Senior wide receiver for SMU. 2022: 18 catches, 180 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′1″ · 192 lb · La Porte, TX
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 SMU. 2022: 18 catches, 180 receiving yards, 1 TD.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearAustin Upshaw
Beats you over the top. Austin Upshaw has played for three head coaches in five seasons at SMU. One game to point at: 51 rec yds, 3 receptions against UCF — Week 6, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at SMU, 501 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Sonny Dykes, Jim Leavitt, and Rhett Lashlee. Multi-era developmental context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: fumbles lost (84th percentile). Concern: td rate (7th 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
2022 season · 10 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.0 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 2.3 | 25.2 | 9.9 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 1.7 | 17.7 | 9.8 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.0 | 18.7 | 7.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Rhett Lashlee
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022
W 45–16
vs Lamar
2 rec · 17 yds
Dominant 29-point win at home against Lamar.
With T. Mordecai — 212 yds · 3 TD · 1 INT · QBR 63.1 · R. Bujcevski — 46 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 52 LONG
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 10 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-10@ North Texas | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-16vs Lamar | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 16 | |
| Wk 3 | L 27-34@ Maryland | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 1 | 13 | |
| Wk 4 | L 34-42vs TCU | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-41@ UCF | 3 | 51 | 17.0 | 0 | 25 | Season-high 51 yds |
| Wk 7 | W 40-34vs Navy | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-29vs Cincinnati | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-34@ Tulsa | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 0 | 38 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-59@ Tulane | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 0 | 6 | |
| Bowl | L 23-24@ BYU | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Total | 18 | 180 | 8.9 | 1 | 38 |
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 2022 production profile sits closest to Kearis Jackson’s 2022 season.
Matches Kearis on
Differs from Kearis on
Through 3 college seasons, his career arc tracks closest to Taco Dowler’s path through Montana State.
Taco Dowler
Miequle Brock
Derick Eugene
Matches Taco on
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Tim Grear Jr.'s graduate season at Akron (2025).
Matches Tim on
Player DNA