Former tight end at Washington. 2021: 28 catches, 250 receiving yards, 1 TD.
6′5″ · 240 lb · Tumwater, WA
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
Former tight end at Washington. 2021: 28 catches, 250 receiving yards, 1 TD.
Cade Otton
Shows up in the passing game from any alignment. Cade Otton has been at Washington through two head coaches in four seasons. His first career honor landed in 2020: All-Pac-12. The receipt: 82 rec yds, 8 receptions against Montana — Week 1, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Washington, 1,026 receiving yards, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #106 overall by Tampa Bay.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-PAC-12 · 1ST TEAM
All-Pac-12 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2018–2021
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Chris Petersen → Jimmy Lake. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Tampa BayEntering 5th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Concern: explosive 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).
Splits · Per-game
2021 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 4.2 | 37.4 | 8.9 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 2.3 | 21.0 | 8.7 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 4.0 | 41.0 | 10.4 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 3.0 | 21.5 | 7.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Washington | 28 | 250 | 8.9 | 1 | -- |
| 2020 | Washington | 18 | 258 | 14.3 | 3 | -- |
| 2019 | Washington | 32 | 344 | 10.8 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | Washington | 13 | 174 | 13.4 | 3 | -- |
| Career | 91 | 1,026 | 11.3 | 9 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-13vs Montana | 8 | 82 | 10.3 | 0 | 25 | Season-high 82 yds |
| Wk 2 | L 10-31@ Michigan | 3 | 33 | 11.0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Wk 3 | W 52-3vs Arkansas State | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 1 | 13 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-24vs UCLA | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 0 | 12 | |
| Wk 8 | W 21-16@ Arizona | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 9 | W 20-13@ Stanford | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 10 | L 16-26vs Oregon | 4 | 30 | 7.5 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wk 11 | L 30-35vs Arizona State | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 0 | 10 | |
| Total | 28 | 250 | 8.8 | 1 | 25 |
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 2021 production profile sits closest to Jake Tonges’s 2021 season.
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Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Isaiah Spencer's senior season at Old Dominion (2022).
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Player DNA