Player Dossier

2021-2025

UNLV

Var'Keyes Gumms

TE • 6'2" • 240 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher

Var'Keyes Gumms reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

39

Developing production for a tight end

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Reliability

43

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · North Texas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
North Texas • Arkansas • UNLV
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UTSA

Player Story

Var'Keyes Gumms built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a tight end from Houston, TX wearing No. 30, spending time with Arkansas, North Texas, and UNLV. The clearest part of Var'Keyes Gumms' career was his...

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Var'Keyes Gumms, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · North Texas. Var'Keyes Gumms reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
652
Receptions
49
Touchdowns
8

Quick Answers

Var'Keyes Gumms quick answers

Latest team and position
UNLV · TE
Career Receiving Yards
652
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 23 games
Best season
2022 Postseason · North Texas
Top game
UTSA
High school pipeline
Evans · 18 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 30 · Junior
2025 Receiving yards rank
168 receiving yards · TE 132nd (top 28%) · Mountain West 68th (top 38%) · National 728th (top 34%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Texas0-00-
2022 PostseasonNorth Texas1317070.2
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Texas1333451570.2
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas3326022.6
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas110038.7
2025 Regular SeasonUNLV611168358.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Arkansas to UNLVP4 to G5/FCS77.5Jan 4, 2025
2023North Texas to ArkansasG5/FCS to P484Apr 15, 2023

Var'Keyes Gumms played TE for North Texas, Arkansas, and UNLV. Across 5 tracked seasons, Var'Keyes Gumms recorded 652 receiving yards and 8 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2022 with North Texas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason

North Texas paired 458 primary output with 70.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 93.1 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across North Texas, Arkansas, UNLV.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UCLA

Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 83.3th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · UNLV

Games

6

Receiving Yards / G

28

Efficiency

93.1

Usage

9.1

Consistency

75.4

Best Game by takeover score

UCLA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Sam Houston: 27. Idaho State: 16. UCLA: 40. Miami (OH): 12. Air Force: 30. New Mexico: 43

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. Sam Houston: 2 by 90. Idaho State: 1 by 100. UCLA: 3 by 88.9. Miami (OH): 1 by 80. Air Force: 2 by 100. New Mexico: 2 by 100

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins25 · Games = 5 · -18 vs Losses
Losses43 · Games = 1 · +18 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

UCLA

Best efficiency game

100 vs New Mexico

Result
Sat 11/1vs New MexicoL 35-4024321.521.50127
Sat 10/11vs Air ForceW 51-482301515116
Sat 9/20@ Miami (OH)W 41-381121212012
Sun 9/7vs UCLAW 30-2334013.313.30117
Sat 8/30@ Sam HoustonW 38-2122713.513.5009
Sat 8/23vs Idaho StateW 38-311161616016

Player Story

Var'Keyes Gumms story

Var'Keyes Gumms built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a tight end from Houston, TX wearing No. 30, spending time with Arkansas, North Texas, and UNLV. The clearest part of Var'Keyes Gumms' career was his receiving role: 49 catches, 652 receiving yards, and 8 touchdowns across 23 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with North 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. With 23 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arkansas, North Texas, and UNLV.

The arc is straightforward: Var'Keyes Gumms 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. 1

    North Texas

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Arkansas

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    UNLV

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Texas0
2022 PostseasonNorth Texas45870.116.5458
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Texas45870.116.50
2023 Regular SeasonArkansas2637.88.4-432
2024 Regular SeasonArkansas004.8-26
2025 Regular SeasonUNLV16893.19.1168

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ UTSA

Week 8 · L 27-31 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

92

Receiving Yards

88.9 takeover

92 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs Louisiana Tech

Week 7 · W 47-27 · Conference game

59

Receiving Yards

87.5 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

59 receiving yards with a 98.3 efficiency score.

#3

vs No. 98 UCLA

Week 2 · W 30-23

40

Receiving Yards

82.9 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

40 receiving yards with a 88.9 efficiency score.

#4

@ Alabama

Week 7 · L 21-24 · Conference game

25

Receiving Yards

74.6 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

25 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

vs No. 73 New Mexico

Week 10 · L 35-40 · Conference game

43

Receiving Yards

72.9 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

43 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Postseason · North Texas

458 primary output · 70.1 efficiency · 16.5 usage

70.2

#2

2022 Regular Season · North Texas

70.2

458 primary · 70.1 efficiency · 16.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · UNLV

58.9

168 primary · 93.1 efficiency · 9.1 usage

Milestones

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100+ receiving yards

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8+ catch outings

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2+ TD games