Player Dossier

2022-2025

Indiana

Holden Staes

TE • 6'4" • 248 lbs • Atlanta, GA, USA

Reliable chain-moverPossession profile

Holden Staes reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

26

Developing production for a tight end

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Reliability

24

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

39

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Notre Dame • Tennessee • Indiana
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: NC State

Player Story

Holden Staes built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 19, spending time with Indiana, Notre Dame, and Tennessee. The clearest part of Holden Staes' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.9026

Westminster School · Atlanta, GA

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

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

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
380
Receptions
38
Touchdowns
7

Quick Answers

Holden Staes quick answers

Latest team and position
Indiana · TE
Career Receiving Yards
380
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 23 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Tennessee
Top game
NC State
Recruit profile
4-star · Westminster School · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
Westminster School · 9 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 19 · Senior
2025 Receiving yards rank
62 receiving yards · TE 248th (top 53%) · Big Ten 158th (top 56%) · National 1,240th (top 57%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonNotre Dame1111048.6
2023 Regular SeasonNotre Dame815176449.2
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee915131156.5
2025 Regular SeasonIndiana5762238.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Tennessee to IndianaP4 to P480.3Jan 9, 2025
2024Notre Dame to TennesseeG5/FCS to P486.1Dec 5, 2023

Holden Staes played TE for Notre Dame, Tennessee, and Indiana. Across 4 tracked seasons, Holden Staes recorded 380 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Notre Dame.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Tennessee paired 131 primary output with 60 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 56.7 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 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Notre Dame, Tennessee, Indiana.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Indiana State

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Indiana

Games

5

Receiving Yards / G

12.4

Efficiency

56.7

Usage

6.6

Consistency

39.3

Best Game by takeover score

Indiana State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Old Dominion: 4. Kennesaw State: 7. Indiana State: 31. Maryland: 13. Wisconsin: 7

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. Old Dominion: 1 by 26.7. Kennesaw State: 1 by 46.7. Indiana State: 2 by 100. Maryland: 1 by 86.7. Wisconsin: 2 by 23.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half14 · Games = 3 · +4 vs Second Half
Second Half10 · Games = 2 · -4 vs First Half

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Indiana State

Best efficiency game

100 vs Indiana State

Result
Sat 11/15vs WisconsinW 31-7273.53.5015
Sat 11/1@ MarylandW 55-101131313013
Fri 9/12vs Indiana StateW 73-023115.515.50118
Sat 9/6vs Kennesaw StateW 56-9177707
Sat 8/30vs Old DominionW 27-14144404

Player Story

Holden Staes story

Holden Staes built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a tight end from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 19, spending time with Indiana, Notre Dame, and Tennessee. The clearest part of Holden Staes' career was his receiving role: 38 catches, 380 receiving yards, and 7 touchdowns across 23 career games in the available record. That gives Holden Staes' 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

    Notre Dame

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Tennessee

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Indiana

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonNotre Dame1173.34.5
2023 Regular SeasonNotre Dame17644.210.7165
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee131608.9-45
2025 Regular SeasonIndiana6256.76.6-69

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ NC State

Week 2 · W 45-24

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

115

Receiving Yards

96.3 takeover

115 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#2

vs UTEP

Week 13 · W 56-0

30

Receiving Yards

79 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

30 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#3

vs Indiana State

Week 3 · W 73-0

31

Receiving Yards

75.2 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

31 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#4

vs BYU

Week 6 · W 28-20 · Conference game

11

Receiving Yards

62.8 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

11 receiving yards with a 73.3 efficiency score.

#5

vs Kentucky

Week 10 · W 28-18 · Conference game

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Receiving Yards

61.9 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

27 receiving yards with a 60 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Tennessee

131 primary output · 60 efficiency · 8.9 usage

56.5

#2

2023 Regular Season · Notre Dame

49.2

176 primary · 44.2 efficiency · 10.7 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Notre Dame

48.6

11 primary · 73.3 efficiency · 4.5 usage

Milestones

1

100+ receiving yards

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8+ catch outings

1

2+ TD games