Usage / Role
34%
Rotational offensive role
lowfeatured
Player Dossier
2021-2023Texas
Ja'Tavion Sanders
TE • 6'4" • 243 lbs • Denton, TX, USA
Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher
Ja'Tavion Sanders reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Impact Production
65
Solid production for a tight end
lowelite
Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
lowhigh
Star Power
60
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Texas
2122222323
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Texas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Player Story
Ja'Tavion Sanders built his college career from 2021 through 2023 as a tight end from Denton, TX, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Ja'Tavion Sanders' career was his receiving role: 99 catches, 1,295...
Read the story5★
- Committed To
- Texas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2024
- Selection
- Round 4 · Pick 1
- Overall
- No. 101
- NFL Team
- Carolina Panthers
Ja'Tavion Sanders, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Texas. Ja'Tavion Sanders reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Receiving yards
- 1,295
- Receptions
- 99
- Touchdowns
- 7
Quick Answers
Ja'Tavion Sanders quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Texas · TE
- Career Receiving Yards
- 1,295
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 27 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Texas
- Top game
- UL Monroe
- Recruit profile
- 5-star · Ryan · Texas
- High school pipeline
- Hartfield Academy · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2024 · Round 4 · Pick 1 · Carolina Panthers
- Latest roster
- Junior
- 2023 Receiving yards rank
- 682 receiving yards · TE 4th (top 1%) · Big 12 15th (top 7%) · National 118th (top 6%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Texas | 1 | - | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| 2022 Postseason | Texas | 13 | 5 | 36 | 0 | 73.3 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Texas | 13 | 49 | 577 | 5 | 73.3 |
| 2023 Postseason | Texas | 13 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 73.6 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 13 | 39 | 607 | 2 | 73.6 |
Related Context
Keep exploring Ja'Tavion Sanders
Ja'Tavion Sanders played TE for Texas. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ja'Tavion Sanders recorded 12 rushing yards, 1,295 receiving yards, and 7 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Texas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Texas paired 0 primary output with — efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Postseason role shape
target-driven usage with 87 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2023 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Baylor
Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 92.3th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2023 Postseason · Texas
Games
13
Receiving Yards / G
52.5
Efficiency
87
Usage
15.1
Consistency
56.9
Best Game by takeover score
Baylor
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Washington: 75. Rice: 44. Alabama: 114. Baylor: 110. Kansas: 10. Oklahoma: 13. Houston: 29. BYU: 37. Kansas State: 21. TCU: 47. Iowa State: 32. Texas Tech: 45. Oklahoma State: 105
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.
Low volumeHigh quality
High volumeHigh quality
Low volumeLower quality
High volumeLower quality
Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Washington: 6 by 83.3. Rice: 2 by 100. Alabama: 5 by 100. Baylor: 5 by 100. Kansas: 1 by 66.7. Oklahoma: 1 by 86.7. Houston: 2 by 96.7. BYU: 4 by 61.7. Kansas State: 2 by 70. TCU: 4 by 78.3. Iowa State: 2 by 100. Texas Tech: 3 by 100. Oklahoma State: 8 by 87.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins54 · Games = 11 · +10 vs Losses
Losses44 · Games = 2 · -10 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
13 games
Featured metric
Receiving Yards
Top game by takeover score
Baylor
Best efficiency game
100 vs Texas Tech
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 1/2 | @ Washington | L 31-37 | — | 6 | 75 | 12.5 | 12.50 | 0 | 21 |
| Sat 12/2 | vs Oklahoma State100 receiving yards · High volume | W 49-21 | — | 8 | 105 | 13 | 13.10 | 1 | 26 |
| Sat 11/25 | vs Texas Tech | W 57-7 | — | 3 | 45 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 23 |
| Sun 11/19 | @ Iowa State | W 26-16 | — | 2 | 32 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 17 |
| Sun 11/12 | @ TCU | W 29-26 | — | 4 | 47 | 11.8 | 11.80 | 0 | 19 |
| Sat 11/4 | vs Kansas State | W 33-30 | — | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 10.50 | 0 | 16 |
| Sat 10/28 | vs BYU | W 35-6 | — | 4 | 37 | 9.3 | 9.30 | 0 | 20 |
| Sat 10/21 | @ Houston | W 31-24 | — | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 14.50 | 0 | 23 |
| Sat 10/7 | vs Oklahoma | L 30-34 | — | 1 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| Sat 9/30 | vs Kansas | W 40-14 | — | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Sat 9/23 | @ Baylor100 receiving yards | W 38-6 | — | 5 | 110 | 22 | 22 | 0 | 49 |
| Sat 9/9 | @ Alabama100 receiving yards | W 34-24 | — | 5 | 114 | 22.8 | 22.80 | 0 | 50 |
| Sat 9/2 | vs Rice | W 37-10 | — | 2 | 44 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 44 |
Player Story
Ja'Tavion Sanders story
Ja'Tavion Sanders built his college career from 2021 through 2023 as a tight end from Denton, TX, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Ja'Tavion Sanders' career was his receiving role: 99 catches, 1,295 receiving yards, 7 touchdowns, and 12 rushing yards across 27 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Texas. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 12 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 27 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Texas.
The arc is straightforward: Ja'Tavion Sanders moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Texas
2021-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20212022202220232023
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Postseason | Texas | 613 | 64.3 | 21.5 | 613 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Texas | 613 | 64.3 | 21.5 | 0 |
| 2023 Postseason | Texas | 682 | 87 | 15.1 | 69 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 682 | 87 | 15.1 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UL Monroe
Week 1 · W 52-10
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
85
Receiving Yards
98.1 takeover
85 receiving yards with a 94.4 efficiency score.
#2
@ Baylor
Week 4 · W 38-6 · Conference game
110
Receiving Yards
94.7 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
110 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#3
@ Oklahoma State
Week 8 · L 34-41 · Conference game
76
Receiving Yards
91.3 takeover
Loss with an explosive receiving profile.
76 receiving yards with a 84.4 efficiency score.
#4
@ Alabama
Week 2 · W 34-24
114
Receiving Yards
89.8 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
114 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#5
vs West Virginia
Week 5 · W 38-20 · Conference game
78
Receiving Yards
89.2 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
78 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Texas
0 primary output · — efficiency · — usage
100
#2
2023 Postseason · Texas
73.6
682 primary · 87 efficiency · 15.1 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Texas
73.6
682 primary · 87 efficiency · 15.1 usage
Milestones
3
100+ receiving yards
1
8+ catch outings
2
2+ TD games
Next best actions
Keep exploring Ja'Tavion Sanders
Move from the player story into the game log, career arc, team context, and video shelf.