2 | -- |
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 31 | 338 | 10.9 | 4 | -- |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 23 | 422 | 18.3 | 5 | -- |
| Career | 75 | 992 | 13.2 | 11 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025
W 31–24
vs Pittsburgh
5 rec · 58 yds · 1 TD
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.
With O. Straw — 45 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 52 LONG · N. Marchiol — 192 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 57.4 · -4 rush yds (10 car)
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 45-3vs Robert Morris | 3 | 37 | 12.3 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 2 | L 10-17@ Ohio | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 3 | W 31-24vs Pittsburgh | 5 | 58 | 11.6 | 1 | 34 | Season-high 58 yds |
| Wk 4 | L 10-41@ Kansas | 3 | 20 | 6.7 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-38@ BYU | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 9 | L 17-23vs TCU | 3 | 25 | 8.3 | 1 | 17 | |
| Wk 11 | W 29-22vs Colorado | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 12 | L 23-25@ Arizona State | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 14 | L 0-49vs Texas Tech | 1 | 29 | 29.0 | 0 | 29 | |
| Total | 21 | 232 | 12.6 | 2 | 34 |
Play style
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
West Virginia
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Tight end · West Virginia
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
West Virginia · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #49 · 2026 recruiting class #25
Player DNA
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Dominick Mazotti’s 2024 season.
Matches Dominick on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Alec Holler's junior season at UCF (2023).
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Player DNA