Senior tight end for SMU. 2022: 13 catches, 107 receiving yards, 4 TD.
6′5″ · 233 lb · Friendswood, TX
Recruiting
TE recruit
No. 1670 nationally · Signed with SMU
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 tight end for SMU. 2022: 13 catches, 107 receiving yards, 4 TD.
Ben Redding
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Ben Redding has played for three head coaches in three seasons at SMU. The receipt: 35 rec yds, 4 receptions against UCF — Week 6, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at SMU, 161 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
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 TE cohort
Box-score percentiles
Elite: fumbles lost (84th percentile). Concern: rec yards (4th percentile).
Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 6 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home3g | 2.3 | 16.7 | 6.5 | 1.3 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 19.0 | 10.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 2.0 | 12.7 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.3 | 23.0 | 12.8 | 1.0 |
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
On the two-deep and pushing for snaps.
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 2 · 2022
W 45–16
vs Lamar
1 rec · 1 yds · 1 TD
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 · 6 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 48-10@ North Texas | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wk 2 | W 45-16vs Lamar | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 19-41@ UCF | 4 | 35 | 8.8 | 0 | 16 | Season-high 35 yds |
| Wk 8 | L 27-29vs Cincinnati | 2 | 25 | 12.5 | 0 | 18 | |
| Wk 9 | W 45-34@ Tulsa | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Wk 10 | W 77-63vs Houston | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 3 | 10 | 3 TD catches |
| Total | 13 | 107 | 8.4 | 4 | 20 |
Play style
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Brandon Chapman’s 2021 season.
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Through 1 college season, his career arc tracks closest to Devin Miller’s path through Marshall.
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As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Brandon Chapman's junior season at Wake Forest (2021).
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Player DNA