#19

Jared Wiley

Former tight end at TCU. 2023: 47 catches, 520 receiving yards, 8 TD.

TE · TCU · Sr. · #19

6′7″ · 260 lb · Temple, TX

CFB Index 77 · #9 of 137 TEsMedium-low confidenceAll-Conf 1st teamKansas City — drafted 2024, Rd 4, Pick 31, #131 overall

Recruiting

3★

TE recruit

No. 689 nationally · Signed with Temple

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former tight end at TCU. 2023: 47 catches, 520 receiving yards, 8 TD.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Temple in 2019.
Transferred from Texas to TCU in 2022.
Drafted round 4 by the Kansas City in 2024.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at TCU, 1,013 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — drafted at #131 overall by Kansas City.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — stacked 2 td at Oklahoma.Oklahoma · L 45-692023

2019

Recruited3-star out of Temple

202212 games

The role got bigger.

Entered the portal

202312 games

All-Big 12first

2024

Drafted by Kansas Cityround 4, pick 131

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#689 national

CFB

College

2 teams

2019–2023

NFL

NFL Draft

R4 · #131

Kansas City · 2024

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

2 honors · 1 category

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ALL-BIG 12 · 1ST TEAM

All-Big 12 1st team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2019–2023

2 coaches

2019–2021

Gary Patterson

TCU

2022–2023

Sonny Dykes

TCU

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Gary Patterson → Sonny Dykes. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

Kansas CityEntering 3rd NFL season

#131Rd 4 · Pick 31

Kansas CityEntering 3rd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2023 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Texas8-5HC: Tom Herman · Balanced

2020Texas7-3HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Texas5-7HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning

2022TCU13-2HC: Sonny Dykes · Run-leaning

2023TCU5-7HC: Sonny Dykes · Pass-leaning, fast tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

77All-Conference level #9 of 137?

Medium-low confidence10 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: td rate (84th percentile). Strength: rec tds (99th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

TD rate#101 / 639 · 84th pct

10.7%

EPA / target#252 / 639 · 61st pct

0.85

Catch rate#329 / 639 · 48th pct

82.1%

Yards / catch#381 / 639 · 40th pct

11.3

Explosive rate#420 / 639 · 34th pct

10.7%

Box-score rates (5)

Rec TDs#1 / 160 · 99th pct

Long catch#3 / 160 · 98th pct

Receptions#7 / 160 · 96th pct

Rec yards#14 / 160 · 92nd pct

520

Yards / catch#79 / 160 · 50th pct

11.1

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

71st → 61st percentile

Explosive rate

17th → 34th percentile

Catch rate

74th → 48th percentile

TD rate

94th → 84th percentile

Yards / catch

25th → 40th 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).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2023 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home7g	4.3	54.0	10.6	0.9
Road5g	3.4	28.4	8.8	0.4

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-77g	3.0	23.9	7.7	0.6
Weeks 8+5g	5.2	70.6	12.8	0.8

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 · 2023

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: #9 of 137 FBS tight ends by CFB Index Score.2023 profile

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

77 · #9 of 137 TEs

Three-star recruit. Now #9 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2023	TCU	47	520	11.1	8	--
2022	TCU	24	245	10.2	4	--
2021	Texas	9	67	7.4	2	--
2020	Texas	9	166	18.4	1	--
2019	Texas	1	15	15.0	0	--
Career		90	1,013	11.3	15	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2023

W 34–17

vs SMU

5 rec · 37 yds · 2 TD

With C. Morris — 261 yds · 3 TD · 0 INT · QBR 89.8 · 38 rush yds (6 car) · E. Bailey — 126 rush yds (25 car) · 1 TD

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 12 · Baylor · 2&4 · Q2 · EPA +6.46Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 81 yds for a TD (Griffin Kell KICK)
Week 12 · Baylor · 3&25 · Q3 · EPA +5.62Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 28 yds for a TD (Griffin Kell KICK)
Week 10 · Texas Tech · 3&14 · Q3 · EPA +4.22Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 35 yds to the TTU 31 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Baylor · 2&14 · Q4 · EPA +3.05Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 25 yds to the BAY 29 for a 1ST down
Week 7 · BYU · 3&7 · Q2 · EPA +2.88Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 7 yds for a TD (Griffin Kell KICK)
Week 1 · Colorado · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +2.63Chandler Morris pass complete to Jared Wiley for 21 yds for a TD (Griffin Kell KICK)
Week 4 · SMU · 2&5 · Q1 · EPA +2.47Chandler Morris pass complete to Jared Wiley for 9 yds for a TD (Griffin Kell KICK)
Week 11 · Texas · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +2.47Josh Hoover pass complete to Jared Wiley for 46 yds to the TEX 17 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Colorado · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +2.35Chandler Morris pass complete to Jared Wiley for 14 yds to the COLO 47 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Oklahoma · 2&3 · Q3 · EPA +2.21Jared Wiley 3 Yd pass from Josh Hoover (Jared Wiley Pass to Josh Hoover for Two-Point Conversion)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week