Senior wide receiver for Akron. 2025: 14 catches, 178 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′0″ · 180 lb · New Orleans, LA
The numbers
receiving yards · 2025
14 catches · 1 TD · 12.7 per catch
Best game: 1 rec, 15 yds, 1 TD, vs Duquesne
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 wide receiver for Akron. 2025: 14 catches, 178 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Tim Grear Jr.
Beats you over the top. Tim Grear Jr. has played for three head coaches across three seasons and two programs. One game to point at: 87 rec yds, 4 receptions against Ball State — Week 8, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Joe Moorhead.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: catch rate (2nd 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 · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 1.3 | 12.0 | 10.2 | 0.3 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 35.5 | 11.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 1.7 | 15.2 | 9.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 4.0 | 87.0 | 21.8 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joe Moorhead
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Akron | 14 | 178 | 12.7 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Fresno State | 4 | 46 | 11.5 | 0 | -- |
| 2023 | Fresno State | 7 | 92 | 13.1 | 1 | -- |
| Career | 25 | 316 | 12.6 | 2 | -- |
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Akron | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2024 | Fresno State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Fresno State | -- | -- | 24 | -- | -- |
| Career | -- | -- | 24 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2025
W 51–7
vs Duquesne
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 0-10vs Wyoming | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | 8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 0-68@ Nebraska | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 3 | L 28-31@ UAB | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 4 | W 51-7vs Duquesne | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 1 | 15 | |
| Wk 5 | L 3-45@ Toledo | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 7 | L 7-20vs Miami (OH) | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | L 28-42@ Ball State | 4 | 87 | 21.8 | 0 | 37 | Season-high 87 yds |
| Total | 14 | 178 | 11.2 | 1 | 37 |
Play style
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
CFB Index positional classification
2026 Outlook
Akron
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Wide receiver · Akron
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Akron · Last season: 5-7 · Talent rank #121 · 2026 recruiting class #132
Player DNA
Stretches the field vertically. Every snap is a potential big play.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Cyrus Allen’s 2024 season.
Matches Cyrus on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to RJ Garcia II's junior season at Kansas State (2023).
Matches RJ on
Player DNA
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