Former tight end at South Florida. 2024: 17 catches, 197 receiving yards, 2 TD.
6′4″ · 240 lb · Thomasville, GA
Recruiting
SDE recruit
No. 1608 nationally · Signed with Cincinnati
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former tight end at South Florida. 2024: 17 catches, 197 receiving yards, 2 TD.
Payten Singletary
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Payten Singletary has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 54 rec yds, 3 receptions against Tulsa — Week 13, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at South Florida, 345 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Jeff Scott → Alex Golesh. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: catch rate (29th 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
2024 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.7 | 32.3 | 12.3 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 1.8 | 20.0 | 12.8 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.2 | 21.8 | 12.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 2.0 | 27.5 | 13.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brian Hartline
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2024
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | South Florida | 17 | 197 | 11.6 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Cincinnati | 12 | 115 | 9.6 | 2 | -- |
| 2022 | Cincinnati | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | -- |
| 2021 | Cincinnati | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 32 | 345 | 10.8 | 5 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2024 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 49-24@ Southern Miss | 3 | 21 | 7.0 | 1 | 9 | |
| Wk 4 | L 15-50vs Miami | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 7 | L 3-21vs Memphis | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 10 | W 44-21@ Florida Atlantic | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 12 | W 59-24@ Charlotte | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | 34 | |
| Wk 13 | W 63-30vs Tulsa | 3 | 54 | 18.0 | 1 | 20 | Season-high 54 yds |
| Wk 14 | L 28-35@ Rice | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Bowl | W 41-39@ San José State | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Total | 17 | 197 | 12.6 | 2 | 34 |
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 2024 production profile sits closest to Brayden Willis’s 2021 season.
Matches Brayden on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Elijah Mojarro's senior season at Rice (2024).
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Player DNA