Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2023Kentucky
Brenden Bates
TE • 6'5" • 251 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA
Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher
Brenden Bates reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Impact Production
16
Developing production for a tight end
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Reliability
10
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
24
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Kentucky
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Kentucky
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State
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- Committed To
- Kentucky
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Brenden Bates, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2018 Regular Season · Kentucky. Brenden Bates reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Receiving yards
- 272
- Receptions
- 26
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Brenden Bates quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kentucky · TE
- Career Receiving Yards
- 272
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 20 games
- Best season
- 2018 Regular Season · Kentucky
- Top game
- Mississippi State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Archbishop Moeller · Kentucky
- High school pipeline
- Archbishop Moeller · 50 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 80 · Graduate
- 2023 Receiving yards rank
- 89 receiving yards · TE 195th (top 45%) · SEC 118th (top 54%) · National 1,023rd (top 49%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Kentucky | 1 | - | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | Kentucky | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 62.3 |
| 2021 Postseason | Kentucky | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 49.7 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kentucky | 8 | 10 | 64 | 1 | 49.7 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Kentucky | 6 | 10 | 99 | 1 | 56 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kentucky | 4 | 4 | 89 | 0 | 68.2 |
Related Context
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Brenden Bates played TE for Kentucky. Across 6 tracked seasons, Brenden Bates recorded 272 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Kentucky.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season
Kentucky paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
target-driven usage with 91.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2023 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Alabama
Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Kentucky
Games
4
Receiving Yards / G
22.3
Efficiency
91.7
Usage
6.6
Consistency
69
Best Game by takeover score
Alabama
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 30. Vanderbilt: 16. Alabama: 33. Louisville: 10
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Ball State: 1 by 100. Vanderbilt: 1 by 100. Alabama: 1 by 100. Louisville: 1 by 66.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins18.7 · Games = 3 · -14.3 vs Losses
Losses33 · Games = 1 · +14.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Receiving Yards
Top game by takeover score
Alabama
Best efficiency game
100 vs Alabama
Career Arc
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Kentucky
2018-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2018201920202021202120222023
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Kentucky | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Kentucky | 14 | 93.3 | 12.5 | 14 |
| 2021 Postseason | Kentucky | 70 | 44.6 | 7.1 | 56 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Kentucky | 70 | 44.6 | 7.1 | 0 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Kentucky | 99 | 55.5 | 9.2 | 29 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Kentucky | 89 | 91.7 | 6.6 | -10 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Mississippi State
Week 6 · W 24-2 · Conference game
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
14
Receiving Yards
78.3 takeover
14 receiving yards with a 93.3 efficiency score.
#2
vs Youngstown State
Week 3 · W 31-0
46
Receiving Yards
74.9 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
46 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#3
vs Alabama
Week 11 · L 21-49 · Conference game
33
Receiving Yards
73.2 takeover
Loss with an explosive receiving profile.
33 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#4
vs Ball State
Week 1 · W 44-14
30
Receiving Yards
69.9 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
30 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#5
@ South Carolina
Week 4 · W 16-10 · Conference game
15
Receiving Yards
68.5 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
15 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2018 Regular Season · Kentucky
0 primary output · — efficiency · — usage
100
#2
2023 Regular Season · Kentucky
68.2
89 primary · 91.7 efficiency · 6.6 usage
#3
2020 Regular Season · Kentucky
62.3
14 primary · 93.3 efficiency · 12.5 usage
Milestones
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100+ receiving yards
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8+ catch outings
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2+ TD games
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