Senior wide receiver for North Carolina. 2025: 35 catches, 438 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′1″ · 190 lb · Kings Mountain, NC
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
35 catches · 1 TD · 12.5 per catch
Best game: 6 rec, 101 yds, at California
Swing playSwung North Carolina from 16% to 36% to win.Oregon at North Carolina · 28-27
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 wide receiver for North Carolina. 2025: 35 catches, 438 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Kobe Paysour
Moves the chains on third down. Kobe Paysour has played for three head coaches in four seasons at North Carolina. One game to point at: 101 rec yds, 6 receptions against California — Week 8, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Mack Brown, Freddie Kitchens, and Bill Belichick. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: catch rate (27th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 3.8 | 45.2 | 12.4 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 51.4 | 12.5 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-72g | 1.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+7g | 4.7 | 60.0 | 13.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bill Belichick
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 #278 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-ACC
Based on 2025: #39 of 64 ACC WRs
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. 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 | North Carolina | 35 | 438 | 12.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | North Carolina | 21 | 365 | 17.4 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 22 | 282 | 12.8 | 3 | -- |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 29 | 324 | 11.2 | 4 | -- |
| Career | 107 | 1,409 | 13.2 | 8 | -- |
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 4 | L 9-34@ UCF | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 1 | 8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 10-38vs Clemson | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | L 18-21@ California | 6 | 101 | 16.8 | 0 | 37 | Season-high 101 yds |
| Wk 9 | L 16-17vs Virginia | 3 | 54 | 18.0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-10@ Syracuse | 3 | 59 | 19.7 | 0 | 44 | |
| Wk 11 | W 20-15vs Stanford | 6 | 54 | 9.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 12 | L 12-28@ Wake Forest | 5 | 40 | 8.0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Wk 13 | L 25-32vs Duke | 5 | 63 | 12.6 | 0 | 21 | |
| Wk 14 | L 19-42@ NC State | 5 | 49 | 9.8 | 0 | 11 | |
| Total | 35 | 438 | 12.4 | 1 | 44 |
Play style
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
CFB Index positional classification
Money down · 3rd-down role
Money down
11 of 15 caught on third down (73.3%) — EPA/target 0.74 vs 0.13 elsewhere (8 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
North Carolina
2026 Depth chart
Returning starter
Wide receiver · North Carolina
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
North Carolina · Last season: 4-8 · Talent rank #28 · 2026 recruiting class #19
Player DNA
Reliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cameron Odom’s 2021 season.
Matches Cameron on
Differs from Cameron on
Through 4 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Kyndon Fuselier’s path through Lamar.
Matches Kyndon on
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Vinny Anthony's senior season at Wisconsin (2025).
Matches Vinny on
Player DNA