Junior wide receiver for Louisiana. 2025: 32 catches, 537 receiving yards, 6 TD.
6′4″ · 206 lb · Baton Rouge, LA · Catholic
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
32 catches · 6 TD · 16.8 per catch
Best game: 5 rec, 80 yds, 2 TD, vs Texas State
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 wide receiver for Louisiana. 2025: 32 catches, 537 receiving yards, 6 TD.
Shelton Sampson Jr.
Beats you over the top. He got to Louisiana by way of LSU. The receipt on tape: 138 rec yds, 6 receptions against South Alabama, Week 10, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: epa / target (98th percentile). Strength: explosive rate (95th percentile). Concern: td 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).
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 | 3.0 | 40.2 | 10.9 | 0.5 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 75.2 | 18.5 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 2.8 | 48.0 | 15.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.2 | 69.0 | 14.9 | 1.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Michael Desormeaux
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
Former four-star. Now #193 at the position.
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-Sun Belt
Based on 2025: #20 of 51 Sun Belt WRs
22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. 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 | Louisiana | 32 | 537 | 16.8 | 6 | -- |
| Career | 32 | 537 | 16.8 | 6 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2025
W 34–10
vs McNeese
1 rec · 4 yds
Dominant 24-point win at home against McNeese.
With B. Davis — 132 rush yds (19 car) · 2 TD · R. Williams — 2 rec · 18 yds
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 1 | L 12-14vs Rice | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 0 | 25 | |
| Wk 2 | W 34-10vs McNeese | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wk 4 | L 31-34@ Eastern Michigan | 3 | 87 | 29.0 | 0 | 43 | |
| Wk 9 | L 23-35@ Troy | 5 | 74 | 14.8 | 1 | 36 | |
| Wk 10 | W 31-22@ South Alabama | 6 | 138 | 23.0 | 2 | 45 | Season-high 138 yds |
| Wk 11 | W 42-39vs Texas State | 5 | 80 | 16.0 | 2 | 21 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 13 | W 34-30@ Arkansas State | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | 22 | |
| Wk 14 | W 30-27vs UL Monroe | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Bowl | L 13-20@ Delaware | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | 1 | 28 | |
| Total | 32 | 537 | 15.1 | 6 | 45 |
Play style
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
CFB Index positional classification
Money down · 3rd-down role
Money down
13 of 16 caught on third down (81.2%) — EPA/target 1.94 vs 0.78 elsewhere (11 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
Louisiana
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Louisiana
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Louisiana · Last season: 6-7 · Talent rank #99 · 2026 recruiting class #91
Player DNA
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cornelius Johnson’s 2022 season.
Matches Cornelius on
Differs from Cornelius on
Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Javon McKinley’s path through Notre Dame.
Kahtero Summers
Matches Javon on
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Adonai Mitchell's freshman season at Georgia (2021).
Matches Adonai on
Differs from Adonai on
2025 (Redshirt Sophomore) Led team in receptions (32), yards (537) and receiving TDs (6) in his inaugural season at Louisiana … limited to 10 games on the season due to injury … averaged 16.8 yards per reception … caught four passes for 59 yards in his Louisiana debut against Rice … recorded 87 y...
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