Player Dossier

2022-2025

Auburn

Preston Howard

TE • 6'5" • 236 lbs • Arbutus, MD, USA

Reliable chain-moverPossession profile

Preston Howard reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

12

Developing production for a tight end

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Reliability

4

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

25

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Maryland

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Maryland • Auburn
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern

Player Story

Preston Howard built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Arbutus, MD wearing No. 15, spending time with Auburn and Maryland. The clearest part of Preston Howard's career was his receiving...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8859

McDonogh School · Owings Mills, MD

Committed To
Maryland
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Preston Howard, TE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Maryland. Preston Howard reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
433
Receptions
47
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Preston Howard quick answers

Latest team and position
Auburn · TE
Career Receiving Yards
433
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 25 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Maryland
Top game
Northwestern
Recruit profile
3-star · McDonogh School · Maryland
High school pipeline
McDonogh School · 28 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 15 · Junior
2025 Receiving yards rank
84 receiving yards · TE 211th (top 45%) · SEC 131st (top 47%) · National 1,090th (top 50%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland0-00-
2023 PostseasonMaryland915153.3
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland912155053.3
2024 Regular SeasonMaryland924189056.8
2025 Regular SeasonAuburn71084040

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Auburn to MarylandP4 to P478.2Jan 14, 2026
2025Maryland to AuburnP4 to P478.2Dec 21, 2024

Preston Howard played TE for Maryland and Auburn. Across 4 tracked seasons, Preston Howard recorded 433 receiving yards and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Maryland.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Maryland paired 189 primary output with 49.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 52.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Maryland, Auburn.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Georgia

Loss with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Auburn

Games

7

Receiving Yards / G

12

Efficiency

52.6

Usage

8.2

Consistency

35.5

Best Game by takeover score

Georgia

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Baylor: 7. Ball State: 8. Georgia: 33. Missouri: 7. Kentucky: 19. Mercer: 5. Alabama: 5

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. Baylor: 1 by 46.7. Ball State: 1 by 53.3. Georgia: 4 by 55. Missouri: 1 by 46.7. Kentucky: 1 by 100. Mercer: 1 by 33.3. Alabama: 1 by 33.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins6.7 · Games = 3 · -9.3 vs Losses
Losses16 · Games = 4 · +9.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Georgia

Best efficiency game

100 vs Kentucky

Result
Sun 11/30vs AlabamaL 20-27155505
Sat 11/22vs MercerW 62-17155505
Sat 11/1vs KentuckyL 3-101191919019
Sat 10/18vs MissouriL 17-23177707
Sat 10/11vs GeorgiaL 10-204338.38.30018
Sat 9/6vs Ball StateW 42-3188808
Sat 8/30@ BaylorW 38-24177707

Player Story

Preston Howard story

Preston Howard built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Arbutus, MD wearing No. 15, spending time with Auburn and Maryland. The clearest part of Preston Howard's career was his receiving role: 47 catches, 433 receiving yards, and 1 touchdown across 25 career games in the available record. That gives Preston Howard's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Maryland

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Auburn

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland0
2023 PostseasonMaryland16063.36.6160
2023 Regular SeasonMaryland16063.36.60
2024 Regular SeasonMaryland18949.210.629
2025 Regular SeasonAuburn8452.68.2-105

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Northwestern

Week 7 · L 10-37 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

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Receiving Yards

79.5 takeover

59 receiving yards with a 78.7 efficiency score.

#2

@ Rutgers

Week 13 · W 42-24 · Conference game

49

Receiving Yards

75.9 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

49 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

vs No. 6 Georgia

Week 7 · L 10-20 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

33

Receiving Yards

75.1 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

33 receiving yards with a 55 efficiency score.

#4

vs Virginia

Week 3 · W 42-14

33

Receiving Yards

61.7 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

33 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

vs Villanova

Week 4 · W 38-20

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Receiving Yards

61 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

38 receiving yards with a 84.4 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Maryland

189 primary output · 49.2 efficiency · 10.6 usage

56.8

#2

2023 Postseason · Maryland

53.3

160 primary · 63.3 efficiency · 6.6 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Maryland

53.3

160 primary · 63.3 efficiency · 6.6 usage

Milestones

0

100+ receiving yards

0

8+ catch outings

0

2+ TD games