Winston Wright

Former wide receiver at East Carolina. 2024: 54 catches, 556 receiving yards, 8 TD.

WR · East Carolina · Sr. · #1

5′10″ · 188 lb · Pooler, GA

CFB Index 60 · #141 of 466 WRsHigh confidenceEast Carolina 2024 — college career complete

The story

Former wide receiver at East Carolina. 2024: 54 catches, 556 receiving yards, 8 TD.

Transferred from West Virginia to Florida State in 2022.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Five seasons at East Carolina, 1,920 receiving yards — his college career is complete.

His career

He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.

The week the volume broke through — put up 127 yds at Oklahoma State.Oklahoma State · L 13-272020

2022

Entered the portal

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

3 teams

2019–2024

NFL

NFL Draft

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Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2019–2024

1 coach

2019–2021

Mike Houston

East Carolina

2023–2024

Mike Houston

East Carolina

Played his entire career under Mike Houston.

2024 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019West Virginia5-7HC: Neal Brown · Pass-leaning

2020West Virginia6-4HC: Neal Brown · Balanced, fast tempo

2021West Virginia6-7HC: Neal Brown · Balanced

2023Florida State13-1HC: Mike Norvell · Balanced

2024East Carolina8-5HC: Mike Houston · Balanced

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

60Quality starter #141 of 466?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: td rate (94th percentile). Strength: catch rate (91st percentile). Concern: yards / catch (15th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

TD rate#34 / 610 · 94th pct

14.3%

Catch rate#1 / 610 · 91st pct

100.0%

Explosive rate#243 / 610 · 60th pct

16.3%

EPA / target#268 / 610 · 56th pct

0.92

Yards / catch#402 / 610 · 34th pct

10.8

Box-score rates (8)

Rec TDs#34 / 541 · 93rd pct

Rush yards#24 / 299 · 92nd pct

Receptions#90 / 541 · 83rd pct

Long catch#117 / 541 · 78th pct

Rec yards#178 / 541 · 67th pct

556

Rush TDs#55 / 299 · 41st pct

Fumbles lost#90 / 221 · 36th pct

Yards / catch#456 / 541 · 15th pct

10.3

Season trend

EPA / target— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Catch rate— first qualifying season

TD rate— first qualifying season

Yards / catch— first qualifying season

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2024 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home6g	4.2	50.5	14.4	1.0
Road5g	5.8	50.6	8.9	0.4

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	4.2	46.7	12.2	0.3
Weeks 8+5g	5.8	55.2	11.5	1.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Blake Harrell

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2024

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

60 · #141 of 466 WRs

Career stats

Season	Team
2024	East Carolina	54	556	10.3	8	--
2023	Florida State	4	36	9.0	0	--
2021	West Virginia	63	688	10.9	5	--
2020	West Virginia	46	543	11.8	2	--
2019	West Virginia	19	97	5.1	0	--
Career		186	1,920	10.3	15	--

Season	Team
2024	East Carolina	13	91	590	14	--
2023	Florida State	--	--	74	--	--
2021	West Virginia	2	2	618	-3	--
2020	West Virginia	2	4	425	--	--
2019	West Virginia	1	2	193	--	--
Career		18	99	1,900	11	--

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 3 · App State · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +5.24Jake Garcia pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 65 yds for a TD (Andrew Conrad KICK)
Week 5 · UTSA · 2&9 · Q3 · EPA +3.91Jake Garcia pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 40 yds for a TD (Noah Perez KICK)
Week 8 · Army · 4&12 · Q4 · EPA +3.78Winston Wright Jr. 12 Yd pass from Katin Houser (Katin Houser Pass to Chase Sowell for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 11 · Florida Atlantic · 1&10 · Q1 · EPA +3.61Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 47 yds for a TD (Andrew Conrad KICK)
Week 4 · Liberty · 3&9 · Q1 · EPA +3.43Jake Garcia pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 21 yds to the LIB 40 for a 1ST down
Week 9 · Temple · 4&2 · Q2 · EPA +3.00Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 9 yds for a TD (Andrew Conrad KICK)
Week 14 · Navy · 3&2 · Q4 · EPA +2.63Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 9 yds for a TD (Andrew Conrad KICK)
Week 11 · Florida Atlantic · 1&8 · Q1 · EPA +2.32Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 8 yds for a TD (Andrew Conrad KICK)
Week 12 · Tulsa · 3&10 · Q2 · EPA +2.26Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 10 yds Winston Wright Jr. fumbled, recovered by TLSA Buddha Garrett
Week 12 · Tulsa · 1&10 · Q4 · EPA +2.15Katin Houser pass complete to Winston Wright Jr. for 27 yds to the TLSA 38 for a 1ST down

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2024 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 42-3vs Norfolk State	3	24	8.0	0	10
Wk 2	W 20-14@ Old Dominion	7	66	9.4	0	25
Wk 3	L 19-21vs App State	3	72	24.0	1	65
Wk 4	L 24-35@ Liberty	5	45	9.0	0	21
Wk 5	W 30-20vs UTSA	3	56	18.7	1	40
Wk 6	L 24-55@ Charlotte	4	17	4.3	0	7
Wk 8	L 28-45@ Army	4	57	14.3	1	31
Wk 9	W 56-34vs Temple	4	7	1.8	1	9
Wk 11	W 49-14vs Florida Atlantic	3	80	26.7	2	47	Season-high 80 yds
Wk 12	W 38-31@ Tulsa	9	68	7.6	1	27
Wk 14	L 20-34vs Navy	9	64	7.1	1	14
Total		54	556	11.9	8	65

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Winston Wright

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2024 snapshot

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Career stats

Signature plays

Game log

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