Cade Brewer

#80 · TE · Sr. · Texas6′4″ · 239 lb · Austin, TX · Lake Travis

Cade Brewer: TE · Texas · #80.

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Cade Brewer

TE · Texas · Sr · #80

Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Played for two head coaches at Texas: Tom Herman and Steve Sarkisian. One game to point at: 40 receiving yards and 2 receptions against Kansas — Week 11, 2021.

Style of play

Play style

No single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike.

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Texas in the news

Colin Simmons out for Mississippi StateYahoo Sports Oct 31
Texas player out for seasonOct 26
Texas snaps losing streakSaturday Down South Oct 25
Meyer warns Sarkisian publiclyYahoo Sports Oct 20

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2021	Texas	22	184	8.4	3	25
2020	Texas	15	169	11.3	2	38
2019	Texas	11	159	14.5	1	51
2018	Texas	2	19	9.5	0	13
2017	Texas	9	80	8.9	2	21
Career		59	611	10.4	8	51

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 38-18vs No. 23 Louisiana	1	6	6.0	1	6
Wk 2	L 21-40@ Arkansas	—	—	—	—	—
Wk 3	W 58-0vs Rice	2	23	11.5	0	17
Wk 4	W 70-35vs Texas Tech	2	10	5.0	0	6
Wk 6	L 48-55vs No. 6 Oklahoma	2	18	9.0	0	11
Wk 9	L 24-31@ No. 16 Baylor	3	15	5.0	0	9
Wk 10	L 7-30@ Iowa State	2	3	1.5	0	3
Wk 11	L 56-57vs Kansas	2	40	20.0	1	25	Season-high 40 yds
Wk 12	L 23-31@ West Virginia	4	37	9.3	0	17
Wk 13	W 22-17vs Kansas State	4	32	8.0	1	10
Total		22	184	8.4	3	25

Signature game

Week 13 · 2021

W 22-17

vs Kansas State

4 rec · 32 yds · 1 TD · 2 rush yds (1 car)

A close one, won by 5 at home.

With C. Dicker — 43 yards per punt · 5 punts · 1 inside the 20 · R. Johnson — 179 rush yds (31 car) · 1 TD · 1 rec · 10 yds

Signature plays

The plays that mattered most

Week 11 · Kansas · 3rd and 1 · Q4 · EPA +2.92Casey Thompson pass complete to Cade Brewer for 25 yds for a TD, (Cameron Dicker KICK)
Week 13 · Kansas State · 3rd and 6 · Q2 · EPA +2.89Casey Thompson pass complete to Cade Brewer for 10 yds for a TD (Cameron Dicker PAT MISSED)
Week 1 · Louisiana · 3rd and 6 · Q2 · EPA +2.82Hudson Card pass complete to Cade Brewer for 6 yds for a TD, (Cameron Dicker KICK)
Week 6 · Oklahoma · 3rd and 6 · Q4 · EPA +2.54Casey Thompson pass complete to Cade Brewer for 11 yds to the Okla 45 for a
Week 12 · West Virginia · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +1.48Hudson Card pass complete to Cade Brewer for 17 yds to the WVirg 45 for a
Week 11 · Kansas · 2nd and 10 · Q3 · EPA +1.33Casey Thompson pass complete to Cade Brewer for 15 yds to the Kans 25 for a

4 more plays

Week 10 · Iowa State · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA −1.11Hudson Card pass complete to Cade Brewer for no gain to the Texas 39
Week 13 · Kansas State · 3rd and 1 · Q1 · EPA +0.70Cade Brewer run for 2 yds to the KanSt 38 for a
Week 12 · West Virginia · 1st and 10 · Q4 · EPA +0.62Hudson Card pass complete to Cade Brewer for 9 yds to the WVirg 11
Week 9 · Baylor · 1st and 10 · Q3 · EPA +0.62Casey Thompson pass complete to Cade Brewer for 9 yds to the Bayl 10

Teams and coaches

2017Texas7-6HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo

2018Texas10-4HC: Tom Herman · Run-leaning

2019Texas8-5HC: Tom Herman · Balanced

2020Texas7-3HC: Tom Herman · Balanced, fast tempo

2021Texas5-7HC: Steve Sarkisian · Run-leaning

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 40 (#78 of 119). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2021 season

40Rotational starter #78 of 119 · 2021?

12 metrics · season cumulative

2021 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: catch rate (94th percentile). Strength: td rate (91st percentile). Concern: explosive rate (10th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Catch rate#40 / 655 · 94th pct

90.9%

TD rate#61 / 655 · 91st pct

13.6%

EPA / target#377 / 655 · 43rd pct

0.59

Yards / catch#589 / 655 · 10th pct

8.1

Explosive rate#588 / 655 · 10th pct

4.5%

Box-score rates (7)

Rec TDs#44 / 146 · 62nd pct

Receptions#60 / 146 · 58th pct

Rush yards#21 / 33 · 36th pct

Rush TDs#10 / 33 · 36th pct

Rec yards#98 / 146 · 33rd pct

184

Long catch#117 / 146 · 18th pct

Yards / catch#129 / 146 · 12th pct

8.4

Season trend

EPA / target— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Catch rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

TD rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Yards / catch— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2021. 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

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home5g	2.2	22.2	10.1	0.6
Road4g	2.2	13.8	5.3	0.0

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-75g	1.4	11.4	7.9	0.2
Weeks 8+5g	3.0	25.4	8.8	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2021 season

Head Coach

Steve Sarkisian

Pass share

43.2%

345 pass / 453 run

Plays / game

66.5

12 games

Team sack rate

6.7%

373 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Run-leaning.

Awards

Player standing · 2021

22 catches and 1 carry in 10 games

About as many catches a game as a typical FBS tight end who plays every week.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

40 · #78 of 119 TEs · 2021

Three-star recruit. Now #78 at the position.

Cade Brewer

Similar players

Style of play

Fans

Texas in the news

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Signature game

Signature plays

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

22 catches and 1 carry in 10 games

Five seasons at Texas

2017 7 games