#11

Jordan Watkins

Former wide receiver at Ole Miss. 2024: 49 catches, 906 receiving yards, 9 TD.

WR · Ole Miss · Sr. · #11

5′11″ · 190 lb · Louisville, KY

CFB Index 74 · #52 of 466 WRsHigh confidenceSan Francisco — drafted 2025, Rd 4, Pick 36, #138 overall

The story

Former wide receiver at Ole Miss. 2024: 49 catches, 906 receiving yards, 9 TD.

Drafted round 4 by the San Francisco in 2025.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at Ole Miss, 2,682 receiving yards — drafted at #138 overall by San Francisco.

His career

He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.

The week the volume broke through — put up 117 yds at Vanderbilt.Vanderbilt · W 52-282022

2025

Drafted by San Franciscoround 4, pick 138

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

2 teams

2020–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

R4 · #138

San Francisco · 2025

Coaching lineage · 2020–2024

1 coach

2020–2024

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

Played his entire career under Lane Kiffin.

Where He Ended Up · NFL

San FranciscoEntering 2nd NFL season

#138Rd 4 · Pick 36

San FranciscoEntering 2nd NFL season

View college career stats ↓

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2020Louisville4-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning

2021Louisville6-7HC: Scott Satterfield · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Ole Miss8-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-heavy, fast tempo

2023Ole Miss11-2HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning

2024Ole Miss10-3HC: Lane Kiffin · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

74Quality starter #52 of 466?

High confidence12 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: yards / catch (96th percentile). Strength: td rate (91st percentile). Concern: catch rate (7th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Yards / catch#27 / 610 · 96th pct

18.5

TD rate#52 / 610 · 91st pct

13.6%

Explosive rate#100 / 610 · 83rd pct

22.7%

EPA / target#203 / 610 · 67th pct

1.01

Catch rate#567 / 610 · 7th pct

74.2%

Box-score rates (7)

Rec TDs#19 / 541 · 95th pct

Rec yards#39 / 541 · 93rd pct

906

Yards / catch#42 / 541 · 92nd pct

18.5

Long catch#42 / 541 · 91st pct

Receptions#121 / 541 · 77th pct

Rush yards#111 / 299 · 62nd pct

Rush TDs#55 / 299 · 41st pct

Season trend

Last seasonThis season

EPA / target

69th → 67th percentile

Explosive rate

75th → 83rd percentile

Catch rate

45th → 7th percentile

TD rate

43rd → 91st percentile

Yards / catch

69th → 96th 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home7g	3.4	58.6	17.6	0.4
Road5g	5.0	99.2	27.7	1.2

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-77g	2.9	59.4	27.2	0.6
Weeks 8+5g	5.8	98.0	16.0	1.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Pete Golding

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

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

74 · #52 of 466 WRs

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	Ole Miss	49	906	18.5	9	--
2023	Ole Miss	53	741	14.0	3	--
2022	Ole Miss	40	449	11.2	2	--
2021	Louisville	35	529	15.1	4	--
2020	Louisville	8	57	7.1	0	--
Career		185	2,682	14.5	18	--

Season	Team
2024	Ole Miss	3	20	--	24	--
2023	Ole Miss	1	-9	--	114	1
2022	Ole Miss	2	-3	--	68	--
2021	Louisville	--	--	28	85	--
2020	Louisville	1	23	181	--	--
Career		7	31	209	291	1

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2024

W 28–10

vs Georgia

20 rush yds (3 car)

With J. Dart — 199 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 89.6 · 50 rush yds (8 car) · F. Masin — 54 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 65 LONG

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Duke · 2&23 · Q4 · EPA +7.14Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 69 yds for a TD (Mike Baker KICK)
Week 3 · Wake Forest · 2&10 · Q1 · EPA +6.78Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 75 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 10 · Arkansas · 2&8 · Q2 · EPA +6.10Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 66 yds for a TD
Week 10 · Arkansas · 2&8 · Q3 · EPA +5.79Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 62 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 10 · Arkansas · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +4.95Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 62 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 4 · Georgia Southern · 2&22 · Q1 · EPA +3.92Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 23 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 6 · South Carolina · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA +3.62Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 41 yds to the SC 2 for a 1ST down
Week 13 · Florida · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA +3.10Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 25 yds to the FLA 22 for a 1ST down
Week 10 · Arkansas · 2&11 · Q3 · EPA +2.86Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 11 yds for a TD (Caden Davis KICK)
Week 1 · Duke · 1&10 · Q3 · EPA +2.72Jaxson Dart pass complete to Jordan Watkins for 51 yds to the DUKE 3 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 2	W 52-3vs Middle Tennessee	1	28	28.0	0	28
Wk 3	W 40-6@ Wake Forest	1	75	75.0	1	75
Wk 4	W 52-13vs Georgia Southern	3	36	12.0	1	23
Wk 5	L 17-20vs Kentucky	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 6	W 27-3@ South Carolina	5	72	14.4	0	41
Wk 7	L 26-29@ LSU	3	25	8.3	0	12
Wk 9	W 26-14vs Oklahoma	4	59	14.8	0	34
Wk 10	W 63-31@ Arkansas	8	254	31.8	5	66	Season-high 254 yds
Wk 11	W 28-10vs Georgia	4	68	17.0	0	33
Wk 13	L 17-24@ Florida	8	70	8.8	0	25
Wk 14	W 26-14vs Mississippi State	5	39	7.8	0	17
Bowl	W 52-20vs Duke	7	180	25.7	2	69
Total		49	906	22.1	9	75

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