Jayden Harrison

Former wide receiver at Notre Dame. 2024: 19 catches, 211 receiving yards, 1 TD.

WR · Notre Dame · Sr. · #2

5′10″ · 198 lb · Nashville, TN

CFB Index 29 · #417 of 466 WRsHigh confidenceNotre Dame 2024 — college career complete

Recruiting

3★

WR recruit

No. 924 nationally · Signed with Vanderbilt

No college snaps yet.

His career numbers, season by season

The story

Former wide receiver at Notre Dame. 2024: 19 catches, 211 receiving yards, 1 TD.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Vanderbilt in 2019.
Transferred from Marshall to Notre Dame in 2024.
Named All-America (CBS) in 2023.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Notre Dame, 999 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2023) — his college career is complete.

His career

Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.

The week the volume broke through — put up 132 yds vs UTSA.UTSA · L 17-352023

2019

Signed with Vanderbilt3-star out of Pearl-Cohn

20219 games

Entered the portal
All-Conference USAsecond

202313 games

All-Americafirst · 2 selectors
All-Sun Beltfirst

202414 games

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

★★★

#924 national

CFB

College

3 teams

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

—

Not drafted

Trophy case · Confirmed honors

What the selectors said

8 honors · 2 categories

🥇

ALL-AMERICA

Named All-American (2023)

2 selectors honored him

🥈

ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM

All-Sun Belt 1st team (2023)

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

2 coaches

2020–2021

Brian Kelly

Notre Dame

2022–2024

Marcus Freeman

Notre Dame

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Brian Kelly → Marcus Freeman. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Vanderbilt0-9HC: Derek Mason · Balanced

2021Marshall2-10HC: Clark Lea · Balanced

2022Marshall9-4HC: Charles Huff · Run-heavy

2023Marshall6-7HC: Charles Huff · Balanced

2024Notre Dame14-2HC: Marcus Freeman · Run-leaning

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

29Below cohort / limited sample #417 of 466?

High confidence10 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: catch rate (29th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Explosive rate#156 / 563 · 71st pct

20.0%

Yards / catch#348 / 563 · 38th pct

11.4

TD rate#365 / 563 · 34th pct

5.0%

EPA / target#394 / 563 · 30th pct

0.70

Catch rate#395 / 563 · 29th pct

85.0%

Box-score rates (5)

Long catch#345 / 541 · 35th pct

Receptions#402 / 541 · 24th pct

Rec TDs#369 / 541 · 23rd pct

Yards / catch#416 / 541 · 23rd pct

11.1

Rec yards#451 / 541 · 17th pct

211

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

23rd → 30th percentile

Explosive rate

63rd → 71st percentile

Catch rate

21st → 29th percentile

TD rate

35th → 34th percentile

Yards / catch

62nd → 38th 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

2024 season · 14 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home8g	1.5	19.6	13.9	0.1
Road6g	1.2	9.0	7.2	0.0

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-79g	1.1	11.6	11.0	0.0
Weeks 8+5g	1.8	21.4	11.7	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Marcus Freeman

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Rotational

Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

29 · #417 of 466 WRs

Three-star recruit. Now #417 at the position.

Selector Grid · 2023

AP—

FWAA—

AFCA—

WCFF—

SN—

SI—

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Notre Dame	19	211	11.1	1	--
2023	Marshall	28	410	14.6	1	--
2022	Marshall	12	95	7.9	1	--
2021	Vanderbilt	23	254	11.0	2	--
2020	Vanderbilt	6	29	4.8	0	--
Career		88	999	11.4	5	--

Season	Team
2024	Notre Dame	--	--	320	--	--
2023	Marshall	1	8	708	--	--
2022	Marshall	1	-4	298	--	--
2021	Vanderbilt	--	--	378	--	--
2020	Vanderbilt	--	--	141	--	--
Career		2	4	1,845	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 20 · 2024

W 27–24

at Penn State

1 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 NO

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 on the road.

With R. Leonard — 223 yds · 1 TD · 2 INT · QBR 80.3 · 35 rush yds (18 car) · 1 TD · J. Rendell — 39 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 44 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · Purdue · 3&7 · Q3 · EPA +4.12Steve Angeli pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 42 yds to the PUR 30 for a 1ST down
Week 5 · Louisville · 3&6 · Q4 · EPA +3.79Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 34 yds to the LOU 37 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Virginia · 3&13 · Q3 · EPA +2.99Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 25 yds to the ND 45 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Virginia · 2&7 · Q2 · EPA +2.62Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 8 yds for a TD (Mitch Jeter KICK)
Week 11 · Florida State · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +1.89Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 21 yds to the ND 46 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Army · 2&6 · Q2 · EPA +1.73Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 14 yds to the ND 43 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Ohio State · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA -1.61Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for a loss of 4 yards to the OSU 42
Week 1 · Texas A&M · 2&11 · Q2 · EPA -1.31Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for a loss of 2 yards to the ND 48
Week 4 · Miami (OH) · 3&8 · Q3 · EPA +1.15Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 12 yds to the M-OH 15 for a 1ST down
Week 12 · Virginia · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +0.49Riley Leonard pass complete to Jayden Harrison for 8 yds to the UVA 19

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week