Senior wide receiver for Arizona. 2021: 18 catches, 299 receiving yards, 2 TD.
5′10″ · 183 lb · Vacaville, CA
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 story
4 wide receiver for Arizona. 2021: 18 catches, 299 receiving yards, 2 TD.
Tayvian Cunningham
Beats you over the top. Tayvian Cunningham has played for two head coaches in three seasons at Arizona. The receipt on tape: 116 rec yds, 3 receptions against USC, Week 9, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Arizona, 821 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2021
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Kevin Sumlin → Jedd Fisch. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: yards / catch (88th percentile). Strength: epa / target (84th percentile). Concern: receptions (23rd 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
2021 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 1.9 | 24.9 | 11.6 | 0.1 |
| Road2g | 2.5 | 62.5 | 21.6 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.8 | 35.4 | 11.2 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.0 | 30.5 | 22.4 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Brent Brennan
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
Unranked recruit. Now #352 at the position.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 10 · 2021
W 10–3
vs California
30 rush yds (1 car)
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 7 at home.
With K. Ostendorp — 50 AVG · 4 IN 20 · 58 LONG · W. Plummer — 129 yds · 0 TD · 2 INT · QBR 52.2 · 68 rush yds (11 car)
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 16-24vs BYU | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 0 | 26 | |
| Wk 2 | L 14-38vs San Diego State | 5 | 81 | 16.2 | 1 | 54 | |
| Wk 3 | L 19-21vs Northern Arizona | 3 | 28 | 9.3 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wk 4 | L 19-41@ Oregon | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 6 | L 16-34vs UCLA | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 8 | L 16-21vs Washington | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Wk 9 | L 34-41@ USC | 3 | 116 | 38.7 | 1 | 73 | Season-high 116 yds |
| Wk 10 | W 10-3vs California | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 11 | L 29-38vs Utah | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 18 | 299 | 14.9 | 2 | 73 |
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 2021 production profile sits closest to Jaylon Robinson’s 2021 season.
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Through 2 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Dennis Houston’s path through Western Illinois.
Dennis Houston
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As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Jaylon Robinson's junior season at UCF (2021).
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Player DNA