Senior wide receiver for Oklahoma State. 2023: 33 catches, 539 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′5″ · 207 lb · Bothell, WA
The story
4 wide receiver for Oklahoma State. 2023: 33 catches, 539 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Leon Johnson III
Beats you over the top. He got to Oklahoma State by way of NEWBERG. His first career honor landed in 2023: Big 12 Newcomer Player of the Week. One game to point at: 149 rec yds, 5 receptions against Cincinnati — Week 9, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
One season at Oklahoma State, 539 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was winning awards before he was old enough to be a story.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: yards / catch (84th percentile). Strength: yards / catch (82nd percentile). Concern: catch 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).
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 5.8 | 109 | 20.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 3.3 | 34.0 | 10.2 | 0.3 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-71g | 4.0 | 86.0 | 21.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 4.8 | 75.5 | 14.9 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Eric Morris
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Oklahoma State | 33 | 539 | 16.3 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 33 | 539 | 16.3 | 1 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2023 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 9 | W 45-13vs Cincinnati | 5 | 149 | 29.8 | 0 | 67 | Season-high 149 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 27-24vs Oklahoma | 5 | 70 | 14.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 11 | L 3-45@ UCF | 6 | 61 | 10.2 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 12 | W 43-30@ Houston | 2 | 34 | 17.0 | 1 | 21 | |
| Wk 13 | W 40-34vs BYU | 9 | 132 | 14.7 | 0 | 24 | 132-yard receiving day |
| Wk 14 | L 21-49@ Texas | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 0 | 6 | |
| Bowl | W 31-23vs Texas A&M | 4 | 86 | 21.5 | 0 | 33 | |
| Total | 33 | 539 | 15.8 | 1 | 67 |
Play style
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Elijah Kothe’s 2021 season.
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Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Kahtero Summers’s path through Rhode Island.
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As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Trond Grizzell's freshman season at California (2023).
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