Senior tight end for Texas Tech. 2021: 21 catches, 306 receiving yards, 4 TD.
6′5″ · 255 lb · Austintown, OH
The story
4 tight end for Texas Tech. 2021: 21 catches, 306 receiving yards, 4 TD.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearTravis Koontz
Is the first read once you cross the 20. Third year in the Texas Tech receiving corps, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 117 rec yds, 5 receptions against Baylor — Week 13, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Texas Tech, 647 receiving yards — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2021
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Matt Wells.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Matt Wells — 15-20 over that span.
Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort
Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles
Elite: epa / target (98th percentile). Strength: td rate (97th 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 · 7 games
Home vs Road
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 3.5 | 50.5 | 28.4 | 1.0 |
| Road5g | 2.4 | 32.8 | 9.9 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| REC/g | YDS/g | YPR | TD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.0 | 22.5 | 6.2 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 2.3 | 58.3 | 27.1 | 0.3 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Joey McGuire
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.
| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Texas Tech | 21 | 306 | 14.6 | 4 | -- |
| 2020 | Texas Tech | 14 | 189 | 13.5 | 1 | -- |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | 10 | 152 | 15.2 | 0 | -- |
| Career | 45 | 647 | 14.4 | 5 | -- |
Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|
The plays that mattered most
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 7 games
| Wk | Opp | REC | YDS | AVG | TD | LONG | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-21@ Houston | 4 | 28 | 7.0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Wk 3 | W 54-21vs Florida International | 6 | 53 | 8.8 | 2 | 20 | 2 TD catches |
| Wk 5 | W 23-20@ West Virginia | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Wk 7 | W 41-14@ Kansas | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-25vs Kansas State | 1 | 48 | 48.0 | 0 | 48 | |
| Wk 9 | L 21-52@ Oklahoma | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-27@ Baylor | 5 | 117 | 23.4 | 1 | 75 | Season-high 117 yds |
| Total | 19 | 265 | 15.2 | 4 | 75 |
Play style
The first read called near the goal line — size and catch radius do the rest.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
The first read called near the goal line — size and catch radius do the rest.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Gavin Bartholomew’s 2021 season.
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As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Miles Kitselman's junior season at Tennessee (2024).
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Player DNA