Senior tight end for Coastal Carolina. 2023: 10 catches, 55 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′5″ · 250 lb · Paramus, NJ
Recruiting
TE recruit
No. 569 nationally · Signed with UCLA
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 tight end for Coastal Carolina. 2023: 10 catches, 55 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Matt Alaimo
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Across five seasons and two programs, three head coaches: Nunzio Campanile, Greg Schiano and Tim Beck. The receipt on tape: 19 rec yds, 3 receptions against Arkansas State, Week 8, 2023.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Coastal Carolina, 200 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2023
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Jamey Chadwell, Chad Staggs, and Tim Beck. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score percentiles
Concern: rec yards (0th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2023 season · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home1g | 1.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 1.5 | 7.7 | 4.7 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 1.0 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 13.3 | 6.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Beard
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2023
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Coastal Carolina | 10 | 55 | 5.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2022 | Rutgers | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Rutgers | 5 | 50 | 10.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2020 | Rutgers | 7 | 22 | 3.1 | 0 | -- |
| 2019 | Rutgers | 6 | 60 | 10.0 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 30 | 200 | 6.7 | 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 1 | L 13-27@ UCLA | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 2 | W 30-16vs Jacksonville State | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 5 | L 28-38@ Georgia Southern | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 8 | W 27-17@ Arkansas State | 3 | 19 | 6.3 | 0 | 12 | Season-high 19 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 28-24@ Old Dominion | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 12 | L 21-28@ Army | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Bowl | W 24-14@ San José State | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Total | 10 | 55 | 5.4 | 1 | 12 |
Play style
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
His 2023 production profile sits closest to Giles Amos’s 2020 season.
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As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to David Larkins's graduate season at App State (2025).
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Player DNA